Firewall Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 49 55
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 5 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.01% 1.35% 2.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 8.25% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 19
10th Percentile £251 £363 £280
25th Percentile £253 £368 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £385 £520
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% -25.96% +51.82%
75th Percentile £533 £409 £575
90th Percentile £693 £419 £628
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £15.38 £16.13 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.68% -69.28% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 97 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.20% 16.33% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 101
10th Percentile £203 £278 £275
25th Percentile £235 £413 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +17.65%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £488
90th Percentile £583 £533 £638
East of England median daily rate £415 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -12.63% +11.76% +24.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 29
10th Percentile £14.16 - -
25th Percentile £15.85 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £18.84 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.52% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £21.39 £17.12 £15.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.90 -
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £51.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year -2.44% +230.65% -15.16%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Cambridge +5 4 £500 +32.89% 13
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Blue Team
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (40.00%) Red Team
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Sun
2 1 (20.00%) VMware