Firewall Contracts in Dorset

Firewall
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 22 25 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 3 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 2.04% 1.82% 12.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 12.50% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 17
10th Percentile - £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £463
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -1.35% +15.63%
75th Percentile £488 £483 £538
90th Percentile - £489 -
South West median daily rate £546 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £51.37
25th Percentile - - £59.34
Median hourly rate - - £62.28
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £67.06
South West median hourly rate - £46.39 £62.89
% change year-on-year - -26.24% +24.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 24 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 17.35% 14.55% 25.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 32
10th Percentile £221 £486 £259
25th Percentile £268 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £469
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +22.67% +13.64%
75th Percentile £563 £769 £581
90th Percentile £694 - £624
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 17
10th Percentile - - £19.36
25th Percentile - £56.49 £51.37
Median hourly rate - £63.58 £57.33
Median % change year-on-year - +10.89% +13.80%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £62.00
90th Percentile - - £63.23
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Dorset

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Dorset

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Dorset

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Dorset 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
Blandford Forum - 1 £475 -
Bournemouth - 1 - - 9
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CESG
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware