Firewall Contracts in Northern Ireland

Firewall
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 29 23 31
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.89% 0.67% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.04% 6.25% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £161
25th Percentile - - £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £165
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.90%
75th Percentile - - £171
90th Percentile - - £174
UK median daily rate £509 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.21% -1.90% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 23 16 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.47% 10.74% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 15
10th Percentile £134 £516 £156
25th Percentile £135 £531 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £148 £563 £215
Median % change year-on-year -73.69% +161.63% -33.85%
75th Percentile £163 £569 £400
90th Percentile £196 - -
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.34
25th Percentile £22.50 - £15.86
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £16.72
75th Percentile - - £17.57
90th Percentile - - £18.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -8 3 - - 28
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) IT Support
1 3 (100.00%) Support Officer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) HND
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft