Firewall Contracts in North Wales

Firewall
Wales > North Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North Wales 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 1 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in North Wales 37.50% - 10.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 75.00% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.50%
75th Percentile - - £363
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £383 £365 £500
% change year-on-year +4.79% -27.00% +10.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North Wales

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 North Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales 50.00% 18.75% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £713 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £725 £325
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% +123.08% +62.50%
75th Percentile - £738 £400
90th Percentile - - £423
Wales median daily rate £350 £300 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -40.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.17 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.33% - -
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year +123.68% - -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in North Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in North Wales

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in North Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in North Wales

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in North Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in North Wales

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in North Wales

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 Wales 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
Wrexham - 2 - -
Firewall
Wales

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in North Wales 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 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Skype
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Field Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Field Service Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Field Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Supervisor
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Anti-Spyware
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) A+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) AirWatch
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) XenMobile
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Ivanti
1 2 (66.67%) MobileIron
1 2 (66.67%) Remedy
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco