Firewall Contracts

Firewall
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 50 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1,531 2,398 2,710
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.56% 4.28% 3.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.22% 33.66% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 960 1,649 1,883
10th Percentile £300 £305 £311
25th Percentile £413 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £610
90th Percentile £738 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £470
% change year-on-year +2.56% +3.72% +10.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 59 46
10th Percentile £16.00 £22.06 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.92 £42.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +39.78% +86.46%
75th Percentile £85.65 £75.83 £56.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.55 £60.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.50 £62.55 £22.50
% change year-on-year +33.49% +178.00% -2.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Firewall 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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +3 1,371 £513 -2.38% 686
UK excluding London -2 857 £500 +2.56% 555
London +1 545 £525 -12.50% 176
Work from Home -8 483 £525 - 304
South East +7 317 £481 -3.75% 151
North of England -11 166 £525 +16.67% 150
South West +1 148 £498 -2.93% 78
Midlands -11 119 £475 -5.00% 89
North West -7 106 £676 +50.22% 80
West Midlands -6 90 £475 +5.56% 50
Scotland -11 52 £475 - 47
Yorkshire -12 51 £500 - 55
East of England -28 50 £475 - 38
East Midlands -14 28 £504 -6.71% 39
Wales -17 14 £313 -40.48% 15
North East +15 9 £375 +30.43% 15
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 5

Firewall
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:

Application Platforms
1 108 (7.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 57 (3.72%) Confluence
4 29 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
5 18 (1.18%) nginx
6 15 (0.98%) Apache
7 10 (0.65%) IIS
8 9 (0.59%) JBoss
8 9 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.46%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.13%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.13%) WordPress
13 1 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2007
13 1 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 39 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.59%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.20%) Shopify
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.065%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 401 (26.19%) Azure
2 207 (13.52%) AWS
3 159 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (6.40%) Entra ID
5 63 (4.11%) GCP
6 50 (3.27%) IaaS
7 45 (2.94%) SaaS
8 41 (2.68%) GitHub
9 40 (2.61%) PaaS
10 29 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (1.89%) Azure Stack
11 27 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 24 (1.57%) Azure Storage
13 24 (1.57%) Power Platform
14 23 (1.50%) OCI
15 22 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
17 20 (1.31%) Serverless
18 16 (1.05%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 342 (22.34%) VPN
2 243 (15.87%) WAN
3 237 (15.48%) DNS
4 230 (15.02%) Network Security
5 225 (14.70%) LAN
6 177 (11.56%) BGP
7 146 (9.54%) DHCP
8 131 (8.56%) Cisco ASA
9 124 (8.10%) OSPF
10 121 (7.90%) TCP/IP
11 110 (7.18%) SD-WAN
12 103 (6.73%) Wireless
13 98 (6.40%) Cisco Nexus
14 94 (6.14%) MPLS
15 90 (5.88%) IPsec
15 90 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
16 85 (5.55%) Cisco ISE
17 82 (5.36%) VLAN
18 71 (4.64%) SAN
19 65 (4.25%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.07%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (0.85%) Relational Database
4 11 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (0.72%) Power BI
4 11 (0.72%) RDBMS
5 10 (0.65%) MySQL
5 10 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (0.46%) NonStop SQL
7 6 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 5 (0.33%) Tableau
9 4 (0.26%) Apache Hive
9 4 (0.26%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.26%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 78 (5.09%) JIRA
2 54 (3.53%) Git
3 48 (3.14%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.31%) GitLab
5 16 (1.05%) TeamCity
6 15 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.59%) Travis CI
10 7 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.46%) Gradle
10 7 (0.46%) Maven
11 4 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
12 3 (0.20%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.13%) Subversion
13 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
14 1 (0.065%) Katalon Studio
14 1 (0.065%) MSI
General
1 326 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 210 (13.72%) Finance
3 141 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 115 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 93 (6.07%) Banking
6 52 (3.40%) Telecoms
7 38 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 33 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (1.89%) Legal
10 27 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.24%) Retail
13 17 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.11%) Marketing
14 16 (1.05%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.72%) German Language
15 11 (0.72%) Military
16 10 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.59%) Electronics
18 8 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 485 (31.68%) Network Engineer
2 249 (16.26%) Architect
3 163 (10.65%) Senior
4 120 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 96 (6.27%) Analyst
6 82 (5.36%) Security Architect
6 82 (5.36%) Security Engineer
6 82 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 69 (4.51%) Senior Network Engineer
8 65 (4.25%) Technical Architect
9 64 (4.18%) Consultant
10 59 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
11 57 (3.72%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 57 (3.72%) Lead
12 48 (3.14%) Network Architect
13 45 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
14 41 (2.68%) Network Security Engineer
15 36 (2.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 36 (2.35%) Operations Engineer
16 35 (2.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.79%) Node.js
2 32 (2.09%) LDAP
3 30 (1.96%) JSON
4 26 (1.70%) ARM Templates
5 24 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (1.37%) XML
6 21 (1.37%) YAML
7 20 (1.31%) React
8 18 (1.18%) 802.1X
8 18 (1.18%) CSS
8 18 (1.18%) HTML
9 15 (0.98%) Jinja
9 15 (0.98%) SAML
10 14 (0.91%) Middleware
11 13 (0.85%) Web Services
12 11 (0.72%) RESTful
13 9 (0.59%) .NET
13 9 (0.59%) IBM Integration Bus
14 8 (0.52%) NETCONF
14 8 (0.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 175 (11.43%) Data Centre
2 103 (6.73%) PKI
3 55 (3.59%) Private Cloud
4 54 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 43 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.48%) Security Posture
8 30 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
9 27 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 27 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 25 (1.63%) Clustering
10 25 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 25 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
11 22 (1.44%) Replication
12 21 (1.37%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (0.98%) Cloud Native
15 13 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 418 (27.30%) Windows
2 241 (15.74%) Windows Server
3 207 (13.52%) Linux
4 80 (5.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 77 (5.03%) Unix
6 72 (4.70%) Windows 10
7 59 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 57 (3.72%) Apple iOS
8 57 (3.72%) Windows Server 2012
9 55 (3.59%) Android
10 25 (1.63%) Mac OS
11 20 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (1.18%) Windows XP
13 16 (1.05%) VMS
14 13 (0.85%) Mac OS X
15 11 (0.72%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
17 8 (0.52%) Solaris
18 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
19 5 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (14.83%) DevOps
2 221 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
3 186 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
4 173 (11.30%) Agile
5 166 (10.84%) CI/CD
5 166 (10.84%) ITIL
6 163 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 130 (8.49%) Migration
8 124 (8.10%) SIEM
9 119 (7.77%) Security Architecture
10 108 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 101 (6.60%) Change Management
12 97 (6.34%) Cloud Security
13 87 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 83 (5.42%) Network Design
15 82 (5.36%) Risk Management
16 80 (5.23%) Load Balancing
16 80 (5.23%) Roadmaps
17 78 (5.09%) Mobile Device Management
18 75 (4.90%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 156 (10.19%) PowerShell
2 150 (9.80%) Python
3 44 (2.87%) SQL
4 42 (2.74%) Bash
5 38 (2.48%) Java
6 32 (2.09%) VBScript
7 29 (1.89%) Bicep
8 28 (1.83%) C#
9 22 (1.44%) VB
10 20 (1.31%) Go
11 19 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
12 17 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 14 (0.91%) JavaScript
13 14 (0.91%) Perl
14 12 (0.78%) Tcl
15 11 (0.72%) Ruby
16 9 (0.59%) Groovy
17 8 (0.52%) C
18 5 (0.33%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 490 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 251 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 233 (15.22%) Cisco Certification
4 231 (15.09%) DV Cleared
5 186 (12.15%) CCNP
6 164 (10.71%) Degree
7 129 (8.43%) CCNA
8 53 (3.46%) CCIE
9 45 (2.94%) CISSP
10 42 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (2.29%) Azure Certification
12 34 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.50%) CISM
14 22 (1.44%) AWS Certification
15 20 (1.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (0.72%) JNCIA
18 10 (0.65%) GIAC
18 10 (0.65%) MCSE
19 9 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (3.14%) NIST
3 47 (3.07%) GDPR
4 40 (2.61%) SLA
5 32 (2.09%) QA
6 29 (1.89%) Government Security Classifications
7 21 (1.37%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.24%) HIPAA
9 16 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 13 (0.85%) NCSC
11 11 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 7 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.20%) COBIT
13 3 (0.20%) GPG13
13 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 239 (15.61%) Active Directory
2 169 (11.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (4.64%) Hyper-V
4 64 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
5 50 (3.27%) Docker
5 50 (3.27%) VMware NSX
6 44 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
7 38 (2.48%) vSphere
8 33 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 31 (2.02%) Firmware
10 20 (1.31%) XenApp
11 14 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.52%) Terminal Services
13 7 (0.46%) BitLocker
14 4 (0.26%) ProxySG
14 4 (0.26%) Snort
15 3 (0.20%) Ceph
15 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.20%) Samba
Systems Management
1 131 (8.56%) Terraform
2 119 (7.77%) SCCM
3 118 (7.71%) Ansible
4 85 (5.55%) Kubernetes
5 66 (4.31%) FortiGate
6 62 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 60 (3.92%) SCOM
8 46 (3.00%) WSUS
9 43 (2.81%) vCenter Server
10 27 (1.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 27 (1.76%) Nessus
11 24 (1.57%) Grafana
12 23 (1.50%) Puppet
13 19 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 18 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (1.11%) Kibana
15 17 (1.11%) NetBackup
16 15 (0.98%) Prometheus
17 14 (0.91%) Progress Chef
18 13 (0.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 551 (35.99%) Cisco
2 326 (21.29%) Microsoft
3 261 (17.05%) Palo Alto
4 222 (14.50%) VMware
5 174 (11.37%) Fortinet
6 168 (10.97%) F5
7 155 (10.12%) Juniper
8 137 (8.95%) CheckPoint
9 100 (6.53%) SolarWinds
10 86 (5.62%) Citrix
11 72 (4.70%) Dell
12 50 (3.27%) HP
12 50 (3.27%) Splunk
13 49 (3.20%) Oracle
14 37 (2.42%) CA
15 36 (2.35%) Aruba
15 36 (2.35%) EMC
16 35 (2.29%) Atlassian
16 35 (2.29%) Zscaler
17 34 (2.22%) Meraki