Firewall Contracts in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 51 50 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 41 50 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.03% 2.96% 4.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.40% 26.74% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 68
10th Percentile £293 £246 £265
25th Percentile £350 £275 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -3.50% +10.80%
75th Percentile £622 £611 £550
90th Percentile £660 £650 £675
England median daily rate £518 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.30% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £23.92 £31.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.87 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.86% -23.48% +84.24%
75th Percentile £41.50 £25.83 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.20 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -76.33% -3.23% +117.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 187 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.99% 11.07% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 136 146
10th Percentile £196 £200 £181
25th Percentile £235 £313 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £459 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £588
90th Percentile £675 £641 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 38
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £9.80
Median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%
75th Percentile £41.50 £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +20 26 £425 -15.00% 29
South Yorkshire +4 9 £488 -24.42% 16
East Yorkshire +3 3 £575 +91.67% 7
North Yorkshire +9 2 £200 -2.44% 16
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.76%) Confluence
3 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.32%) AWS
4 3 (7.32%) IaaS
4 3 (7.32%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) Network Security
2 8 (19.51%) DNS
3 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
4 6 (14.63%) VPN
5 5 (12.20%) DHCP
5 5 (12.20%) LAN
5 5 (12.20%) WAN
6 4 (9.76%) VLAN
7 3 (7.32%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (4.88%) DKIM
8 2 (4.88%) DMARC
8 2 (4.88%) DWDM
8 2 (4.88%) MPLS
8 2 (4.88%) Wireless
9 1 (2.44%) 4G
9 1 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (2.44%) HSRP
9 1 (2.44%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) MySQL
1 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.44%) Katalon Studio
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Local Government
4 2 (4.88%) Aviation
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (4.88%) Police
4 2 (4.88%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Swedish Language
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Network Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Firewall Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Network Delivery Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 4 (9.76%) Technical Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Robotics
4 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) SCADA
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) AIX
4 1 (2.44%) CentOS
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Solaris
4 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Migration
2 10 (24.39%) Network Management
3 6 (14.63%) Agile
4 4 (9.76%) Cost Control
4 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
4 4 (9.76%) Network Architecture
4 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (9.76%) Supplier Management
4 4 (9.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (7.32%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.32%) Incident Response
6 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (4.88%) Containerisation
6 2 (4.88%) Data Protection
6 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (4.88%) Network Design
6 2 (4.88%) SOAR
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineering
6 2 (4.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 1 (2.44%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.44%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.44%) Go
3 1 (2.44%) Korn
3 1 (2.44%) Perl
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (26.83%) CCNA
3 7 (17.07%) CCNP
4 4 (9.76%) APMP
5 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (7.32%) Degree
6 2 (4.88%) JNCIA
6 2 (4.88%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.44%) CISSP
7 1 (2.44%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.44%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.32%) vSphere
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Ansible
1 6 (14.63%) FortiGate
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) SCCM
4 2 (4.88%) Grafana
4 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.44%) Nagios
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) Cisco
2 18 (43.90%) CheckPoint
3 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
4 8 (19.51%) Fortinet
5 5 (12.20%) Aruba
5 5 (12.20%) Meraki
6 4 (9.76%) Palo Alto
7 3 (7.32%) Veeam
7 3 (7.32%) VMware
8 2 (4.88%) Arista
8 2 (4.88%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (4.88%) Proofpoint
8 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.88%) Ribbon
8 2 (4.88%) Tenable
8 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.44%) F5
9 1 (2.44%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.44%) Splunk