Firewall Contracts in England

Firewall
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 49 57 86
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 -4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1,429 1,951 2,092
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.87% 3.86% 2.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.56% 31.61% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,388 1,444
10th Percentile £313 £310 £305
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £610
90th Percentile £775 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 51 38
10th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £12.78
25th Percentile £23.92 £37.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +55.32%
75th Percentile £85.65 £70.00 £53.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.00 £63.37
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +95.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,003 6,173 7,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.54% 12.21% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,061 5,228
10th Percentile £206 £231 £222
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 442 304
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.38 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.46
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +10 558 £525 -12.50% 196
South East +13 315 £498 -0.50% 163
North of England -1 172 £520 +9.49% 146
South West +13 168 £500 - 87
Midlands -7 125 £495 -1.00% 128
North West -2 111 £650 +44.44% 86
West Midlands +8 101 £500 +11.11% 83
East of England -7 58 £475 +3.54% 60
Yorkshire -14 50 £483 -3.50% 42
East Midlands -15 22 £490 -7.51% 45
North East +23 11 £375 +30.43% 20
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 110 (7.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 59 (4.13%) Confluence
4 35 (2.45%) SharePoint Server
5 17 (1.19%) nginx
6 11 (0.77%) Apache
6 11 (0.77%) IIS
7 6 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.42%) JBoss
7 6 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.21%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 1 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.070%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 39 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.070%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
1 6 (0.42%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.28%) Shopify
3 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.14%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.070%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.070%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.070%) Endur
5 1 (0.070%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.070%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 375 (26.24%) Azure
2 171 (11.97%) AWS
3 154 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
4 92 (6.44%) Entra ID
5 57 (3.99%) GCP
6 56 (3.92%) IaaS
7 43 (3.01%) SaaS
8 38 (2.66%) PaaS
9 35 (2.45%) Azure Stack
9 35 (2.45%) GitHub
10 29 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
13 22 (1.54%) OCI
14 21 (1.47%) Mimecast
14 21 (1.47%) Power Platform
15 20 (1.40%) Serverless
16 18 (1.26%) Azure Storage
17 15 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 348 (24.35%) VPN
2 257 (17.98%) WAN
3 239 (16.72%) LAN
4 238 (16.66%) DNS
5 216 (15.12%) Network Security
6 183 (12.81%) BGP
7 145 (10.15%) DHCP
8 128 (8.96%) OSPF
9 123 (8.61%) Cisco ASA
10 116 (8.12%) Wireless
11 100 (7.00%) TCP/IP
12 97 (6.79%) MPLS
13 91 (6.37%) IPsec
14 89 (6.23%) Wi-Fi
15 84 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 84 (5.88%) SD-WAN
16 73 (5.11%) SAN
17 72 (5.04%) VLAN
18 70 (4.90%) Cisco ISE
19 57 (3.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (0.77%) Power BI
4 10 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.70%) MySQL
4 10 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.56%) RDBMS
5 8 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.21%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.21%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (5.32%) JIRA
2 49 (3.43%) Git
3 38 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.05%) TeamCity
5 14 (0.98%) GitLab
6 13 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.42%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.42%) Travis CI
9 3 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.21%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Postman
10 2 (0.14%) Subversion
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.070%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.070%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.070%) Maven
11 1 (0.070%) MSI
General
1 287 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 192 (13.44%) Finance
3 139 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 85 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (5.18%) Banking
6 52 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 36 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 32 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.10%) Legal
11 28 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.26%) Marketing
13 15 (1.05%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.05%) Retail
14 13 (0.91%) Electronics
15 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (0.63%) Military
17 8 (0.56%) German Language
17 8 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 475 (33.24%) Network Engineer
2 237 (16.59%) Architect
3 153 (10.71%) Senior
4 120 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 88 (6.16%) Analyst
6 79 (5.53%) Security Architect
7 78 (5.46%) Security Engineer
8 71 (4.97%) Support Engineer
9 70 (4.90%) Senior Network Engineer
10 68 (4.76%) Lead
11 61 (4.27%) Cisco Engineer
12 60 (4.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 59 (4.13%) Technical Architect
14 53 (3.71%) Network Architect
15 40 (2.80%) Consultant
15 40 (2.80%) Network Specialist
16 39 (2.73%) Network Security Engineer
