Firewall Contracts in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 41 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.48% 1.71% 3.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.78% 19.35% 30.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £225 £216 £363
25th Percentile £305 £230 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £288 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -47.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £388 £400 -
90th Percentile £493 - £585
England median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 45 31 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 13.93% 8.86% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 51
10th Percentile £281 £142 £180
25th Percentile £363 £206 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £280 £500
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -44.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £597 £400 £588
90th Percentile £649 £660 £700
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £29.80 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.44
90th Percentile - - £18.23
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
% change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Tyne and Wear +15 7 £375 +9.09% 6
Durham - 1 £300 - 6
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) VoIP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) AMQP
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) MQTT
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) CRUD
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIA
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Autotask
1 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) vMotion
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
1 4 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Datto
4 1 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (12.50%) Sophos
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec