Firewall Contracts in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 51 39 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +15
Contract jobs citing Firewall 171 255 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.53% 4.69% 4.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.27% 38.12% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 175 196
10th Percentile £275 £278 £311
25th Percentile £424 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% - +10.09%
75th Percentile £825 £538 £550
90th Percentile £850 £633 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - £35.35 £22.88
25th Percentile £23.92 £41.50 £30.73
Median hourly rate £24.87 £52.13 £43.82
Median % change year-on-year -52.29% +18.96% +82.58%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £56.91
90th Percentile £39.58 £58.65 £64.76
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +36.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 565 669 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.66% 12.29% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 445 658
10th Percentile £200 £206 £179
25th Percentile £313 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +2.22% +11.11%
75th Percentile £614 £568 £550
90th Percentile £775 £670 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 23
10th Percentile £13.31 - £10.67
25th Percentile £21.19 £9.80 £16.12
Median hourly rate £25.44 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +139.28% -39.74% +4.38%
75th Percentile £45.97 £16.67 £21.33
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.85 £51.75
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -3 109 £650 +44.44% 72
Yorkshire -13 54 £508 +1.50% 49
North East +11 8 £375 +30.43% 14
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.26%) Confluence
2 9 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.34%) nginx
4 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.75%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.05%) Azure
2 21 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (11.70%) AWS
4 17 (9.94%) GCP
5 10 (5.85%) GitHub
6 9 (5.26%) Kong
7 8 (4.68%) Cloudflare
8 7 (4.09%) Akamai
9 6 (3.51%) Apigee
9 6 (3.51%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.75%) CloudBees
10 3 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.17%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 71 (41.52%) VPN
2 25 (14.62%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (12.87%) LAN
4 21 (12.28%) Cisco ASA
5 19 (11.11%) WAN
6 18 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
6 18 (10.53%) DNS
7 16 (9.36%) BGP
7 16 (9.36%) Cisco ISE
7 16 (9.36%) NetScaler
8 15 (8.77%) EIGRP
8 15 (8.77%) IPsec
8 15 (8.77%) OSPF
9 14 (8.19%) HSRP
9 14 (8.19%) Network Security
10 12 (7.02%) SNMP
10 12 (7.02%) Spanning Tree
11 11 (6.43%) TCP/IP
12 9 (5.26%) HTTP
13 7 (4.09%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (4.68%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.75%) ClickHouse
3 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) MySQL
5 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.02%) JIRA
3 10 (5.85%) GitLab
4 9 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (5.26%) CircleCI
4 9 (5.26%) Git
4 9 (5.26%) Travis CI
5 2 (1.17%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) Maven
6 1 (0.58%) Metasploit
General
1 48 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.85%) Banking
4 10 (5.85%) Finance
5 7 (4.09%) Legal
6 5 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.92%) Retail
7 2 (1.17%) German Language
8 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Military
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (38.60%) Architect
2 45 (26.32%) Network Engineer
3 41 (23.98%) Technical Architect
4 30 (17.54%) Lead
4 30 (17.54%) Lead Architect
4 30 (17.54%) Technical Leader
5 19 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 16 (9.36%) Senior
7 13 (7.60%) Security Architect
8 11 (6.43%) IT Support
9 10 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.85%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
11 8 (4.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 8 (4.68%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.68%) Network Support
11 8 (4.68%) Network Support Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (4.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.39%) Node.js
2 12 (7.02%) Jinja
3 11 (6.43%) JSON
4 10 (5.85%) XML
5 9 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.26%) YAML
6 5 (2.92%) Kafka
7 3 (1.75%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.75%) Keycloak
8 2 (1.17%) 802.1X
8 2 (1.17%) Middleware
8 2 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.58%) IBM Integration Bus
9 1 (0.58%) LDAP
9 1 (0.58%) OAuth
9 1 (0.58%) OLE
9 1 (0.58%) Web Services
9 1 (0.58%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.13%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.85%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.51%) Clustering
5 5 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.34%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.34%) NHS
7 3 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.17%) PKI
8 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.58%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 73 (42.69%) Windows
2 62 (36.26%) Windows Server
3 43 (25.15%) Android
3 43 (25.15%) Apple iOS
4 12 (7.02%) Linux
5 7 (4.09%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.34%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.17%) Unix
8 2 (1.17%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (35.67%) DevOps
2 56 (32.75%) CI/CD
3 48 (28.07%) Agile
4 47 (27.49%) Mobile Device Management
4 47 (27.49%) Risk Management
5 45 (26.32%) Security Architecture
6 41 (23.98%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 41 (23.98%) Threat Intelligence
7 40 (23.39%) Zero Trust
8 31 (18.13%) Design Patterns
9 26 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (14.04%) Change Management
11 17 (9.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (9.94%) Network Management
12 16 (9.36%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.36%) Customer Service
12 16 (9.36%) ITIL
13 15 (8.77%) ITSM
14 13 (7.60%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (7.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.37%) Python
2 17 (9.94%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.02%) Bash
3 12 (7.02%) Perl
3 12 (7.02%) Tcl
4 6 (3.51%) SQL
5 4 (2.34%) ActionScript
5 4 (2.34%) Java
5 4 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.75%) Go
6 3 (1.75%) Groovy
6 3 (1.75%) Ruby
6 3 (1.75%) Scala
7 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 42 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 41 (23.98%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (20.47%) CCNP
5 32 (18.71%) CCNA
6 9 (5.26%) CCIE
7 7 (4.09%) Degree
8 6 (3.51%) CISSP
9 4 (2.34%) CCIE Security
9 4 (2.34%) CCSA
9 4 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.17%) CCSE
11 2 (1.17%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.58%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.26%) QA
1 9 (5.26%) SLA
2 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.58%) GDPR
3 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.53%) Docker
3 14 (8.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (7.60%) Firmware
5 12 (7.02%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (17.54%) Ansible
2 20 (11.70%) Terraform
3 12 (7.02%) Grafana
3 12 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.02%) Progress Chef
3 12 (7.02%) Prometheus
3 12 (7.02%) Puppet
4 9 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (5.26%) Kibana
4 9 (5.26%) logstash
5 6 (3.51%) SCCM
6 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.34%) Autotask
7 4 (2.34%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (2.34%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.75%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.17%) Kiali
10 1 (0.58%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.58%) vMotion
Vendors
1 51 (29.82%) Cisco
2 34 (19.88%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 17 (9.94%) SolarWinds
4 17 (9.94%) VMware
5 16 (9.36%) Citrix
6 13 (7.60%) F5
6 13 (7.60%) Splunk
7 8 (4.68%) Apple
7 8 (4.68%) Google
8 7 (4.09%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.09%) Juniper
9 6 (3.51%) Meraki
9 6 (3.51%) Veeam
10 5 (2.92%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.34%) Datto
12 3 (1.75%) AlgoSec
12 3 (1.75%) HP
13 2 (1.17%) Oracle
13 2 (1.17%) Symantec