Firewall Contracts in England

Firewall
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 52 52 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1,367 1,994 2,150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.64% 4.24% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.34% 33.65% 26.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 1,390 1,507
10th Percentile £289 £300 £310
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £616
90th Percentile £745 £715 £684
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 57 36
10th Percentile £16.75 £21.86 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.92 £35.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +36.45%
75th Percentile £85.99 £73.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £87.51 £80.25 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.08% +39.00% +87.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,823 5,925 8,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 12.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,875 3,842 5,326
10th Percentile £213 £240 £228
25th Percentile £350 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £645 £619
90th Percentile £690 £737 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 408 318
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.28 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.37 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -23.17% +3.02%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £72.66 £75.00 £63.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the England 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
London -2 545 £525 -12.50% 180
South East +4 316 £488 -2.50% 155
North of England -12 171 £545 +21.11% 133
South West +2 143 £495 -1.00% 79
Midlands -12 118 £475 -5.00% 95
North West -3 109 £650 +44.44% 73
West Midlands -7 88 £475 +5.56% 45
Yorkshire -13 54 £508 +1.50% 47
East of England -36 47 £460 -8.10% 47
East Midlands -14 29 £500 -7.41% 50
North East +11 8 £375 +30.43% 13
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 104 (7.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.66%) Confluence
4 27 (1.98%) SharePoint Server
5 15 (1.10%) nginx
6 13 (0.95%) Apache
7 10 (0.73%) IIS
8 6 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.44%) JBoss
8 6 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.15%) WordPress
13 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2007
13 1 (0.073%) Exchange Server 2010
13 1 (0.073%) MQSeries
Applications
1 38 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.44%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.29%) Endur
3 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.22%) Shopify
4 1 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 353 (25.82%) Azure
2 179 (13.09%) AWS
3 143 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (6.58%) Entra ID
5 54 (3.95%) GCP
6 52 (3.80%) IaaS
7 44 (3.22%) SaaS
8 42 (3.07%) PaaS
9 35 (2.56%) GitHub
10 28 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (1.98%) Azure Stack
12 25 (1.83%) Azure Storage
13 21 (1.54%) Power Platform
13 21 (1.54%) Serverless
14 20 (1.46%) OCI
15 19 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
16 17 (1.24%) Akamai
16 17 (1.24%) Mimecast
17 16 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 301 (22.02%) VPN
2 216 (15.80%) DNS
3 208 (15.22%) WAN
4 190 (13.90%) LAN
5 189 (13.83%) Network Security
6 152 (11.12%) BGP
7 132 (9.66%) DHCP
8 109 (7.97%) Cisco ASA
9 102 (7.46%) OSPF
9 102 (7.46%) TCP/IP
10 97 (7.10%) SD-WAN
11 91 (6.66%) Wireless
12 84 (6.14%) MPLS
13 83 (6.07%) Cisco Nexus
14 82 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
15 74 (5.41%) IPsec
16 73 (5.34%) Cisco ISE
17 72 (5.27%) VLAN
18 67 (4.90%) SAN
19 61 (4.46%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (0.88%) Power BI
3 11 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (0.73%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (0.51%) MySQL
5 7 (0.51%) RDBMS
5 7 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (0.37%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.29%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.29%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.22%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 70 (5.12%) JIRA
2 47 (3.44%) Git
3 44 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.54%) GitLab
5 16 (1.17%) TeamCity
6 15 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (0.66%) Travis CI
10 7 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.15%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.15%) Subversion
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.073%) IDA Disassembler
13 1 (0.073%) Katalon Studio
13 1 (0.073%) Maven
13 1 (0.073%) MSI
General
1 289 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 205 (15.00%) Finance
3 126 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 88 (6.44%) Banking
5 80 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 32 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 28 (2.05%) Legal
9 22 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.46%) Retail
11 19 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.24%) Marketing
13 16 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.59%) Electronics
15 8 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (0.59%) Military
16 7 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 456 (33.36%) Network Engineer
2 230 (16.83%) Architect
3 142 (10.39%) Senior
4 109 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 88 (6.44%) Analyst
6 79 (5.78%) Support Engineer
7 78 (5.71%) Security Architect
7 78 (5.71%) Security Engineer
8 66 (4.83%) Senior Network Engineer
9 64 (4.68%) Technical Architect
10 57 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
11 56 (4.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 55 (4.02%) Lead
13 47 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
