Firewall Contracts in Basingstoke

Firewall
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 19 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 40 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 5.93% 9.35% 5.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 23.53% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile - £277 £356
25th Percentile £563 £298 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -15.93% +18.95%
75th Percentile £591 £488 £650
90th Percentile £600 £585 £755
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
Hampshire median hourly rate - £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +30.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 170 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 41.48% 39.72% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 22
10th Percentile £456 - £228
25th Percentile £500 £425 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +0.72%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £584
90th Percentile £638 - £650
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.33
25th Percentile - £27.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £29.88
Median % change year-on-year - +29.71% -8.08%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £36.94
90th Percentile - - £41.03
Hampshire median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Basingstoke

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Basingstoke

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
1 8 (100.00%) IaaS
1 8 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) SMTP
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (100.00%) Big Data
1 8 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
1 8 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
1 8 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Nagios
1 8 (100.00%) Puppet
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) Google
1 8 (100.00%) HP
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Symantec
1 8 (100.00%) VMware