Firewall Contracts in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 43 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 167 251 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.57% 4.40% 3.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.51% 37.30% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 173 186
10th Percentile £259 £263 £311
25th Percentile £375 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £794 £538 £550
90th Percentile £850 £625 £638
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - £35.87 £22.88
25th Percentile £23.92 £42.81 £30.73
Median hourly rate £24.87 £52.13 £43.82
Median % change year-on-year -52.29% +18.96% +36.94%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £56.91
90th Percentile - - £64.76
England median hourly rate £66.75 £62.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +7.66% +117.54% +18.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 566 673 891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.11% 11.79% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 454 622
10th Percentile £200 £200 £181
25th Percentile £313 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £612 £568 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £498 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 25
10th Percentile £13.31 - £12.55
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.23
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -42.54% +5.71%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.72 £23.53
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.00 £52.13
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
North West +1 105 £700 +55.56% 80
Yorkshire -8 52 £500 - 47
North East +19 10 £375 +63.04% 14
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.79%) Confluence
4 4 (2.40%) nginx
5 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.80%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.60%) Apache
6 1 (0.60%) JBoss
6 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.60%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.76%) Azure
2 22 (13.17%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (11.98%) AWS
4 16 (9.58%) GCP
5 9 (5.39%) GitHub
6 8 (4.79%) Cloudflare
6 8 (4.79%) Kong
7 7 (4.19%) Akamai
7 7 (4.19%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.59%) Apigee
9 3 (1.80%) CloudBees
9 3 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.60%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.60%) IaaS
11 1 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (41.92%) VPN
2 26 (15.57%) LAN
2 26 (15.57%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (13.17%) WAN
4 19 (11.38%) Cisco ASA
4 19 (11.38%) DNS
5 17 (10.18%) Cisco Firepower
6 16 (9.58%) BGP
6 16 (9.58%) EIGRP
6 16 (9.58%) NetScaler
6 16 (9.58%) OSPF
7 15 (8.98%) Cisco ISE
8 14 (8.38%) IPsec
9 13 (7.78%) HSRP
9 13 (7.78%) Network Security
10 12 (7.19%) SNMP
10 12 (7.19%) Spanning Tree
11 10 (5.99%) TCP/IP
12 8 (4.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 8 (4.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.80%) ClickHouse
3 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.59%) JIRA
3 9 (5.39%) GitLab
4 8 (4.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (4.79%) CircleCI
4 8 (4.79%) Git
4 8 (4.79%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 44 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.19%) Finance
4 7 (4.19%) Legal
5 5 (2.99%) Banking
5 5 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.99%) Retail
6 2 (1.20%) German Language
6 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.60%) Back Office
7 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Military
7 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (36.53%) Architect
2 42 (25.15%) Network Engineer
3 40 (23.95%) Technical Architect
4 31 (18.56%) Lead
5 30 (17.96%) Lead Architect
5 30 (17.96%) Technical Leader
6 17 (10.18%) Support Engineer
7 16 (9.58%) Senior
8 14 (8.38%) Security Architect
9 12 (7.19%) IT Support
10 10 (5.99%) Senior Network Engineer
11 9 (5.39%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.79%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 8 (4.79%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (4.19%) Network Support
13 7 (4.19%) Network Support Engineer
14 6 (3.59%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (23.95%) Node.js
2 12 (7.19%) Jinja
3 11 (6.59%) JSON
4 10 (5.99%) XML
5 8 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.79%) YAML
6 3 (1.80%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.80%) Kafka
6 3 (1.80%) Keycloak
7 2 (1.20%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.20%) Middleware
7 2 (1.20%) Web Services
7 2 (1.20%) XSLT
8 1 (0.60%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (0.60%) LDAP
8 1 (0.60%) OAuth
8 1 (0.60%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.56%) Public Cloud
2 10 (5.99%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.79%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.59%) Clustering
6 5 (2.99%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.40%) NHS
8 3 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.80%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.80%) PKI
9 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.60%) IoT
10 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (46.71%) Windows
2 66 (39.52%) Windows Server
3 43 (25.75%) Android
3 43 (25.75%) Apple iOS
4 12 (7.19%) Linux
5 6 (3.59%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.80%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.80%) Unix
9 2 (1.20%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (34.73%) DevOps
2 53 (31.74%) CI/CD
3 47 (28.14%) Agile
3 47 (28.14%) Risk Management
4 46 (27.54%) Mobile Device Management
5 45 (26.95%) Security Architecture
6 41 (24.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 41 (24.55%) Threat Intelligence
7 40 (23.95%) Zero Trust
8 31 (18.56%) Design Patterns
9 24 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (11.38%) Change Management
10 19 (11.38%) Customer Service
11 17 (10.18%) ITIL
11 17 (10.18%) Network Management
12 16 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (8.98%) Containerisation
14 14 (8.38%) ITSM
15 13 (7.78%) Roadmaps
16 12 (7.19%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.77%) Python
2 15 (8.98%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.19%) Perl
3 12 (7.19%) Tcl
4 11 (6.59%) Bash
5 7 (4.19%) SQL
6 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.40%) Java
8 3 (1.80%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.80%) Go
8 3 (1.80%) Groovy
8 3 (1.80%) Ruby
8 3 (1.80%) Scala
9 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 37 (22.16%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (18.56%) CCNP
5 28 (16.77%) CCNA
6 7 (4.19%) CCIE
6 7 (4.19%) Degree
7 4 (2.40%) CCIE Security
7 4 (2.40%) CISSP
7 4 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (1.80%) JNCIA
8 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.20%) CCSA
9 2 (1.20%) CCSE
9 2 (1.20%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) QA
2 7 (4.19%) SLA
3 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) NIST
4 3 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.60%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.58%) Docker
2 16 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.78%) Firmware
4 11 (6.59%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.60%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.60%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 27 (16.17%) Ansible
2 17 (10.18%) Terraform
3 12 (7.19%) Grafana
4 9 (5.39%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.39%) Progress Chef
4 9 (5.39%) Prometheus
4 9 (5.39%) Puppet
5 8 (4.79%) Docker Swarm
5 8 (4.79%) Kibana
5 8 (4.79%) logstash
6 5 (2.99%) SCCM
7 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.40%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.80%) Autotask
8 3 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) vMotion
9 1 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 48 (28.74%) Cisco
2 34 (20.36%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.38%) VMware
4 16 (9.58%) Citrix
4 16 (9.58%) Palo Alto
5 15 (8.98%) SolarWinds
6 10 (5.99%) F5
7 9 (5.39%) Splunk
8 8 (4.79%) Apple
8 8 (4.79%) Google
8 8 (4.79%) Juniper
9 6 (3.59%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.59%) Meraki
9 6 (3.59%) Veeam
10 4 (2.40%) HP
11 3 (1.80%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.80%) Datto
11 3 (1.80%) Oracle
11 3 (1.80%) Sophos
12 2 (1.20%) Zscaler