Firewall Contracts in Wiltshire

Firewall
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 34 24 37
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 23 77 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 5.12% 8.16% 5.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.08% 37.02% 30.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 64 50
10th Percentile £470 - £269
25th Percentile £479 £463 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £655
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -23.66% +47.61%
75th Percentile £684 £575 £702
90th Percentile £688 £620 £719
South West median daily rate £546 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +9.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - £46.39 £62.89
% change year-on-year - -26.24% +24.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 208 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 16.48% 22.03% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 168 153
10th Percentile £470 £448 £270
25th Percentile £528 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £538 £579
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% -7.12% +15.80%
75th Percentile £684 £675 £700
90th Percentile £725 £704 £750
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile - £68.00 £62.13
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.40% -5.14%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £84.50
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham +2 18 £575 +16.16% 10
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Akamai
1 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Cisco Nexus
2 7 (30.43%) BGP
2 7 (30.43%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (30.43%) DMVPN
2 7 (30.43%) OSPF
2 7 (30.43%) VXLAN
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (8.70%) DNS
4 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.70%) VSAN
4 2 (8.70%) Wireless
5 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.35%) LAN
5 1 (4.35%) Network Security
5 1 (4.35%) Skype
5 1 (4.35%) SMTP
5 1 (4.35%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Advertising
1 3 (13.04%) Military
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Administrator
2 8 (34.78%) Network Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Architect
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Spine.js
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) CMDB
2 3 (13.04%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Service Management
2 10 (43.48%) ITIL
3 9 (39.13%) Change Management
4 8 (34.78%) Customer Service
4 8 (34.78%) Network Architecture
5 6 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
6 5 (21.74%) System Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Validation
7 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) NsoIT
9 2 (8.70%) Agile
9 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
10 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
10 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
10 1 (4.35%) ITSM
10 1 (4.35%) Network Design
10 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2
10 1 (4.35%) Programme Management
10 1 (4.35%) Project Management
10 1 (4.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
3 12 (52.17%) SC Cleared
4 7 (30.43%) CCNP
4 7 (30.43%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (21.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (17.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
7 1 (4.35%) CISM
7 1 (4.35%) CISSP
7 1 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (4.35%) Degree
7 1 (4.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) OPNET
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) SCOM
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) VxRail
3 1 (4.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Cisco
2 11 (47.83%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Juniper
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) Dell
5 1 (4.35%) Remedy
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk