Firewall Contracts in Knutsford

Firewall
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 26 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 2.05% 2.78% 7.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.00% 27.27% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £460 - £501
25th Percentile £461 £463 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £568
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -16.37% +0.53%
75th Percentile £486 £506 £586
90th Percentile £487 £518 £630
Cheshire median daily rate £573 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +14.50% +11.11% -13.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 11 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 6.85% 10.19% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 18
10th Percentile £446 £463 £502
25th Percentile £462 £483 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £566 £566
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +0.04% +16.06%
75th Percentile £492 £582 £619
90th Percentile £494 £582 £650
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Knutsford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Knutsford

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DMZ
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Build Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Build Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Server Building
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware