Firewall Contracts with Work from Home Options

Firewall
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 53 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 +42 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 483 991 1,230
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.30% 4.09% 2.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.47% 35.18% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 707 882
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £626
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 12
10th Percentile £20.40 £19.30 £27.58
25th Percentile £51.95 £51.37 £41.38
Median hourly rate £87.46 £72.50 £53.79
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +34.78% +13.84%
75th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £62.25
90th Percentile - £80.85 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £44.75
% change year-on-year -4.08% +39.78% +88.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,535 2,817 4,458
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.48% 11.62% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,879 3,052
10th Percentile £300 £344 £313
25th Percentile £413 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £646 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 95 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.90 £18.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £27.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.32 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.73% +16.46% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
% change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%

Firewall
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall.

Firewall daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firewall over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Firewall daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall.

Firewall hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firewall over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Firewall hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 45 (9.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (6.83%) Confluence
3 17 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.90%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.24%) nginx
6 5 (1.04%) Apache
6 5 (1.04%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.62%) JBoss
7 3 (0.62%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.62%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 156 (32.30%) Azure
2 75 (15.53%) AWS
3 57 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (10.35%) Entra ID
5 27 (5.59%) GitHub
6 22 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (4.55%) Azure Storage
7 21 (4.35%) GCP
8 20 (4.14%) PaaS
9 19 (3.93%) IaaS
10 16 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (2.90%) Azure Stack
12 13 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.48%) Serverless
14 10 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.86%) SaaS
15 9 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (1.66%) Route 53
17 7 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 88 (18.22%) VPN
2 80 (16.56%) DNS
3 70 (14.49%) Network Security
4 67 (13.87%) BGP
5 52 (10.77%) Cisco ASA
6 47 (9.73%) DHCP
6 47 (9.73%) LAN
7 46 (9.52%) WAN
8 45 (9.32%) OSPF
9 41 (8.49%) TCP/IP
10 31 (6.42%) IPsec
10 31 (6.42%) SD-WAN
11 29 (6.00%) Intrusion Detection
12 28 (5.80%) Cisco ISE
13 27 (5.59%) SAN
13 27 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (5.38%) EIGRP
15 25 (5.18%) Cisco Nexus
16 23 (4.76%) VLAN
17 22 (4.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (0.83%) Apache Hive
5 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.83%) Hadoop
5 4 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.83%) Tableau
6 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.41%) MySQL
6 2 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (8.49%) JIRA
2 28 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.76%) Git
4 13 (2.69%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.86%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.86%) GitLab
6 6 (1.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.62%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.62%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.21%) Gradle
10 1 (0.21%) Maven
10 1 (0.21%) MSI
10 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 114 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.81%) Finance
3 42 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (7.04%) Banking
6 16 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 13 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.45%) Retail
10 4 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.83%) German Language
10 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.62%) Automotive
12 2 (0.41%) Advertising
12 2 (0.41%) Military
12 2 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Legal
Job Titles
1 121 (25.05%) Network Engineer
2 73 (15.11%) Senior
3 72 (14.91%) Architect
4 29 (6.00%) Support Engineer
5 27 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (4.97%) Security Engineer
7 23 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 22 (4.55%) Consultant
9 20 (4.14%) Active Directory Support
9 20 (4.14%) Security Architect
10 19 (3.93%) Microsoft Engineer
10 19 (3.93%) Technical Architect
11 18 (3.73%) Analyst
12 17 (3.52%) Operations Engineer
13 16 (3.31%) Lead
14 15 (3.11%) Azure Specialist
