Firewall Contracts in Cardiff

Firewall
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 10 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.95% 4.81% 5.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.48% 43.48% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 14
10th Percentile £315 £197 £340
25th Percentile £338 £220 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £444
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -18.31% -12.99%
75th Percentile £466 £667 £566
90th Percentile £475 £671 £614
South Wales median daily rate £350 £313 £525
% change year-on-year +12.00% -40.48% +1.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 13.69% 11.06% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 29
10th Percentile £207 £190 £172
25th Percentile £303 £199 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £273 £438
Median % change year-on-year +53.67% -37.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £456 £569 £588
90th Percentile £475 £667 £628
South Wales median daily rate £325 £241 £525
% change year-on-year +34.72% -54.05% +16.67%

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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 31 May 2025.

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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (30.00%) BGP
3 3 (30.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) OSPF
3 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 3 (30.00%) Wireless
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) IPv4
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) VLAN
5 1 (10.00%) VoIP
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Firewall Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CCNP
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (50.00%) CCIE
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) Ekahau
3 2 (20.00%) Sophos
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (10.00%) Meraki
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Splunk