Firewall Contracts in the West Midlands

Firewall
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 34 27 95
Rank change year-on-year -7 +68 -32
Contract jobs citing Firewall 88 149 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.31% 6.73% 2.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.78% 39.73% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 94 55
10th Percentile £200 £263 £180
25th Percentile £286 £313 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £596
90th Percentile £775 £704 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Median hourly rate - £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +31.25% +33.33%
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 370 375 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.12% 16.95% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 223 279
10th Percentile £200 £253 £163
25th Percentile £300 £323 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £451 £413
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +9.21% -0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £545
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 11
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.63 £13.63
Median hourly rate £19.95 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.98% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £37.58 - -
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +10 49 £475 +5.56% 9
Solihull -5 14 £275 -47.12% 4
Warwickshire -11 12 £625 -1.96% 11
Coventry -12 5 £356 -19.26% 5
Staffordshire -2 2 £275 - 16
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) IIS
2 2 (2.27%) WordPress
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.73%) Azure
2 13 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.41%) AWS
3 3 (3.41%) IaaS
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.27%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.45%) VPN
2 16 (18.18%) LAN
2 16 (18.18%) WAN
3 13 (14.77%) DNS
4 12 (13.64%) Network Security
5 10 (11.36%) VoIP
6 9 (10.23%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (9.09%) DHCP
7 8 (9.09%) SD-WAN
8 7 (7.95%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (7.95%) SAN
9 6 (6.82%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (5.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.68%) Internet
10 5 (5.68%) MPLS
10 5 (5.68%) PBX
10 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
10 5 (5.68%) VLAN
10 5 (5.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.14%) JIRA
General
1 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Legal
3 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.27%) German Language
6 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Automotive
7 1 (1.14%) Back Office
7 1 (1.14%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Finance
7 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (26.14%) Analyst
2 19 (21.59%) SOC Analyst
3 18 (20.45%) Network Engineer
4 17 (19.32%) 1st Line Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Architect
6 6 (6.82%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 2 (2.27%) Environment Manager
10 2 (2.27%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.27%) Test Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) Web Services
2 2 (2.27%) .NET
2 2 (2.27%) JSON
2 2 (2.27%) LAMP
2 2 (2.27%) YAML
3 1 (1.14%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.14%) OLE
3 1 (1.14%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.45%) PKI
2 17 (19.32%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.95%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (6.82%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.41%) Clustering
5 3 (3.41%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Replication
6 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.14%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.14%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.05%) Windows
2 13 (14.77%) Linux
3 11 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 10 (11.36%) Mac OS X
5 8 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (7.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.68%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (3.41%) VMS
9 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.32%) Impact Assessments
2 16 (18.18%) SIEM
3 15 (17.05%) Incident Management
4 14 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (13.64%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 12 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 11 (12.50%) Malware Reverse Engineering
6 11 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (11.36%) Computer Forensics
7 10 (11.36%) Purple Team
7 10 (11.36%) Risk Management
7 10 (11.36%) Security Operations
7 10 (11.36%) Threat Analysis
8 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.09%) Load Balancing
10 7 (7.95%) Agile
10 7 (7.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.41%) SQL
3 2 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.14%) C
4 1 (1.14%) C++
4 1 (1.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.05%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (11.36%) Degree
5 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.95%) CCNA
6 6 (6.82%) CCIE
7 5 (5.68%) CCIE Data Center
7 5 (5.68%) CCNP
8 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.41%) CISSP
9 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.14%) BC Cleared
11 1 (1.14%) CASP
11 1 (1.14%) CCSA
11 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.14%) GCED
11 1 (1.14%) GIAC
11 1 (1.14%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) GDPR
1 11 (12.50%) NIST
2 10 (11.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 10 (11.36%) HIPAA
2 10 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.27%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.27%) vSphere
6 1 (1.14%) Firmware
6 1 (1.14%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) FortiGate
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.82%) SCCM
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 3 (3.41%) Ansible
3 3 (3.41%) Autotask
3 3 (3.41%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.41%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.14%) Kibana
4 1 (1.14%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Cisco
2 17 (19.32%) CA
3 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
4 11 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 11 (12.50%) F5
4 11 (12.50%) VMware
5 10 (11.36%) Palo Alto
6 8 (9.09%) Aruba
7 6 (6.82%) Zscaler
8 5 (5.68%) Infoblox
8 5 (5.68%) Juniper
8 5 (5.68%) Symantec
9 3 (3.41%) Apple
9 3 (3.41%) Datto
9 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.41%) Veeam
10 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.27%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.27%) Synology
10 2 (2.27%) Zerto