Firewall Contracts in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 54 41 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 54 91 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.12% 4.24% 3.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.84% 41.94% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 61 81
10th Percentile £253 £230 £310
25th Percentile £284 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £639
England median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £32.28 -
25th Percentile £23.92 £33.81 -
Median hourly rate £24.87 £37.75 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +114.00% -26.50%
75th Percentile £25.83 £41.81 -
90th Percentile - £43.43 -
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 194 217 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.20% 10.12% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 138 255
10th Percentile £193 £152 £185
25th Percentile £275 £240 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £620 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 9
10th Percentile £12.75 - £16.00
25th Percentile £13.87 £9.80 £16.38
Median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +71.87% -39.74% +0.80%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £19.50
90th Percentile - £14.04 £22.88
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire -15 21 £625 +12.36% 18
West Yorkshire -7 20 £508 +1.50% 23
East Yorkshire +2 3 £300 +30.43% 1
Humberside - 3 £300 -
North Yorkshire -6 2 £205 -48.75% 7
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 9 (16.67%) Confluence
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.56%) Jupyter
3 3 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) GCP
3 10 (18.52%) GitHub
4 9 (16.67%) Kong
5 8 (14.81%) Cloudflare
6 7 (12.96%) Akamai
7 6 (11.11%) Apigee
7 6 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.56%) CloudBees
8 3 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) IaaS
10 1 (1.85%) PaaS
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) VPN
2 14 (25.93%) DNS
3 11 (20.37%) LAN
4 9 (16.67%) HTTP
4 9 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 6 (11.11%) WAN
6 5 (9.26%) Wireshark
7 4 (7.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (7.41%) Internet
7 4 (7.41%) SAN
7 4 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (7.41%) WLAN
8 3 (5.56%) BIG-IP
8 3 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (5.56%) SSL
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.70%) IPv4
9 2 (3.70%) Network Security
9 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (5.56%) ClickHouse
2 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 11 (20.37%) JIRA
3 10 (18.52%) GitLab
4 9 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (16.67%) CircleCI
4 9 (16.67%) Git
4 9 (16.67%) Travis CI
5 2 (3.70%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.85%) Maven
General
1 26 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.11%) Banking
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 5 (9.26%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Architect
1 11 (20.37%) IT Support
2 10 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.96%) Support Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Banking Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (9.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (9.26%) IT Architect
5 5 (9.26%) IT Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) IT Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (9.26%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Security Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.41%) Field Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Network Technician
6 4 (7.41%) Senior Network Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) JSON
2 9 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (16.67%) XML
2 9 (16.67%) YAML
3 5 (9.26%) Kafka
4 3 (5.56%) Apache Beam
4 3 (5.56%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth
6 1 (1.85%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) NHS
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Windows
2 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 9 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) DevOps
2 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 14 (25.93%) Agile
4 14 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (24.07%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 11 (20.37%) DevSecOps
8 10 (18.52%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (18.52%) Customer Service
8 10 (18.52%) Scrum
8 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (16.67%) API Integration
9 9 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (16.67%) Project Management
9 9 (16.67%) Secure Coding
9 9 (16.67%) Task Automation
9 9 (16.67%) Use Case
9 9 (16.67%) Workflow
10 6 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) Python
2 11 (20.37%) Bash
3 9 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.41%) ActionScript
4 4 (7.41%) Java
4 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.56%) Go
5 3 (5.56%) Groovy
5 3 (5.56%) Ruby
5 3 (5.56%) Scala
6 2 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (11.11%) CCNA
3 4 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CCNP
5 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.85%) CCDA
6 1 (1.85%) CCIE
6 1 (1.85%) CCSA
6 1 (1.85%) CCSE
6 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.85%) Degree
6 1 (1.85%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Docker
2 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) Terraform
2 16 (29.63%) Ansible
3 12 (22.22%) Grafana
3 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 12 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 12 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 12 (22.22%) Puppet
4 9 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (16.67%) Kibana
4 9 (16.67%) logstash
5 2 (3.70%) Kiali
6 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.37%) Splunk
3 10 (18.52%) F5
4 6 (11.11%) Cisco
5 4 (7.41%) VMware
6 3 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.70%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.85%) AlgoSec
8 1 (1.85%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.85%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.85%) Imperva
8 1 (1.85%) Juniper
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle
8 1 (1.85%) Ribbon
8 1 (1.85%) Zscaler