Firewall Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firewall
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 36 41 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 912 1,176 1,167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.39% 4.86% 3.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.19% 32.42% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 837 822
10th Percentile £289 £288 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £575
90th Percentile £726 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £23.92 £16.24 £12.55
25th Percentile £52.45 £40.29 £20.00
Median hourly rate £83.77 £62.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.10% +175.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £87.46 £65.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.33 £65.80
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +100.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,482 3,627 4,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.75% 15.00% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,002 2,300 2,649
10th Percentile £203 £206 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £432
Median % change year-on-year - +9.95% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 353 335 240
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £9.80 £15.47
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -11.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £58.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK excluding London 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
South East +13 315 £498 -0.50% 160
South West +16 175 £500 - 85
North of England 0 175 £515 +8.44% 158
Midlands -7 125 £495 -1.00% 124
North West +3 112 £650 +44.44% 92
West Midlands +7 101 £500 +11.11% 81
East of England -9 58 £475 - 59
Scotland -12 56 £525 +10.53% 38
Yorkshire -7 52 £491 -1.75% 48
East Midlands -15 22 £490 -9.35% 43
Wales -16 15 £408 -18.50% 13
North East +22 11 £375 +30.43% 20
Northern Ireland +7 1 - - 7
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 71 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 46 (5.04%) Confluence
4 35 (3.84%) SharePoint Server
5 7 (0.77%) nginx
6 5 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.22%) IIS
8 2 (0.22%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Apache
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (0.55%) Shopify
2 3 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (0.33%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.11%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 1 (0.11%) RMDS
3 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 216 (23.68%) Azure
2 102 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (8.44%) AWS
4 47 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 35 (3.84%) Azure Stack
6 18 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
6 18 (1.97%) GCP
7 16 (1.75%) GitHub
7 16 (1.75%) OCI
8 15 (1.64%) Azure Storage
9 13 (1.43%) Power Platform
10 12 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.10%) OneDrive
11 10 (1.10%) OpenShift
12 9 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (0.99%) Cloudflare
12 9 (0.99%) IaaS
12 9 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (25.22%) VPN
2 142 (15.57%) WAN
3 139 (15.24%) LAN
4 129 (14.14%) Network Security
5 128 (14.04%) DNS
6 98 (10.75%) BGP
7 90 (9.87%) DHCP
8 87 (9.54%) Cisco ASA
9 58 (6.36%) Cisco ISE
9 58 (6.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 58 (6.36%) TCP/IP
10 56 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
11 51 (5.59%) OSPF
11 51 (5.59%) SAN
12 47 (5.15%) Wireless
13 42 (4.61%) Intrusion Detection
14 40 (4.39%) SD-WAN
15 39 (4.28%) VLAN
16 33 (3.62%) IPsec
17 32 (3.51%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.10%) MySQL
3 9 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (0.77%) Power BI
6 6 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (0.55%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.33%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.33%) Tableau
10 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 58 (6.36%) JIRA
2 20 (2.19%) Git
3 17 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.10%) GitLab
5 7 (0.77%) Maven
6 6 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (0.66%) CircleCI
6 6 (0.66%) Gradle
6 6 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.66%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.11%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.11%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.11%) Subversion
8 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 215 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 95 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 55 (6.03%) Finance
4 49 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (4.39%) Telecoms
6 35 (3.84%) Manufacturing
7 31 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.63%) Legal
9 20 (2.19%) Banking
10 18 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (1.64%) Marketing
12 11 (1.21%) Electronics
12 11 (1.21%) Retail
13 9 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.66%) Military
15 5 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.44%) Automotive
16 4 (0.44%) Law
16 4 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 315 (34.54%) Network Engineer
2 158 (17.32%) Architect
3 94 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 72 (7.89%) Senior
5 65 (7.13%) Analyst
6 51 (5.59%) Security Architect
7 48 (5.26%) Technical Architect
8 47 (5.15%) Lead
9 43 (4.71%) Cisco Engineer
9 43 (4.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 37 (4.06%) Network Architect
11 35 (3.84%) Security Engineer
12 34 (3.73%) Lead Architect
12 34 (3.73%) Support Engineer
13 32 (3.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 30 (3.29%) Senior Network Engineer
