Firewall Contracts in Gloucestershire

Firewall
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 39 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +20
Contract jobs citing Firewall 18 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 4.26% 6.75% 8.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 36.78% 48.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 38
10th Percentile £430 £344 £363
25th Percentile £503 £415 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £495 £438
Median % change year-on-year +26.26% +13.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £700 £588 £584
90th Percentile £776 £700 £588
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £117.00
South West median hourly rate £46.39 £62.89 £52.00
% change year-on-year -26.24% +20.94% +11.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 87 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.89% 18.35% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 68 60
10th Percentile £345 £296 £255
25th Percentile £475 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +5.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £575
90th Percentile £776 £700 £589
South West median daily rate £535 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.70
25th Percentile £15.75 - £74.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £88.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.49%
75th Percentile £19.13 - £102.75
90th Percentile £21.00 - £111.30
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +7.57%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Gloucestershire 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
Filton - 7 £640 -
Gloucester +9 5 £475 +26.67% 6
Cirencester - 2 £575 -
Cheltenham -4 1 - - 4
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) PaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Network Security
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (11.11%) DMZ
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (5.56%) BGP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
2 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Network Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 2 (11.11%) PKI
1 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) VMS
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Log Correlation
1 7 (38.89%) Security Architecture
1 7 (38.89%) SIEM
1 7 (38.89%) Use Case
2 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Cost Control
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.11%) Hardware Maintenance
5 2 (11.11%) High Availability
5 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
5 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) CA
3 2 (11.11%) F5
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto