Firewall Contracts in Leicestershire

Firewall
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 7 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 12 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 12.00% 5.66% 4.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 66.67% 34.62% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 5
10th Percentile £430 £460 £207
25th Percentile £560 £513 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +60.00% -34.50%
75th Percentile £651 £631 £388
90th Percentile £715 £653 £418
East Midlands median daily rate £575 £490 £529
% change year-on-year +17.47% -7.51% +36.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 26 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 18.00% 16.35% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 14
10th Percentile £438 £224 £221
25th Percentile £530 £438 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £555 £313
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% +77.60% -18.30%
75th Percentile £657 £625 £388
90th Percentile £711 £656 £423
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £445
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.36% +22.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Leicestershire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Leicestershire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Leicestershire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Leicestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Leicester +5 12 £650 +8.33% 23
Firewall
East Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 5 (41.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (41.67%) IPsec
2 4 (33.33%) HSRP
2 4 (33.33%) OSPF
2 4 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Architect
1 9 (75.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (33.33%) Biometrics
2 4 (33.33%) Use Case
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) CCNP
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) F5
1 10 (83.33%) SolarWinds
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
3 5 (41.67%) Juniper
4 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto