Firewall Contracts in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 47 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 165 241 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.52% 4.22% 3.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.05% 36.52% 30.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 164 178
10th Percentile £258 £263 £312
25th Percentile £363 £323 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% -0.55% +13.13%
75th Percentile £800 £538 £575
90th Percentile £850 £635 £638
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.87 £11.73
25th Percentile £23.92 £42.81 £13.79
Median hourly rate £24.87 £52.13 £17.02
Median % change year-on-year -52.29% +206.29% -29.08%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £30.90
90th Percentile - - £54.36
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +117.54% +18.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 660 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 11.56% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 450 608
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £607 £574 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 27
10th Percentile £13.31 - £11.01
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +3 104 £700 +55.56% 76
Yorkshire -6 50 £483 -3.50% 45
North East +22 11 £375 +64.84% 18
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (7.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.64%) Confluence
4 4 (2.42%) nginx
5 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.82%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) JBoss
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.61%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (18.79%) Azure
2 22 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (10.30%) AWS
4 14 (8.48%) GCP
5 8 (4.85%) Cloudflare
6 7 (4.24%) Akamai
6 7 (4.24%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.24%) GitHub
7 6 (3.64%) Apigee
7 6 (3.64%) Kong
8 3 (1.82%) CloudBees
8 3 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.21%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.61%) Azure App Service
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (41.21%) VPN
2 27 (16.36%) LAN
3 26 (15.76%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (13.94%) WAN
5 19 (11.52%) Cisco ASA
6 17 (10.30%) Cisco Firepower
6 17 (10.30%) DNS
7 16 (9.70%) BGP
7 16 (9.70%) EIGRP
7 16 (9.70%) NetScaler
7 16 (9.70%) OSPF
8 15 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
9 14 (8.48%) IPsec
9 14 (8.48%) Network Security
10 13 (7.88%) HSRP
11 12 (7.27%) SNMP
11 12 (7.27%) Spanning Tree
12 8 (4.85%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (4.85%) TCP/IP
13 7 (4.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.82%) ClickHouse
3 3 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.21%) Tableau
5 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.45%) JIRA
3 7 (4.24%) GitLab
4 6 (3.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (3.64%) CircleCI
4 6 (3.64%) Git
4 6 (3.64%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 41 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.27%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.24%) Finance
4 7 (4.24%) Legal
5 5 (3.03%) Banking
5 5 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.03%) Retail
6 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.21%) German Language
8 1 (0.61%) Back Office
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Military
8 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (36.97%) Architect
2 41 (24.85%) Network Engineer
3 40 (24.24%) Technical Architect
4 31 (18.79%) Lead
5 30 (18.18%) Lead Architect
5 30 (18.18%) Technical Leader
6 16 (9.70%) Senior
6 16 (9.70%) Support Engineer
7 14 (8.48%) Security Architect
8 12 (7.27%) IT Support
9 10 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) 3rd Line Support
11 8 (4.85%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 8 (4.85%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) IT Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (24.24%) Node.js
2 12 (7.27%) Jinja
3 10 (6.06%) JSON
4 9 (5.45%) XML
5 6 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.64%) YAML
6 3 (1.82%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.82%) Kafka
6 3 (1.82%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.82%) Web Services
6 3 (1.82%) XSLT
7 2 (1.21%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.21%) Middleware
8 1 (0.61%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.61%) LDAP
8 1 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.79%) Public Cloud
2 10 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.64%) Clustering
4 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.42%) NHS
6 4 (2.42%) PKI
7 3 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.82%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.21%) IoT
8 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.61%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.61%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 79 (47.88%) Windows
2 67 (40.61%) Windows Server
3 43 (26.06%) Android
3 43 (26.06%) Apple iOS
4 12 (7.27%) Linux
5 6 (3.64%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.82%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.82%) Unix
9 2 (1.21%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.33%) DevOps
2 50 (30.30%) CI/CD
3 47 (28.48%) Risk Management
4 46 (27.88%) Mobile Device Management
5 45 (27.27%) Agile
5 45 (27.27%) Security Architecture
6 41 (24.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 41 (24.85%) Threat Intelligence
7 40 (24.24%) Zero Trust
8 31 (18.79%) Design Patterns
9 22 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (11.52%) Change Management
10 19 (11.52%) Customer Service
11 18 (10.91%) Network Management
12 17 (10.30%) ITIL
13 14 (8.48%) ITSM
14 13 (7.88%) Containerisation
14 13 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (7.88%) Roadmaps
15 12 (7.27%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.36%) Python
2 14 (8.48%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.27%) Perl
3 12 (7.27%) Tcl
4 8 (4.85%) Bash
4 8 (4.85%) SQL
5 6 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.42%) Java
7 3 (1.82%) Go
7 3 (1.82%) Groovy
7 3 (1.82%) Ruby
7 3 (1.82%) Scala
8 1 (0.61%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 36 (21.82%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (18.18%) CCNP
5 27 (16.36%) CCNA
6 8 (4.85%) Degree
7 7 (4.24%) CCIE
8 4 (2.42%) CCIE Security
8 4 (2.42%) CISSP
8 4 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.82%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.21%) CCSA
10 2 (1.21%) CCSE
10 2 (1.21%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) SLA
2 6 (3.64%) QA
3 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.82%) NIST
4 3 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (13.94%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.48%) Docker
4 13 (7.88%) Firmware
5 11 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.21%) vSphere
8 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (15.15%) Ansible
2 14 (8.48%) Terraform
3 11 (6.67%) Grafana
4 7 (4.24%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.24%) Progress Chef
4 7 (4.24%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.24%) Puppet
5 6 (3.64%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (3.64%) Kibana
5 6 (3.64%) logstash
6 5 (3.03%) SCCM
7 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.42%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.82%) Autotask
8 3 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.61%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.61%) vMotion
9 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (28.48%) Cisco
2 35 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.52%) VMware
4 16 (9.70%) Citrix
4 16 (9.70%) Palo Alto
4 16 (9.70%) SolarWinds
5 8 (4.85%) Apple
5 8 (4.85%) F5
5 8 (4.85%) Google
5 8 (4.85%) Juniper
6 7 (4.24%) Splunk
7 6 (3.64%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.64%) Meraki
7 6 (3.64%) Veeam
8 4 (2.42%) HP
9 3 (1.82%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.82%) Datto
9 3 (1.82%) Oracle
9 3 (1.82%) Sophos
10 2 (1.21%) Zscaler