Firewall Contracts in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 29 82
Rank change year-on-year -6 +53 -27
Contract jobs citing Firewall 119 205 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.42% 6.24% 2.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.65% 40.59% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 146 96
10th Percentile £258 £263 £185
25th Percentile £313 £314 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £509 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +19.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £588
90th Percentile £775 £715 £700
England median daily rate £508 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -5.14% +7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Median hourly rate - £19.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.60% +33.33%
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +69.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 464 505 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.23% 15.38% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 331 390
10th Percentile £200 £248 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £618
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.11% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.13 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Midlands +1 92 £475 - 65
East Midlands -12 26 £495 -8.33% 48
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) IIS
3 2 (1.68%) WordPress
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (0.84%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.65%) Azure
2 16 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.88%) AWS
4 3 (2.52%) IaaS
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.68%) PaaS
6 1 (0.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.53%) VPN
2 20 (16.81%) WAN
3 19 (15.97%) DNS
3 19 (15.97%) LAN
4 14 (11.76%) Network Security
5 13 (10.92%) DHCP
6 12 (10.08%) TCP/IP
7 11 (9.24%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (8.40%) VoIP
9 9 (7.56%) SD-WAN
10 8 (6.72%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (6.72%) MPLS
10 8 (6.72%) SAN
11 7 (5.88%) VLAN
12 6 (5.04%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.04%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (5.04%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (5.04%) Internet
12 6 (5.04%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (5.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (1.68%) Git
3 1 (0.84%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.84%) JIRA
General
1 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.08%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.40%) Legal
4 8 (6.72%) Finance
5 7 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Law
8 2 (1.68%) Banking
8 2 (1.68%) German Language
8 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.84%) Advertising
9 1 (0.84%) Back Office
9 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (25.21%) Network Engineer
2 22 (18.49%) Analyst
3 20 (16.81%) Architect
4 19 (15.97%) SOC Analyst
5 17 (14.29%) 1st Line Engineer
6 7 (5.88%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Security Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Consultant
9 3 (2.52%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.20%) Web Services
2 4 (3.36%) OpenAPI
2 4 (3.36%) RAML
2 4 (3.36%) RESTful
2 4 (3.36%) Swagger
3 2 (1.68%) JSON
3 2 (1.68%) LAMP
3 2 (1.68%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.68%) YAML
4 1 (0.84%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.84%) OLE
4 1 (0.84%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) PKI
1 17 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (10.92%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.36%) Clustering
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (2.52%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.68%) Replication
6 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.68%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.84%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.01%) Windows
2 16 (13.45%) Windows Server
3 15 (12.61%) Linux
4 10 (8.40%) Mac OS X
5 8 (6.72%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (6.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (6.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (5.04%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.52%) VMS
7 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.68%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.97%) Cybersecurity
1 19 (15.97%) Project Delivery
1 19 (15.97%) SIEM
2 18 (15.13%) Incident Management
3 17 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
4 13 (10.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 12 (10.08%) Network Architecture
6 11 (9.24%) Malware Reverse Engineering
6 11 (9.24%) Mentoring
6 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (9.24%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (9.24%) Risk Management
6 11 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (9.24%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (8.40%) Computer Forensics
7 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (8.40%) Purple Team
7 10 (8.40%) Security Operations
7 10 (8.40%) Threat Analysis
8 9 (7.56%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
2 4 (3.36%) C#
2 4 (3.36%) Java
2 4 (3.36%) SQL
3 2 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 31 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.97%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (9.24%) Degree
5 10 (8.40%) CCNA
6 8 (6.72%) CCNP
7 7 (5.88%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.20%) CCIE
8 5 (4.20%) CCIE Data Center
9 4 (3.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.52%) CISSP
10 3 (2.52%) GIAC
11 2 (1.68%) BC Cleared
11 2 (1.68%) CASP
11 2 (1.68%) GCED
11 2 (1.68%) GSEC
11 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.84%) CEH
12 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) HIPAA
2 12 (10.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (10.08%) NIST
3 11 (9.24%) GDPR
4 10 (8.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.68%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.40%) Active Directory
1 10 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (6.72%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.68%) Terminal Services
5 2 (1.68%) vSphere
6 1 (0.84%) Docker
6 1 (0.84%) Firmware
6 1 (0.84%) Snort
6 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (5.04%) FortiGate
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (5.04%) SCCM
2 5 (4.20%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) Ansible
3 3 (2.52%) Autotask
3 3 (2.52%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (2.52%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.84%) Kibana
4 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.84%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.84%) VxRail
4 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (25.21%) Cisco
2 17 (14.29%) CA
3 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
4 14 (11.76%) F5
4 14 (11.76%) Palo Alto
4 14 (11.76%) VMware
5 11 (9.24%) CheckPoint
5 11 (9.24%) Juniper
6 8 (6.72%) Aruba
7 7 (5.88%) Fortinet
8 6 (5.04%) SolarWinds
8 6 (5.04%) Zscaler
9 5 (4.20%) Infoblox
9 5 (4.20%) Symantec
10 3 (2.52%) Apple
10 3 (2.52%) Citrix
10 3 (2.52%) LogRhythm
10 3 (2.52%) McAfee
10 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.52%) TippingPoint