Firewall Contracts in Bedfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 28 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 10 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 4.12% 2.70% 6.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.32% 31.25% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £363 £426 £325
25th Percentile £413 £447 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +21.88% -3.03%
75th Percentile £574 £522 £441
90th Percentile £575 £539 £493
East of England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £15.38 £15.57 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.22% -70.35% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 15.64% 8.65% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 21
10th Percentile £260 £144 £185
25th Percentile £300 £160 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £305 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -23.75% -7.25%
75th Percentile £519 £466 £500
90th Percentile £573 £651 £538
East of England median daily rate £400 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +24.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.00%
75th Percentile £34.63 - £68.75
90th Percentile £46.10 - £69.50
East of England median hourly rate £21.98 £52.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +238.71% -15.16%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Luton +2 6 £558 +1.36%
Bedford -1 2 £475 -
Dunstable - 2 £375 -
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Route 53
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (40.00%) OSPF
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Network Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Email Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco
1 8 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (40.00%) F5
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) VMware