Firewall Contracts in Reading

Firewall
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 47 22 37
Rank change year-on-year -25 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 13 91 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.18% 7.63% 5.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.12% 36.99% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 53 39
10th Percentile £264 £341 £380
25th Percentile £306 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% -3.20% +13.64%
75th Percentile - £608 £700
90th Percentile - £612 £755
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £605 £564
% change year-on-year -25.62% +7.32% +7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 2
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% -
Berkshire median hourly rate £54.50 £85.38 £66.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +29.37% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 86 246 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.41% 20.64% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 113 97
10th Percentile £221 £205 £337
25th Percentile £307 £335 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £499 £608 £650
90th Percentile £623 - £718
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 3
10th Percentile - £77.22 -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £87.46 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.52% +153.85%
75th Percentile - £87.53 £73.69
90th Percentile - - £78.30
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) VPN
2 6 (46.15%) Network Security
3 5 (38.46%) BGP
3 5 (38.46%) OSPF
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (30.77%) VLAN
5 2 (15.38%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (15.38%) LAN
5 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
5 2 (15.38%) WAN
5 2 (15.38%) Wireless
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (7.69%) DNS
6 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
6 1 (7.69%) Internet
6 1 (7.69%) IPsec
6 1 (7.69%) MPLS
6 1 (7.69%) SSL
6 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Security Advisor
2 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) SIEM
2 5 (38.46%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (30.77%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
4 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (23.08%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Threat Detection
6 1 (7.69%) Application Security
6 1 (7.69%) Architecture Governance
6 1 (7.69%) Business Case
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CCNP
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) CCSA
2 4 (30.77%) CCSE
2 4 (30.77%) Check Point Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCIE
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) GRC
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) CASB
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Palo Alto
3 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
4 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) Aruba
6 1 (7.69%) Darktrace
6 1 (7.69%) VMware