Firewall Contracts in Gloucestershire

Firewall
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Firewall 13 31 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.09% 6.62% 7.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.21% 37.80% 47.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 37
10th Percentile £400 £340 £363
25th Percentile £613 £415 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.08% +8.89% +38.46%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £588
90th Percentile £776 £660 -
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.44% +13.89% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 82 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.30% 17.52% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 61 58
10th Percentile £329 £288 £255
25th Percentile £472 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £588 £575
90th Percentile £751 £650 £591
South West median daily rate £536 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +7.25% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.75 - -
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.04%
75th Percentile £19.13 - -
90th Percentile £21.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.56
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.62% +8.73%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Gloucestershire 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
Filton - 7 £640 -
Gloucester +4 2 £450 +20.00% 3
Cheltenham -9 1 - - 1
Cirencester - 1 £625 - 1
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
1 2 (15.38%) PaaS
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco ISE
1 7 (53.85%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
General
1 7 (53.85%) Manufacturing
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Information Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Information Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
1 2 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Log Correlation
1 7 (53.85%) Security Architecture
1 7 (53.85%) SIEM
1 7 (53.85%) Use Case
2 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Control
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
4 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 1 (7.69%) Information Assurance
5 1 (7.69%) Information Security
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) CA