Firewall Contracts in Slough

Firewall
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Slough 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 19 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Slough 2.82% - 3.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.90% - 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £369 - £332
25th Percentile £378 - £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile £416 - £491
90th Percentile £421 - £545
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £605 £564
% change year-on-year -25.62% +7.32% +7.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 29 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 40.85% 32.89% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 19
10th Percentile £225 - £308
25th Percentile £283 £280 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £310 £400
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -22.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile - £550 £465
90th Percentile - £577 £519
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 - -
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 Slough

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Slough

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Slough

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Slough

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Slough 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Audit Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos
1 1 (50.00%) Tufin
1 1 (50.00%) VMware