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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 54 99
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 +10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 478 981 1,226
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.26% 4.10% 2.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.32% 35.12% 27.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 706 874
10th Percentile £350 £363 £327
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £625
90th Percentile £669 £713 £679
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 12
10th Percentile £19.93 £19.30 £27.58
25th Percentile £64.99 £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 1,526 2,793 4,475
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.67% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,861 3,060
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 98 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £56.41 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% +18.76% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +116.22% -28.85% +4.00%

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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 8 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

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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 8 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 47 (9.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (6.69%) Confluence
3 16 (3.35%) SharePoint
4 13 (2.72%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (1.26%) nginx
6 5 (1.05%) Apache
6 5 (1.05%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.63%) JBoss
7 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.63%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (32.43%) Azure
2 73 (15.27%) AWS
3 58 (12.13%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (10.67%) Entra ID
5 27 (5.65%) GitHub
6 22 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (4.60%) Azure Storage
7 20 (4.18%) PaaS
8 19 (3.97%) GCP
9 18 (3.77%) IaaS
10 16 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.72%) Azure Stack
12 12 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (2.51%) Serverless
13 10 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.88%) SaaS
14 9 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.67%) Route 53
16 7 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 88 (18.41%) VPN
2 80 (16.74%) DNS
3 71 (14.85%) Network Security
4 62 (12.97%) BGP
5 50 (10.46%) Cisco ASA
6 47 (9.83%) DHCP
7 45 (9.41%) LAN
8 43 (9.00%) WAN
9 42 (8.79%) TCP/IP
10 41 (8.58%) OSPF
11 33 (6.90%) SD-WAN
12 31 (6.49%) IPsec
13 29 (6.07%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (5.86%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (5.86%) SAN
15 26 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
16 24 (5.02%) VLAN
17 23 (4.81%) Cisco Nexus
17 23 (4.81%) EIGRP
18 18 (3.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.97%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.05%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.84%) Apache Hive
5 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.84%) Hadoop
5 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
5 4 (0.84%) Tableau
6 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.42%) MySQL
6 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (8.37%) JIRA
2 27 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.81%) Git
4 13 (2.72%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.88%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.88%) GitLab
6 6 (1.26%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.84%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.63%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.21%) Gradle
10 1 (0.21%) Maven
10 1 (0.21%) MSI
10 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 110 (23.01%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.62%) Finance
3 43 (9.00%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.32%) Banking
6 17 (3.56%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.72%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.46%) Retail
10 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 4 (0.84%) German Language
11 3 (0.63%) Automotive
11 3 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.42%) French Language
12 2 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.21%) Aviation
13 1 (0.21%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 122 (25.52%) Network Engineer
2 72 (15.06%) Architect
3 66 (13.81%) Senior
4 29 (6.07%) Support Engineer
5 27 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (5.44%) Security Engineer
7 23 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (4.60%) Senior Network Engineer
9 20 (4.18%) Active Directory Support
9 20 (4.18%) Consultant
9 20 (4.18%) Security Architect
9 20 (4.18%) Technical Architect
10 18 (3.77%) Analyst
10 18 (3.77%) Microsoft Engineer
11 15 (3.14%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (2.93%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (2.93%) Lead
12 14 (2.93%) Operations Engineer
12 14 (2.93%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.44%) ARM Templates