15 14 (2.90%) Active Directory Specialist
15 14 (2.90%) Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.38%) ARM Templates
2 15 (3.11%) LDAP
3 11 (2.28%) CSS
3 11 (2.28%) HTML
3 11 (2.28%) Node.js
4 10 (2.07%) React
5 9 (1.86%) JSON
5 9 (1.86%) YAML
6 8 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.24%) Jinja
8 5 (1.04%) REST
8 5 (1.04%) XML
9 4 (0.83%) EDI
9 4 (0.83%) Middleware
9 4 (0.83%) OLE
10 3 (0.62%) AWS SAM
10 3 (0.62%) IBM Integration Bus
10 3 (0.62%) RESTful
11 2 (0.41%) AWS CDK
11 2 (0.41%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.04%) Data Centre
2 28 (5.80%) PKI
3 24 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.52%) Private Cloud
4 17 (3.52%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 15 (3.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 12 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.86%) Replication
11 7 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.24%) Clustering
12 6 (1.24%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
14 4 (0.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (0.83%) IoT
14 4 (0.83%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 150 (31.06%) Windows
2 78 (16.15%) Linux
3 76 (15.73%) Windows Server
4 40 (8.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 24 (4.97%) Unix
6 22 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (3.31%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.31%) Windows 10
8 15 (3.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (2.90%) Android
10 11 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.45%) Solaris
12 5 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (1.04%) VMS
13 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.62%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.41%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.41%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (23.19%) DevOps
2 81 (16.77%) CI/CD
3 71 (14.70%) Agile
4 64 (13.25%) ITIL
4 64 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (8.49%) Security Architecture
8 39 (8.07%) Migration
9 38 (7.87%) SIEM
10 37 (7.66%) Service Management
11 35 (7.25%) Vulnerability Management
12 32 (6.63%) Identity Management
12 32 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (6.21%) ITSM
13 30 (6.21%) Network Management
14 27 (5.59%) Change Management
14 27 (5.59%) RBAC
15 26 (5.38%) Information Security
16 25 (5.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 69 (14.29%) Python
2 60 (12.42%) PowerShell
3 27 (5.59%) Bicep
4 24 (4.97%) VBScript
5 22 (4.55%) C#
6 21 (4.35%) VB
7 19 (3.93%) Bash
8 18 (3.73%) Java
9 12 (2.48%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.66%) Go
10 8 (1.66%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.66%) SQL
11 7 (1.45%) Perl
12 6 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.24%) Tcl
13 3 (0.62%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 136 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 81 (16.77%) DV Cleared
3 80 (16.56%) Cisco Certification
4 68 (14.08%) CCNP
5 63 (13.04%) SC Cleared
6 60 (12.42%) Degree
7 44 (9.11%) CCNA
8 23 (4.76%) CCIE
9 21 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (4.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 13 (2.69%) CISSP
12 9 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.86%) Azure Certification
13 8 (1.66%) CISM
14 7 (1.45%) JNCIA
15 6 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.24%) CEH
15 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
16 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.31%) GDPR
1 16 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (3.31%) NIST
2 14 (2.90%) Government Security Classifications
3 13 (2.69%) SLA
4 8 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.66%) QA
5 5 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.83%) NCSC
7 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.62%) GPG13
8 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 89 (18.43%) Active Directory
2 49 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (8.07%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (4.76%) Docker
4 23 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (4.55%) VMware NSX
6 13 (2.69%) Hyper-V
7 11 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.66%) Firmware
9 7 (1.45%) vSphere
10 5 (1.04%) XenApp
11 4 (0.83%) Snort
12 2 (0.41%) Ceph
12 2 (0.41%) Squid
12 2 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.21%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 66 (13.66%) Terraform
2 60 (12.42%) Ansible
3 56 (11.59%) Kubernetes
4 45 (9.32%) SCCM
5 35 (7.25%) SCOM
6 26 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (4.76%) WSUS
8 21 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (2.48%) Nessus
10 11 (2.28%) FortiGate
11 9 (1.86%) Puppet
12 8 (1.66%) Grafana
12 8 (1.66%) Kibana
13 6 (1.24%) Progress Chef
14 5 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (1.04%) Netcool
14 5 (1.04%) Tivoli
14 5 (1.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 4 (0.83%) logstash
15 4 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 157 (32.51%) Cisco
2 110 (22.77%) Microsoft
3 91 (18.84%) Palo Alto
4 67 (13.87%) VMware
5 54 (11.18%) Fortinet
6 46 (9.52%) F5
7 41 (8.49%) Citrix
8 38 (7.87%) CheckPoint
9 33 (6.83%) SolarWinds
10 32 (6.63%) Juniper
11 28 (5.80%) Dell
12 27 (5.59%) Splunk
13 22 (4.55%) HP
14 18 (3.73%) Atlassian
14 18 (3.73%) Qualys
15 14 (2.90%) Oracle
16 13 (2.69%) EMC
16 13 (2.69%) Zscaler
17 12 (2.48%) Avaya
18 11 (2.28%) CA