Firewall Contracts in the South West

Firewall
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 36 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 86 166 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.13% 5.19% 5.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.46% 31.44% 28.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 132 145
10th Percentile £369 £401 £325
25th Percentile £468 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £688
90th Percentile £659 £638 £713
England median daily rate £518 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.30% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £51.37
25th Percentile - - £59.34
Median hourly rate - £46.39 £62.89
Median % change year-on-year - -26.24% +24.53%
75th Percentile - - £77.93
90th Percentile - - £99.50
England median hourly rate £14.20 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -76.33% -3.23% +117.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bristol +14 32 £382 -21.64% 28
Wiltshire -10 23 £575 +15.00% 20
Gloucestershire +22 22 £547 -12.48% 34
Somerset -1 3 £600 +57.38% 7
Dorset +3 2 £475 +4.11% 7
Devon -9 1 £413 -19.51% 18
Cornwall - 1 £375 - 7
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.79%) AWS
2 10 (11.63%) Azure
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.33%) Azure App Service
5 2 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Storage
5 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.33%) GCP
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.16%) Akamai
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.16%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.74%) DNS
2 19 (22.09%) Network Security
2 19 (22.09%) WAN
3 17 (19.77%) BGP
4 16 (18.60%) LAN
5 14 (16.28%) Cisco Nexus
6 13 (15.12%) Kerberos
6 13 (15.12%) OSPF
7 12 (13.95%) Cisco IOS
7 12 (13.95%) VPN
8 11 (12.79%) Wireless
9 9 (10.47%) VXLAN
10 7 (8.14%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (8.14%) DMVPN
11 5 (5.81%) TCP/IP
12 4 (4.65%) DHCP
12 4 (4.65%) Spanning Tree
12 4 (4.65%) VLAN
13 3 (3.49%) SD-WAN
14 2 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 9 (10.47%) Aerospace
1 9 (10.47%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.65%) Finance
3 4 (4.65%) Military
3 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.49%) Advertising
4 3 (3.49%) Electronics
4 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.49%) Marketing
5 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.16%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 29 (33.72%) Architect
2 22 (25.58%) Network Engineer
3 16 (18.60%) Solutions Architect
4 11 (12.79%) Administrator
4 11 (12.79%) Network Architect
5 10 (11.63%) Technical Architect
6 9 (10.47%) Network Technical Architect
7 8 (9.30%) Network Administrator
8 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Network Security Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) DevOps Administrator
10 3 (3.49%) Linux Administrator
10 3 (3.49%) Linux DevOps Administrator
10 3 (3.49%) Linux/Unix DevOps
10 3 (3.49%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.49%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) .NET
2 5 (5.81%) Spine.js
3 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.16%) LDAP
4 1 (1.16%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.16%) OAuth
4 1 (1.16%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.16%) OpenID
4 1 (1.16%) SAML
4 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.91%) Data Centre
2 17 (19.77%) PKI
3 15 (17.44%) Replication
4 7 (8.14%) CMDB
5 3 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) CESG
7 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.16%) NHS
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) SCADA
7 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Windows
2 11 (12.79%) Linux
3 5 (5.81%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.16%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.16%) VMS
5 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) Network Architecture
2 16 (18.60%) Service Management
3 15 (17.44%) RBAC
4 10 (11.63%) ITIL
5 9 (10.47%) Change Management
5 9 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (9.30%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.14%) DevOps
7 7 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (8.14%) Validation
8 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (6.98%) Network Virtualisation
8 6 (6.98%) Security Hardening
9 5 (5.81%) System Testing
10 4 (4.65%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (4.65%) High Availability
10 4 (4.65%) Service Delivery
10 4 (4.65%) SIEM
10 4 (4.65%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.81%) Python
3 4 (4.65%) Bash
4 3 (3.49%) Perl
4 3 (3.49%) SQL
5 2 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (75.58%) Security Cleared
2 38 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 22 (25.58%) DV Cleared
4 12 (13.95%) CCNP
4 12 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.65%) CCIE
6 4 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.33%) CCNA
7 2 (2.33%) CISSP
7 2 (2.33%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.33%) JNCIP
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.49%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) NCSC
3 2 (2.33%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.16%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (13.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.81%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (9.30%) Terraform
2 6 (6.98%) Ansible
2 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.98%) vCenter Server
3 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.49%) Grafana
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.49%) SCCM
5 2 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.33%) OPNET
5 2 (2.33%) Puppet
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (1.16%) Nessus
6 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.16%) SCOM
6 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.16%) VxRail
6 1 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) Cisco
2 16 (18.60%) VMware
3 12 (13.95%) Juniper
4 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.47%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.98%) Aruba
6 6 (6.98%) F5
7 5 (5.81%) Infoblox
8 4 (4.65%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.65%) Extreme Networks
8 4 (4.65%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.65%) Ruckus Wireless
8 4 (4.65%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.49%) Meraki
9 3 (3.49%) SAP
9 3 (3.49%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.33%) Citrix
10 2 (2.33%) Google
10 2 (2.33%) Oracle
10 2 (2.33%) Sophos