Firewall Contracts in the West Midlands

Firewall
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 33 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 -31
Contract jobs citing Firewall 98 141 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.06% 5.98% 2.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.06% 39.50% 25.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 94 65
10th Percentile £204 £263 £184
25th Percentile £311 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +7.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £588
90th Percentile £775 £700 £695
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +33.33%
England median hourly rate £61.50 £62.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -0.81% +117.54% +18.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 391 357 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.21% 15.15% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 220 258
10th Percentile £200 £263 £165
25th Percentile £307 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +21.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £502
90th Percentile £689 £700 £621
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -3.39%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +14 51 £475 +2.70% 28
Solihull -5 17 £275 -47.12% 2
Warwickshire 0 14 £625 - 10
Coventry -10 6 £450 +12.50% 4
Staffordshire +2 1 £275 - 16
Worcestershire -4 1 - - 9
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) IIS
2 2 (2.04%) WordPress
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.45%) Azure
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.08%) AWS
3 4 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.04%) IaaS
4 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.04%) PaaS
5 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (23.47%) VPN
2 18 (18.37%) WAN
3 17 (17.35%) LAN
4 15 (15.31%) Network Security
5 13 (13.27%) DNS
6 10 (10.20%) SD-WAN
6 10 (10.20%) VoIP
7 8 (8.16%) DHCP
7 8 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (7.14%) SAN
9 6 (6.12%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (6.12%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (6.12%) Cisco ISE
9 6 (6.12%) Internet
10 5 (5.10%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (5.10%) MPLS
10 5 (5.10%) PBX
10 5 (5.10%) TCP/IP
10 5 (5.10%) VLAN
10 5 (5.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.04%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.22%) Legal
2 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Law
6 2 (2.04%) German Language
6 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Advertising
7 1 (1.02%) Back Office
7 1 (1.02%) Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Finance
7 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Analyst
2 20 (20.41%) SOC Analyst
3 19 (19.39%) Network Engineer
4 17 (17.35%) 1st Line Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Architect
6 6 (6.12%) SOC Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Lead
10 2 (2.04%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) Web Services
2 2 (2.04%) JSON
2 2 (2.04%) LAMP
2 2 (2.04%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.04%) YAML
3 1 (1.02%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.02%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.37%) PKI
2 17 (17.35%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (9.18%) Security Operations Centre
4 7 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.08%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.06%) Clustering
7 3 (3.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (3.06%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.04%) Replication
8 2 (2.04%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.31%) Linux
2 14 (14.29%) Windows
3 11 (11.22%) Mac OS X
4 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
5 8 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.10%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.06%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.04%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.04%) VMS
9 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.47%) Cybersecurity
1 23 (23.47%) SIEM
2 20 (20.41%) Incident Management
3 17 (17.35%) Impact Assessments
4 15 (15.31%) Project Delivery
5 14 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 12 (12.24%) Malware Reverse Engineering
6 12 (12.24%) Reverse Engineering
6 12 (12.24%) Risk Management
6 12 (12.24%) Security Operations
6 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (12.24%) Vulnerability Management
7 11 (11.22%) Computer Forensics
7 11 (11.22%) Purple Team
7 11 (11.22%) Threat Analysis
7 11 (11.22%) Threat Detection
8 10 (10.20%) Cloud Security
8 10 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (9.18%) High Availability
9 9 (9.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (3.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 30 (30.61%) SC Cleared
3 17 (17.35%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (13.27%) Degree
5 8 (8.16%) Azure Certification
6 7 (7.14%) CCNA
6 7 (7.14%) CCNP
7 6 (6.12%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.10%) CCIE
8 5 (5.10%) CCIE Data Center
8 5 (5.10%) CISSP
9 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (3.06%) GIAC
11 2 (2.04%) BC Cleared
11 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.04%) CASP
11 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.04%) GCED
11 2 (2.04%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.29%) NIST
2 13 (13.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (12.24%) GDPR
4 11 (11.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 11 (11.22%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.04%) Terminal Services
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.04%) vSphere
4 1 (1.02%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) SCCM
1 6 (6.12%) Terraform
2 5 (5.10%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.08%) Ansible
4 3 (3.06%) Autotask
4 3 (3.06%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.06%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.02%) Kibana
5 1 (1.02%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 23 (23.47%) Cisco
2 17 (17.35%) CA
3 16 (16.33%) Microsoft
4 13 (13.27%) Palo Alto
5 10 (10.20%) CheckPoint
5 10 (10.20%) F5
5 10 (10.20%) VMware
6 8 (8.16%) Juniper
7 7 (7.14%) Aruba
8 5 (5.10%) Infoblox
8 5 (5.10%) Symantec
8 5 (5.10%) Zscaler
9 4 (4.08%) McAfee
10 3 (3.06%) Apple
10 3 (3.06%) Datto
10 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.06%) LogRhythm
10 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.06%) TippingPoint
11 2 (2.04%) Synology