Firewall Contracts in Somerset

Firewall
South West > Somerset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 20 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.94% 5.47% 3.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 25.58% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 8
10th Percentile £294 £318 £332
25th Percentile £323 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £463 £411
Median % change year-on-year -17.57% +12.60% -3.35%
75th Percentile £448 £506 £495
90th Percentile £483 £540 £500
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 43 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 19.12% 21.39% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 15
10th Percentile £250 £168 £213
25th Percentile £256 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £498 £469 £494
90th Percentile £525 £575 £500
South West median daily rate £538 £518 £450
% change year-on-year +3.86% +15.00% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.76 £20.49
25th Percentile £26.25 £16.25 £28.34
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -56.77% +58.29%
75th Percentile - £71.17 £48.24
90th Percentile - £82.47 £49.30
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.67
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.66% +8.96%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Somerset over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 7 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
Bath -3 1 £488 - 2
Yeovil - 1 £275 - 2
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) B2B
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 3 (50.00%) Global Marketing
1 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) F5
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe
2 3 (50.00%) Aruba
2 3 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) Intel
2 3 (50.00%) Meraki
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (50.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet