Firewall Contracts in Cumbria

Firewall
North West > Cumbria

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 16 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 6.18% 1.75% 4.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.65% 6.67% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile £463 - £516
25th Percentile £494 £463 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -12.84% +29.76%
75th Percentile £516 £488 £575
90th Percentile £538 - -
North West median daily rate £650 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +44.44% - +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 49 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 18.92% 26.32% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 9 8
10th Percentile £460 £423 -
25th Percentile £515 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £426 £503
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -15.22% +22.56%
75th Percentile £666 £488 £549
90th Percentile £672 £552 £575
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.39 - -
Median hourly rate £41.23 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.04%
75th Percentile £44.07 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 26 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 11 £515 - 1
Workington - 1 £528 -
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco ISE
1 15 (93.75%) NetScaler
2 14 (87.50%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (81.25%) BGP
3 13 (81.25%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (81.25%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (81.25%) EIGRP
3 13 (81.25%) HSRP
3 13 (81.25%) IPsec
3 13 (81.25%) OSPF
4 12 (75.00%) SNMP
4 12 (75.00%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Network Engineer
2 9 (56.25%) Senior
2 9 (56.25%) Senior Network Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) Jinja
2 2 (12.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Network Management
2 13 (81.25%) Change Management
2 13 (81.25%) ITIL
3 12 (75.00%) DevOps
3 12 (75.00%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Network Design
5 1 (6.25%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.25%) Runbook
5 1 (6.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Perl
1 12 (75.00%) Python
1 12 (75.00%) Tcl
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
1 15 (93.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) CCNA
2 12 (75.00%) CCNP
2 12 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Cisco
1 15 (93.75%) Palo Alto
2 13 (81.25%) Citrix
2 13 (81.25%) SolarWinds
3 2 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Temenos