Firewall Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Firewall Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 114 143
Rank change year-on-year +18 +29 -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.13% 0.053% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.055% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £372 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £675 £405
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £497 £688 -
90th Percentile £521 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £675 £230
% change year-on-year -35.19% +193.48% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,440 1,811 2,532
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.87% 96.48% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,351 1,988
10th Percentile £313 £313 £225
25th Percentile £400 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 50 61
10th Percentile £12.05 £16.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £36.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.27% +107.14% +8.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.44 £23.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.50
% change year-on-year -13.59% +49.01% +13.86%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in Manchester

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in Manchester

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in Manchester

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Firewall Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) CCSA
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Tufin
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSA
1 1 (50.00%) CCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Tufin
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler