Firewall Contracts in Reading

Firewall
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 37 51
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 91 53 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 7.64% 5.09% 3.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.30% 28.80% 21.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 39 31
10th Percentile £341 £380 £381
25th Percentile £413 £480 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £625
90th Percentile £612 £755 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £564 £525
% change year-on-year +7.32% +7.38% +34.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £79.07 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £85.38 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year +29.37% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 244 184 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 20.49% 17.68% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 97 115
10th Percentile £205 £337 £164
25th Percentile £335 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +25.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £602
90th Percentile - £718 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £486 £467
% change year-on-year +0.77% +4.12% +20.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile £77.22 - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £66.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.52% +153.85% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £73.69 £26.50
90th Percentile - £78.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -50.72%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Reading over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 16 (17.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) Azure
2 18 (19.78%) Entra ID
3 17 (18.68%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (17.58%) Azure Storage
4 16 (17.58%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (14.29%) OCI
6 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.10%) AWS
7 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.10%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.10%) IaaS
7 1 (1.10%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (34.07%) DNS
2 29 (31.87%) DHCP
3 26 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 16 (17.58%) WAN
5 15 (16.48%) LAN
6 13 (14.29%) SAN
7 8 (8.79%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (8.79%) MPLS
8 7 (7.69%) BGP
9 5 (5.49%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (4.40%) HSRP
10 4 (4.40%) IPsec
10 4 (4.40%) SSL
11 3 (3.30%) EIGRP
11 3 (3.30%) FTP
11 3 (3.30%) SNMP
11 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
11 3 (3.30%) VPLS
11 3 (3.30%) VPN
11 3 (3.30%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) Architect
2 26 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 19 (20.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 19 (20.88%) Network Engineer
4 15 (16.48%) Active Directory Support
4 15 (16.48%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (15.38%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (15.38%) Support Specialist
6 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Senior
7 9 (9.89%) Storage Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Network Operations Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) PowerShell Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Server Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) VMware Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.20%) YAML
3 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Data Centre
2 16 (17.58%) PKI
2 16 (17.58%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.20%) CSOC
3 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) BYOD
4 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) iPad
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (37.36%) Windows
2 30 (32.97%) Windows Server
3 29 (31.87%) Linux
4 28 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 28 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 13 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 13 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.15%) DevOps
2 32 (35.16%) ITIL
3 23 (25.27%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (19.78%) Analytics
5 18 (19.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (18.68%) Agile
6 17 (18.68%) Identity Management
6 17 (18.68%) Log Analytics
6 17 (18.68%) RBAC
6 17 (18.68%) Release Management
6 17 (18.68%) Service Management
7 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (17.58%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (17.58%) Project Management
8 15 (16.48%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (16.48%) Security Architecture
9 14 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.07%) PowerShell
2 16 (17.58%) Bicep
2 16 (17.58%) C#
2 16 (17.58%) VB
2 16 (17.58%) VBScript
3 3 (3.30%) SQL
4 1 (1.10%) Python
Qualifications
1 63 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 59 (64.84%) DV Cleared
3 32 (35.16%) Degree
4 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
5 16 (17.58%) CCNA
5 16 (17.58%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (17.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (16.48%) CCNP
7 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.20%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.20%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) HP ASE
9 1 (1.10%) JNCIE
9 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.10%) NCSC
2 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 34 (37.36%) Active Directory
2 16 (17.58%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (17.58%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (17.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 13 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (32.97%) SCCM
2 29 (31.87%) SCOM
2 29 (31.87%) WSUS
3 17 (18.68%) Kubernetes
3 17 (18.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (17.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 13 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
5 13 (14.29%) NetBackup
5 13 (14.29%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.30%) Terraform
7 2 (2.20%) Ansible
7 2 (2.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (2.20%) Nessus
7 2 (2.20%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (1.10%) Grafana
8 1 (1.10%) Graylog
8 1 (1.10%) Nagios
8 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (41.76%) Cisco
2 36 (39.56%) Microsoft
3 32 (35.16%) Juniper
4 16 (17.58%) Oracle
4 16 (17.58%) Palo Alto
4 16 (17.58%) VMware
5 13 (14.29%) 3PAR
5 13 (14.29%) Dell
5 13 (14.29%) EMC
5 13 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
5 13 (14.29%) HP
5 13 (14.29%) Symantec
5 13 (14.29%) Veeam
6 3 (3.30%) Informatica
6 3 (3.30%) Splunk
7 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.20%) Citrix
8 1 (1.10%) BMC
8 1 (1.10%) Databricks
8 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow