Firewall Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Firewall
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 18 34 54
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Firewall 21 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.90% 4.20% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 53.85% 21.74% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 18
10th Percentile £218 £244 £461
25th Percentile £375 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £670 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +21.82% +10.11%
75th Percentile £536 £825 £591
90th Percentile £598 £938 £602
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £14.20 £83.77 £62.55
% change year-on-year -83.05% +33.92% +212.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 92 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.53% 19.33% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 69 92
10th Percentile £174 £261 £408
25th Percentile £375 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% +1.78%
75th Percentile £622 £560 £550
90th Percentile £630 £825 £606
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 £23.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% - -
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Buckinghamshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Buckinghamshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Buckinghamshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Buckinghamshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Iver - 5 £508 -
Milton Keynes 0 4 £520 -25.71% 24
Marlow - 2 £400 - 1
Aylesbury +3 1 £450 +164.71% 1
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (4.76%) WinCC
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Google Workspace
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Wireless
2 8 (38.10%) Internet
2 8 (38.10%) VLAN
3 7 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (23.81%) MPLS
4 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
4 5 (23.81%) VPN
4 5 (23.81%) WAN
5 3 (14.29%) BGP
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (14.29%) DNS
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security
5 3 (14.29%) NGFW
5 3 (14.29%) OSPF
5 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.52%) LAN
6 2 (9.52%) VSAN
7 1 (4.76%) Modbus
7 1 (4.76%) WLAN
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Help Desk Agent
1 6 (28.57%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (23.81%) IT Support
2 5 (23.81%) Lead
3 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support
5 2 (9.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Siemens Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) CMDB
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
2 2 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (28.57%) Time Management
2 5 (23.81%) Content Management
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
2 5 (23.81%) Network Segmentation
2 5 (23.81%) Post-Production
2 5 (23.81%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (23.81%) Workflow
3 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Adaptive Security
4 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
5 2 (9.52%) Break/Fix
5 2 (9.52%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.52%) IT Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Microservices
5 2 (9.52%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) MCSE
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 1 (4.76%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco
2 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 5 (23.81%) Google
4 4 (19.05%) VMware
5 2 (9.52%) Aruba
6 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.76%) Rockwell
6 1 (4.76%) Siemens