Firewall Contracts in County Antrim

Firewall
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 29 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.00% 0.76% 1.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.04% 6.25% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £161
25th Percentile - - £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £165
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.90%
75th Percentile - - £171
90th Percentile - - £174
Northern Ireland median daily rate - - £165
% change year-on-year - - -45.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 16 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 15.33% 12.12% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 14
10th Percentile £134 £516 £155
25th Percentile £135 £531 £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £148 £563 £208
Median % change year-on-year -73.69% +171.08% -45.21%
75th Percentile £163 £569 £400
90th Percentile £196 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £148 £563 £215
% change year-on-year -73.69% +161.63% -33.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.34
25th Percentile £22.50 - £15.86
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £16.72
75th Percentile - - £17.57
90th Percentile - - £18.09
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £24.18 - £16.72

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in County Antrim

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in County Antrim

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in County Antrim

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the County Antrim 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
Belfast -5 3 - - 26
Firewall
Northern Ireland

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) IT Support
1 3 (100.00%) Support Officer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) HND
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft