Firewall Contracts in Maidstone

Firewall
Kent > Maidstone

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Maidstone 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 5 5 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Maidstone 17.24% 6.25% 6.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.71% 100.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £534 £425 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £623 £475 £355
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median daily rate £569 £473 £381
% change year-on-year +20.32% +23.93% +22.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Maidstone

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 Maidstone.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidstone 48.28% 6.25% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 8
10th Percentile £193 - £279
25th Percentile £203 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +28.57% +33.33%
75th Percentile £613 £475 £416
90th Percentile £623 - £424
Kent median daily rate £263 £425 £419
% change year-on-year -38.24% +1.49% +34.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Maidstone

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Maidstone

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Daily Rate Histogram in Maidstone

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Maidstone

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Maidstone

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidstone 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (60.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SAN Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Security Patching
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) DFS Replication
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto