Firewall Contracts

Firewall
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 56 84
Rank change year-on-year +4 +28 0
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1,593 2,392 2,643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.68% 4.00% 2.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.37% 32.46% 27.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 1,669 1,831
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £413 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £775 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +0.50% +10.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 54 45
10th Percentile £16.00 £21.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.92 £40.70 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +95.60%
75th Percentile £85.65 £78.02 £54.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £82.93 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.77 £62.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +35.10% +175.56% +2.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +8 1,429 £513 -3.30% 776
UK excluding London +5 901 £500 +0.50% 629
London +10 558 £525 -12.50% 197
Work from Home -2 488 £514 -4.86% 327
South East +13 315 £498 -0.50% 162
North of England -1 172 £520 +9.49% 146
South West +13 168 £500 - 87
Midlands -7 125 £495 -1.00% 128
North West -2 111 £650 +44.44% 86
West Midlands +8 101 £500 +11.11% 83
East of England -7 58 £475 +3.54% 60
Scotland -7 55 £525 +10.53% 41
Yorkshire -14 50 £483 -3.50% 42
East Midlands -15 22 £490 -7.51% 45
Wales -18 15 £408 -18.50% 15
North East +23 11 £375 +30.43% 20
Northern Ireland +7 1 - - 8

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 121 (7.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 65 (4.08%) Confluence
4 35 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
5 20 (1.26%) nginx
6 14 (0.88%) Apache
6 14 (0.88%) IIS
7 9 (0.56%) JBoss
7 9 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.31%) Skype for Business
11 4 (0.25%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.19%) WordPress
13 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
14 1 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2007
14 1 (0.063%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 41 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.56%) Temenos T24
2 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.19%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.063%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.063%) Endur
6 1 (0.063%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.063%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 438 (27.50%) Azure
2 206 (12.93%) AWS
3 175 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
4 107 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 60 (3.77%) GCP
6 56 (3.52%) IaaS
7 46 (2.89%) SaaS
8 39 (2.45%) GitHub
9 38 (2.39%) PaaS
10 35 (2.20%) Azure Stack
11 34 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
12 32 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
14 28 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
15 24 (1.51%) Power Platform
16 23 (1.44%) Serverless
17 22 (1.38%) OCI
18 21 (1.32%) Mimecast
19 19 (1.19%) Azure Storage
20 18 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 387 (24.29%) VPN
2 277 (17.39%) WAN
3 266 (16.70%) DNS
4 258 (16.20%) LAN
4 258 (16.20%) Network Security
5 195 (12.24%) BGP
6 157 (9.86%) DHCP
7 136 (8.54%) OSPF
8 134 (8.41%) Cisco ASA
9 123 (7.72%) Wireless
10 118 (7.41%) TCP/IP
11 103 (6.47%) MPLS
12 97 (6.09%) IPsec
13 95 (5.96%) Wi-Fi
14 94 (5.90%) SD-WAN
15 93 (5.84%) Cisco Nexus
16 84 (5.27%) VLAN
17 78 (4.90%) Cisco ISE
18 77 (4.83%) SAN
19 62 (3.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.94%) MySQL
3 15 (0.94%) Relational Database
4 13 (0.82%) RDBMS
5 12 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (0.69%) Power BI
7 10 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (0.63%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.38%) Tableau
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
10 5 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Hive
11 4 (0.25%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 85 (5.34%) JIRA
2 58 (3.64%) Git
3 44 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 15 (0.94%) TeamCity
5 14 (0.88%) GitLab
6 13 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.44%) Gradle
8 7 (0.44%) Maven
9 6 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (0.38%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.38%) Travis CI
10 4 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
11 3 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.19%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.19%) Postman
12 2 (0.13%) Subversion
12 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.063%) Katalon Studio
General
1 328 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 206 (12.93%) Finance
3 152 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 116 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.02%) Banking
6 59 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 42 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 35 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.88%) Legal
12 18 (1.13%) Marketing
13 16 (1.00%) Retail
14 15 (0.94%) Electronics
14 15 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.63%) German Language
17 9 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.56%) Military
18 8 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 498 (31.26%) Network Engineer
2 254 (15.94%) Architect
3 177 (11.11%) Senior
4 134 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 96 (6.03%) Analyst
6 85 (5.34%) Security Architect
6 85 (5.34%) Security Engineer
7 75 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
8 74 (4.65%) Support Engineer
9 73 (4.58%) Lead
10 64 (4.02%) Cisco Engineer
11 62 (3.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 60 (3.77%) Technical Architect
