Firewall Contracts in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 26 38
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 13 31 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.85% 5.84% 4.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.33% 30.69% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 17
10th Percentile £538 £346 £336
25th Percentile £625 £509 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +23.53% +9.68%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £500
90th Percentile - £700 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -3.50% +10.50% +6.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 75 101 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 16.45% 19.02% 16.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 64
10th Percentile £233 £194 £300
25th Percentile £430 £331 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £500
90th Percentile £645 - £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £453 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -4.63% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 36 7
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - £9.80 £16.19
Median hourly rate - £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - -39.74% +10.25%
75th Percentile - - £21.08
90th Percentile - - £23.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £18.20
% change year-on-year +71.87% -41.58% +3.97%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield -12 13 £645 +13.41% 6
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 6 (46.15%) Confluence
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (23.08%) Jupyter
2 3 (23.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 6 (46.15%) Apigee
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) Kong
4 3 (23.08%) CloudBees
4 3 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 6 (46.15%) HTTP
2 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) WLAN
5 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (23.08%) ClickHouse
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) JIRA
3 6 (46.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (46.15%) CircleCI
3 6 (46.15%) Git
3 6 (46.15%) GitLab
3 6 (46.15%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cassandra Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Field Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Support
5 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) JSON
2 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (46.15%) XML
2 6 (46.15%) YAML
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Beam
3 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 3 (23.08%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
1 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) API Development
2 6 (46.15%) API Integration
2 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
2 6 (46.15%) Project Management
2 6 (46.15%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) Secure Coding
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Use Case
2 6 (46.15%) Workflow
3 3 (23.08%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Bash
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Go
4 3 (23.08%) Groovy
4 3 (23.08%) Ruby
4 3 (23.08%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Ansible
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 9 (69.23%) Grafana
3 6 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (46.15%) Kibana
3 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) logstash
3 6 (46.15%) Progress Chef
3 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 6 (46.15%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) F5