Firewall Contracts in West Sussex

Firewall
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 27 34 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 14 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.43% 3.81% 7.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.14% 52.38% 47.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 29
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £638
90th Percentile £484 £605 £775
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 58 21 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 22.48% 7.27% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 53
10th Percentile £206 £353 £213
25th Percentile £388 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -16.26%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £500
90th Percentile £506 £540 £738
South East median daily rate £488 £488 £450
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £23.60 - -
25th Percentile £24.88 - £13.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.45%
75th Percentile £34.63 - £13.75
90th Percentile £38.00 - -
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 West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Worthing +11 14 £450 -28.00%
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) DHCP
1 10 (71.43%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (28.57%) VoIP
3 2 (14.29%) 4G
3 2 (14.29%) Network Security
3 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Unix
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (57.14%) Project Delivery
2 6 (42.86%) Change Management
2 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Runbook
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCIE
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) CCNP
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (57.14%) XenApp
2 2 (14.29%) Ceph
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Pacemaker
1 2 (14.29%) Podman
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Citrix
1 8 (57.14%) Ivanti
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco
3 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) F5
4 2 (14.29%) Meraki
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Sun
4 2 (14.29%) Symantec