Firewall Contracts in Hertfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 57 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -34 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 14 59 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.70% 7.22% 4.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.57% 31.55% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 38 21
10th Percentile £172 £264 -
25th Percentile £213 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £670 £687 £589
East of England median daily rate £475 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +3.54% +1.94% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 121 187 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.70% 22.89% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 106 77
10th Percentile £290 £246 £231
25th Percentile £350 £371 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.53% +4.29%
75th Percentile £475 £700 £525
90th Percentile £588 £714 £593
East of England median daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 20 4
10th Percentile £56.88 £55.98 £16.55
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.06 £18.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £29.78
Median % change year-on-year - +118.30% +38.49%
75th Percentile - £73.94 £39.55
90th Percentile - £74.65 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.98 £51.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year -57.11% +230.65% -15.16%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage -33 5 - - 7
Hatfield -9 3 £180 -67.27% 2
Watford +8 2 £750 +57.89%
Hemel Hempstead +5 2 £488 -24.27% 2
St Albans - 2 £325 - 1
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) LAN
2 5 (35.71%) SD-WAN
2 5 (35.71%) WLAN
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) DHCP
4 1 (7.14%) DNS
4 1 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
4 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
1 1 (7.14%) Marketing
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Network Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Support
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Domain Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Operational Technology
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) Edge Computing
2 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Network Management
3 3 (21.43%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (21.43%) Presales
3 3 (21.43%) Sales Enablement
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 2 (14.29%) SIEM
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.14%) Information Assurance
5 1 (7.14%) IT Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (7.14%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) Nmap
1 1 (7.14%) QRadar
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
1 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco
2 7 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (42.86%) Fortinet
4 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk