Firewall Contracts in Sheffield

Firewall
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 29 38
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 13 27 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.43% 5.95% 3.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.97% 49.09% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 12
10th Percentile £538 £500 £360
25th Percentile £625 £513 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £569 £426
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% +33.51% +0.24%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £500
90th Percentile - £700 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £645 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +22.86% +23.53% +9.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 55 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.36% 12.11% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 37 44
10th Percentile £250 £385 £304
25th Percentile £430 £500 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.92% +44.44% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £509
90th Percentile £646 - £676
South Yorkshire median daily rate £514 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.10% +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - +19.40% +4.69%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £17.64
90th Percentile - - £18.76
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year - -39.74% +10.25%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Sheffield over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Sheffield

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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

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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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Confluence
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (23.08%) Jupyter
2 3 (23.08%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) GCP
2 7 (53.85%) GitHub
3 6 (46.15%) Apigee
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) Kong
4 3 (23.08%) CloudBees
4 3 (23.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) DNS
2 6 (46.15%) HTTP
2 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) LAN
3 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
4 2 (15.38%) Network Security
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) WLAN
5 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (23.08%) ClickHouse
2 3 (23.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) JIRA
3 6 (46.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (46.15%) CircleCI
3 6 (46.15%) Git
3 6 (46.15%) GitLab
3 6 (46.15%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Cassandra Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Field Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Network Support
5 1 (7.69%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) JSON
2 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (46.15%) XML
2 6 (46.15%) YAML
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Beam
3 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 3 (23.08%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
1 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
1 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
1 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) API Development
2 6 (46.15%) API Integration
2 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
2 6 (46.15%) Project Management
2 6 (46.15%) Scrum
2 6 (46.15%) Secure Coding
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (46.15%) Task Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Use Case
2 6 (46.15%) Workflow
3 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) Bash
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Go
4 3 (23.08%) Groovy
4 3 (23.08%) Ruby
4 3 (23.08%) Scala
5 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Ansible
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 9 (69.23%) Grafana
3 6 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (46.15%) Kibana
3 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 6 (46.15%) logstash
3 6 (46.15%) Progress Chef
3 6 (46.15%) Prometheus
3 6 (46.15%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) F5