Firewall Contracts in Wales

Firewall
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Firewall 15 56 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.09% 9.17% 6.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.86% 57.14% 40.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 44 57
10th Percentile £150 £273 £293
25th Percentile £220 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £525 £454
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +15.64% +13.50%
75th Percentile £607 £556 £588
90th Percentile £667 £609 £631
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £502
% change year-on-year -2.38% +4.69% +11.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 35 98 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.54% 16.04% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 77 120
10th Percentile £170 £250 £199
25th Percentile £199 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £241 £525 £439
Median % change year-on-year -54.05% +19.71% +3.19%
75th Percentile £427 £575 £588
90th Percentile £659 £643 £655
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £14.84 - £12.82
25th Percentile £15.56 - £22.14
Median hourly rate £16.77 - £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +83.17%
75th Percentile £17.97 - £47.40
90th Percentile £18.69 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Wales over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 May 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 Wales -10 15 £364 -30.71% 13
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (26.67%) LAN
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 2 (13.33%) WLAN
5 1 (6.67%) Broadband
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (6.67%) DHCP
5 1 (6.67%) DMVPN
5 1 (6.67%) IPsec
5 1 (6.67%) MPLS
5 1 (6.67%) SAN
5 1 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (6.67%) VLAN
5 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Digital Economy
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Administrator
1 5 (33.33%) DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) MySQL DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Database Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support
3 2 (13.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Field Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Officer
4 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Change Control
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (6.67%) SIEM
6 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Grafana
1 5 (33.33%) Nagios
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Graylog
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Splunk
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) SonicWALL
4 2 (13.33%) WatchGuard
5 1 (6.67%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm