Firewall Contracts in Leeds

Firewall
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 47 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 18 40 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.28% 3.00% 2.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.87% 47.62% 37.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 35
10th Percentile - £313 £316
25th Percentile £313 £372 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +15.82%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £581
90th Percentile £634 £638 £660
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +17.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 67 84 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.49% 6.31% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 68 84
10th Percentile £275 £317 £253
25th Percentile £356 £425 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £578
90th Percentile £644 - £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £465 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £13.87 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.86%
75th Percentile £16.07 - -
90th Percentile £17.39 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% +0.80%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Cloudflare
3 7 (38.89%) Akamai
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) LAN
2 5 (27.78%) Internet
2 5 (27.78%) SAN
2 5 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (27.78%) Wireshark
3 4 (22.22%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) IPv4
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
General
1 5 (27.78%) Retail
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Security Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 4 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) IT Support
3 4 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
1 5 (27.78%) Email Filtering
1 5 (27.78%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (27.78%) OWASP
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (27.78%) RAD
1 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (5.56%) Information Assurance
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.56%) Kanban
4 1 (5.56%) Observability
4 1 (5.56%) Release Automation
4 1 (5.56%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) CCDA
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) F5
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) AlgoSec
5 1 (5.56%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (5.56%) ForgeRock
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Imperva
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler