Firewall Contracts in Bolton

Firewall
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bolton 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 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bolton 9.38% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £194 - -
25th Percentile £208 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 - -
75th Percentile £250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £450 £800 £500
% change year-on-year -43.75% +60.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton 28.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £155 - -
25th Percentile £163 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - -
75th Percentile £250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median daily rate £425 £456 £500
% change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Bolton

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bolton

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Bolton

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) HP