13 58 (3.64%) Consultant
14 57 (3.58%) Network Architect
15 41 (2.57%) Network Security Engineer
16 40 (2.51%) Network Specialist
16 40 (2.51%) Technical Leader
17 39 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (2.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.64%) Node.js
2 42 (2.64%) LDAP
3 33 (2.07%) JSON
4 25 (1.57%) ARM Templates
4 25 (1.57%) XML
5 20 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (1.26%) HTML
5 20 (1.26%) React
6 19 (1.19%) YAML
7 18 (1.13%) 802.1X
7 18 (1.13%) CSS
8 17 (1.07%) SAML
9 15 (0.94%) Jinja
10 14 (0.88%) Middleware
11 13 (0.82%) Web Services
12 12 (0.75%) NETCONF
12 12 (0.75%) YANG
13 11 (0.69%) RESTful
14 9 (0.56%) IBM Integration Bus
15 7 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 195 (12.24%) Data Centre
2 117 (7.34%) PKI
3 60 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 54 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 53 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 41 (2.57%) Security Posture
7 33 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
8 31 (1.95%) Clustering
9 30 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
10 27 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
11 24 (1.51%) Replication
12 23 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 22 (1.38%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.32%) Operational Technology
15 20 (1.26%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.07%) NHS
17 16 (1.00%) Cloud Native
18 15 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
18 15 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 459 (28.81%) Windows
2 255 (16.01%) Windows Server
3 212 (13.31%) Linux
4 80 (5.02%) Unix
5 75 (4.71%) Windows 10
6 70 (4.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (3.89%) Windows Server 2012
8 60 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 53 (3.33%) Android
10 51 (3.20%) Apple iOS
11 27 (1.69%) Mac OS
12 26 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 20 (1.26%) VMS
14 17 (1.07%) Windows XP
15 15 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (0.75%) Mac OS X
17 11 (0.69%) Solaris
17 11 (0.69%) Ubuntu
18 10 (0.63%) Windows 7
19 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
2 225 (14.12%) DevOps
3 199 (12.49%) Cybersecurity
4 187 (11.74%) ITIL
5 185 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 174 (10.92%) Agile
7 155 (9.73%) CI/CD
8 150 (9.42%) Migration
9 133 (8.35%) SIEM
10 122 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
11 120 (7.53%) Security Architecture
12 114 (7.16%) Cloud Security
13 103 (6.47%) Load Balancing
14 101 (6.34%) Change Management
14 101 (6.34%) Network Design
15 95 (5.96%) Disaster Recovery
16 91 (5.71%) Risk Management
17 87 (5.46%) High Availability
18 84 (5.27%) Roadmaps
19 82 (5.15%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (9.92%) PowerShell
2 138 (8.66%) Python
3 62 (3.89%) SQL
4 45 (2.82%) Bash
5 36 (2.26%) Java
6 25 (1.57%) VBScript
7 24 (1.51%) C#
8 23 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 22 (1.38%) Bicep
10 21 (1.32%) JavaScript
11 18 (1.13%) Go
11 18 (1.13%) Perl
11 18 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.00%) VB
14 12 (0.75%) Ruby
14 12 (0.75%) Tcl
15 9 (0.56%) Groovy
16 4 (0.25%) C
16 4 (0.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 525 (32.96%) Security Cleared
2 274 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 238 (14.94%) Cisco Certification
4 230 (14.44%) DV Cleared
5 182 (11.42%) CCNP
6 166 (10.42%) Degree
7 123 (7.72%) CCNA
8 51 (3.20%) CISSP
9 46 (2.89%) CCIE
10 40 (2.51%) Azure Certification
10 40 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.57%) CISM
13 17 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 14 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.75%) GIAC
17 11 (0.69%) JNCIA
17 11 (0.69%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (3.39%) NIST
3 46 (2.89%) GDPR
4 43 (2.70%) SLA
5 35 (2.20%) Government Security Classifications
6 28 (1.76%) QA
7 19 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 15 (0.94%) HIPAA
10 13 (0.82%) NCSC
11 11 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.19%) GPG13
16 2 (0.13%) COBIT
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 271 (17.01%) Active Directory
2 167 (10.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (4.39%) Hyper-V
4 60 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
5 58 (3.64%) VMware NSX
6 49 (3.08%) Docker
7 47 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (2.39%) vSphere
9 29 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
10 28 (1.76%) Firmware
11 19 (1.19%) XenApp
12 13 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (0.63%) Terminal Services
14 8 (0.50%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.31%) Samba
16 4 (0.25%) NFS
16 4 (0.25%) ProxySG
16 4 (0.25%) Snort
17 3 (0.19%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 127 (7.97%) Terraform
2 126 (7.91%) Ansible
3 116 (7.28%) SCCM
4 83 (5.21%) FortiGate
5 77 (4.83%) Kubernetes
6 71 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 59 (3.70%) SCOM
8 48 (3.01%) vCenter Server
9 37 (2.32%) WSUS
10 26 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (1.44%) Grafana
12 21 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
13 19 (1.19%) Nessus
14 18 (1.13%) Puppet
15 17 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.94%) NetBackup
17 14 (0.88%) Kibana
18 13 (0.82%) Nagios
18 13 (0.82%) Progress Chef
18 13 (0.82%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 579 (36.35%) Cisco
2 349 (21.91%) Microsoft
3 258 (16.20%) Palo Alto
4 238 (14.94%) VMware
5 180 (11.30%) Fortinet
6 171 (10.73%) Juniper
7 157 (9.86%) F5
8 129 (8.10%) CheckPoint
9 95 (5.96%) SolarWinds
10 84 (5.27%) Citrix
11 78 (4.90%) Dell
12 54 (3.39%) HP
13 53 (3.33%) Oracle
14 50 (3.14%) Splunk
15 40 (2.51%) Meraki
16 39 (2.45%) Aruba
16 39 (2.45%) Atlassian
16 39 (2.45%) EMC
17 38 (2.39%) Infoblox
18 37 (2.32%) CA