Firewall Contracts in Barrow-in-Furness

Firewall
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 22 9
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 55 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 36.18% 6.63% 4.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 66.27% 37.93% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 1
10th Percentile £365 £454 -
25th Percentile £403 £504 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £486
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +5.97% -
75th Percentile £633 - -
90th Percentile £638 £520 -
Cumbria median daily rate £538 £515 £481
% change year-on-year +4.37% +7.18% -12.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 83 29 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 54.61% 17.47% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 25 7
10th Percentile £388 £494 £425
25th Percentile £458 £515 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £648 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% +43.89% -
75th Percentile £618 £669 £486
90th Percentile £638 £672 £542
Cumbria median daily rate £525 £600 £463
% change year-on-year -12.50% +29.73% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.23 -
Cumbria median hourly rate - £41.23 -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Barrow-in-Furness

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Barrow-in-Furness.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Barrow-in-Furness

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Barrow-in-Furness

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Barrow-in-Furness over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Barrow-in-Furness

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness 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 28 (50.91%) Cisco ASA
1 28 (50.91%) Cisco Firepower
2 23 (41.82%) Wi-Fi
3 21 (38.18%) BGP
3 21 (38.18%) EIGRP
3 21 (38.18%) OSPF
4 19 (34.55%) HSRP
4 19 (34.55%) IPsec
5 17 (30.91%) Cisco ISE
5 17 (30.91%) WAN
6 16 (29.09%) NetScaler
6 16 (29.09%) Wireless
7 12 (21.82%) Cisco Wireless
7 12 (21.82%) VPN
8 9 (16.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (12.73%) Network Security
10 3 (5.45%) LAN
10 3 (5.45%) NAS
11 2 (3.64%) Broadband
11 2 (3.64%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.64%) Legal
3 1 (1.82%) Advertising
3 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.82%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (90.91%) Network Engineer
2 26 (47.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (3.64%) Architect
4 2 (3.64%) Network Architect
4 2 (3.64%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (3.64%) Senior
4 2 (3.64%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) Design Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 1 (1.82%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (27.27%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
1 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Network Management
2 19 (34.55%) Load Balancing
2 19 (34.55%) Network Design
3 15 (27.27%) Network Architecture
4 12 (21.82%) Impact Assessments
5 5 (9.09%) ITIL
6 3 (5.45%) Use Case
7 2 (3.64%) Information Management
7 2 (3.64%) Migration
7 2 (3.64%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (3.64%) Threat Detection
8 1 (1.82%) Agile
8 1 (1.82%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.82%) ITSM
8 1 (1.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.45%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (85.45%) SC Cleared
1 47 (85.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) CCNA
2 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) SELinux
Vendors
1 52 (94.55%) Cisco
2 50 (90.91%) Palo Alto
3 18 (32.73%) CheckPoint
4 16 (29.09%) Meraki
5 8 (14.55%) SolarWinds
6 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.45%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) Citrix