Firewall Contracts in Cheshire

Firewall
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 48 40 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -23 +10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 10 18 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.23% 3.57% 9.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 23.38% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 29
10th Percentile £460 - £285
25th Percentile £463 £463 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% +11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £566
90th Percentile £715 £564 £594
North West median daily rate £475 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -26.92% +44.44% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.48% 15.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £248
25th Percentile £313 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford -4 3 £473 -0.53%
Chester -7 1 £600 +17.07% 4
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) BGP
1 3 (30.00%) DMZ
1 3 (30.00%) MPLS
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
1 3 (30.00%) OSPF
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) DWDM
3 1 (10.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) L2TP
3 1 (10.00%) Multicast
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Build Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Build Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Sprint Review
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
5 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CCNP
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCIE
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) CCNA
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) JNCIE
3 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (40.00%) Infoblox
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
4 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
4 2 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Arista
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk
5 1 (10.00%) VMware