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 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 46 67 92
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 -19
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1,887 2,680 2,560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.24% 3.49% 2.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.63% 29.88% 25.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,893 1,748
10th Percentile £313 £321 £277
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 33 67
10th Percentile £40.63 £18.79 £12.06
25th Percentile £62.50 £21.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £65.98 £37.22 £28.56
Median % change year-on-year +77.27% +30.32% +2.00%
75th Percentile £76.25 £51.70 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.53 £77.10 £76.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.98 £41.03 £27.50
% change year-on-year +60.81% +49.20% -

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 6,161 8,968 9,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 11.66% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,811 5,999 6,476
10th Percentile £210 £231 £206
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year - +3.36% +10.57%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 358 406
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.25 £12.06
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% +97.73% -37.14%
75th Percentile £65.98 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.51 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.49 £45.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.53% +125.00% -41.18%

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023. 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 +25 1,653 £525 - 993
UK excluding London +20 1,036 £500 +5.26% 740
Work from Home +20 701 £525 - 352
London +27 664 £550 - 278
South East +4 299 £525 +5.00% 202
North of England +24 234 £503 +5.79% 196
Midlands +39 180 £425 -5.56% 163
South West +28 151 £550 +17.02% 84
West Midlands +40 138 £425 -5.56% 115
North West +11 125 £580 +18.97% 94
Yorkshire +29 97 £500 +5.26% 77
Scotland +31 77 £543 +5.44% 25
East of England +11 76 £475 -5.00% 74
East Midlands +22 40 £400 -13.28% 48
Wales -15 20 £300 -30.43% 13
North East +33 12 £400 -27.27% 27
Channel Islands +1 1 £200 -66.67%

