Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 628 755
Rank change year-on-year +120 +127 -86
Contract jobs citing DMZ 71 66 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.31% 0.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 31 68
10th Percentile £385 £288 £390
25th Percentile £432 £506 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £519
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +20.48% +8.07%
75th Percentile £519 £694 £613
90th Percentile - £743 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £596 £500
% change year-on-year -13.94% +19.10% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +127 70 £513 -18.00% 17
UK excluding London +82 56 £513 -13.94% 6
South East +49 37 £513 -18.00% 2
North of England +36 19 £433 +33.08%
North West +21 18 £433 +33.08%
London +83 12 £475 -29.63% 13
Work from Home +87 7 £440 -37.14% 6
West Midlands +15 1 - -
Midlands +12 1 - - 1
North East - 1 £431 -

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (18.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.63%) GitHub
2 2 (2.82%) Azure
2 2 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.62%) Cisco Nexus
2 20 (28.17%) Firewall
3 18 (25.35%) SD-WAN
4 16 (22.54%) VPN
5 14 (19.72%) Wireless
6 13 (18.31%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (7.04%) DNS
8 3 (4.23%) BGP
8 3 (4.23%) Multicast
8 3 (4.23%) Network Security
9 2 (2.82%) HTTP
9 2 (2.82%) Internet
9 2 (2.82%) LAN
9 2 (2.82%) MPLS
9 2 (2.82%) WAN
10 1 (1.41%) AMQP
10 1 (1.41%) Modbus
10 1 (1.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
1 4 (5.63%) JIRA
General
1 46 (64.79%) Banking
2 44 (61.97%) Finance
3 14 (19.72%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.41%) Local Government
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (85.92%) Network Engineer
2 27 (38.03%) Senior
2 27 (38.03%) Senior Network Engineer
3 15 (21.13%) Cisco Engineer
3 15 (21.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (18.31%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 13 (18.31%) Juniper Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Data Network Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Wireless Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Wireless Network Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco Security Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Security Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Cisco Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
9 1 (1.41%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (1.41%) JSON
1 1 (1.41%) Web Services
1 1 (1.41%) XML
1 1 (1.41%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.41%) IoT
4 1 (1.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (38.03%) Migration
2 26 (36.62%) ITSM
3 25 (35.21%) B2B
4 15 (21.13%) Design Patterns
5 13 (18.31%) Architectural Patterns
5 13 (18.31%) Change Control
5 13 (18.31%) High Availability
6 6 (8.45%) Agile
7 5 (7.04%) Load Balancing
7 5 (7.04%) Use Case
8 4 (5.63%) Build Automation
8 4 (5.63%) Change Management
8 4 (5.63%) DevOps
8 4 (5.63%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (5.63%) Roadmaps
8 4 (5.63%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (5.63%) Scrum
8 4 (5.63%) Secrets Management
9 2 (2.82%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (2.82%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.41%) Python
1 1 (1.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.41%) CISM
2 1 (1.41%) CISSP
2 1 (1.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (7.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Ansible
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.63%) Puppet
1 4 (5.63%) Terraform
2 1 (1.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 58 (81.69%) Cisco
2 38 (53.52%) CheckPoint
3 25 (35.21%) Arista
4 21 (29.58%) F5
5 17 (23.94%) Blue Coat
5 17 (23.94%) Palo Alto
6 13 (18.31%) Fortinet
6 13 (18.31%) Juniper
7 4 (5.63%) Centrify
7 4 (5.63%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.23%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.82%) McAfee
9 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.82%) Symantec
10 1 (1.41%) Meraki
10 1 (1.41%) Radianz