Firewall Contracts in Cheshire

Firewall
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -31 +13 +17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 16 52 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.94% 10.24% 6.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.59% 54.74% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 31 14
10th Percentile - £288 £384
25th Percentile £463 £306 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £531 £586 £569
90th Percentile £580 £593 £630
North West median daily rate £650 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +44.44% - +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 58 95 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.66% 18.70% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 57 50
10th Percentile £199 £288 £163
25th Percentile £275 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £483
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +13.99% +16.27%
75th Percentile £517 £588 £575
90th Percentile £546 £605 £630
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £456
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.11% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £22.85 - -
25th Percentile £23.38 - -
Median hourly rate £24.25 - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.13 - -
90th Percentile £25.65 - -
North West median hourly rate £40.44 £31.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year +29.41% +62.34% +32.17%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Northwich - 9 - - 1
Knutsford -15 3 £475 -18.94%
Warrington +5 2 £575 - 1
Chester -7 2 £513 +57.69% 4
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
1 4 (25.00%) Network Security
1 4 (25.00%) VPN
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (6.25%) VLAN
2 1 (6.25%) VSAN
2 1 (6.25%) Wireless
2 1 (6.25%) WLAN
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Security Architect
4 3 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Firewall Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Customer Service
2 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
2 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
2 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Bash
1 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CCNP
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
1 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Veeam
4 3 (18.75%) Meraki
4 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
5 2 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (6.25%) F5
6 1 (6.25%) HP
6 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) Symantec
6 1 (6.25%) Ubiquiti
6 1 (6.25%) WatchGuard