Firewall Contracts in Merseyside

Firewall
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 16 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +31
Contract jobs citing Firewall 14 21 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.33% 10.40% 10.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.42% 53.85% 46.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 21
10th Percentile £173 £303 £363
25th Percentile £188 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% -8.33% +105.71%
75th Percentile £394 £420 £475
90th Percentile £488 £457 £488
North West median daily rate £500 £531 £463
% change year-on-year -5.88% +14.86% +4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £43.75 -
% change year-on-year +8.57% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 33 39 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.93% 19.31% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 36
10th Percentile £138 £163 £356
25th Percentile £155 £240 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £353 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.26% -21.67% +67.44%
75th Percentile £456 £419 £475
90th Percentile £524 £459 £491
North West median daily rate £486 £495 £456
% change year-on-year -1.77% +8.67% +7.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.03 - £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.07 £63.00 £19.88
Median % change year-on-year -71.33% +216.90% +32.53%
75th Percentile £18.10 - £21.32
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £48.56 £16.86 £19.88
% change year-on-year +188.02% -15.19% +25.35%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Merseyside over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -3 13 £363 -12.12% 6
Prescot - 1 £225 -
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) IBM Watson
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
4 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) LAN
1 10 (71.43%) WAN
2 9 (64.29%) BGP
2 9 (64.29%) DNS
2 9 (64.29%) TCP/IP
2 9 (64.29%) VPN
3 8 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (57.14%) IPsec
3 8 (57.14%) IPv4
3 8 (57.14%) IPv6
3 8 (57.14%) Multicast
3 8 (57.14%) SSL
3 8 (57.14%) VRRP
3 8 (57.14%) Wireshark
4 2 (14.29%) Internet
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
5 1 (7.14%) MPLS
5 1 (7.14%) OSPF
5 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (7.14%) Banking
1 1 (7.14%) Finance
1 1 (7.14%) Law
1 1 (7.14%) Legal
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Network Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Firewall Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Network Operations Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) IVR
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Disaster Recovery
1 9 (64.29%) Mentoring
2 8 (57.14%) Configuration Management
2 8 (57.14%) Customer Experience
2 8 (57.14%) Knowledge Management
2 8 (57.14%) Load Balancing
2 8 (57.14%) Observability
2 8 (57.14%) Runbook
2 8 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 1 (7.14%) BCP
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Logistics
5 1 (7.14%) Refactoring
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Fortinet
2 8 (57.14%) Blue Coat
2 8 (57.14%) CheckPoint
2 8 (57.14%) F5
2 8 (57.14%) IBM
2 8 (57.14%) NetScout
2 8 (57.14%) SevOne
2 8 (57.14%) Splunk
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Juniper
5 1 (7.14%) Apple
5 1 (7.14%) Arista
5 1 (7.14%) Draytek
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) MikroTik
5 1 (7.14%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (7.14%) Veeam
5 1 (7.14%) VMware