Firewall Contracts in Devon

Firewall
South West > Devon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 29 33
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 25 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 9.09% 2.97% 1.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 71.43% 25.00% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 2
10th Percentile - £338 -
25th Percentile £413 £375 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £230
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% +73.91% -16.36%
75th Percentile £600 £475 £245
90th Percentile - £663 -
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Devon

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 Devon with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 24 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 12.73% 11.88% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 16
10th Percentile £195 £239 £189
25th Percentile £413 £297 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £235
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +59.57% -9.62%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £462
90th Percentile - £610 £647
South West median daily rate £535 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £42.05
25th Percentile - - £43.63
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.02%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +9.91%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Devon

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Devon

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Devon over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Devon

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Devon

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Devon region over the 6 months to 26 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
Exeter +16 18 £425 -30.61% 5
Plymouth +1 1 - -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) VPN
2 9 (36.00%) Network Security
3 8 (32.00%) DNS
4 4 (16.00%) SAN
4 4 (16.00%) WAN
5 3 (12.00%) NGFW
5 3 (12.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.00%) BGP
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (4.00%) LAN
6 1 (4.00%) Spanning Tree
General
1 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
1 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Load Balancing
3 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) CCNA
1 9 (36.00%) CCNP
1 9 (36.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) Cisco
2 8 (32.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle