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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 54 41
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 43 52 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.13% 3.13% 4.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.76% 27.96% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 40 64
10th Percentile £324 £252 £283
25th Percentile £413 £275 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -1.75% +10.50%
75th Percentile £613 £606 £588
90th Percentile £645 £646 £684
England median daily rate £513 £508 £530
% change year-on-year +0.99% -4.25% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.92 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £24.87 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.48% +84.24%
75th Percentile - £25.83 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.73 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -75.46% -3.23% +39.33%

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 181 186 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.39% 11.19% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 134 140
10th Percentile £199 £200 £152
25th Percentile £235 £313 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.05% +10.14%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £634 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 38
10th Percentile - £12.75 -
25th Percentile - £13.87 £9.80
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year - +71.87% -39.74%
75th Percentile - £25.83 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

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 19 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 19 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 +15 28 £480 -4.00% 61
South Yorkshire +3 8 £488 -22.00% 28
East Yorkshire +2 3 £575 +91.67% 15
North Yorkshire +10 2 £200 -2.44% 36
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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.98%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.98%) IaaS
3 3 (6.98%) PaaS
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.33%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (39.53%) Network Security
2 8 (18.60%) DNS
2 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
3 6 (13.95%) Cisco ISE
3 6 (13.95%) NGFW
3 6 (13.95%) VPN
4 5 (11.63%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (11.63%) DHCP
4 5 (11.63%) LAN
4 5 (11.63%) WAN
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (6.98%) VLAN
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (4.65%) DWDM
6 2 (4.65%) MPLS
6 2 (4.65%) Wireless
7 1 (2.33%) BGP
7 1 (2.33%) EIGRP
7 1 (2.33%) HSRP
7 1 (2.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.33%) MySQL
1 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
2 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Local Government
4 2 (4.65%) Aviation
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (4.65%) Police
4 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Swedish Language
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Network Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Firewall Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Network Delivery Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Technical Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Architect
6 2 (4.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.65%) Robotics
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) SCADA
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) Linux
3 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.33%) AIX
4 1 (2.33%) CentOS
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Migration
2 10 (23.26%) Network Management
3 5 (11.63%) Agile
3 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (9.30%) Cost Control
4 4 (9.30%) Incident Response
4 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
4 4 (9.30%) Network Architecture
4 4 (9.30%) Supplier Management
4 4 (9.30%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.98%) Containerisation
5 3 (6.98%) SIEM
5 3 (6.98%) Threat Detection
5 3 (6.98%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (4.65%) CI/CD
6 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (4.65%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) Bash
2 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (2.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (2.33%) Go
3 1 (2.33%) Korn
3 1 (2.33%) Perl
3 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (25.58%) CCNA
3 7 (16.28%) CCNP
3 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) APMP
5 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.98%) Degree
6 2 (4.65%) JNCIA
6 2 (4.65%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.33%) CISSP
7 1 (2.33%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.33%) JNCIP
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) GDPR
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.65%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.98%) vSphere
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Ansible
2 6 (13.95%) FortiGate
3 5 (11.63%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) Grafana
4 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (6.98%) SCCM
5 2 (4.65%) Puppet
6 1 (2.33%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.33%) Nagios
6 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Cisco
2 18 (41.86%) CheckPoint
3 8 (18.60%) Fortinet
4 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.63%) Aruba
6 4 (9.30%) Meraki
6 4 (9.30%) Palo Alto
7 3 (6.98%) Veeam
7 3 (6.98%) VMware
8 2 (4.65%) Arista
8 2 (4.65%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.65%) Ribbon
8 2 (4.65%) Splunk
8 2 (4.65%) Tenable
8 2 (4.65%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.33%) F5
9 1 (2.33%) HP
9 1 (2.33%) IBM
9 1 (2.33%) Infoblox