Firewall Contracts in Chester

Firewall
Cheshire > Chester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 2 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 22 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 3.77% 27.16% 4.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 78.57% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 2
10th Percentile - £276 £207
25th Percentile £494 £288 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £325 £219
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% +48.57% -
75th Percentile £531 £363 £233
90th Percentile - £396 £236
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £469 £520
% change year-on-year +6.67% -9.86% +41.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Chester

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 Chester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 28 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 16.98% 34.57% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 4
10th Percentile - £203 £184
25th Percentile £199 £266 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £325 £219
Median % change year-on-year -38.62% +48.57% -58.33%
75th Percentile £344 £363 £313
90th Percentile £505 £502 £448
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £494 £406
% change year-on-year -3.80% +21.61% +1.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Chester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Chester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Chester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Audit Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard