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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 38 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -17 -4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 10 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 4.59% 4.27% 6.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.35% 19.51% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £560 £343 £375
25th Percentile £563 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.24% -8.86%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £704
90th Percentile £601 £559 £763
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year - -54.92% +24.15%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 81 82 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 37.16% 21.87% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 19
10th Percentile £500 - £230
25th Percentile £538 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% +3.80% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £656
90th Percentile £650 £700 £720
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.72%
75th Percentile - - £23.63
90th Percentile - - £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +30.90%

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

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Firewall

Firewall
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 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
1 8 (80.00%) IaaS
1 8 (80.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (80.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DHCP
1 8 (80.00%) DNS
1 8 (80.00%) SMTP
1 8 (80.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (80.00%) Big Data
1 8 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (80.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) PKI
2 8 (80.00%) Clustering
2 8 (80.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (80.00%) Software Deployment
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (80.00%) BitLocker
2 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 8 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (80.00%) Terminal Services
2 8 (80.00%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Ansible
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (80.00%) Nagios
1 8 (80.00%) Puppet
1 8 (80.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (80.00%) vMotion
2 1 (10.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 8 (80.00%) Citrix
2 8 (80.00%) Google
2 8 (80.00%) HP
2 8 (80.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper