Firewall Contracts in Glasgow

Firewall
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 72 69 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 7 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.88% 1.48% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.67% 12.87% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 13
10th Percentile £361 £410 £329
25th Percentile £378 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £431 £675 £478
90th Percentile £449 £685 £548
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% +2.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 60 101 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.52% 11.52% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 68 75
10th Percentile £219 £200 £310
25th Percentile £363 £394 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £485 £623 £538
90th Percentile £550 £691 £603
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -51.68%
75th Percentile - - £22.82
90th Percentile - - £54.34
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Glasgow

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Glasgow

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Glasgow

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) Network Security
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (14.29%) MPLS
5 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
4 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
5 1 (14.29%) Aruba
5 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds