Firewall Contracts in Scotland

Firewall
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 76 69 78
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Firewall 55 109 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.49% 3.82% 2.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.18% 30.97% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 79 69
10th Percentile £406 £400 £275
25th Percentile £431 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £634 £527 £538
90th Percentile £680 £628 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +95.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.33% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £356 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Scotland

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +11 19 £525 +10.53% 6
Glasgow -3 13 £550 +22.22% 23
Renfrewshire -7 6 - -
Aberdeen +2 4 £625 - 9
West Lothian +1 3 £188 -54.55%
Stirling - 3 £420 -
Highlands -2 2 - -
Fife - 2 £365 -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £700 -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.73%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.55%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (10.91%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.64%) Catchpoint
6 2 (3.64%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.64%) Serverless
7 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) VPN
2 10 (18.18%) DNS
3 7 (12.73%) LAN
4 5 (9.09%) DHCP
4 5 (9.09%) Network Security
4 5 (9.09%) SMTP
4 5 (9.09%) SSL
4 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.27%) BGP
5 4 (7.27%) WAN
6 3 (5.45%) FabricPath
6 3 (5.45%) NAS
6 3 (5.45%) NX-OS
6 3 (5.45%) OSPF
6 3 (5.45%) SAN
6 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
6 3 (5.45%) VLAN
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.64%) Internet
7 2 (3.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (3.64%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) Gradle
2 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) Maven
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.45%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Network Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Senior
3 5 (9.09%) Consultant
3 5 (9.09%) Site Manager
3 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (7.27%) Architect
4 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.27%) Security Specialist
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (5.45%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) IT Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (3.64%) SOC Manager
6 2 (3.64%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.82%) XML
2 1 (1.82%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) PKI
2 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
4 5 (9.09%) Clustering
4 5 (9.09%) Operational Technology
5 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
6 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.64%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.82%) CMDB
8 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (56.36%) Windows
2 18 (32.73%) Linux
3 15 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 11 (20.00%) Unix
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Agile
1 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (18.18%) ITIL
5 9 (16.36%) Application Security
5 9 (16.36%) OWASP
6 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.55%) High Availability
7 7 (12.73%) Change Management
7 7 (12.73%) Migration
7 7 (12.73%) Project Delivery
7 7 (12.73%) Risk Assessment
8 6 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (10.91%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (10.91%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (10.91%) Information Security
8 6 (10.91%) Project Management
8 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.73%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) Bash
3 6 (10.91%) Groovy
3 6 (10.91%) Ruby
3 6 (10.91%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
5 5 (9.09%) CCNP
5 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (5.45%) MCSE
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.64%) CCIE
7 2 (3.64%) CCNA
8 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.82%) CCSA
8 1 (1.82%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.36%) Hyper-V
3 8 (14.55%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (9.09%) BitLocker
4 5 (9.09%) Docker
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (9.09%) Terminal Services
5 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (5.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Ansible
2 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) vCenter Server
3 5 (9.09%) vMotion
4 4 (7.27%) FortiGate
4 4 (7.27%) SCCM
5 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (3.64%) Nagios
6 2 (3.64%) OpenView
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.82%) Observium
7 1 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Cisco
2 13 (23.64%) VMware
3 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
4 8 (14.55%) Citrix
5 6 (10.91%) Fortinet
5 6 (10.91%) Infoblox
5 6 (10.91%) Palo Alto
6 5 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 5 (9.09%) F5
7 4 (7.27%) SolarWinds
8 3 (5.45%) Arista
8 3 (5.45%) HP
9 2 (3.64%) AppNeta
9 2 (3.64%) Avaya
9 2 (3.64%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.64%) Oracle
9 2 (3.64%) Tufin
10 1 (1.82%) AlienVault
10 1 (1.82%) Nokia
10 1 (1.82%) Zscaler