Firewall Contracts in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 30 78
Rank change year-on-year -3 +48 -30
Contract jobs citing Firewall 125 210 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.55% 6.16% 2.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.41% 41.10% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 152 98
10th Percentile £261 £263 £187
25th Percentile £313 £318 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +17.65% +9.68%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £588
90th Percentile £775 £706 £700
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +33.33%
England median hourly rate £61.50 £62.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year -0.81% +117.54% +18.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 492 511 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.92% 14.98% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 336 389
10th Percentile £200 £250 £166
25th Percentile £306 £318 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.64% -0.13%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -3.39%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +3 98 £475 +3.83% 75
East Midlands -13 25 £500 -5.53% 51
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) IIS
3 2 (1.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.80%) RMDS
1 1 (0.80%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.20%) Azure
2 16 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.40%) AWS
4 4 (3.20%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.60%) IaaS
5 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.60%) PaaS
6 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (24.80%) VPN
2 22 (17.60%) WAN
3 21 (16.80%) LAN
4 19 (15.20%) DNS
5 17 (13.60%) Network Security
6 13 (10.40%) DHCP
7 12 (9.60%) TCP/IP
8 11 (8.80%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (8.00%) SD-WAN
9 10 (8.00%) VoIP
10 9 (7.20%) SAN
11 8 (6.40%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (6.40%) MPLS
11 8 (6.40%) VLAN
12 6 (4.80%) BGP
12 6 (4.80%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (4.80%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (4.80%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (4.80%) OSPF
12 6 (4.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.80%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.80%) MySQL
2 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.60%) Git
3 1 (0.80%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.80%) Legal
4 9 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.40%) Finance
6 5 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Law
8 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.60%) Banking
9 2 (1.60%) German Language
9 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.80%) Advertising
10 1 (0.80%) Back Office
10 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (24.80%) Network Engineer
2 23 (18.40%) Analyst
3 20 (16.00%) Architect
3 20 (16.00%) SOC Analyst
4 17 (13.60%) 1st Line Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) SOC Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) Support Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Lead
7 4 (3.20%) Network Architect
7 4 (3.20%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) Web Services
2 4 (3.20%) OpenAPI
2 4 (3.20%) RAML
2 4 (3.20%) RESTful
2 4 (3.20%) Swagger
3 2 (1.60%) JSON
3 2 (1.60%) LAMP
3 2 (1.60%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.60%) YAML
4 1 (0.80%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.80%) EDI
4 1 (0.80%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) PKI
2 17 (13.60%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (9.60%) Data Centre
4 9 (7.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.20%) Clustering
7 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (2.40%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.60%) Replication
8 2 (1.60%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.80%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.80%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.80%) Windows
2 17 (13.60%) Linux
2 17 (13.60%) Windows Server
3 11 (8.80%) Mac OS X
4 9 (7.20%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (6.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.80%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.20%) Mac OS
7 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.40%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.60%) VMS
10 1 (0.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.40%) Cybersecurity
1 23 (18.40%) SIEM
2 20 (16.00%) Incident Management
3 19 (15.20%) Project Delivery
4 17 (13.60%) Impact Assessments
5 14 (11.20%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 13 (10.40%) Mentoring
7 12 (9.60%) Malware Reverse Engineering
7 12 (9.60%) Network Architecture
7 12 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (9.60%) Reverse Engineering
7 12 (9.60%) Risk Management
7 12 (9.60%) Security Operations
7 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (9.60%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (8.80%) Computer Forensics
8 11 (8.80%) Purple Team
8 11 (8.80%) Threat Analysis
8 11 (8.80%) Threat Detection
9 10 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.00%) SQL
3 4 (3.20%) C#
3 4 (3.20%) Java
3 4 (3.20%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.80%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (33.60%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.80%) Cisco Certification
4 13 (10.40%) Degree
5 11 (8.80%) CCNA
6 10 (8.00%) CCNP
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Certification
8 6 (4.80%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.00%) CCIE
9 5 (4.00%) CCIE Data Center
9 5 (4.00%) CISSP
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.40%) GIAC
12 2 (1.60%) BC Cleared
12 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.60%) CASP
12 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
12 2 (1.60%) GCED
12 2 (1.60%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.20%) HIPAA
1 14 (11.20%) NIST
2 13 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (9.60%) GDPR
4 11 (8.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.60%) QA
System Software
1 11 (8.80%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.40%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.40%) vSphere
6 2 (1.60%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.80%) Docker
7 1 (0.80%) Snort
7 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (5.60%) SCCM
2 6 (4.80%) FortiGate
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.80%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) Ansible
4 3 (2.40%) Autotask
4 3 (2.40%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.80%) VxRail
5 1 (0.80%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (25.60%) Cisco
2 17 (13.60%) CA
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.80%) Palo Alto
4 15 (12.00%) F5
4 15 (12.00%) VMware
5 12 (9.60%) Juniper
6 11 (8.80%) CheckPoint
7 9 (7.20%) Aruba
8 8 (6.40%) Fortinet
9 6 (4.80%) SolarWinds
10 5 (4.00%) Infoblox
10 5 (4.00%) Symantec
10 5 (4.00%) Zscaler
11 4 (3.20%) McAfee
12 3 (2.40%) Apple
12 3 (2.40%) Citrix
12 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.40%) TippingPoint
12 3 (2.40%) Veeam