Firewall Contracts in Merseyside

Firewall
North West > Merseyside

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 28 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 19 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.77% 5.71% 7.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.05% 44.19% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 14
10th Percentile £160 £268 £324
25th Percentile £161 £288 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £375 £478
Median % change year-on-year -55.33% -21.47% +86.34%
75th Percentile £181 £438 £566
90th Percentile £185 £473 £575
North West median daily rate £675 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +50.00% - +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 43 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 9.29% 12.91% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 42
10th Percentile £160 £241 £263
25th Percentile £177 £311 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -1.47% +34.92%
75th Percentile £382 £525 £538
90th Percentile £575 £550 £575
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £22.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -14.40% +68.92% -65.09%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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
Liverpool -4 4 £168 -55.33% 4
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure App Service
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) DMZ
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper