Firewall Contracts in the North West

Firewall
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 37 58
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 111 154 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.02% 4.79% 3.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.41% 36.07% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 104 91
10th Percentile £360 £288 £313
25th Percentile £484 £325 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £850 £550 £575
90th Percentile - £588 £638
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £45.60 £11.27
25th Percentile - £49.80 £12.65
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year - +217.87% -
75th Percentile - - £43.93
90th Percentile - - £59.57
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +55.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 427 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.29% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 303 352
10th Percentile £199 £288 £183
25th Percentile £322 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £651 £575 £582
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +21 72 £800 +60.00% 46
Cheshire -20 18 £500 +11.11% 22
Cumbria -8 16 £515 +8.42% 3
Merseyside +2 4 £168 -55.33% 5
Lancashire -4 1 £440 -14.15% 8
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) JBoss
3 1 (0.90%) nginx
3 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) Azure
2 15 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (9.01%) AWS
4 4 (3.60%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.70%) GCP
6 2 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.90%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.90%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.90%) Serverless
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 56 (50.45%) VPN
2 19 (17.12%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (15.32%) Cisco Firepower
4 15 (13.51%) Cisco ISE
4 15 (13.51%) NetScaler
5 14 (12.61%) BGP
5 14 (12.61%) Cisco ASA
5 14 (12.61%) EIGRP
5 14 (12.61%) OSPF
6 13 (11.71%) HSRP
6 13 (11.71%) IPsec
7 12 (10.81%) Network Security
7 12 (10.81%) SNMP
7 12 (10.81%) Spanning Tree
7 12 (10.81%) WAN
8 11 (9.91%) LAN
9 5 (4.50%) DMZ
9 5 (4.50%) VLAN
10 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
10 4 (3.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.31%) Finance
4 6 (5.41%) Legal
5 5 (4.50%) Banking
6 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) German Language
9 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Military
9 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (48.65%) Architect
2 40 (36.04%) Technical Architect
3 33 (29.73%) Network Engineer
4 32 (28.83%) Lead
5 30 (27.03%) Lead Architect
5 30 (27.03%) Technical Leader
6 11 (9.91%) Senior
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Network Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Support Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Security Architect
9 7 (6.31%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Network Architect
10 6 (5.41%) Network Security Architect
11 5 (4.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Digital Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Digital Technical Architect
11 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (36.04%) Node.js
2 12 (10.81%) Jinja
3 2 (1.80%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.90%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (27.03%) Public Cloud
2 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.50%) Clustering
3 5 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.90%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (55.86%) Windows
2 49 (44.14%) Windows Server
3 43 (38.74%) Android
3 43 (38.74%) Apple iOS
4 7 (6.31%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.50%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.80%) Linux
8 2 (1.80%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.90%) Unix
9 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.44%) Mobile Device Management
1 46 (41.44%) Risk Management
2 44 (39.64%) Security Architecture
3 43 (38.74%) DevOps
4 42 (37.84%) CI/CD
5 41 (36.94%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 41 (36.94%) Threat Intelligence
5 41 (36.94%) Zero Trust
6 36 (32.43%) Agile
7 28 (25.23%) Design Patterns
8 16 (14.41%) Network Management
9 15 (13.51%) ITIL
10 14 (12.61%) Change Management
10 14 (12.61%) ITSM
11 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
12 12 (10.81%) Microservices
12 12 (10.81%) Product Strategy
12 12 (10.81%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (9.01%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) Python
2 12 (10.81%) Perl
2 12 (10.81%) Tcl
3 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.90%) Bash
5 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.94%) SC Cleared
3 25 (22.52%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (21.62%) CCNP
5 19 (17.12%) CCNA
6 6 (5.41%) CCIE
7 5 (4.50%) Degree
8 4 (3.60%) CCIE Security
8 4 (3.60%) CISSP
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.90%) CCSA
10 1 (0.90%) CCSE
10 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.90%) SSCP
10 1 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) SLA
2 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.90%) NCSC
3 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (11.71%) Firmware
2 12 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (13.51%) Ansible
2 5 (4.50%) SCCM
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.70%) Autotask
4 3 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.80%) Terraform
5 2 (1.80%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.90%) VxRail
6 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (33.33%) Cisco
2 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
3 17 (15.32%) Palo Alto
4 14 (12.61%) Citrix
4 14 (12.61%) SolarWinds
5 12 (10.81%) VMware
6 8 (7.21%) Apple
7 7 (6.31%) Google
8 6 (5.41%) Meraki
8 6 (5.41%) Veeam
9 4 (3.60%) Fortinet
10 3 (2.70%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.70%) Datto
10 3 (2.70%) Juniper
11 2 (1.80%) F5
11 2 (1.80%) HP
11 2 (1.80%) Rapid7
11 2 (1.80%) Sophos
11 2 (1.80%) WatchGuard
12 1 (0.90%) Splunk