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 65 (3.44%) Confluence
2 45 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.64%) MS Exchange
4 20 (1.06%) Skype for Business
5 19 (1.01%) nginx
6 15 (0.79%) IIS
7 14 (0.74%) Apache
8 13 (0.69%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.48%) SharePoint Server
10 8 (0.42%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.26%) CMS
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.16%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.053%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.053%) Liferay
14 1 (0.053%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.053%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.11%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.053%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.16%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.11%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.053%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
5 1 (0.053%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 529 (28.03%) Azure
2 285 (15.10%) AWS
3 220 (11.66%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (7.05%) GCP
5 121 (6.41%) Entra ID
6 83 (4.40%) IaaS
7 69 (3.66%) SaaS
8 66 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
9 61 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (2.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 46 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (2.01%) PaaS
13 36 (1.91%) GitHub
14 30 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (1.38%) Serverless
18 23 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 22 (1.17%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 466 (24.70%) WAN
2 460 (24.38%) VPN
3 449 (23.79%) LAN
4 407 (21.57%) Network Security
5 292 (15.47%) DNS
6 280 (14.84%) Wireless
7 238 (12.61%) BGP
8 217 (11.50%) TCP/IP
9 202 (10.70%) Cisco ASA
10 180 (9.54%) OSPF
11 151 (8.00%) DHCP
12 142 (7.53%) VLAN
13 141 (7.47%) MPLS
14 138 (7.31%) Cisco Nexus
15 136 (7.21%) IPsec
16 134 (7.10%) Wi-Fi
17 107 (5.67%) WLAN
18 96 (5.09%) SD-WAN
18 96 (5.09%) SSL
19 91 (4.82%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 52 (2.76%) MySQL
3 41 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 29 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.69%) DB2
7 12 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 10 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.48%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.32%) Power BI
11 5 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.21%) Big Data
12 4 (0.21%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.16%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.11%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 86 (4.56%) Git
2 79 (4.19%) JIRA
3 50 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 40 (2.12%) Bitbucket
5 15 (0.79%) TeamCity
6 14 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (0.69%) Axure RP
7 13 (0.69%) GitLab
8 12 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 8 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
12 6 (0.32%) Postman
12 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.21%) Fiddler
14 3 (0.16%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.16%) Subversion
15 2 (0.11%) Hudson
15 2 (0.11%) Maven
General
1 326 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 230 (12.19%) Finance
3 192 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 140 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (5.03%) Banking
6 60 (3.18%) Telecoms
7 43 (2.28%) Manufacturing
8 28 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (1.32%) Legal
11 24 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.27%) Military
12 23 (1.22%) Law
13 22 (1.17%) French Language
14 21 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.11%) Retail
15 16 (0.85%) Electronics
16 15 (0.79%) Police
17 14 (0.74%) Marketing
18 11 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 495 (26.23%) Network Engineer
2 275 (14.57%) Architect
3 229 (12.14%) Senior
4 140 (7.42%) Analyst
5 137 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 120 (6.36%) Security Engineer
7 100 (5.30%) Security Architect
8 97 (5.14%) Lead
8 97 (5.14%) Network Architect
9 79 (4.19%) Senior Network Engineer
10 75 (3.97%) Security Analyst
11 70 (3.71%) Cisco Engineer
12 69 (3.66%) Support Engineer
13 67 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
14 64 (3.39%) Consultant
15 61 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 60 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
16 60 (3.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
17 51 (2.70%) Network Specialist
18 50 (2.65%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (3.66%) 802.1X
2 56 (2.97%) LDAP
3 32 (1.70%) Middleware
4 28 (1.48%) REST
5 27 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (1.27%) JSON
6 24 (1.27%) SAML
7 23 (1.22%) OpenAPI
7 23 (1.22%) RESTful
7 23 (1.22%) Swagger
8 22 (1.17%) XML
9 21 (1.11%) gRPC
10 19 (1.01%) NETCONF
10 19 (1.01%) YANG
11 17 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
12 16 (0.85%) Rendezvous
13 13 (0.69%) WebSphere MQ
14 11 (0.58%) Regular Expression
15 10 (0.53%) Web Services
15 10 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 235 (12.45%) Data Centre
2 105 (5.56%) PKI
3 92 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 62 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 55 (2.91%) Video Conferencing
7 34 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 34 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 31 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 30 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 28 (1.48%) Clustering
11 27 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.43%) NHS
12 26 (1.38%) Operational Technology
13 23 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
14 22 (1.17%) Onboarding
15 18 (0.95%) CMDB
15 18 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
16 17 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 527 (27.93%) Windows
2 325 (17.22%) Linux
3 258 (13.67%) Windows Server
4 97 (5.14%) Unix
5 86 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 77 (4.08%) Windows 10
7 63 (3.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 47 (2.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 43 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 42 (2.23%) Ubuntu
11 27 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
12 26 (1.38%) CentOS
12 26 (1.38%) Mac OS
13 16 (0.85%) Solaris
13 16 (0.85%) VMS
14 13 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
15 11 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
16 10 (0.53%) CatOS
17 7 (0.37%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.32%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
2 211 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
3 207 (10.97%) DevOps
4 195 (10.33%) ITIL
5 193 (10.23%) Load Balancing
6 189 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 185 (9.80%) Agile
8 178 (9.43%) SIEM
9 159 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 157 (8.32%) Migration
10 157 (8.32%) Network Design
11 138 (7.31%) Cloud Security
12 137 (7.26%) Information Security
13 135 (7.15%) CI/CD
14 127 (6.73%) Change Management
15 126 (6.68%) Network Architecture
16 110 (5.83%) Identity Access Management
17 103 (5.46%) Data Loss Prevention
18 102 (5.41%) High Availability
19 99 (5.25%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 238 (12.61%) Python
2 195 (10.33%) PowerShell
3 150 (7.95%) Bash
4 106 (5.62%) SQL
5 55 (2.91%) Go
6 49 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 48 (2.54%) C#
8 25 (1.32%) Perl
9 22 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.11%) Java
11 20 (1.06%) VBScript
12 16 (0.85%) VB
13 14 (0.74%) Bicep
14 11 (0.58%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.42%) Ruby
16 7 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.16%) C
18 2 (0.11%) Groovy
18 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 549 (29.09%) Security Cleared
2 372 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 354 (18.76%) Cisco Certification
4 191 (10.12%) CCNP
5 179 (9.49%) CCNA
6 139 (7.37%) Degree
7 133 (7.05%) DV Cleared
8 82 (4.35%) CISSP
9 57 (3.02%) CCIE
10 44 (2.33%) Azure Certification
11 40 (2.12%) CISM
12 38 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (1.17%) CISA
14 22 (1.17%) GIAC
15 21 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.11%) CEH
16 20 (1.06%) CRISC
17 18 (0.95%) CCDP
18 17 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (2.91%) NIST
3 48 (2.54%) PCI DSS
4 38 (2.01%) GDPR
5 33 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 30 (1.59%) SLA
7 25 (1.32%) NCSC
8 23 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 21 (1.11%) SOC 2
10 19 (1.01%) QA
11 10 (0.53%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
12 8 (0.42%) GRC
12 8 (0.42%) ISO 9001
13 7 (0.37%) FIPS 140-2
14 5 (0.26%) ISAE 3402
14 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 5 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 331 (17.54%) Active Directory
2 230 (12.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 104 (5.51%) Docker
4 86 (4.56%) Hyper-V
5 77 (4.08%) VMware NSX
6 76 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
7 69 (3.66%) vSphere
8 45 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 39 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
10 18 (0.95%) NFS
11 12 (0.64%) Firmware
11 12 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
11 12 (0.64%) XenApp
12 10 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.53%) Terminal Services
13 9 (0.48%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.42%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.37%) ProxySG
16 5 (0.26%) Squid
17 4 (0.21%) Snort
Systems Management
1 172 (9.11%) Ansible
2 169 (8.96%) Terraform
3 128 (6.78%) FortiGate
4 123 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 95 (5.03%) SCCM
6 85 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 40 (2.12%) Packer
8 34 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 34 (1.80%) Puppet
9 27 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.43%) SCOM
10 26 (1.38%) vCenter Server
10 26 (1.38%) WSUS
11 25 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (1.11%) Grafana
12 21 (1.11%) Nagios
13 19 (1.01%) Nessus
14 18 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
15 14 (0.74%) Prometheus
15 14 (0.74%) vRealize
Vendors
1 789 (41.81%) Cisco
2 409 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 336 (17.81%) VMware
4 315 (16.69%) Palo Alto
5 233 (12.35%) Juniper
6 191 (10.12%) Fortinet
7 163 (8.64%) F5
8 150 (7.95%) CheckPoint
9 103 (5.46%) Red Hat
10 100 (5.30%) Meraki
11 89 (4.72%) Citrix
12 80 (4.24%) Aruba
13 73 (3.87%) Google
14 67 (3.55%) Oracle
15 62 (3.29%) SolarWinds
16 57 (3.02%) HP
17 54 (2.86%) Splunk
18 47 (2.49%) McAfee
19 46 (2.44%) Zscaler
20 42 (2.23%) Dell