Firewall Contracts in the North West

Firewall
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 39 36 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 +20
Contract jobs citing Firewall 109 158 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.90% 5.25% 4.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.44% 37.09% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 109 100
10th Percentile £413 £288 £312
25th Percentile £497 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £850 £524 £575
90th Percentile - £589 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% -25.53% -
75th Percentile £48.75 £57.57 -
90th Percentile - £60.83 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 426 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.68% 14.14% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 286 370
10th Percentile £209 £288 £172
25th Percentile £329 £363 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.11% +14.06%
75th Percentile £666 £565 £585
90th Percentile £828 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 10
10th Percentile £20.93 £15.41 £10.96
25th Percentile £25.13 £18.93 £16.42
Median hourly rate £40.44 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +62.34% +32.17%
75th Percentile £46.60 £51.06 £49.94
90th Percentile £50.78 £53.22 £65.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +27 71 £800 +77.78% 38
Cumbria -17 17 £515 +7.97% 7
Cheshire -31 16 £500 +11.11% 11
Merseyside -2 5 £168 -59.39% 6
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.92%) nginx
3 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.68%) Azure
2 13 (11.93%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.42%) AWS
4 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.75%) GCP
6 2 (1.83%) Azure App Service
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.83%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.83%) Serverless
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.92%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.92%) IaaS
7 1 (0.92%) PaaS
7 1 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (49.54%) VPN
2 20 (18.35%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (16.51%) Cisco Firepower
4 17 (15.60%) Cisco ASA
5 16 (14.68%) Cisco ISE
5 16 (14.68%) NetScaler
6 15 (13.76%) BGP
6 15 (13.76%) IPsec
7 14 (12.84%) EIGRP
7 14 (12.84%) HSRP
7 14 (12.84%) OSPF
8 12 (11.01%) Network Security
8 12 (11.01%) SNMP
8 12 (11.01%) Spanning Tree
8 12 (11.01%) WAN
9 10 (9.17%) LAN
10 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
10 4 (3.67%) VLAN
11 3 (2.75%) DNS
11 3 (2.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.59%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.92%) MySQL
2 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.92%) JIRA
1 1 (0.92%) Metasploit
General
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.50%) Legal
4 5 (4.59%) Finance
5 4 (3.67%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.83%) German Language
8 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.92%) Military
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (50.46%) Architect
2 41 (37.61%) Technical Architect
3 35 (32.11%) Network Engineer
4 30 (27.52%) Lead
4 30 (27.52%) Lead Architect
4 30 (27.52%) Technical Leader
5 11 (10.09%) Senior
5 11 (10.09%) Support Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Security Architect
8 7 (6.42%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 7 (6.42%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Network Architect
9 6 (5.50%) Network Security Architect
10 5 (4.59%) Digital Architect
10 5 (4.59%) Digital Technical Architect
10 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Network Support
10 5 (4.59%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.70%) Node.js
2 12 (11.01%) Jinja
3 2 (1.83%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.92%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (27.52%) Public Cloud
2 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.67%) Clustering
5 3 (2.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.92%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (52.29%) Windows
2 48 (44.04%) Windows Server
3 43 (39.45%) Android
3 43 (39.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.59%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.75%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.83%) Linux
6 2 (1.83%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.92%) Unix
7 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Mobile Device Management
2 44 (40.37%) Risk Management
2 44 (40.37%) Security Architecture
3 43 (39.45%) DevOps
4 41 (37.61%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 41 (37.61%) Threat Intelligence
5 40 (36.70%) CI/CD
5 40 (36.70%) Zero Trust
6 34 (31.19%) Agile
7 28 (25.69%) Design Patterns
8 17 (15.60%) Network Management
9 15 (13.76%) Change Management
9 15 (13.76%) ITIL
9 15 (13.76%) ITSM
10 13 (11.93%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.01%) Microservices
11 12 (11.01%) Product Strategy
11 12 (11.01%) Strategic Roadmap
12 10 (9.17%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.76%) Python
2 12 (11.01%) Perl
2 12 (11.01%) Tcl
3 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.75%) SQL
5 1 (0.92%) Bash
5 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (39.45%) Security Cleared
2 41 (37.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (28.44%) CCNP
3 31 (28.44%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (22.94%) CCNA
5 8 (7.34%) CCIE
6 6 (5.50%) CISSP
7 5 (4.59%) Degree
8 4 (3.67%) CCIE Security
9 3 (2.75%) CCSA
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.92%) CCSE
11 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) SLA
2 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.92%) NCSC
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (11.93%) Firmware
2 11 (10.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.17%) Hyper-V
4 9 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (12.84%) Ansible
2 5 (4.59%) SCCM
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.75%) Autotask
4 3 (2.75%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (2.75%) Terraform
5 1 (0.92%) OpenVAS
5 1 (0.92%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (37.61%) Cisco
2 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.43%) Palo Alto
3 17 (15.60%) SolarWinds
4 15 (13.76%) Citrix
5 11 (10.09%) VMware
6 8 (7.34%) Apple
7 7 (6.42%) Google
8 6 (5.50%) Meraki
8 6 (5.50%) Veeam
9 4 (3.67%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.67%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.75%) Datto
10 3 (2.75%) F5
11 2 (1.83%) AlgoSec
11 2 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (1.83%) HP
11 2 (1.83%) Juniper
11 2 (1.83%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.83%) Splunk