Firewall Contracts in Scotland

Firewall
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 59 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 52 119 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.43% 4.45% 3.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.64% 33.06% 37.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 74 81
10th Percentile £378 £413 £319
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £550
90th Percentile £634 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile - - £36.50
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £57.38
90th Percentile - - £59.25
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.08% +39.00% +87.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh +1 23 £500 - 12
Glasgow -1 10 £475 +3.83% 13
Aberdeen +3 4 £625 -
Renfrewshire -7 3 - -
Stirling - 3 £420 - 2
West Lothian +3 2 £188 -54.55% 3
Highlands - 2 - -
Fife - 2 £365 -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 12 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (13.46%) Entra ID
4 6 (11.54%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (11.54%) AWS
4 6 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Catchpoint
6 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (23.08%) VPN
2 9 (17.31%) LAN
3 7 (13.46%) Network Security
4 6 (11.54%) DNS
5 5 (9.62%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (9.62%) IPv6
5 5 (9.62%) SSL
6 4 (7.69%) BGP
6 4 (7.69%) IPsec
6 4 (7.69%) MPLS
6 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
7 3 (5.77%) DHCP
7 3 (5.77%) IPv4
7 3 (5.77%) NAS
7 3 (5.77%) SAN
7 3 (5.77%) SMTP
7 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
7 3 (5.77%) Unified Communications
7 3 (5.77%) WAN
7 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Git
1 6 (11.54%) Gradle
1 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
1 6 (11.54%) Maven
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
4 4 (7.69%) Finance
5 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Network Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Senior
3 5 (9.62%) Security Specialist
3 5 (9.62%) Site Manager
3 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (7.69%) Consultant
4 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (5.77%) Administrator
5 3 (5.77%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Cisco Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Field Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Security Consultant
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) SOC Manager
6 2 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (3.85%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) LDAP
2 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 8 (15.38%) PKI
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 3 (5.77%) Clustering
4 3 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (55.77%) Windows
2 19 (36.54%) Linux
3 13 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (17.31%) Unix
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.92%) Android
6 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.92%) Solaris
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.00%) Agile
2 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (25.00%) ITIL
3 12 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (17.31%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 8 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (13.46%) Change Management
6 7 (13.46%) Information Security
7 6 (11.54%) Application Security
7 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (11.54%) High Availability
7 6 (11.54%) OWASP
7 6 (11.54%) Project Management
7 6 (11.54%) Security Operations
8 5 (9.62%) Email Filtering
8 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) Shell Script
3 6 (11.54%) Bash
3 6 (11.54%) Groovy
3 6 (11.54%) Ruby
4 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (13.46%) CCNP
4 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) CCNA
5 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) HND
5 3 (5.77%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (5.77%) MCSE
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.85%) CCIE
7 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.92%) CCSA
7 1 (1.92%) CCSE
7 1 (1.92%) CISM
7 1 (1.92%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.92%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 5 (9.62%) Docker
4 3 (5.77%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (5.77%) Terminal Services
4 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Ansible
2 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) SCCM
4 3 (5.77%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.77%) vMotion
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) Nagios
5 2 (3.85%) Nessus
5 2 (3.85%) OpenView
6 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.92%) Kibana
6 1 (1.92%) logstash
6 1 (1.92%) Puppet
6 1 (1.92%) SCOM
6 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (38.46%) Cisco
2 8 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.46%) Palo Alto
3 7 (13.46%) VMware
4 6 (11.54%) Citrix
5 3 (5.77%) F5
5 3 (5.77%) HP
5 3 (5.77%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.85%) AppNeta
6 2 (3.85%) Arista
6 2 (3.85%) Avaya
6 2 (3.85%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.85%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (3.85%) Oracle
6 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.85%) Splunk
6 2 (3.85%) Tufin
7 1 (1.92%) AlienVault
7 1 (1.92%) ForeScout