Firewall Contracts in the East Midlands

Firewall
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 46 31 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 22 65 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.87% 6.23% 3.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.44% 40.63% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 54 32
10th Percentile - £313 £258
25th Percentile £313 £392 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £529 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +36.58% -3.13%
75th Percentile £625 £690 £563
90th Percentile £651 £715 £728
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.88 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +55.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 160 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.73% 15.33% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 123 122
10th Percentile £172 £231 £177
25th Percentile £300 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £361
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +23.18% -1.03%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £475
90th Percentile £655 £700 £550
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 15
10th Percentile £12.47 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.00 £14.82
Median hourly rate £14.27 £22.26 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.89% +11.30% +33.33%
75th Percentile £26.15 £36.25 £23.00
90th Percentile - £40.25 £23.65
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
% change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands 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
Leicestershire +11 9 £600 +60.00% 11
Northamptonshire +9 4 £490 +30.67% 7
Nottinghamshire +1 3 £325 -26.97% 7
Lincolnshire -2 3 £325 -50.76% 9
Derbyshire -12 2 £450 +1.12% 14
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (4.55%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 4 (18.18%) DHCP
2 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (18.18%) VPN
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (13.64%) VLAN
3 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (9.09%) LAN
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
4 2 (9.09%) Wireless
5 1 (4.55%) Multicast
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Market Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) OpenAPI
1 4 (18.18%) RAML
1 4 (18.18%) RESTful
1 4 (18.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Network Architecture
2 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
2 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
2 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.55%) Analytics
4 1 (4.55%) Biometrics
4 1 (4.55%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.55%) Change Management
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.55%) Logistics
4 1 (4.55%) Network Design
4 1 (4.55%) Service Management
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) C#
1 4 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) CCNA
3 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.64%) CCNP
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) SolarWinds
3 5 (22.73%) F5
3 5 (22.73%) Fortinet
4 4 (18.18%) Juniper
5 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
5 3 (13.64%) VMware
6 1 (4.55%) Aruba
6 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.55%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) HP
6 1 (4.55%) Meraki
6 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.55%) Splunk