Firewall Contracts in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 39 43 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.41% 2.84% 5.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.68% 17.57% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 20
10th Percentile £305 £538 £346
25th Percentile £334 £625 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £645 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +22.86% +23.53%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £678 - £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -6.74% -3.50% +10.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 74 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.03% 16.19% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 53 48
10th Percentile £185 £233 £194
25th Percentile £271 £430 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £403 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 36
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £9.80
Median hourly rate - - £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +1 9 £488 -24.42% 21
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) DWDM
4 1 (11.11%) 4G
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) ISDN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) PSTN
4 1 (11.11%) SSH
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Katalon Studio
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Business Development
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
2 1 (11.11%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Korn
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) JNCIA
2 2 (22.22%) JNCIS
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) Nagios
4 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Arista
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Aruba
3 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler