Firewall Contracts in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 26 50 48
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 11 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.26% 2.07% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.92% 23.08% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 4
10th Percentile £240 £211 -
25th Percentile £335 £226 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £359 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -34.77% +29.41%
75th Percentile £414 £550 £594
90th Percentile £453 - £628
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 48 39 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.24% 8.97% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 32
10th Percentile £177 £134 £143
25th Percentile £363 £205 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £284 £450
Median % change year-on-year +49.78% -36.94% +44.00%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £575
90th Percentile £644 £678 £699
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £29.80 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.90
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 East 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
Tyne and Wear +30 11 £375 -10.45% 8
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) AMQP
2 3 (27.27%) MQTT
3 2 (18.18%) BGP
3 2 (18.18%) DMZ
3 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
3 2 (18.18%) Modbus
3 2 (18.18%) MPLS
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) SMTP
4 1 (9.09%) VoIP
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Network Operations Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Server Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (27.27%) JSON
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
1 3 (27.27%) XML
1 3 (27.27%) XSLT
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) CRUD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Security Management
3 2 (18.18%) Server Building
3 2 (18.18%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) ITIL
4 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CCNA
1 2 (18.18%) CCNP
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) JNCIA
1 2 (18.18%) JNCIS
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (9.09%) Terminal Services
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Juniper
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Symantec
3 1 (9.09%) VMware