Firewall Contracts in Edinburgh

Firewall
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 22 52 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.53% 4.40% 3.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.78% 42.98% 42.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 51
10th Percentile £421 £414 £381
25th Percentile £438 £453 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% -3.73% +18.24%
75th Percentile £634 £526 £575
90th Percentile - £544 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £483
% change year-on-year - -1.55% +13.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 101 121 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.61% 10.24% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 80 102
10th Percentile £179 £163 £316
25th Percentile £212 £291 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £328 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.92% -5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £556 £531 £575
90th Percentile £637 £573 £639
Scotland median daily rate £423 £453 £466
% change year-on-year -6.63% -2.95% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £12.63 - £26.41
25th Percentile £15.56 - £39.16
Median hourly rate £18.14 £21.26 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.70% -55.24% -5.00%
75th Percentile £34.69 - £50.14
90th Percentile £60.75 - £52.64
Scotland median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £49.14
% change year-on-year +71.87% -78.37% +176.82%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Edinburgh

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) SSL
2 3 (13.64%) FabricPath
2 3 (13.64%) LAN
2 3 (13.64%) NX-OS
3 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) BGP
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.55%) DSL
4 1 (4.55%) IPv4
4 1 (4.55%) IPv6
4 1 (4.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
1 6 (27.27%) Gradle
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 6 (27.27%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Retail Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 5 (22.73%) Security Specialist
1 5 (22.73%) Site Manager
1 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) IT Support
4 1 (4.55%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) PKI
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
3 6 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (27.27%) Application Security
4 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (27.27%) Email Filtering
4 6 (27.27%) Kalman Filter
4 6 (27.27%) OWASP
4 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) Penetration Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (22.73%) Security Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
1 7 (31.82%) Shell Script
2 6 (27.27%) Bash
2 6 (27.27%) Groovy
2 6 (27.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (18.18%) MCSE
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) CCSA
3 1 (4.55%) CCSE
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 5 (22.73%) Docker
4 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 6 (27.27%) SCCM
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.55%) Kibana
2 1 (4.55%) logstash
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) SCOM
2 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco
2 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Fortinet