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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 18 30
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing Firewall 17 51 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.43% 6.85% 5.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.69% 37.78% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 28 26
10th Percentile £351 £197 £313
25th Percentile £488 £305 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £619
90th Percentile £596 £600 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.50 - £20.00

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 49 135 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.88% 18.15% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 81 76
10th Percentile £178 £200 £313
25th Percentile £400 £290 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £380 £488
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -22.05% +21.88%
75th Percentile £594 £488 £700
90th Percentile £691 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 5
10th Percentile £44.35 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £21.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.44% +41.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £51.65 £72.90 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.61 £16.98 £19.60
% change year-on-year +44.98% -13.40% +15.31%

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 3 June 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Akamai
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) VLAN
2 8 (47.06%) VPN
3 7 (41.18%) BGP
3 7 (41.18%) IPsec
3 7 (41.18%) OSPF
3 7 (41.18%) SSL
3 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
4 4 (23.53%) DNS
5 3 (17.65%) DHCP
5 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (11.76%) HTTP
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.88%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
7 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
7 1 (5.88%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (5.88%) SSH
7 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Telecoms
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Check Point Expert
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Project Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Security Advisor
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) LDAP
1 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Check Point GAiA
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (5.88%) CentOS
5 1 (5.88%) Debian
5 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) VMS
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) High Availability
2 7 (41.18%) SIEM
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
5 2 (11.76%) ITIL
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (11.76%) Patch Management
6 1 (5.88%) Change Management
6 1 (5.88%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.88%) ITSM
6 1 (5.88%) Project Management
6 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.88%) Security Management
6 1 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) CCSE
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (17.65%) CCNA
4 3 (17.65%) CISSP
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) CEH
5 2 (11.76%) Degree
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (5.88%) CCIE
6 1 (5.88%) CCNP
6 1 (5.88%) CISA
6 1 (5.88%) CISM
6 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) GIAC
6 1 (5.88%) MCP
6 1 (5.88%) MCSA
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) DFS Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Nessus
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) CheckPoint
1 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Commvault
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Imperva
4 1 (5.88%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Sophos
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam
4 1 (5.88%) VMware