DMZ Contracts in England

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DMZ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DMZ over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 593 693
Rank change year-on-year +123 +100 -104
Contract jobs citing DMZ 72 58 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.48% 0.96% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 26 59
10th Percentile £387 £275 £394
25th Percentile £432 £503 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £540
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +15.74% +12.50%
75th Percentile £519 £719 £622
90th Percentile £558 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -18.00% +19.05% +9.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

DMZ is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,860 6,019 7,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 12.24% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,932 3,933 5,157
10th Percentile £208 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 432 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.41 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.94
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DMZ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in England

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DMZ in England.

Daily rate trend for DMZ in England

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in England

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DMZ in England.

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in England

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +46 36 £513 -18.00% 1
North of England +30 19 £433 +33.08%
North West +27 18 £433 +33.08%
London +78 15 £573 -15.19% 10
Midlands +24 1 - - 1
West Midlands +11 1 - -
North East - 1 £431 -
DMZ
UK

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.17%) GitHub
2 2 (2.78%) Azure
2 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.72%) Cisco Nexus
2 22 (30.56%) Firewall
3 18 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 18 (25.00%) VPN
4 14 (19.44%) Cisco IOS
4 14 (19.44%) Wireless
5 5 (6.94%) DNS
6 4 (5.56%) BGP
7 3 (4.17%) IPsec
7 3 (4.17%) MPLS
7 3 (4.17%) Multicast
7 3 (4.17%) Network Security
7 3 (4.17%) Wireshark
8 2 (2.78%) HTTP
8 2 (2.78%) Internet
8 2 (2.78%) LAN
8 2 (2.78%) WAN
9 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.39%) Modbus
9 1 (1.39%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 48 (66.67%) Banking
2 45 (62.50%) Finance
3 15 (20.83%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.39%) Local Government
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 30 (41.67%) Senior
2 30 (41.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 17 (23.61%) Cisco Engineer
3 17 (23.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) Juniper Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Wireless Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Wireless Network Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Data Network Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Cisco Security Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (1.39%) JSON
1 1 (1.39%) Web Services
1 1 (1.39%) XML
1 1 (1.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (37.50%) Migration
2 25 (34.72%) B2B
2 25 (34.72%) ITSM
3 14 (19.44%) Design Patterns
4 12 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 12 (16.67%) Change Control
4 12 (16.67%) High Availability
5 5 (6.94%) Agile
5 5 (6.94%) Load Balancing
6 4 (5.56%) Change Management
6 4 (5.56%) Use Case
7 3 (4.17%) Build Automation
7 3 (4.17%) DevOps
7 3 (4.17%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (4.17%) Roadmaps
7 3 (4.17%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (4.17%) Scrum
7 3 (4.17%) Secrets Management
8 2 (2.78%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (2.78%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.39%) Python
1 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (34.72%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.39%) CISM
2 1 (1.39%) CISSP
2 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Ansible
1 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.17%) Puppet
1 3 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (83.33%) Cisco
2 37 (51.39%) CheckPoint
3 28 (38.89%) Arista
4 21 (29.17%) F5
5 17 (23.61%) Palo Alto
6 16 (22.22%) Blue Coat
7 15 (20.83%) Fortinet
8 12 (16.67%) Juniper
9 3 (4.17%) Centrify
9 3 (4.17%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.17%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.78%) McAfee
10 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.78%) Symantec
11 1 (1.39%) Meraki
11 1 (1.39%) Radianz