Firewall Contracts in Hampshire

Firewall
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 25 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 104 106 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.36% 7.94% 6.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.06% 36.93% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 76 83
10th Percentile £409 £348 £310
25th Percentile £467 £422 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £634 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £50.25 £26.25
25th Percentile - £60.00 £33.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +30.53% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £63.00 £53.13
90th Percentile - - £55.75
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £62.55 £20.00
% change year-on-year +33.92% +212.75% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 451 287 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 27.57% 21.50% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 150 193
10th Percentile £273 £228 £261
25th Percentile £425 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £601
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 37 45
10th Percentile £17.69 £17.15 -
25th Percentile £51.06 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +179.07% -34.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £70.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £63.25 £75.00 £61.95
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -36.30%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Hampshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Hampshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Hampshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Hampshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Hampshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Basingstoke +6 39 £475 -15.93% 3
Farnborough +17 22 £420 -1.18% 9
Fleet - 10 - -
Southampton -3 7 £590 +17.90% 7
Havant +6 5 - - 1
Winchester - 5 £569 - 4
Portsmouth -31 4 £450 +5.88% 5
Aldershot -2 2 £595 +16.10%
Hook +1 1 - - 2
Andover - 1 £563 - 2
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (1.92%) Confluence
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.96%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.62%) AWS
2 5 (4.81%) Azure
3 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.92%) GCP
5 2 (1.92%) Route 53
5 2 (1.92%) Serverless
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.12%) VPN
2 22 (21.15%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (9.62%) DMZ
5 9 (8.65%) BGP
5 9 (8.65%) Network Security
5 9 (8.65%) OSPF
6 8 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (7.69%) LAN
6 8 (7.69%) WAN
7 7 (6.73%) IPsec
8 6 (5.77%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (5.77%) VLAN
9 5 (4.81%) Wireless
10 4 (3.85%) EIGRP
11 3 (2.88%) HSRP
11 3 (2.88%) SD-WAN
11 3 (2.88%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) GitLab
2 2 (1.92%) Git
2 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
2 10 (9.62%) Banking
2 10 (9.62%) Investment Banking
3 6 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Finance
6 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.96%) Law
6 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (73.08%) Network Engineer
2 23 (22.12%) Cisco Engineer
2 23 (22.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 11 (10.58%) Architect
3 11 (10.58%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Juniper Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Network Architect
5 8 (7.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Analyst
6 6 (5.77%) Network Security Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (2.88%) Cisco Network Architect
8 3 (2.88%) Consultant
8 3 (2.88%) Network Consultant
8 3 (2.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.88%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.92%) LDAP
2 2 (1.92%) Node.js
3 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.96%) Keycloak
3 1 (0.96%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.77%) PKI
3 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.96%) Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.62%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Unix
2 6 (5.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.85%) Network Design
2 27 (25.96%) Customer Requirements
3 16 (15.38%) High Availability
4 14 (13.46%) Network Architecture
5 13 (12.50%) ITSM
6 11 (10.58%) Architectural Patterns
6 11 (10.58%) Design Patterns
6 11 (10.58%) Network Monitoring
7 10 (9.62%) Change Control
8 9 (8.65%) Service Management
9 7 (6.73%) Network Virtualisation
10 5 (4.81%) Analytics
10 5 (4.81%) Cryptography
10 5 (4.81%) ITIL
10 5 (4.81%) Scenario Testing
10 5 (4.81%) Scrum
10 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Management
10 5 (4.81%) SIEM
10 5 (4.81%) Test Management
11 4 (3.85%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.92%) Python
2 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 77 (74.04%) Security Cleared
2 36 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 15 (14.42%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (10.58%) CCNA
6 10 (9.62%) CCNP
7 5 (4.81%) Degree
8 3 (2.88%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.96%) CCIE
10 1 (0.96%) MCSE
10 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.88%) SLA
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.92%) GDPR
3 2 (1.92%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.96%) Firmware
5 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (9.62%) FortiGate
2 5 (4.81%) IBM BigFix
2 5 (4.81%) Tivoli
3 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Terraform
4 2 (1.92%) Nagios
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.96%) Iperf
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.96%) Nessus
Vendors
1 66 (63.46%) Cisco
2 45 (43.27%) Fortinet
3 26 (25.00%) Juniper
4 22 (21.15%) F5
5 14 (13.46%) Palo Alto
5 14 (13.46%) SolarWinds
6 13 (12.50%) CheckPoint
7 11 (10.58%) Blue Coat
7 11 (10.58%) VMware
8 5 (4.81%) Dell
8 5 (4.81%) Oracle
8 5 (4.81%) Remedy
8 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.88%) QinetiQ
10 2 (1.92%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.92%) Splunk
11 1 (0.96%) Fujitsu