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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 +7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 844 1,198 1,202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.06% 5.27% 3.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.83% 34.07% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 818 859
10th Percentile £275 £273 £293
25th Percentile £409 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £467
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +4.07% +9.88%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £575
90th Percentile £750 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 44 37
10th Percentile £23.92 £19.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £49.46 £20.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £62.55 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.49% +178.00% -2.17%
75th Percentile £87.46 £73.88 £56.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.25 £58.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £44.75
% change year-on-year -4.08% +39.78% +88.42%

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 3,268 3,516 4,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.73% 15.47% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,846 2,194 2,787
10th Percentile £203 £210 £189
25th Percentile £350 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £585 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 300 242
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.27
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £71.19 £75.00 £59.88
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +11 316 £488 -2.50% 148
North of England -11 165 £527 +17.00% 143
South West 0 145 £495 -1.00% 80
Midlands -9 115 £475 -5.00% 92
North West -9 105 £750 +66.67% 74
West Midlands -10 86 £475 +5.56% 51
Yorkshire -17 51 £500 - 53
Scotland -7 50 £475 - 48
East of England -27 49 £475 - 39
East Midlands -13 28 £504 -6.71% 41
Wales -17 13 £313 -40.48% 14
North East +16 9 £375 +30.43% 16
Northern Ireland -2 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 69 (8.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.57%) SharePoint
3 42 (4.98%) Confluence
4 28 (3.32%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.47%) nginx
6 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.24%) IIS
7 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.36%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 191 (22.63%) Azure
2 95 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (7.94%) AWS
4 49 (5.81%) Entra ID
5 28 (3.32%) Azure Stack
6 23 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
7 21 (2.49%) GCP
8 20 (2.37%) Azure Storage
9 17 (2.01%) GitHub
9 17 (2.01%) OCI
10 14 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.18%) OpenShift
12 9 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (1.07%) Cloudflare
12 9 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.07%) Kong
12 9 (1.07%) PaaS
13 8 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 205 (24.29%) VPN
2 119 (14.10%) DNS
3 115 (13.63%) WAN
4 111 (13.15%) LAN
5 98 (11.61%) Network Security
6 86 (10.19%) DHCP
7 84 (9.95%) BGP
7 84 (9.95%) Cisco ASA
8 63 (7.46%) TCP/IP
9 57 (6.75%) Cisco ISE
9 57 (6.75%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (6.40%) Cisco Nexus
11 48 (5.69%) SAN
12 47 (5.57%) SD-WAN
13 44 (5.21%) Intrusion Detection
13 44 (5.21%) OSPF
14 42 (4.98%) VLAN
15 36 (4.27%) Wireless
16 35 (4.15%) Cisco Firepower
16 35 (4.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (0.83%) Power BI
4 5 (0.59%) MySQL
4 5 (0.59%) Oracle Database
4 5 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.36%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.36%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.24%) Tableau
8 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (6.16%) JIRA
2 22 (2.61%) Git
3 19 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.54%) GitLab
5 9 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (1.07%) CircleCI
5 9 (1.07%) Travis CI
6 7 (0.83%) Maven
7 6 (0.71%) Gradle
7 6 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.12%) Subversion
9 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 201 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 90 (10.66%) Public Sector
3 51 (6.04%) Finance
4 50 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (4.03%) Telecoms
6 32 (3.79%) Manufacturing
7 26 (3.08%) Banking
7 26 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (2.84%) Legal
9 17 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.78%) Marketing
11 14 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.07%) Retail
14 8 (0.95%) Electronics
15 7 (0.83%) Military
16 5 (0.59%) Automotive
16 5 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.59%) Local Government
17 4 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 292 (34.60%) Network Engineer
2 155 (18.36%) Architect
3 79 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (7.82%) Senior
5 62 (7.35%) Analyst
6 52 (6.16%) Security Architect
7 49 (5.81%) Technical Architect
8 43 (5.09%) Support Engineer
9 40 (4.74%) Lead
10 37 (4.38%) Cisco Engineer
10 37 (4.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 33 (3.91%) Security Engineer
12 31 (3.67%) Lead Architect
12 31 (3.67%) Network Architect
12 31 (3.67%) Technical Leader
13 30 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
