Firewall Contracts in Birmingham

Firewall
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 37 20 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 13 51 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.49% 6.60% 5.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.14% 34.00% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 29 21
10th Percentile £379 £198 £313
25th Percentile £511 £310 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £600
90th Percentile £608 £695 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.65 - £15.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 37 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.09% 19.40% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 93 68
10th Percentile £165 £205 £313
25th Percentile £319 £290 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £597 £488 £700
90th Percentile £698 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £13.25 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £19.95 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
% change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Akamai
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Cloudflare
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Network Security
2 5 (38.46%) BGP
2 5 (38.46%) IPsec
2 5 (38.46%) OSPF
2 5 (38.46%) SSL
2 5 (38.46%) VLAN
2 5 (38.46%) VPN
3 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) Internet
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
5 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
5 1 (7.69%) HTTP
5 1 (7.69%) MPLS
5 1 (7.69%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (7.69%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
1 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Advisor
3 1 (7.69%) Network Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Web Applications Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Check Point GAiA
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Debian
3 1 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) SIEM
3 4 (30.77%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
5 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) OWASP
5 2 (15.38%) Security Management
6 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
6 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
6 1 (7.69%) Information Security
6 1 (7.69%) Network Security Management
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCSE
2 3 (23.08%) CEH
2 3 (23.08%) CISSP
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) GIAC
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) CISA
4 1 (7.69%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Nessus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Fortinet
2 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Imperva
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Juniper
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle
5 1 (7.69%) Sophos
5 1 (7.69%) VMware