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Firewall Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 40 Firewall job vacancies in the North West

The first table below looks at the demand for Firewall skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firewall over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the North West region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firewall
Rank 56 54 54
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Contract jobs citing Firewall 66 90 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.765% 2.962% 2.514%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.89% 17.75% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 46
Average daily rate £306 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.76% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £263 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £384 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.50% +90.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.60 £23.00 £26.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.25 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-3.26% +6.97%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 316 507 497
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 13.24% 16.69% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 182 250
Average daily rate £303 £318 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.56% -2.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £199 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 42 47
Average hourly rate £29.50 £22.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.09% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £31.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Firewall
England

Firewall
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

North West Firewall Jobs Demand Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Firewall across the North West region.

North West Firewall Daily Rate Trend

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firewall across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West Firewall Daily Rate Histogram

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Firewall across the North West region.

North West Firewall Hourly Rate Trend

Firewall
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +4 34 £306 -3.54% 16
Manchester -16 17 £270 -16.92% 22
Lancashire +8 10 £325 -13.33% 2
Merseyside +9 3 £408 +55.23%
Cumbria - 1 £125 -
Firewall
England

Firewall
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Firewall also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Firewall.

1 52 (48.60%) Windows
2 46 (42.99%) Cisco
3 37 (34.58%) Active Directory
4 36 (33.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 28 (26.17%) ITIL
5 28 (26.17%) VMware
6 25 (23.36%) WAN
7 24 (22.43%) Windows Server 2003
8 22 (20.56%) Juniper
9 21 (19.63%) Linux
10 19 (17.76%) MS Exchange
10 19 (17.76%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (17.76%) Finance
10 19 (17.76%) Banking
11 18 (16.82%) Middleware
11 18 (16.82%) LAN
11 18 (16.82%) TCP/IP
12 17 (15.89%) SAN
13 16 (14.95%) CCNA
13 16 (14.95%) UNIX
13 16 (14.95%) VMware Infrastructure
14 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
14 15 (14.02%) VPN
14 15 (14.02%) CCNP
14 15 (14.02%) Citrix
14 15 (14.02%) CheckPoint
14 15 (14.02%) WebSphere
15 14 (13.08%) Internet
16 13 (12.15%) Exchange Server 2010
17 12 (11.21%) HP

