Firewall Contracts in Berkshire

Firewall
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 130 87 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.80% 5.01% 3.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 26.05% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 58 52
10th Percentile £339 £351 £376
25th Percentile £406 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +10.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £608 £688 £625
90th Percentile - £729 £651
South East median daily rate £491 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.06% +7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 0
10th Percentile £72.27 £42.25 -
25th Percentile £81.78 £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £85.38 £72.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 -
90th Percentile £87.53 £80.63 -
South East median hourly rate £83.77 £62.55 £13.00
% change year-on-year +33.92% +381.15% -42.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 450 334 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 23.55% 19.25% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 185 230
10th Percentile £205 £301 £268
25th Percentile £310 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £467
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +7.16% +20.49%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £560
90th Percentile - £688 £638
South East median daily rate £488 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +0.52% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 7
10th Percentile £67.02 £19.60 -
25th Percentile £77.85 £24.50 -
Median hourly rate £83.77 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +288.24% -38.18%
75th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £47.00
90th Percentile £87.53 £81.30 £73.60
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -33.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in Berkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Reading +13 93 £605 -3.20% 22
Ascot - 11 - -
Maidenhead - 9 £375 -
Bracknell -1 4 £363 -
Newbury -7 1 - - 2
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 17 (13.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (28.46%) Azure
2 18 (13.85%) Azure Monitor
2 18 (13.85%) Entra ID
3 17 (13.08%) Azure Storage
3 17 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (10.77%) OCI
5 3 (2.31%) IaaS
6 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.77%) AWS
7 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.77%) Azure API Management
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 36 (27.69%) DNS
2 33 (25.38%) DHCP
2 33 (25.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 28 (21.54%) WAN
4 23 (17.69%) LAN
5 20 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 17 (13.08%) VPN
7 14 (10.77%) SAN
8 13 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
9 12 (9.23%) BGP
9 12 (9.23%) MPLS
10 11 (8.46%) DMZ
11 6 (4.62%) EIGRP
11 6 (4.62%) IPsec
11 6 (4.62%) OSPF
12 5 (3.85%) SD-WAN
13 4 (3.08%) Internet
13 4 (3.08%) SNMP
13 4 (3.08%) SSL
13 4 (3.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.08%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.77%) MySQL
3 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 11 (8.46%) Banking
3 11 (8.46%) Investment Banking
4 9 (6.92%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.54%) Automotive
7 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (31.54%) Architect
2 39 (30.00%) Network Engineer
3 34 (26.15%) Security Architect
4 27 (20.77%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 17 (13.08%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (12.31%) Senior
7 14 (10.77%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (10.77%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (10.77%) Support Specialist
8 13 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
8 13 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
9 11 (8.46%) Blue Coat Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Network Operations Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Operations Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.62%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.31%) EDI
3 2 (1.54%) YAML
4 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (13.08%) PKI
2 17 (13.08%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 4 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) CCTV
5 3 (2.31%) SCADA
6 2 (1.54%) CSOC
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.77%) IoT
7 1 (0.77%) iPad
7 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (30.00%) Windows
2 35 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 32 (24.62%) Linux
4 31 (23.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 31 (23.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (10.77%) Windows 10
5 14 (10.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (10.77%) Windows XP
6 6 (4.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) DevOps
2 34 (26.15%) ITIL
3 33 (25.38%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (16.15%) Security Architecture
6 20 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (13.85%) Agile
7 18 (13.85%) Analytics
7 18 (13.85%) CI/CD
7 18 (13.85%) High Availability
7 18 (13.85%) Identity Management
7 18 (13.85%) Log Analytics
7 18 (13.85%) RBAC
7 18 (13.85%) Release Management
7 18 (13.85%) Service Management
8 17 (13.08%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 17 (13.08%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
9 16 (12.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.38%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.85%) Bicep
3 17 (13.08%) C#
3 17 (13.08%) VB
3 17 (13.08%) VBScript
4 4 (3.08%) SQL
5 1 (0.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 80 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 73 (56.15%) DV Cleared
3 37 (28.46%) SC Cleared
4 36 (27.69%) Degree
5 24 (18.46%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (17.69%) CCNP
7 22 (16.92%) CCNA
8 17 (13.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (3.08%) JNCIS
10 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.31%) JNCIA
10 3 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.54%) CCDP
12 1 (0.77%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.77%) CCIE
12 1 (0.77%) CCIP
12 1 (0.77%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.77%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
1 2 (1.54%) QA
2 1 (0.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (28.46%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (14.62%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (13.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (11.54%) Hyper-V
6 14 (10.77%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.31%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (25.38%) WSUS
2 31 (23.85%) SCCM
2 31 (23.85%) SCOM
3 19 (14.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (13.85%) Kubernetes
5 17 (13.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (12.31%) vCenter Server
7 14 (10.77%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (10.77%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.31%) Terraform
9 2 (1.54%) Ansible
9 2 (1.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (1.54%) Nessus
9 2 (1.54%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (1.54%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.77%) Grafana
10 1 (0.77%) Graylog
10 1 (0.77%) Nagios
10 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 63 (48.46%) Cisco
2 54 (41.54%) Juniper
3 39 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 22 (16.92%) VMware
5 21 (16.15%) Palo Alto
6 18 (13.85%) Oracle
7 16 (12.31%) CheckPoint
8 14 (10.77%) 3PAR
8 14 (10.77%) Dell
8 14 (10.77%) EMC
8 14 (10.77%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (10.77%) HP
8 14 (10.77%) Symantec
8 14 (10.77%) Veeam
9 12 (9.23%) Fortinet
10 11 (8.46%) Blue Coat
11 4 (3.08%) Informatica
12 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.31%) Splunk
13 2 (1.54%) Citrix