Firewall Contracts in Merseyside

Firewall
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 22 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 7 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.17% 1.75% 5.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.33% 19.05% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 14
10th Percentile £163 £160 £270
25th Percentile £185 £161 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £168 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -55.33% -21.47%
75th Percentile £311 £181 £438
90th Percentile £450 £185 £472
North West median daily rate £475 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -26.92% +44.44% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 21 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.86% 9.21% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 29
10th Percentile £151 £160 £248
25th Percentile £163 £177 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £295 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% -28.48% -2.94%
75th Percentile £463 £382 £525
90th Percentile £538 £575 £550
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +8 4 £288 +71.64% 6
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Entra ID
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
1 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
1 3 (42.86%) LAN
1 3 (42.86%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (42.86%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (14.29%) NGFW
2 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) IVR
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Android
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Information Security
3 3 (42.86%) BCP
3 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Fintech
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Server Hardening
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto