Firewall Contracts in Essex

Firewall
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 16 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 12 21 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 9.60% 9.05% 5.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.43% 42.00% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 16
10th Percentile - £521 £359
25th Percentile £275 £563 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £596 £430
Median % change year-on-year -51.76% +38.60% +40.18%
75th Percentile £300 £607 £525
90th Percentile £315 £641 £563
East of England median daily rate £525 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £21.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £20.00 £72.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year -72.41% +276.62% -32.60%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 37 50 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 29.60% 21.55% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 66
10th Percentile £213 £188 £105
25th Percentile £272 £344 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £488 £225
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +116.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £363 £592 £464
90th Percentile £420 £609 £550
East of England median daily rate £469 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £29.00 £73.25 -
25th Percentile £33.13 £74.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £77.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.39% +260.47% -20.34%
75th Percentile £56.63 £79.38 £22.25
90th Percentile £66.60 £79.75 -
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +30.00% +210.08%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Colchester - 4 £275 - 2
Brentwood +4 1 - - 1
Basildon -1 1 £300 -49.32% 1
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) VPN
2 5 (41.67%) Extranet
3 4 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (16.67%) Intranet
4 2 (16.67%) NetScaler
4 2 (16.67%) NGFW
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (8.33%) DSL
5 1 (8.33%) IPsec
5 1 (8.33%) IPv6
5 1 (8.33%) LAN
5 1 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (8.33%) VoIP
5 1 (8.33%) WAN
5 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Network Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Support
5 1 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 4 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) People Management
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Change Control
5 1 (8.33%) CRM
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C
1 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Palo Alto
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (33.33%) Infoblox
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.33%) Aruba
5 1 (8.33%) Dell
5 1 (8.33%) HP
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) Sun