Firewall Contracts in Sheffield

Firewall
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 41 42 29
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 13 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.82% 3.43% 5.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.25% 21.31% 49.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 16
10th Percentile £305 £538 £500
25th Percentile £334 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £645 £569
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +13.41% +33.51%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £681
90th Percentile £678 - £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £645 £525
% change year-on-year -24.42% +22.86% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 61 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.50% 16.09% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 37
10th Percentile £220 £259 £385
25th Percentile £352 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -20.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £647 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.40%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £10.63
% change year-on-year - - -39.74%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Sheffield

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) DWDM
4 1 (11.11%) 4G
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) ISDN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) PSTN
4 1 (11.11%) SSH
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Katalon Studio
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Business Development
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
2 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Korn
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) JNCIA
2 2 (22.22%) JNCIS
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Arista
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Aruba
3 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler