Firewall Contracts in the South East

Firewall
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 315 285 370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.70% 4.89% 4.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.12% 28.88% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 191 270
10th Percentile £332 £310 £287
25th Percentile £400 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +1.06% +9.94%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £660
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 11
10th Percentile £63.52 £38.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £77.85 £60.75 £12.63
Median hourly rate £83.77 £62.55 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.92% +212.75% -10.11%
75th Percentile £87.46 £66.00 £21.88
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £48.75
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +55.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,254 987 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.70% 16.93% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 595 776
10th Percentile £205 £235 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £659
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 74 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.33 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.81
Median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £46.40
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South East 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
Thames Valley +22 159 £603 +9.55% 54
Berkshire +19 129 £605 +7.32% 33
Hampshire 0 102 £570 +8.57% 46
Surrey +4 33 £363 +16.94% 14
Buckinghamshire +22 22 £640 +16.36% 5
Kent +15 17 £473 +23.93% 16
West Sussex +7 14 £450 -10.00% 9
Oxfordshire +8 8 £445 -11.00% 16
East Sussex +11 5 £475 -32.14% 7
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 26 (8.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) nginx
3 2 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.63%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 61 (19.37%) Azure
2 33 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (5.71%) AWS
3 18 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (5.08%) Azure Storage
6 13 (4.13%) OCI
7 6 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.90%) IaaS
8 5 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.95%) GCP
10 3 (0.95%) PaaS
10 3 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 67 (21.27%) DNS
2 60 (19.05%) DHCP
3 53 (16.83%) VPN
4 46 (14.60%) WAN
5 45 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 44 (13.97%) LAN
7 38 (12.06%) Network Security
8 35 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
9 33 (10.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 32 (10.16%) Wireless
11 27 (8.57%) BGP
12 23 (7.30%) Cisco ISE
13 22 (6.98%) SAN
14 20 (6.35%) OSPF
14 20 (6.35%) VLAN
15 18 (5.71%) TCP/IP
16 15 (4.76%) IPsec
16 15 (4.76%) MPLS
17 11 (3.49%) VoIP
18 10 (3.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.27%) MySQL
2 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database
2 4 (1.27%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.59%) Git
2 3 (0.95%) GitLab
2 3 (0.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.32%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) Subversion
3 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 20 (6.35%) Finance
4 17 (5.40%) Telecoms
5 12 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.54%) Banking
8 8 (2.54%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.59%) Electronics
10 5 (1.59%) Marketing
11 3 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.63%) Automotive
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Military
13 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 137 (43.49%) Network Engineer
2 53 (16.83%) Architect
3 35 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (10.79%) Security Architect
5 33 (10.48%) Senior
6 28 (8.89%) Cisco Engineer
6 28 (8.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 27 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 19 (6.03%) Analyst
8 19 (6.03%) Support Specialist
9 17 (5.40%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (4.76%) Active Directory Support
10 15 (4.76%) Azure Specialist
10 15 (4.76%) Network Architect
11 14 (4.44%) Active Directory Specialist
12 12 (3.81%) Juniper Engineer
13 11 (3.49%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 11 (3.49%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 11 (3.49%) Security Analyst
13 11 (3.49%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.40%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.59%) EDI
3 4 (1.27%) YAML
4 3 (0.95%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.63%) LDAP
5 2 (0.63%) Node.js
6 1 (0.32%) JSON
6 1 (0.32%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.32%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.51%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.94%) PKI
3 24 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.59%) CCTV
6 5 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.27%) CSOC
7 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.95%) NHS
8 3 (0.95%) SCADA
8 3 (0.95%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.32%) BYOD
10 1 (0.32%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.32%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.32%) IoT
10 1 (0.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (22.86%) Windows
2 50 (15.87%) Windows Server
3 49 (15.56%) Linux
4 34 (10.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (10.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (7.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 22 (6.98%) Windows 10
8 20 (6.35%) Unix
9 13 (4.13%) Windows XP
10 9 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.95%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.63%) Android
13 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.63%) Solaris
14 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (16.51%) DevOps
2 44 (13.97%) ITIL
3 40 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (10.48%) Network Design
7 29 (9.21%) Security Architecture
8 28 (8.89%) Customer Requirements
8 28 (8.89%) Service Management
9 27 (8.57%) Migration
10 26 (8.25%) High Availability
10 26 (8.25%) Project Management
11 22 (6.98%) Agile
11 22 (6.98%) Change Management
12 21 (6.67%) Analytics
13 19 (6.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (6.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 18 (5.71%) Network Architecture
15 17 (5.40%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (15.24%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.67%) VBScript
3 16 (5.08%) Bicep
3 16 (5.08%) C#
3 16 (5.08%) VB
4 8 (2.54%) Python
4 8 (2.54%) SQL
5 1 (0.32%) Bash
5 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 165 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 93 (29.52%) DV Cleared
3 73 (23.17%) SC Cleared
4 71 (22.54%) Cisco Certification
5 54 (17.14%) CCNP
6 51 (16.19%) Degree
7 42 (13.33%) CCNA
8 16 (5.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (2.54%) CISM
10 7 (2.22%) CCIE
10 7 (2.22%) JNCIS
11 6 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.90%) JNCIA
12 5 (1.59%) CCDP
12 5 (1.59%) MCSE
12 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (1.27%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.90%) GDPR
2 5 (1.59%) SLA
3 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.95%) QA
5 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 70 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 47 (14.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.30%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 17 (5.40%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (5.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (4.13%) XenApp
8 12 (3.81%) VMware NSX
9 8 (2.54%) vSphere
10 4 (1.27%) Firmware
10 4 (1.27%) ProxySG
11 2 (0.63%) Ceph
11 2 (0.63%) Docker
11 2 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 41 (13.02%) SCCM
2 34 (10.79%) WSUS
3 29 (9.21%) SCOM
4 24 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (6.35%) Kubernetes
6 16 (5.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (5.08%) vCenter Server
7 14 (4.44%) FortiGate
7 14 (4.44%) Terraform
8 13 (4.13%) EMC NetWorker
8 13 (4.13%) Nessus
8 13 (4.13%) NetBackup
9 12 (3.81%) Ansible
10 5 (1.59%) IBM BigFix
10 5 (1.59%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.27%) Nagios
12 3 (0.95%) Netcool
13 2 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.63%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.63%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 161 (51.11%) Cisco
2 82 (26.03%) Juniper
3 65 (20.63%) Microsoft
4 59 (18.73%) VMware
5 56 (17.78%) Palo Alto
6 51 (16.19%) Fortinet
7 34 (10.79%) F5
8 33 (10.48%) CheckPoint
9 32 (10.16%) SolarWinds
10 23 (7.30%) Dell
10 23 (7.30%) Oracle
11 19 (6.03%) Symantec
12 17 (5.40%) Citrix
12 17 (5.40%) HP
13 15 (4.76%) Veeam
14 13 (4.13%) 3PAR
14 13 (4.13%) Blue Coat
14 13 (4.13%) EMC
14 13 (4.13%) Extreme Networks
15 11 (3.49%) Ivanti