Firewall Contracts in Edinburgh

Firewall
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 63 67
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 19 50 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.35% 3.88% 3.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.62% 44.64% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 41 45
10th Percentile £432 £415 £230
25th Percentile £438 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +4.40% +9.64%
75th Percentile £634 £519 £575
90th Percentile - £538 £638
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +15.63%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 84 112 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.38% 8.68% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 75 100
10th Percentile £178 £163 £258
25th Percentile £242 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +4.97% +6.47%
75th Percentile £646 £527 £575
90th Percentile £750 £575 £639
Scotland median daily rate £525 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 5
10th Percentile £14.33 £24.08 £42.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £28.32 £46.25
Median hourly rate £18.27 £36.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% -22.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £52.06 £46.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £51.18 £54.09
Scotland median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) FabricPath
1 3 (15.79%) LAN
1 3 (15.79%) NX-OS
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) BGP
3 1 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) OSPF
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
1 6 (31.58%) Gradle
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
1 6 (31.58%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Site Manager
1 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Security Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Support
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Support
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) PKI
3 3 (15.79%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.53%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Unix
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Application Security
3 6 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (31.58%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (31.58%) OWASP
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (21.05%) Email Filtering
5 4 (21.05%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
6 3 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Risk Assessment
6 3 (15.79%) Security Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Bash
1 6 (31.58%) Groovy
1 6 (31.58%) Python
1 6 (31.58%) Ruby
1 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (15.79%) MCSE
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) CCSA
3 1 (5.26%) CCSE
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Ansible
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Arista
3 1 (5.26%) Blue Coat
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.26%) McAfee
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds