Firewall Architect Contracts in England

Firewall Architect
UK > England

The median Firewall Architect daily rate in England is £850 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 636 752
Rank change year-on-year +103 +116 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Architect 6 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.018% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.019% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £620 £541
25th Percentile - £650 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £750 £656
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £700
90th Percentile - £765 -
UK median daily rate £850 £750 £638
% change year-on-year +13.33% +17.65% +21.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Firewall Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Firewall Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Architect in England

Firewall Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Architect in England

Firewall Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Architect in England

Firewall Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
London +102 5 - -
North West - 1 £850 -
North of England - 1 £850 -
Firewall Architect
UK

Firewall Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Firewall Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Firewall Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) IaaS
2 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
2 5 (83.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
4 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (50.00%) GDPR
5 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
5 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Time Management
6 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 1 (16.67%) Android
6 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (16.67%) Node.js
6 1 (16.67%) CRISC
6 1 (16.67%) GIAC
6 1 (16.67%) Windows
6 1 (16.67%) VPN
6 1 (16.67%) CCSP
6 1 (16.67%) CISSP
6 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (16.67%) Agile

Firewall Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) IaaS
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Security Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (83.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (16.67%) SABSA
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CCSK
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CRISC
1 1 (16.67%) FFIEC
1 1 (16.67%) GIAC
1 1 (16.67%) SANS
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) NIST 800