Firewall Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 19 49 43
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 -7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 11 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.53% 1.97% 1.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.50% 20.59% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 4
10th Percentile £240 £209 -
25th Percentile £335 £220 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £419 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -23.86% +29.41%
75th Percentile £414 £550 £594
90th Percentile £453 - £628
North East median daily rate £375 £288 £550
% change year-on-year +30.43% -47.73% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 34 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 16.46% 9.55% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 23
10th Percentile £162 £134 £180
25th Percentile £335 £185 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £288 £515
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% -44.17% +28.75%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £669
90th Percentile £641 £690 £730
North East median daily rate £425 £288 £450
% change year-on-year +47.83% -36.11% +44.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £29.98 - -
25th Percentile £40.44 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.90
North East median hourly rate £47.50 - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -45.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +26 7 £375 -31.82% 7
Sunderland -2 3 £423 +93.37%
Gateshead - 1 £150 - 1
Firewall
North East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) AMQP
2 3 (27.27%) MQTT
3 2 (18.18%) BGP
3 2 (18.18%) DMZ
3 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
3 2 (18.18%) Modbus
3 2 (18.18%) MPLS
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) SMTP
4 1 (9.09%) VoIP
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Network Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Network Operations Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Server Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Build Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (27.27%) JSON
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
1 3 (27.27%) XML
1 3 (27.27%) XSLT
2 1 (9.09%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Change Management
2 3 (27.27%) CRUD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Security Management
3 2 (18.18%) Server Building
3 2 (18.18%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CCNA
1 2 (18.18%) CCNP
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) JNCIA
1 2 (18.18%) JNCIS
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (9.09%) Terminal Services
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Cisco
1 5 (45.45%) Juniper
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Symantec
3 1 (9.09%) VMware