Firewall Contracts in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 47 58
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 177 255 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.70% 4.37% 3.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.87% 37.34% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 179 172
10th Percentile £255 £263 £301
25th Percentile £385 £328 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £465 £451
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +3.05% +12.81%
75th Percentile £775 £550 £556
90th Percentile £850 £630 £638
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.87 £11.73
25th Percentile £23.92 £42.81 £13.79
Median hourly rate £24.87 £52.13 £17.02
Median % change year-on-year -52.29% +206.29% -29.08%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £30.90
90th Percentile - - £54.36
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +58.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 613 683 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.83% 11.70% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 478 594
10th Percentile £199 £204 £180
25th Percentile £313 £327 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +9.55% +16.64%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £544
90th Percentile £718 £677 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 49 29
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.18
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £45.91 £13.92 £23.00
90th Percentile £49.13 £34.00 £45.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
North West +2 114 £650 +44.44% 92
Yorkshire -9 52 £491 -1.75% 53
North East +24 11 £375 +4.53% 17
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.39%) Confluence
4 4 (2.26%) nginx
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.69%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (20.34%) Azure
2 25 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (12.43%) AWS
4 14 (7.91%) GCP
5 10 (5.65%) GitHub
6 8 (4.52%) Cloudflare
7 7 (3.95%) Akamai
7 7 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.39%) Apigee
8 6 (3.39%) Kong
9 3 (1.69%) CloudBees
9 3 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.13%) SaaS
10 2 (1.13%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.56%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (41.24%) VPN
2 31 (17.51%) LAN
3 26 (14.69%) Wi-Fi
4 25 (14.12%) WAN
5 19 (10.73%) Cisco ASA
6 18 (10.17%) Network Security
7 17 (9.60%) Cisco Firepower
7 17 (9.60%) DNS
8 16 (9.04%) BGP
8 16 (9.04%) EIGRP
8 16 (9.04%) NetScaler
8 16 (9.04%) OSPF
9 15 (8.47%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (7.34%) HSRP
10 13 (7.34%) IPsec
11 12 (6.78%) SNMP
11 12 (6.78%) Spanning Tree
12 10 (5.65%) TCP/IP
13 8 (4.52%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (4.52%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.69%) ClickHouse
3 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.13%) Tableau
5 1 (0.56%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) JIRA
2 10 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.95%) GitLab
4 6 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (3.39%) CircleCI
4 6 (3.39%) Git
4 6 (3.39%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 45 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.91%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.65%) Finance
5 7 (3.95%) Legal
6 6 (3.39%) Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.82%) Retail
8 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.13%) German Language
10 1 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (34.46%) Architect
2 46 (25.99%) Network Engineer
3 40 (22.60%) Technical Architect
4 32 (18.08%) Lead
5 30 (16.95%) Lead Architect
5 30 (16.95%) Technical Leader
6 17 (9.60%) Support Engineer
7 16 (9.04%) Senior
8 14 (7.91%) IT Support
8 14 (7.91%) Security Architect
9 10 (5.65%) Senior Network Engineer
10 9 (5.08%) 3rd Line Support
10 9 (5.08%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.52%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 8 (4.52%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Network Support
12 7 (3.95%) Network Support Engineer
13 6 (3.39%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (22.60%) Node.js
2 12 (6.78%) Jinja
3 10 (5.65%) JSON
4 9 (5.08%) XML
5 6 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (3.39%) YAML
6 3 (1.69%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.69%) Kafka
6 3 (1.69%) Keycloak
6 3 (1.69%) Web Services
6 3 (1.69%) XSLT
7 2 (1.13%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.13%) Middleware
8 1 (0.56%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.56%) LDAP
8 1 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.51%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.65%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.39%) Clustering
4 6 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.82%) PKI
6 4 (2.26%) NHS
7 3 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.13%) IoT
8 2 (1.13%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.56%) LIMS
9 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 85 (48.02%) Windows
2 67 (37.85%) Windows Server
3 43 (24.29%) Android
3 43 (24.29%) Apple iOS
4 13 (7.34%) Linux
5 8 (4.52%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.82%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.26%) Unix
7 4 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.13%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.07%) DevOps
2 53 (29.94%) CI/CD
3 50 (28.25%) Risk Management
4 47 (26.55%) Agile
5 46 (25.99%) Mobile Device Management
6 45 (25.42%) Security Architecture
7 42 (23.73%) Threat Intelligence
8 41 (23.16%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 41 (23.16%) Zero Trust
9 31 (17.51%) Design Patterns
10 24 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.73%) Customer Service
12 18 (10.17%) Change Management
12 18 (10.17%) Network Management
13 17 (9.60%) ITIL
14 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (7.91%) ITSM
15 13 (7.34%) Containerisation
15 13 (7.34%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (7.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.82%) Python
2 15 (8.47%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.78%) Perl
3 12 (6.78%) Tcl
4 9 (5.08%) Bash
5 8 (4.52%) SQL
6 6 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.26%) Java
8 3 (1.69%) Go
8 3 (1.69%) Groovy
8 3 (1.69%) Ruby
8 3 (1.69%) Scala
9 1 (0.56%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 42 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 39 (22.03%) Cisco Certification
4 30 (16.95%) CCNA
5 29 (16.38%) CCNP
6 9 (5.08%) Degree
7 7 (3.95%) CCIE
8 4 (2.26%) CCIE Security
8 4 (2.26%) CISSP
8 4 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.69%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.13%) CCSA
10 2 (1.13%) CCSE
10 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.95%) SLA
2 6 (3.39%) QA
3 5 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (7.91%) Docker
4 13 (7.34%) Firmware
5 11 (6.21%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 26 (14.69%) Ansible
2 15 (8.47%) Terraform
3 11 (6.21%) Grafana
4 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.95%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.95%) Puppet
5 6 (3.39%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (3.39%) Kibana
5 6 (3.39%) logstash
6 5 (2.82%) SCCM
7 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.26%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.69%) Autotask
8 3 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.56%) vMotion
10 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (29.94%) Cisco
2 41 (23.16%) Microsoft
3 19 (10.73%) VMware
4 17 (9.60%) Palo Alto
5 16 (9.04%) Citrix
5 16 (9.04%) SolarWinds
6 9 (5.08%) F5
6 9 (5.08%) Juniper
7 8 (4.52%) Apple
7 8 (4.52%) Fortinet
7 8 (4.52%) Google
8 7 (3.95%) Splunk
9 6 (3.39%) Meraki
9 6 (3.39%) Veeam
10 4 (2.26%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.26%) HP
11 3 (1.69%) Datto
11 3 (1.69%) Oracle
11 3 (1.69%) Sophos
12 2 (1.13%) Zscaler