Firewall Contracts in the South West

Firewall
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 44 57
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 168 184 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.30% 5.05% 4.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.88% 28.62% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 146 98
10th Percentile £404 £325 £313
25th Percentile £460 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £538
90th Percentile £638 £713 £588
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 12
10th Percentile - £51.37 £43.60
25th Percentile - £62.00 £48.04
Median hourly rate £46.39 £63.23 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% +21.60% +11.83%
75th Percentile - £78.70 £62.96
90th Percentile - £97.75 £69.05
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +55.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 527 643 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.64% 17.66% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 418 296
10th Percentile £275 £206 £221
25th Percentile £460 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £541
90th Percentile £713 £719 £623
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 128 34
10th Percentile £12.50 - £41.13
25th Percentile £15.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
Median % change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70.66 £62.13 £66.46
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Wiltshire +7 77 £500 -23.08% 17
Bristol +16 36 £488 - 27
Devon +16 24 £513 +28.13% 8
Gloucestershire -8 18 £625 +25.00% 18
Somerset -2 8 £450 +5.88% 11
Dorset -14 3 £456 -1.35% 5
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 41 (24.40%) SharePoint
2 35 (20.83%) Confluence
2 35 (20.83%) SharePoint Server
3 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.79%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Shopify
2 2 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.31%) Azure
2 34 (20.24%) Azure Stack
3 14 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 12 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.57%) AWS
8 4 (2.38%) BigCommerce
8 4 (2.38%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.38%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.79%) OCI
9 3 (1.79%) PaaS
10 2 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.19%) Serverless
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 41 (24.40%) BGP
2 33 (19.64%) Network Security
3 30 (17.86%) WAN
4 28 (16.67%) VPN
5 19 (11.31%) LAN
6 14 (8.33%) DNS
7 12 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
8 11 (6.55%) SAN
9 8 (4.76%) SD-WAN
10 7 (4.17%) FTP
11 6 (3.57%) TCP/IP
12 5 (2.98%) DHCP
12 5 (2.98%) Skype
12 5 (2.98%) Unified Communications
12 5 (2.98%) Wireless
13 4 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (2.38%) VoIP
13 4 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (1.79%) PBX
14 3 (1.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.17%) Power BI
2 6 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 38 (22.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
General
1 51 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.31%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 9 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.36%) Finance
5 9 (5.36%) Marketing
5 9 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.57%) Electronics
7 5 (2.98%) Legal
8 4 (2.38%) Local Government
8 4 (2.38%) Retail
9 3 (1.79%) Military
9 3 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Banking
10 2 (1.19%) Police
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 74 (44.05%) Network Engineer
2 35 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (10.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Engineer
5 14 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) Analyst
7 12 (7.14%) Architect
8 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (4.76%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.57%) Network Architect
10 6 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.98%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Service Management Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.38%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.38%) REST
2 3 (1.79%) VML
3 2 (1.19%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.60%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (30.95%) Private Cloud
2 36 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.76%) PKI
4 6 (3.57%) Replication
5 5 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.38%) NHS
6 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.19%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 60 (35.71%) Windows
2 21 (12.50%) Linux
3 15 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.14%) VMS
5 4 (2.38%) Unix
6 3 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.79%) Windows 2000
6 3 (1.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.10%) ITIL
2 44 (26.19%) Service Management
3 41 (24.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (23.21%) Network Management
4 39 (23.21%) Security Monitoring
5 34 (20.24%) Capacity Management
6 33 (19.64%) ITSM
7 30 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (11.31%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 18 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (10.71%) Migration
11 17 (10.12%) Penetration Testing
11 17 (10.12%) Resource Management
12 16 (9.52%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.52%) SIEM
13 13 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (7.74%) Load Balancing
13 13 (7.74%) Use Case
13 13 (7.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.95%) SQL
2 7 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.79%) Bash
3 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.19%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 102 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.52%) DV Cleared
3 40 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (7.74%) CCNP
6 11 (6.55%) CCNA
7 8 (4.76%) Degree
8 3 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.79%) MCP
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.60%) CCSP
10 1 (0.60%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.83%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (4.17%) SLA
3 3 (1.79%) GDPR
3 3 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.60%) GRC
4 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (13.10%) vSphere
3 21 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 14 (8.33%) VMware NSX
5 12 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.60%) Samba
Systems Management
1 26 (15.48%) SCOM
2 20 (11.90%) vCenter Server
3 14 (8.33%) Ansible
4 8 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (4.17%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.57%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.98%) SCCM
7 5 (2.98%) Terraform
8 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.19%) OPNET
9 2 (1.19%) VxRail
10 1 (0.60%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 61 (36.31%) Cisco
2 60 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 50 (29.76%) VMware
4 35 (20.83%) Atlassian
5 19 (11.31%) Fortinet
6 12 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 11 (6.55%) CheckPoint
7 11 (6.55%) F5
8 10 (5.95%) SAP
9 8 (4.76%) CA
9 8 (4.76%) Dell
9 8 (4.76%) SolarWinds
10 6 (3.57%) Juniper
10 6 (3.57%) Veeam
11 5 (2.98%) Aruba
11 5 (2.98%) Meraki
12 4 (2.38%) Citrix
12 4 (2.38%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.38%) Sitecore
12 4 (2.38%) Splunk