Firewall Contracts in Berkshire

Firewall
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 129 81 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.55% 4.46% 3.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.49% 23.55% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 54 57
10th Percentile £339 £336 £370
25th Percentile £406 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +7.38% +34.44%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £623
90th Percentile £612 £734 £638
South East median daily rate £498 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -0.50% +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 0
10th Percentile £72.27 £27.05 -
25th Percentile £81.78 £49.38 -
Median hourly rate £85.38 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% - -
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.55 -
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £62.55 £20.00
% change year-on-year +33.92% +212.75% -10.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 487 344 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.72% 18.94% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 186 227
10th Percentile £205 £313 £200
25th Percentile £310 £395 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £486 £467
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.13%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £561
90th Percentile £623 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £488 £486 £450
% change year-on-year +0.26% +8.06% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 7
10th Percentile £40.70 £19.65 -
25th Percentile £76.99 £25.13 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £47.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.26 £73.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Reading +16 91 £605 -3.20% 27
Maidenhead - 9 £375 -
Ascot - 8 - -
Bracknell - 8 £444 -
Newbury -9 1 - - 1
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 16 (12.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.46%) Azure
2 18 (13.95%) Entra ID
3 17 (13.18%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (12.40%) Azure Storage
4 16 (12.40%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (10.08%) OCI
6 4 (3.10%) IaaS
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.55%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.55%) AWS
7 2 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.78%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 35 (27.13%) DNS
2 33 (25.58%) Intrusion Detection
3 32 (24.81%) DHCP
4 26 (20.16%) WAN
5 21 (16.28%) LAN
6 17 (13.18%) Cisco Nexus
7 16 (12.40%) VPN
8 13 (10.08%) BGP
8 13 (10.08%) SAN
9 12 (9.30%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (8.53%) MPLS
11 8 (6.20%) DMZ
12 7 (5.43%) OSPF
13 5 (3.88%) EIGRP
13 5 (3.88%) IPsec
13 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
14 4 (3.10%) FTP
14 4 (3.10%) SNMP
14 4 (3.10%) SSL
14 4 (3.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.55%) MySQL
3 2 (1.55%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.75%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.20%) Banking
4 8 (6.20%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.55%) Automotive
7 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.55%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (31.78%) Architect
2 36 (27.91%) Network Engineer
3 34 (26.36%) Security Architect
4 27 (20.93%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 17 (13.18%) Senior
6 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (11.63%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (11.63%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (10.85%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (10.85%) Support Specialist
9 10 (7.75%) Cisco Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) Juniper Engineer
9 10 (7.75%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (6.20%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 6 (4.65%) Consultant
12 6 (4.65%) Network Operations Engineer
12 6 (4.65%) Operations Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.18%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.33%) EDI
3 2 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.55%) YAML
4 1 (0.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.38%) Data Centre
2 16 (12.40%) PKI
2 16 (12.40%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.88%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.33%) CCTV
4 3 (2.33%) SCADA
5 2 (1.55%) CSOC
5 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) BYOD
6 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) iPad
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (31.01%) Windows
2 33 (25.58%) Windows Server
3 30 (23.26%) Linux
4 28 (21.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 28 (21.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (10.08%) Windows 10
5 13 (10.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (10.08%) Windows XP
6 6 (4.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.76%) DevOps
2 33 (25.58%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (24.81%) ITIL
4 26 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (16.28%) Security Architecture
6 19 (14.73%) Analytics
7 18 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (13.18%) Agile
8 17 (13.18%) Identity Management
8 17 (13.18%) Log Analytics
8 17 (13.18%) Project Management
8 17 (13.18%) RBAC
8 17 (13.18%) Release Management
8 17 (13.18%) Service Management
9 16 (12.40%) CI/CD
9 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (12.40%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (11.63%) High Availability
10 15 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.03%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.40%) Bicep
2 16 (12.40%) C#
2 16 (12.40%) VB
2 16 (12.40%) VBScript
3 5 (3.88%) SQL
4 1 (0.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 79 (61.24%) Security Cleared
2 70 (54.26%) DV Cleared
3 35 (27.13%) SC Cleared
4 33 (25.58%) Degree
5 24 (18.60%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (17.83%) CCNP
7 21 (16.28%) CCNA
8 16 (12.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (4.65%) JNCIS
10 4 (3.10%) CCDP
11 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (2.33%) JNCIA
11 3 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.78%) CCIP
12 1 (0.78%) JNCIE
12 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.33%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (28.68%) Active Directory
2 22 (17.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (14.73%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (12.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (10.85%) Hyper-V
6 13 (10.08%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.33%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.55%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (24.81%) WSUS
2 30 (23.26%) SCCM
3 29 (22.48%) SCOM
4 20 (15.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (13.18%) Kubernetes
6 16 (12.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (12.40%) vCenter Server
7 13 (10.08%) EMC NetWorker
7 13 (10.08%) NetBackup
8 4 (3.10%) Terraform
9 3 (2.33%) Ansible
10 2 (1.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (1.55%) Grafana
10 2 (1.55%) Graylog
10 2 (1.55%) Nagios
10 2 (1.55%) Nessus
10 2 (1.55%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.55%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (46.51%) Cisco
2 51 (39.53%) Juniper
3 39 (30.23%) Microsoft
4 22 (17.05%) VMware
5 19 (14.73%) Palo Alto
6 17 (13.18%) Oracle
7 13 (10.08%) 3PAR
7 13 (10.08%) CheckPoint
7 13 (10.08%) Dell
7 13 (10.08%) EMC
7 13 (10.08%) Extreme Networks
7 13 (10.08%) HP
7 13 (10.08%) Symantec
7 13 (10.08%) Veeam
8 11 (8.53%) Fortinet
9 8 (6.20%) Blue Coat
10 4 (3.10%) Informatica
10 4 (3.10%) Splunk
11 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.55%) Citrix