Firewall Contracts in the East Midlands

Firewall
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 28 59 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.44% 5.86% 3.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.72% 43.07% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 50 36
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £338 £392 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £540 £413
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +30.91% +3.13%
75th Percentile £625 £690 £552
90th Percentile £659 £715 £738
England median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.26 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £28.50
% change year-on-year -4.08% +119.47% +16.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 101 137 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.42% 13.62% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 110 132
10th Percentile £188 £246 £173
25th Percentile £313 £313 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% +13.26% +8.16%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £478
90th Percentile £659 £702 £550
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 15
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.63 £14.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.06 £15.84
Median hourly rate £14.27 £21.48 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -33.57% +22.34% +17.07%
75th Percentile £26.15 £35.75 £23.00
90th Percentile - £40.25 £23.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +134.40% -28.63% +3.96%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Leicestershire +12 10 £600 +57.89% 8
Northamptonshire +2 7 £529 +41.00% 8
Lincolnshire -1 5 £325 -50.76% 9
Nottinghamshire +5 3 £325 -43.23% 4
Derbyshire -12 2 £450 +28.57% 9
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 7 (25.00%) VPN
2 5 (17.86%) DNS
3 4 (14.29%) DHCP
4 3 (10.71%) BGP
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (10.71%) MPLS
4 3 (10.71%) OSPF
4 3 (10.71%) VLAN
4 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (10.71%) Wireless
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (3.57%) LAN
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Local Government
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) IT Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Network Support
6 1 (3.57%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) OpenAPI
1 4 (14.29%) RAML
1 4 (14.29%) RESTful
1 4 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Network Architecture
2 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
3 4 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 4 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 4 (14.29%) Network Design
3 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.14%) Information Security
4 2 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) Project Management
4 2 (7.14%) Security Testing
4 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (3.57%) Biometrics
5 1 (3.57%) Change Control
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (3.57%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) C#
1 4 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) CCNA
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CCNP
5 2 (7.14%) CISSP
5 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) HIPAA
1 3 (10.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco
2 7 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 6 (21.43%) F5
4 5 (17.86%) Fortinet
5 3 (10.71%) Juniper
5 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 2 (7.14%) VMware
7 1 (3.57%) Aruba
7 1 (3.57%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.57%) Brocade
7 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.57%) Citrix
7 1 (3.57%) HP
7 1 (3.57%) Meraki
7 1 (3.57%) Splunk