Firewall Contracts in West Sussex

Firewall
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 25 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.48% 5.36% 3.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 24.14% 52.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
10th Percentile £274 £375 -
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £530 £475 £525
90th Percentile £575 £484 £605
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +2.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Sussex

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 58 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 16.44% 22.22% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 46 19
10th Percentile £193 £206 £353
25th Percentile £194 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -50.56% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £388 £475 £525
90th Percentile £558 £506 £540
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £24.66 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.93% - -
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West Sussex

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Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Worthing -1 2 £550 +22.22%
Horsham - 2 £375 - 7
Burgess Hill - 1 £190 -
Crawley - 1 £388 - 18
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
1 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Project Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Solaris
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
1 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Server Management
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (25.00%) SELinux
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) Veritas
3 2 (25.00%) VMware