Firewall Contracts in Leeds

Firewall
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 43 45 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 17 18 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.66% 2.25% 3.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.97% 26.87% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 31
10th Percentile £328 - £313
25th Percentile £350 £313 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £438 £556 £588
90th Percentile £550 £634 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +84.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 67 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.91% 8.39% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 68
10th Percentile £221 £275 £317
25th Percentile £235 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £738 £644 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £32.50
% change year-on-year +195.60% -57.32% +84.24%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Leeds

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (23.53%) Confluence
3 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
3 3 (17.65%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Network Security
2 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) DKIM
3 2 (11.76%) DMARC
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.76%) VLAN
3 2 (11.76%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.88%) LAN
4 1 (5.88%) NGFW
4 1 (5.88%) WAN
4 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) MySQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Local Government
2 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Network Delivery Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Infoblox Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) CentOS
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Agile
1 4 (23.53%) Cost Control
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (23.53%) Supplier Management
2 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.76%) Email Filtering
3 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (11.76%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 1 (5.88%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (5.88%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (5.88%) High Availability
4 1 (5.88%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.88%) Migration
4 1 (5.88%) Server Management
4 1 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) APMP
2 4 (23.53%) CCNA
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
4 1 (5.88%) JNCIP
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) FortiGate
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (17.65%) SCCM
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Cisco
2 6 (35.29%) CheckPoint
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) Fortinet
4 4 (23.53%) Aruba
4 4 (23.53%) Meraki
5 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
5 3 (17.65%) Veeam
5 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 2 (11.76%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (11.76%) Proofpoint
7 1 (5.88%) F5
7 1 (5.88%) HP
7 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
7 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
7 1 (5.88%) Zscaler