14 30 (3.29%) Technical Leader
15 28 (3.07%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 24 (2.63%) IT Support
16 24 (2.63%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.61%) Node.js
2 16 (1.75%) ARM Templates
3 14 (1.54%) CSS
3 14 (1.54%) HTML
3 14 (1.54%) JSON
3 14 (1.54%) React
4 13 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (1.32%) Jinja
5 12 (1.32%) YAML
6 10 (1.10%) XML
7 9 (0.99%) LDAP
8 8 (0.88%) 802.1X
8 8 (0.88%) Web Services
9 6 (0.66%) EDI
10 4 (0.44%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.44%) OpenAPI
10 4 (0.44%) RAML
10 4 (0.44%) REST
10 4 (0.44%) RESTful
10 4 (0.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 115 (12.61%) Data Centre
2 66 (7.24%) PKI
3 59 (6.47%) Private Cloud
4 47 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 45 (4.93%) Public Cloud
6 26 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 19 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.97%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
10 16 (1.75%) Clustering
11 13 (1.43%) Cloud Native
12 12 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.32%) NHS
13 10 (1.10%) Product Ownership
14 8 (0.88%) Replication
15 6 (0.66%) CCTV
15 6 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (0.66%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.66%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 287 (31.47%) Windows
2 168 (18.42%) Windows Server
3 125 (13.71%) Linux
4 52 (5.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (5.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 46 (5.04%) Android
7 44 (4.82%) Apple iOS
8 41 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 39 (4.28%) Unix
10 38 (4.17%) Windows 10
11 15 (1.64%) Windows XP
12 14 (1.54%) VMS
12 14 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
13 13 (1.43%) Mac OS
14 10 (1.10%) Mac OS X
15 9 (0.99%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 6 (0.66%) Ubuntu
18 5 (0.55%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.33%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (15.79%) ITIL
2 143 (15.68%) DevOps
3 142 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
4 117 (12.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 111 (12.17%) Agile
5 111 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
6 101 (11.07%) CI/CD
7 88 (9.65%) Security Architecture
8 75 (8.22%) Service Management
9 70 (7.68%) Migration
10 68 (7.46%) Risk Management
11 63 (6.91%) Network Management
12 62 (6.80%) ITSM
13 61 (6.69%) Load Balancing
13 61 (6.69%) Mobile Device Management
14 60 (6.58%) Change Management
15 58 (6.36%) SIEM
16 56 (6.14%) High Availability
16 56 (6.14%) Network Design
17 55 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 84 (9.21%) PowerShell
2 47 (5.15%) Python
3 32 (3.51%) SQL
4 21 (2.30%) Java
5 20 (2.19%) VBScript
6 19 (2.08%) C#
7 18 (1.97%) Bash
8 16 (1.75%) Bicep
9 15 (1.64%) VB
10 13 (1.43%) Perl
11 12 (1.32%) Tcl
11 12 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.99%) Groovy
13 9 (0.99%) Ruby
14 7 (0.77%) JavaScript
14 7 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.33%) Go
15 3 (0.33%) Scala
16 2 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 385 (42.21%) Security Cleared
2 202 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 159 (17.43%) DV Cleared
4 150 (16.45%) Cisco Certification
5 113 (12.39%) CCNP
6 96 (10.53%) CCNA
7 94 (10.31%) Degree
8 21 (2.30%) CCIE
9 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 14 (1.54%) CISSP
11 14 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.43%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.99%) JNCIA
14 9 (0.99%) JNCIS
15 8 (0.88%) CISM
15 8 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.88%) MCSE
15 8 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.84%) Government Security Classifications
2 24 (2.63%) SLA
3 23 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.41%) GDPR
5 20 (2.19%) NIST
6 17 (1.86%) QA
7 12 (1.32%) HIPAA
8 10 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.33%) NCSC
13 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.11%) GRC
14 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 146 (16.01%) Active Directory
2 119 (13.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (5.92%) Hyper-V
4 40 (4.39%) VMware ESXi
5 37 (4.06%) vSphere
6 36 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (3.62%) VMware NSX
8 22 (2.41%) Docker
8 22 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (1.86%) Firmware
10 14 (1.54%) XenApp
11 9 (0.99%) Terminal Services
12 6 (0.66%) BitLocker
12 6 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.44%) ProxySG
14 3 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.22%) Ceph
15 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (7.68%) Ansible
2 65 (7.13%) SCCM
3 58 (6.36%) Terraform
4 54 (5.92%) SCOM
5 45 (4.93%) vCenter Server
6 41 (4.50%) Kubernetes
6 41 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (3.73%) FortiGate
7 34 (3.73%) WSUS
8 20 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (1.97%) Grafana
10 14 (1.54%) Nessus
11 12 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
11 12 (1.32%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.32%) Prometheus
12 11 (1.21%) Nagios
13 10 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.88%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.88%) Puppet
15 7 (0.77%) Kibana
Vendors
1 363 (39.80%) Cisco
2 211 (23.14%) Microsoft
3 160 (17.54%) VMware
4 123 (13.49%) Palo Alto
5 117 (12.83%) Juniper
6 100 (10.96%) Fortinet
7 81 (8.88%) F5
8 67 (7.35%) CheckPoint
8 67 (7.35%) SolarWinds
9 49 (5.37%) Citrix
10 35 (3.84%) Atlassian
11 34 (3.73%) Dell
12 32 (3.51%) Oracle
13 30 (3.29%) Veeam
14 29 (3.18%) Splunk
15 25 (2.74%) CA
15 25 (2.74%) HP
15 25 (2.74%) Symantec
16 22 (2.41%) Meraki
17 20 (2.19%) Aruba