14 43 (3.15%) Consultant
15 41 (3.00%) Network Security Engineer
16 40 (2.93%) Network Architect
17 38 (2.78%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
18 34 (2.49%) Lead Architect
18 34 (2.49%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (4.24%) Node.js
2 27 (1.98%) ARM Templates
2 27 (1.98%) JSON
3 23 (1.68%) LDAP
4 21 (1.54%) YAML
5 18 (1.32%) React
5 18 (1.32%) XML
6 16 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (1.10%) 802.1X
7 15 (1.10%) CSS
7 15 (1.10%) HTML
7 15 (1.10%) SAML
8 14 (1.02%) Jinja
9 13 (0.95%) .NET
10 12 (0.88%) Web Services
11 11 (0.80%) Middleware
12 10 (0.73%) RESTful
13 9 (0.66%) Kafka
14 7 (0.51%) NETCONF
14 7 (0.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 161 (11.78%) Data Centre
2 87 (6.36%) PKI
3 53 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (3.80%) Private Cloud
5 40 (2.93%) Public Cloud
6 37 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 33 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 30 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
9 25 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.68%) Clustering
11 22 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 22 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (1.32%) Replication
12 18 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
13 14 (1.02%) Operational Technology
14 13 (0.95%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 377 (27.58%) Windows
2 224 (16.39%) Windows Server
3 179 (13.09%) Linux
4 77 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 75 (5.49%) Windows 10
6 61 (4.46%) Unix
7 56 (4.10%) Apple iOS
7 56 (4.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 55 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 54 (3.95%) Android
10 23 (1.68%) Mac OS
11 18 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (1.32%) Windows XP
12 16 (1.17%) VMS
13 12 (0.88%) Mac OS X
14 11 (0.80%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.59%) Solaris
17 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (15.95%) DevOps
2 170 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (11.41%) CI/CD
3 156 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
4 150 (10.97%) Agile
5 143 (10.46%) ITIL
6 142 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 117 (8.56%) Migration
8 106 (7.75%) Security Architecture
9 105 (7.68%) SIEM
10 97 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 83 (6.07%) Change Management
11 83 (6.07%) Cloud Security
12 76 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 75 (5.49%) Mobile Device Management
14 73 (5.34%) Risk Management
15 69 (5.05%) High Availability
15 69 (5.05%) Roadmaps
16 67 (4.90%) Load Balancing
17 65 (4.75%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 152 (11.12%) PowerShell
2 135 (9.88%) Python
3 45 (3.29%) SQL
4 36 (2.63%) Java
5 32 (2.34%) Bash
6 31 (2.27%) VBScript
7 29 (2.12%) Bicep
7 29 (2.12%) C#
8 23 (1.68%) VB
9 18 (1.32%) Go
10 15 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 14 (1.02%) Perl
12 12 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (0.88%) Tcl
13 10 (0.73%) JavaScript
14 9 (0.66%) C
14 9 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.37%) Ruby
16 4 (0.29%) ActionScript
16 4 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 453 (33.14%) Security Cleared
2 228 (16.68%) DV Cleared
3 227 (16.61%) SC Cleared
4 209 (15.29%) Cisco Certification
5 171 (12.51%) CCNP
6 131 (9.58%) Degree
7 120 (8.78%) CCNA
8 47 (3.44%) CCIE
9 33 (2.41%) CISSP
10 30 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 20 (1.46%) AWS Certification
14 18 (1.32%) CISM
15 12 (0.88%) GIAC
16 9 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 9 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
17 8 (0.59%) CCSA
17 8 (0.59%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (3.22%) GDPR
3 43 (3.15%) NIST
4 36 (2.63%) SLA
5 29 (2.12%) QA
6 27 (1.98%) Government Security Classifications
7 22 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.32%) HIPAA
9 16 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 11 (0.80%) NCSC
11 10 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) GPG13
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.15%) COBIT
15 2 (0.15%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.073%) SEPA
System Software
1 217 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 157 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
4 61 (4.46%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.44%) Docker
6 41 (3.00%) VMware NSX
7 39 (2.85%) VMware ESXi
8 38 (2.78%) vSphere
9 32 (2.34%) Firmware
9 32 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 20 (1.46%) XenApp
11 12 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.29%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.29%) ProxySG
13 4 (0.29%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.22%) Ceph
14 3 (0.22%) Snort
15 2 (0.15%) Squid
Systems Management
1 115 (8.41%) SCCM
2 113 (8.27%) Terraform
3 101 (7.39%) Ansible
4 84 (6.14%) Kubernetes
5 60 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 56 (4.10%) SCOM
7 55 (4.02%) FortiGate
8 47 (3.44%) WSUS
9 39 (2.85%) vCenter Server
10 25 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (1.83%) Nessus
11 24 (1.76%) Puppet
12 19 (1.39%) EMC NetWorker
12 19 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (1.24%) NetBackup
14 16 (1.17%) Grafana
14 16 (1.17%) Progress Chef
15 14 (1.02%) logstash
15 14 (1.02%) Prometheus
16 13 (0.95%) Kibana
Vendors
1 483 (35.33%) Cisco
2 302 (22.09%) Microsoft
3 228 (16.68%) Palo Alto
4 204 (14.92%) VMware
5 166 (12.14%) F5
6 157 (11.49%) Fortinet
7 136 (9.95%) Juniper
8 128 (9.36%) CheckPoint
9 88 (6.44%) SolarWinds
10 73 (5.34%) Citrix
11 72 (5.27%) Dell
12 45 (3.29%) HP
13 41 (3.00%) Oracle
13 41 (3.00%) Splunk
14 37 (2.71%) CA
15 36 (2.63%) EMC
16 33 (2.41%) Aruba
17 32 (2.34%) ServiceNow
18 31 (2.27%) Atlassian
18 31 (2.27%) Veeam