2 13 (2.72%) LDAP
3 11 (2.30%) CSS
3 11 (2.30%) HTML
3 11 (2.30%) Node.js
4 10 (2.09%) React
5 9 (1.88%) JSON
5 9 (1.88%) YAML
6 7 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.26%) Jinja
8 5 (1.05%) REST
8 5 (1.05%) XML
9 4 (0.84%) EDI
9 4 (0.84%) Middleware
9 4 (0.84%) OLE
10 3 (0.63%) IBM Integration Bus
10 3 (0.63%) RESTful
11 2 (0.42%) OAuth
11 2 (0.42%) SAML
11 2 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 26 (5.44%) PKI
3 25 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.56%) Virtual Team
5 16 (3.35%) Private Cloud
5 16 (3.35%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 13 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.88%) Replication
10 8 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.46%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.26%) Clustering
12 6 (1.26%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
14 4 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (0.84%) SCADA
14 4 (0.84%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 151 (31.59%) Windows
2 77 (16.11%) Linux
3 75 (15.69%) Windows Server
4 41 (8.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (4.81%) Unix
6 22 (4.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (3.35%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.35%) Windows 10
7 16 (3.35%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (2.93%) Android
9 11 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.46%) Solaris
11 5 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (1.05%) VMS
12 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.63%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.42%) CentOS
13 2 (0.42%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (23.01%) DevOps
2 80 (16.74%) CI/CD
3 70 (14.64%) Agile
4 63 (13.18%) ITIL
4 63 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (8.58%) Security Architecture
8 40 (8.37%) Migration
9 39 (8.16%) SIEM
10 35 (7.32%) Vulnerability Management
11 34 (7.11%) Service Management
12 32 (6.69%) Identity Management
13 31 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (6.07%) ITSM
14 29 (6.07%) Network Management
15 27 (5.65%) Change Management
15 27 (5.65%) Information Security
15 27 (5.65%) RBAC
16 25 (5.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 67 (14.02%) Python
2 59 (12.34%) PowerShell
3 27 (5.65%) Bicep
4 24 (5.02%) VBScript
5 22 (4.60%) C#
6 21 (4.39%) VB
7 18 (3.77%) Bash
7 18 (3.77%) Java
8 12 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.88%) SQL
10 7 (1.46%) Go
10 7 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.46%) Perl
11 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.26%) Tcl
12 3 (0.63%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.21%) C
13 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 131 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 80 (16.74%) Cisco Certification
3 79 (16.53%) DV Cleared
4 69 (14.44%) CCNP
5 62 (12.97%) SC Cleared
6 59 (12.34%) Degree
7 44 (9.21%) CCNA
8 25 (5.23%) CCIE
9 20 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (4.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (3.14%) CISSP
11 9 (1.88%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.88%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.67%) CISM
13 6 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.26%) CEH
14 5 (1.05%) CCSA
14 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
15 4 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.56%) GDPR
2 16 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.35%) NIST
3 13 (2.72%) Government Security Classifications
3 13 (2.72%) SLA
4 8 (1.67%) QA
5 7 (1.46%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.63%) GPG13
7 3 (0.63%) NCSC
8 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 87 (18.20%) Active Directory
2 49 (10.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (4.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (4.60%) Docker
5 22 (4.60%) VMware NSX
6 13 (2.72%) Hyper-V
7 11 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.67%) Firmware
9 7 (1.46%) vSphere
10 5 (1.05%) XenApp
11 4 (0.84%) Snort
12 2 (0.42%) Ceph
12 2 (0.42%) Squid
12 2 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.21%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 65 (13.60%) Terraform
2 56 (11.72%) Ansible
3 53 (11.09%) Kubernetes
4 46 (9.62%) SCCM
5 34 (7.11%) SCOM
6 25 (5.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (4.60%) WSUS
8 21 (4.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (2.51%) Nessus
10 11 (2.30%) FortiGate
11 9 (1.88%) Puppet
12 8 (1.67%) Kibana
13 7 (1.46%) Grafana
14 6 (1.26%) Progress Chef
15 5 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
15 5 (1.05%) Netcool
15 5 (1.05%) Tivoli
15 5 (1.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
16 4 (0.84%) logstash
16 4 (0.84%) Nagios
Vendors
1 154 (32.22%) Cisco
2 108 (22.59%) Microsoft
3 94 (19.67%) Palo Alto
4 67 (14.02%) VMware
5 55 (11.51%) Fortinet
6 49 (10.25%) F5
7 42 (8.79%) CheckPoint
8 41 (8.58%) Citrix
9 32 (6.69%) SolarWinds
10 28 (5.86%) Dell
11 25 (5.23%) Juniper
11 25 (5.23%) Splunk
12 23 (4.81%) HP
13 18 (3.77%) Qualys
14 17 (3.56%) Atlassian
15 15 (3.14%) Oracle
16 14 (2.93%) Avaya
16 14 (2.93%) EMC
16 14 (2.93%) Zscaler
17 11 (2.30%) CA