14 27 (3.20%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 27 (3.20%) Senior Network Engineer
15 24 (2.84%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 23 (2.73%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.98%) Node.js
2 22 (2.61%) ARM Templates
3 16 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (1.78%) JSON
4 15 (1.78%) YAML
5 14 (1.66%) CSS
5 14 (1.66%) HTML
5 14 (1.66%) React
6 12 (1.42%) Jinja
7 11 (1.30%) XML
8 8 (0.95%) 802.1X
9 7 (0.83%) Web Services
10 6 (0.71%) LDAP
11 5 (0.59%) REST
12 4 (0.47%) ADO
12 4 (0.47%) Keycloak
12 4 (0.47%) OpenAPI
12 4 (0.47%) RAML
12 4 (0.47%) RESTful
12 4 (0.47%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.20%) Data Centre
2 62 (7.35%) PKI
3 50 (5.92%) Private Cloud
4 46 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (4.50%) Public Cloud
6 18 (2.13%) Operational Technology
7 17 (2.01%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (1.54%) Clustering
9 13 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.30%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.30%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (0.95%) Replication
13 7 (0.83%) NHS
14 6 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.71%) Driving Licence
15 5 (0.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 256 (30.33%) Windows
2 163 (19.31%) Windows Server
3 125 (14.81%) Linux
4 58 (6.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 55 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 46 (5.45%) Apple iOS
7 44 (5.21%) Android
8 37 (4.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 36 (4.27%) Windows 10
10 33 (3.91%) Unix
11 17 (2.01%) Windows XP
12 15 (1.78%) VMS
13 10 (1.18%) Mac OS X
14 9 (1.07%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.59%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
19 3 (0.36%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (17.30%) DevOps
2 135 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (14.34%) ITIL
4 118 (13.98%) Agile
5 107 (12.68%) CI/CD
6 102 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 99 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
8 84 (9.95%) Security Architecture
9 64 (7.58%) Risk Management
10 63 (7.46%) Service Management
11 62 (7.35%) Change Management
11 62 (7.35%) Migration
12 57 (6.75%) ITSM
13 54 (6.40%) Mobile Device Management
14 52 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 52 (6.16%) Network Management
15 49 (5.81%) High Availability
15 49 (5.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (5.57%) Network Design
17 46 (5.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 90 (10.66%) PowerShell
2 53 (6.28%) Python
3 29 (3.44%) VBScript
4 26 (3.08%) Java
5 25 (2.96%) SQL
6 24 (2.84%) C#
7 22 (2.61%) Bicep
7 22 (2.61%) VB
8 20 (2.37%) Bash
9 13 (1.54%) Perl
10 12 (1.42%) Tcl
10 12 (1.42%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.30%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.07%) Groovy
12 9 (1.07%) Ruby
13 6 (0.71%) JavaScript
14 4 (0.47%) ActionScript
14 4 (0.47%) C
14 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 350 (41.47%) Security Cleared
2 186 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 161 (19.08%) DV Cleared
4 136 (16.11%) Cisco Certification
5 104 (12.32%) CCNP
6 95 (11.26%) Degree
7 91 (10.78%) CCNA
8 23 (2.73%) CCIE
9 20 (2.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 13 (1.54%) CISSP
10 13 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.07%) JNCIA
13 8 (0.95%) MCSE
13 8 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (0.83%) CISM
15 6 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.59%) CCSA
16 5 (0.59%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.32%) Government Security Classifications
2 23 (2.73%) QA
3 22 (2.61%) GDPR
4 21 (2.49%) SLA
5 17 (2.01%) NIST
6 15 (1.78%) HIPAA
6 15 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 136 (16.11%) Active Directory
2 119 (14.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (6.28%) Hyper-V
4 39 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
4 39 (4.62%) VMware ESXi
5 36 (4.27%) vSphere
6 31 (3.67%) VMware NSX
7 27 (3.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (2.84%) Docker
9 19 (2.25%) Firmware
10 15 (1.78%) XenApp
11 7 (0.83%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.47%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.47%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.24%) Ceph
14 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 69 (8.18%) SCCM
2 61 (7.23%) Ansible
3 55 (6.52%) SCOM
4 53 (6.28%) Terraform
5 50 (5.92%) Kubernetes
6 42 (4.98%) WSUS
7 41 (4.86%) vCenter Server
8 38 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (3.67%) FortiGate
10 23 (2.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (2.25%) Nessus
12 18 (2.13%) Grafana
13 14 (1.66%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (1.66%) NetBackup
13 14 (1.66%) Prometheus
14 11 (1.30%) Kibana
14 11 (1.30%) Puppet
15 10 (1.18%) logstash
15 10 (1.18%) Progress Chef
16 9 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 329 (38.98%) Cisco
2 194 (22.99%) Microsoft
3 149 (17.65%) VMware
4 120 (14.22%) Palo Alto
5 100 (11.85%) Juniper
6 92 (10.90%) Fortinet
7 81 (9.60%) F5
8 65 (7.70%) CheckPoint
9 59 (6.99%) SolarWinds
10 44 (5.21%) Citrix
11 34 (4.03%) Dell
12 31 (3.67%) Splunk
13 29 (3.44%) Atlassian
13 29 (3.44%) Oracle
14 28 (3.32%) Veeam
15 27 (3.20%) Symantec
16 25 (2.96%) CA
16 25 (2.96%) HP
17 21 (2.49%) Aruba
18 19 (2.25%) Meraki