Firewall Contracts in Coventry

Firewall
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 14 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 11.76% 5.00% 8.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 58.33% 31.25% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 16
10th Percentile £430 £273 £256
25th Percentile £475 £298 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £356 £416
Median % change year-on-year +41.75% -14.41% +208.33%
75th Percentile £619 £423 £525
90th Percentile £638 £454 £566
West Midlands median daily rate £505 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -3.81% +31.25% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 16 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 20.17% 16.00% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 33
10th Percentile £240 £172 £250
25th Percentile £284 £256 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +12.50% +63.27%
75th Percentile £642 £675 £488
90th Percentile £725 - £538
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -46.15% +48.57%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Coventry

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Coventry

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Coventry over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Coventry

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Coventry

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) Collibra
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) BIG-IP
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (28.57%) SD-WAN
2 4 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (14.29%) NGFW
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) 5G
4 1 (7.14%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
1 2 (14.29%) GIS
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Information Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Operational Technology
2 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) IoT
2 3 (21.43%) SCADA
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (7.14%) NB-IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Migration
2 5 (35.71%) Zero Trust
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Network Design
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) CISA
2 2 (14.29%) CISM
2 2 (14.29%) CISSP
2 2 (14.29%) GIAC
2 2 (14.29%) ISACA
2 2 (14.29%) SANS
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 4 (28.57%) F5
2 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Databricks
4 2 (14.29%) Informatica
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (14.29%) Tenable
5 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (7.14%) Qualys