Firewall Contracts in Liverpool

Firewall
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Liverpool 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 21 29 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 2.94% 2.15% 7.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 20.00% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 14
10th Percentile - £160 £270
25th Percentile £163 £161 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £168 £375
Median % change year-on-year +71.64% -55.33% -
75th Percentile £431 £181 £438
90th Percentile £488 £185 £472
Merseyside median daily rate £215 £168 £375
% change year-on-year +28.36% -55.33% -21.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 20 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 19.12% 10.75% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 26
10th Percentile £148 £160 £226
25th Percentile £162 £177 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £295 £375
Median % change year-on-year -30.51% -21.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £528 £382 £460
90th Percentile £538 £575 £531
Merseyside median daily rate £215 £295 £413
% change year-on-year -27.12% -28.48% -2.94%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Liverpool

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Liverpool

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Liverpool

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Liverpool

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Fintech
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Server Hardening
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto