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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 30 9
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 +20
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 9 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 3.17% 3.41% 12.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.62% 50.00% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
10th Percentile £327 £463 £586
25th Percentile £356 £466 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -15.72% +41.42%
75th Percentile £519 £523 -
90th Percentile £624 £525 £599
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £505 £586
% change year-on-year -5.94% -13.82% +25.01%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 12 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 9.15% 6.82% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 16
10th Percentile £305 £463 £545
25th Percentile £397 £481 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £511 £586
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% -12.76% -6.98%
75th Percentile £492 £722 £593
90th Percentile £499 £788 £602
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £500 £562
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.03% +14.69%

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

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Knutsford over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) SSL
2 2 (22.22%) BGP
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) MPLS
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) OSPF
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (22.22%) VLAN
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DMZ
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Designer
1 2 (22.22%) Network Designer
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
2 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Service Design
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
3 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Log Correlation
3 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Network Design
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Ticket Management
3 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCIE
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) JNCIE
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
1 2 (22.22%) MCSA
1 2 (22.22%) MCSE
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) CASB
2 2 (22.22%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) F5
2 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Remedy
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Tenable
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) VMware