Firewall
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Firewall also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Firewall. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (16.82%) Middleware
2 15 (14.02%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.869%) Application Packaging
3 2 (1.869%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 19 (17.76%) MS Exchange
2 13 (12.15%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (5.607%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (4.673%) WebLogic
4 5 (4.673%) CICS
5 4 (3.738%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.738%) IIS
6 3 (2.804%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (2.804%) Apache
6 3 (2.804%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.869%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.869%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.935%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.935%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.935%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (4.673%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.804%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.935%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 25 (23.36%) WAN
2 18 (16.82%) LAN
2 18 (16.82%) TCP/IP
3 17 (15.89%) SAN
4 15 (14.02%) VPN
5 14 (13.08%) Internet
6 10 (9.346%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (9.346%) VoIP
6 10 (9.346%) DNS
6 10 (9.346%) SSL
7 9 (8.411%) OSPF
7 9 (8.411%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (7.477%) BGP
8 8 (7.477%) EIGRP
9 7 (6.542%) IGRP
10 6 (5.607%) NetScreen
10 6 (5.607%) WLAN
11 5 (4.673%) PBX
11 5 (4.673%) DHCP
11 5 (4.673%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.411%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (8.411%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.804%) DB2
3 2 (1.869%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.935%) TOAD
4 1 (0.935%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (2.804%) JIRA
1 3 (2.804%) Hudson
1 3 (2.804%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.869%) CruiseControl
2 2 (1.869%) MSI
3 1 (0.935%) LoadRunner
General
1 19 (17.76%) Finance
1 19 (17.76%) Banking
2 10 (9.346%) Retail
3 6 (5.607%) Local Government
4 4 (3.738%) Legal
4 4 (3.738%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.804%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.935%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.935%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.935%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (12.15%) Architect
1 13 (12.15%) Analyst
2 11 (10.28%) Consultant
2 11 (10.28%) Designer
3 9 (8.411%) Network Engineer
3 9 (8.411%) Firewall Engineer
4 7 (6.542%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (4.673%) Desktop Support
5 5 (4.673%) Security Analyst
6 4 (3.738%) IT Support
6 4 (3.738%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.738%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (3.738%) Project Engineer
6 4 (3.738%) Support Consultant
6 4 (3.738%) Lead Designer
6 4 (3.738%) IT Consultant
6 4 (3.738%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (2.804%) Graduate
7 3 (2.804%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (2.804%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.346%) PKI
1 10 (9.346%) Mainframe
2 6 (5.607%) Computer Science
3 5 (4.673%) Clustering
3 5 (4.673%) IVR
3 5 (4.673%) VSAM
4 4 (3.738%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.738%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.804%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (2.804%) Online Banking
5 3 (2.804%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.869%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.869%) Web 2.0
6 2 (1.869%) NHS
6 2 (1.869%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.935%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.935%) CLARiiON
7 1 (0.935%) Handset
7 1 (0.935%) BBC
7 1 (0.935%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (48.60%) Windows
2 36 (33.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (22.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (19.63%) Linux
5 16 (14.95%) UNIX
6 8 (7.477%) Windows XP
7 6 (5.607%) Windows 7
7 6 (5.607%) AIX
8 3 (2.804%) HPUX
8 3 (2.804%) Solaris
9 2 (1.869%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.869%) VMS
9 2 (1.869%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.935%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.935%) zOS
10 1 (0.935%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.935%) Windows Vista
10 1 (0.935%) Android
10 1 (0.935%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.935%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (26.17%) ITIL
2 11 (10.28%) ETL
2 11 (10.28%) Information Security
3 9 (8.411%) Change Management
4 6 (5.607%) Migration
4 6 (5.607%) Project Management
4 6 (5.607%) PRINCE2
5 5 (4.673%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (4.673%) Computer Security
5 5 (4.673%) Network Architecture
6 4 (3.738%) Kanban
6 4 (3.738%) Data Protection
6 4 (3.738%) Scrum
6 4 (3.738%) Security Management
6 4 (3.738%) E-Commerce
7 3 (2.804%) Service Delivery
7 3 (2.804%) Service Management
7 3 (2.804%) Risk Management
7 3 (2.804%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (2.804%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.411%) SQL
2 3 (2.804%) C
2 3 (2.804%) JCL
3 2 (1.869%) COBOL
3 2 (1.869%) Java
3 2 (1.869%) PHP
4 1 (0.935%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.935%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (14.95%) CCNA
3 15 (14.02%) CCNP
4 6 (5.607%) Degree
4 6 (5.607%) CISSP
5 4 (3.738%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.738%) JNCIA
6 3 (2.804%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.804%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.869%) EnCE
7 2 (1.869%) CEH
7 2 (1.869%) MCSE
8 1 (0.935%) MCP
8 1 (0.935%) CCIE
8 1 (0.935%) CCDP
8 1 (0.935%) CNE
8 1 (0.935%) Novell Certification
8 1 (0.935%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.804%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.869%) SLA
3 1 (0.935%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (0.935%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.935%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (34.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.346%) vSphere
4 7 (6.542%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.738%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 3 (2.804%) XenApp
7 1 (0.935%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.935%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.935%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (8.411%) SCCM
2 7 (6.542%) SCOM
3 5 (4.673%) Tivoli
4 2 (1.869%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (1.869%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.935%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.935%) Foglight
5 1 (0.935%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.935%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.935%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 46 (42.99%) Cisco
2 28 (26.17%) VMware
3 22 (20.56%) Juniper
4 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
4 15 (14.02%) Citrix
4 15 (14.02%) CheckPoint
5 12 (11.21%) HP
6 11 (10.28%) IBM
7 10 (9.346%) F5
8 8 (7.477%) Oracle
8 8 (7.477%) McAfee
9 7 (6.542%) NetApp
10 6 (5.607%) Brocade
10 6 (5.607%) Dell
11 5 (4.673%) Clearswift
11 5 (4.673%) CA
11 5 (4.673%) SurfControl
11 5 (4.673%) Kaspersky
12 4 (3.738%) Fortinet
12 4 (3.738%) FatWire
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Warrington, Cheshire
JUNIPER WITH F5 and CISCO SECURITY ENGINEERS URGENTLY NEEDED!!... This is a very straightforward, but VERY urgent role for a Juniper and F5 Security Engineer to be onsite...
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £325 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Infrastructure Consultant
Lancashire, North West
These projects include the upgrade of exchange to 2010 (Lync support experience would also be desirable), VMware upgrade from 4.0 to 5.1, and Citrix support as...
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
Infrastructure Engineer
Warrington, North West
Key skills and experience required: Experience with MS Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 ServerVirtualisation Technologies, Hyper-V. Networking - LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Firewalls (Sonic Wall), Vlans, Natting,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
Network Support Engineer (LAN, WAN, Cisco, ASA)
Manchester, North West
To be considered for the post, you must have: Minimum 2 years network troubleshooting experience (TCP/IP, Routers, Switches, etc) Administration and diagnostic skills on Microsoft Exchange Server...
Computer Futures
Posted: 17 June 2013
3rd Line Support/Server Analyst
Cheshire, North West
The successful candidate must have experience of deployment, management and support of; Windows Server 2003/2008 R2, VMWare vSphere 5, Exchange 2007/10 and SharePoint 2007/10. Additionally,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £20.00 - £35.00 per hour
Posted: 29 May 2013
Infrastructure Engineer (AD, SAN, Hyper-V)
Warrington, North West
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Posted: 7 June 2013
Firewall Solution Delivery Engineer - DCM
Knutsford, Cheshire
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Posted: 13 June 2013
Senior Support Engineer
Warrington, North West
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Posted: 10 June 2013
Internet and Mobile Lead Solutions Designer
Cheshire
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Posted: 13 June 2013
Lead Security Consultant
Cheshire
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