Firewall Contracts in Cheshire

Firewall
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 19 27
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 18 54 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.59% 10.02% 5.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.68% 57.45% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 31 12
10th Percentile - - £228
25th Percentile £463 £288 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +19.27%
75th Percentile £528 £566 £615
90th Percentile £564 £588 £630
North West median daily rate £650 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +44.44% - +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 94 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 15.17% 17.44% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 61 50
10th Percentile £65 £263 £163
25th Percentile £199 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £408
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +20.25% -1.81%
75th Percentile £519 £570 £575
90th Percentile £582 £630 £630
North West median daily rate £490 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £20.11 - -
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.90% -
75th Percentile £24.25 - -
90th Percentile £25.30 - -
North West median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%

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
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 27 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
Northwich -6 7 - - 4
Warrington +11 6 £500 - 4
Knutsford +1 3 £475 -16.37%
Chester -10 2 £513 +57.69% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) VPN
2 5 (27.78%) Network Security
3 4 (22.22%) LAN
3 4 (22.22%) WAN
4 3 (16.67%) DMZ
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) DHCP
6 1 (5.56%) DNS
6 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.56%) VSAN
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
6 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Audit Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) PKI
1 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
2 3 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (16.67%) High Availability
2 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.11%) Agile
3 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.11%) Information Governance
3 2 (11.11%) Information Security
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 2 (11.11%) Scrum
3 2 (11.11%) Software Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CCNP
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
1 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) Veeam
4 3 (16.67%) Meraki
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) Symantec
6 1 (5.56%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (5.56%) WatchGuard