Firewall Contracts in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 28 22 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.01% 2.25% 3.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.73% 23.66% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 39
10th Percentile £409 £313 £286
25th Percentile £459 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -6.17%
75th Percentile £502 £556 £588
90th Percentile £630 £607 £690
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -1.27% -1.75% +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £24.87 £32.50
% change year-on-year - -23.48% +84.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 83 93 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.85% 9.52% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 67 82
10th Percentile £222 £271 £313
25th Percentile £239 £316 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £674
90th Percentile £575 £643 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.05% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £13.87 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -57.32% +103.13%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £33.75
90th Percentile - £16.66 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year - +71.87% -39.74%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Leeds +3 19 £480 -4.00% 32
Halifax -1 9 £563 +7.14%
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
2 3 (10.71%) IaaS
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.71%) PaaS
3 1 (3.57%) AWS
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) Network Security
2 6 (21.43%) NGFW
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (17.86%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (7.14%) DHCP
4 2 (7.14%) DNS
4 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.57%) LAN
5 1 (3.57%) VLAN
5 1 (3.57%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) WAN
5 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Local Government
3 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Network Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Network Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Engineering Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Infoblox Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
1 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) CentOS
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Migration
2 9 (32.14%) Network Management
3 4 (14.29%) Agile
3 4 (14.29%) Cost Control
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (14.29%) Supplier Management
4 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
5 1 (3.57%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (3.57%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (3.57%) High Availability
5 1 (3.57%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.57%) Network Design
5 1 (3.57%) Server Management
5 1 (3.57%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) Bash
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (14.29%) APMP
3 4 (14.29%) CCNA
4 2 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (3.57%) JNCIP
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.71%) SCCM
3 2 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Cisco
2 15 (53.57%) CheckPoint
3 6 (21.43%) Fortinet
4 4 (14.29%) Aruba
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 3 (10.71%) Meraki
5 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
5 3 (10.71%) Veeam
5 3 (10.71%) VMware
6 2 (7.14%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.57%) F5
7 1 (3.57%) HP
7 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.57%) Zscaler