Firewall Contracts in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 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 54 55 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 21 54 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.10% 3.31% 3.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.34% 51.43% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 41 45
10th Percentile £313 £288 £311
25th Percentile £338 £331 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +17.82%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £575
90th Percentile £614 £688 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -3.50% +10.50% +6.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -26.50%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.87 £32.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.48% +84.24% -26.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 105 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.39% 6.45% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 84 126
10th Percentile £273 £314 £176
25th Percentile £319 £367 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +3.45%
75th Percentile £600 £678 £550
90th Percentile £640 £700 £666
Yorkshire median daily rate £452 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -4.95% +11.76% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.02
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% +0.80%
75th Percentile £14.25 £33.75 £21.32
90th Percentile £16.66 - £23.53
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £18.75
% change year-on-year +71.87% -43.31% +7.14%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +8 18 £500 - 15
Bradford -1 2 £429 +27.04%
Halifax +5 1 £525 - 1
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) Cloudflare
3 7 (33.33%) Akamai
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) OCI
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) LAN
2 6 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 5 (23.81%) Internet
3 5 (23.81%) SAN
3 5 (23.81%) Wireshark
4 2 (9.52%) DHCP
4 2 (9.52%) WAN
5 1 (4.76%) IPv4
5 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
5 1 (4.76%) PBX
5 1 (4.76%) Softswitch
5 1 (4.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 5 (23.81%) Retail
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Back Office
2 1 (4.76%) Banking
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Legal
2 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Security Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) IT Support
3 4 (19.05%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.76%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) LIMS
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
2 5 (23.81%) Email Filtering
2 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
2 5 (23.81%) OWASP
2 5 (23.81%) RAD
2 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.76%) Defect Management
5 1 (4.76%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (4.76%) Information Assurance
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (4.76%) Kanban
5 1 (4.76%) Observability
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bash
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) CCNA
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) CCDA
4 1 (4.76%) CCIE
4 1 (4.76%) CCSA
4 1 (4.76%) CCSE
4 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.76%) JNCIA
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) F5
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) AlgoSec
5 1 (4.76%) Aruba
5 1 (4.76%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) Imperva
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) Ribbon
5 1 (4.76%) Sophos
5 1 (4.76%) Zscaler