Firewall Contracts in the Thames Valley

Firewall
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 160 111 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.95% 3.78% 3.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.23% 22.98% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 73 87
10th Percentile £335 £369 £283
25th Percentile £413 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +7.84% +22.16%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £578
90th Percentile £705 £725 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 8
10th Percentile £72.27 £27.05 £11.68
25th Percentile £81.78 £49.38 £12.25
Median hourly rate £85.38 £66.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% +407.69% +0.15%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.55 -
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £62.55 £20.00
% change year-on-year +33.92% +212.75% -10.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 610 483 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.67% 16.44% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 295 342
10th Percentile £205 £313 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £461
Median % change year-on-year - +8.40% +15.31%
75th Percentile £600 £570 £550
90th Percentile £650 £645 £638
South East median daily rate £488 £488 £450
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 15 18
10th Percentile £17.79 £19.70 £12.19
25th Percentile £23.78 £25.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -50.72%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.47 £81.22 £38.80
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -34.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire +18 129 £605 +7.08% 31
Buckinghamshire +26 22 £640 +16.36% 4
Oxfordshire +14 9 £465 -7.00% 17
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.25%) nginx
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.75%) Azure
2 20 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (11.25%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.63%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (10.00%) Azure Storage
6 13 (8.13%) OCI
7 6 (3.75%) IaaS
8 5 (3.13%) AWS
9 3 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.88%) PaaS
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.25%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.25%) SaaS
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (23.75%) DNS
2 33 (20.63%) DHCP
2 33 (20.63%) Intrusion Detection
2 33 (20.63%) WAN
3 26 (16.25%) LAN
4 25 (15.63%) VPN
5 24 (15.00%) Cisco ASA
6 19 (11.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 18 (11.25%) Network Security
8 15 (9.38%) SAN
9 13 (8.13%) BGP
10 11 (6.88%) Cisco ISE
10 11 (6.88%) MPLS
11 8 (5.00%) DMZ
12 7 (4.38%) OSPF
13 6 (3.75%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.75%) Wireless
14 5 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (3.13%) EIGRP
14 5 (3.13%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.50%) MySQL
2 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 4 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.88%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.13%) Telecoms
4 10 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.00%) Banking
6 8 (5.00%) Finance
6 8 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.25%) Automotive
10 2 (1.25%) Electronics
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (28.75%) Network Engineer
2 41 (25.63%) Architect
3 34 (21.25%) Security Architect
4 27 (16.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 19 (11.88%) Senior
6 18 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (9.38%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (9.38%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (8.75%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (8.75%) Support Specialist
9 12 (7.50%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Juniper Engineer
9 12 (7.50%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (5.63%) Analyst
10 9 (5.63%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 8 (5.00%) Consultant
12 7 (4.38%) Network Analyst
12 7 (4.38%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.13%) EDI
3 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.25%) YAML
4 1 (0.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 19 (11.88%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (10.00%) PKI
4 7 (4.38%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.13%) CCTV
6 5 (3.13%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.50%) CSOC
8 3 (1.88%) SCADA
9 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) BYOD
10 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.63%) IoT
10 1 (0.63%) iPad
10 1 (0.63%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 47 (29.38%) Windows
2 37 (23.13%) Windows Server
3 33 (20.63%) Linux
4 30 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (17.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (8.13%) Windows 10
7 13 (8.13%) Windows XP
8 6 (3.75%) Unix
9 3 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.25%) Android
10 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (31.25%) DevOps
2 37 (23.13%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (21.25%) ITIL
4 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (13.75%) Security Architecture
6 21 (13.13%) Project Management
7 20 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (11.88%) Agile
8 19 (11.88%) Analytics
9 18 (11.25%) Service Management
10 17 (10.63%) Identity Management
10 17 (10.63%) Log Analytics
10 17 (10.63%) RBAC
10 17 (10.63%) Release Management
11 16 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 16 (10.00%) High Availability
11 16 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (10.00%) Privileged Identity Management
12 15 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.63%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.00%) Bicep
2 16 (10.00%) C#
2 16 (10.00%) VB
2 16 (10.00%) VBScript
3 7 (4.38%) SQL
4 5 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 89 (55.63%) Security Cleared
2 80 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 40 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (23.75%) Degree
5 37 (23.13%) CCNP
5 37 (23.13%) SC Cleared
6 24 (15.00%) CCNA
7 16 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 6 (3.75%) CISM
8 6 (3.75%) JNCIS
9 4 (2.50%) CCDP
9 4 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.88%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CCIE
11 1 (0.63%) CCIP
11 1 (0.63%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.88%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (25.63%) Active Directory
2 25 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (11.88%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 15 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.25%) XenApp
8 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (21.25%) SCCM
2 32 (20.00%) WSUS
3 29 (18.13%) SCOM
4 22 (13.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (10.63%) Kubernetes
6 16 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (10.00%) vCenter Server
7 13 (8.13%) EMC NetWorker
7 13 (8.13%) NetBackup
8 11 (6.88%) Nessus
9 9 (5.63%) Ansible
9 9 (5.63%) Terraform
10 3 (1.88%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.88%) Netcool
11 2 (1.25%) Grafana
11 2 (1.25%) Graylog
11 2 (1.25%) Nagios
11 2 (1.25%) PaperCut
11 2 (1.25%) RSA Archer
11 2 (1.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 82 (51.25%) Cisco
2 63 (39.38%) Juniper
3 44 (27.50%) Microsoft
4 30 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 30 (18.75%) VMware
5 20 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 17 (10.63%) HP
6 17 (10.63%) Oracle
7 15 (9.38%) Veeam
8 14 (8.75%) Dell
9 13 (8.13%) 3PAR
9 13 (8.13%) EMC
9 13 (8.13%) Extreme Networks
9 13 (8.13%) Symantec
10 12 (7.50%) Fortinet
11 10 (6.25%) ScienceLogic
12 8 (5.00%) Blue Coat
13 4 (2.50%) Aruba
13 4 (2.50%) ServiceNow
13 4 (2.50%) Splunk