Firewall Contracts in Solihull

Firewall
West Midlands > Solihull

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 17 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 13.49% 13.79% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.10% 28.57% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £520 £300
Median % change year-on-year -47.12% +73.33% +33.93%
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £426
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.63% +13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +33.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 89 28 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 70.63% 48.28% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 8 6
10th Percentile £240 £313 £300
25th Percentile £300 £419 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £458 £381
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% +20.14% +22.12%
75th Percentile £388 £520 £400
90th Percentile £393 £537 £416
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £498 £400
% change year-on-year -19.60% +24.38% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Solihull

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Solihull

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Solihull

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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 3 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (17.65%) LAN
1 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
1 3 (17.65%) VPN
1 3 (17.65%) WAN
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) 1st Line Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Environment Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Test Environment Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) PKI
1 11 (64.71%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (17.65%) Change Management
2 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (17.65%) High Availability
2 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
2 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Release Management
3 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.88%) Application Security
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.88%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Response
4 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) OWASP
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CCNP
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) CEH
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) CA
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Juniper
2 3 (17.65%) McAfee
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.76%) SAP