16 39 (2.73%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
17 38 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
17 38 (2.66%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.06%) Node.js
2 33 (2.31%) LDAP
3 30 (2.10%) JSON
4 22 (1.54%) ARM Templates
4 22 (1.54%) XML
5 19 (1.33%) YAML
6 18 (1.26%) React
7 17 (1.19%) HTML
8 16 (1.12%) 802.1X
8 16 (1.12%) SAML
9 15 (1.05%) CSS
9 15 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (0.98%) Jinja
11 12 (0.84%) Web Services
12 11 (0.77%) Middleware
13 10 (0.70%) NETCONF
13 10 (0.70%) RESTful
13 10 (0.70%) YANG
14 7 (0.49%) .NET
14 7 (0.49%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 182 (12.74%) Data Centre
2 106 (7.42%) PKI
3 59 (4.13%) Private Cloud
4 52 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 43 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 33 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
8 31 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 26 (1.82%) Clustering
10 22 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 21 (1.47%) Product Ownership
12 20 (1.40%) Replication
12 20 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
12 20 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (1.19%) NHS
15 15 (1.05%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.05%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 401 (28.06%) Windows
2 229 (16.03%) Windows Server
3 176 (12.32%) Linux
4 75 (5.25%) Windows 10
5 64 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 63 (4.41%) Unix
7 58 (4.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 54 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (3.71%) Android
10 51 (3.57%) Apple iOS
11 25 (1.75%) Mac OS
12 22 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 17 (1.19%) VMS
13 17 (1.19%) Windows XP
14 15 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
15 12 (0.84%) Mac OS X
16 11 (0.77%) Ubuntu
17 10 (0.70%) Solaris
17 10 (0.70%) Windows 7
18 8 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (14.42%) DevOps
2 186 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
3 172 (12.04%) ITIL
4 166 (11.62%) Cybersecurity
5 164 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 150 (10.50%) Agile
7 139 (9.73%) CI/CD
8 131 (9.17%) Migration
9 112 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 112 (7.84%) Security Architecture
10 110 (7.70%) SIEM
11 97 (6.79%) Load Balancing
12 93 (6.51%) Cloud Security
13 91 (6.37%) Change Management
13 91 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
14 88 (6.16%) Network Design
15 85 (5.95%) Risk Management
16 80 (5.60%) Service Management
17 79 (5.53%) High Availability
18 77 (5.39%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (9.87%) PowerShell
2 122 (8.54%) Python
3 56 (3.92%) SQL
4 35 (2.45%) Bash
5 33 (2.31%) Java
6 25 (1.75%) VBScript
7 24 (1.68%) C#
8 21 (1.47%) Bicep
9 18 (1.26%) Go
9 18 (1.26%) Perl
10 17 (1.19%) JavaScript
11 16 (1.12%) VB
12 15 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.84%) Tcl
14 9 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.42%) Ruby
16 4 (0.28%) C
16 4 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
17 3 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 507 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 261 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 225 (15.75%) DV Cleared
4 216 (15.12%) Cisco Certification
5 168 (11.76%) CCNP
6 132 (9.24%) Degree
7 116 (8.12%) CCNA
8 37 (2.59%) CCIE
9 34 (2.38%) CISSP
10 28 (1.96%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.33%) CISM
14 16 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (1.05%) AWS Certification
16 13 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.84%) GIAC
18 10 (0.70%) CISA
18 10 (0.70%) JNCIA
18 10 (0.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (3.43%) NIST
3 43 (3.01%) GDPR
4 38 (2.66%) SLA
5 35 (2.45%) Government Security Classifications
6 23 (1.61%) QA
7 19 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 15 (1.05%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.84%) NCSC
11 10 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.35%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.21%) GPG13
15 2 (0.14%) COBIT
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 1 (0.070%) Data Quality
System Software
1 238 (16.66%) Active Directory
2 152 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (3.99%) Hyper-V
3 57 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
4 46 (3.22%) VMware NSX
5 42 (2.94%) Docker
6 37 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
7 36 (2.52%) vSphere
8 29 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 28 (1.96%) Firmware
10 19 (1.33%) XenApp
11 13 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.35%) Samba
13 4 (0.28%) ProxySG
13 4 (0.28%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.21%) Ceph
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.21%) NFS
Systems Management
1 107 (7.49%) SCCM
2 106 (7.42%) Terraform
3 105 (7.35%) Ansible
4 75 (5.25%) FortiGate
5 68 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 68 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (4.13%) SCOM
7 42 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 37 (2.59%) WSUS
9 23 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 21 (1.47%) EMC NetWorker
11 19 (1.33%) Nessus
12 18 (1.26%) Puppet
13 17 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
14 16 (1.12%) Grafana
15 15 (1.05%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.91%) Progress Chef
16 13 (0.91%) Tivoli
17 11 (0.77%) Kibana
17 11 (0.77%) Netcool
Vendors
1 533 (37.30%) Cisco
2 314 (21.97%) Microsoft
3 231 (16.17%) Palo Alto
4 210 (14.70%) VMware
5 166 (11.62%) Fortinet
5 166 (11.62%) Juniper
6 148 (10.36%) F5
7 121 (8.47%) CheckPoint
8 89 (6.23%) SolarWinds
9 76 (5.32%) Dell
10 71 (4.97%) Citrix
11 49 (3.43%) HP
12 47 (3.29%) Oracle
13 41 (2.87%) Splunk
14 39 (2.73%) EMC
15 37 (2.59%) Atlassian
15 37 (2.59%) CA
15 37 (2.59%) Meraki
16 35 (2.45%) Aruba
16 35 (2.45%) ServiceNow