Firewall Contracts in Cardiff

Firewall
South Wales > Cardiff

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 10 15 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.65% 5.21% 4.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.48% 46.88% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 14
10th Percentile £197 £340 £395
25th Percentile £220 £403 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -11.25% +19.05%
75th Percentile £667 £566 £588
90th Percentile £671 £614 £734
South Wales median daily rate £313 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -40.48% +5.00% +19.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 32 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 10.70% 11.11% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 47
10th Percentile £190 £172 £156
25th Percentile £199 £313 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -37.71% +2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £475
90th Percentile £667 £628 £623
South Wales median daily rate £241 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -54.05% +16.67% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cardiff over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) WLAN
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Economy
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) DBA
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) MySQL DBA
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Database Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Network Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
5 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Change Control
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Nagios
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Graylog
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Splunk
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) SonicWALL
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) WatchGuard
5 1 (10.00%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm