Firewall Contracts in Gloucester

Firewall
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucester 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 19 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucester 4.40% 5.95% 8.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 33.33% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £490 - £295
25th Percentile £513 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +26.67% -31.82%
75th Percentile £556 £500 £525
90th Percentile £568 - £565
Gloucestershire median daily rate £547 £625 £495
% change year-on-year -12.48% +26.26% +10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 15 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 13.19% 17.86% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 31
10th Percentile £209 £391 £325
25th Percentile £460 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £623 £636 £600
Gloucestershire median daily rate £548 £575 £460
% change year-on-year -4.70% +25.00% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - £16.50 -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Gloucester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Gloucester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Gloucester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucester 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) E-Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow