Firewall Contracts in Reading

Firewall
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 29 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 98 72 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 8.28% 6.90% 4.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.24% 37.70% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 48 39
10th Percentile £349 £403 £380
25th Percentile £413 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile £608 £695 £628
90th Percentile - £734 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £595 £525
% change year-on-year +1.68% +13.33% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 0
10th Percentile £79.07 - -
25th Percentile - £66.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.46 £70.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.06% - -
75th Percentile £87.53 £75.50 -
90th Percentile - £76.39 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £85.38 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year +13.84% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 232 191 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.61% 18.31% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 100 119
10th Percentile £205 £325 £267
25th Percentile £350 £424 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £563 £466
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +20.66% +23.90%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £588
90th Percentile - £728 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £467
% change year-on-year - +7.07% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 1
10th Percentile £79.07 - -
25th Percentile - £66.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.46 £75.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.61% +188.46% -45.26%
75th Percentile £87.53 £76.99 £26.50
90th Percentile - £79.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.77 £72.84 £17.00
% change year-on-year +15.01% +328.44% -45.16%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Reading over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Reading

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Azure
2 21 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 20 (20.41%) Azure Storage
3 20 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (14.29%) OCI
5 3 (3.06%) AWS
6 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.04%) GCP
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.02%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.02%) IaaS
7 1 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (36.73%) DNS
2 34 (34.69%) DHCP
3 26 (26.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 20 (20.41%) WAN
5 17 (17.35%) LAN
6 14 (14.29%) SAN
7 11 (11.22%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (11.22%) MPLS
8 10 (10.20%) BGP
9 7 (7.14%) IPsec
10 6 (6.12%) EIGRP
10 6 (6.12%) SD-WAN
10 6 (6.12%) VPN
11 5 (5.10%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (5.10%) Network Security
11 5 (5.10%) OSPF
12 4 (4.08%) HSRP
12 4 (4.08%) SSL
13 3 (3.06%) FTP
13 3 (3.06%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.02%) MySQL
3 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Git
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (32.65%) Architect
2 26 (26.53%) Security Architect
3 20 (20.41%) Active Directory Support
4 19 (19.39%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 19 (19.39%) Network Engineer
5 14 (14.29%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (14.29%) Support Specialist
6 10 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Senior
8 8 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Support Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Active Directory Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Consultant
11 5 (5.10%) Network Operations Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Operations Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Senior Network Engineer
12 4 (4.08%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.04%) YAML
3 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.47%) Data Centre
2 20 (20.41%) PKI
2 20 (20.41%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.04%) CSOC
3 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.02%) iPad
4 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (38.78%) Windows
2 36 (36.73%) Windows Server
3 35 (35.71%) Linux
4 34 (34.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 34 (34.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.96%) DevOps
2 39 (39.80%) ITIL
3 23 (23.47%) Agile
3 23 (23.47%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (23.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (21.43%) Analytics
4 21 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 21 (21.43%) Identity Management
4 21 (21.43%) Log Analytics
4 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.43%) RBAC
4 21 (21.43%) Release Management
4 21 (21.43%) Service Management
5 20 (20.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 20 (20.41%) Privileged Identity Management
6 16 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
6 16 (16.33%) Project Management
7 15 (15.31%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (15.31%) Security Architecture
8 14 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.73%) PowerShell
2 21 (21.43%) Bicep
3 20 (20.41%) C#
3 20 (20.41%) VB
3 20 (20.41%) VBScript
4 3 (3.06%) SQL
5 1 (1.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 69 (70.41%) Security Cleared
2 65 (66.33%) DV Cleared
3 38 (38.78%) Degree
4 36 (36.73%) SC Cleared
5 20 (20.41%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (20.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 19 (19.39%) CCNA
6 19 (19.39%) CCNP
7 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.04%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.04%) JNCIS
9 1 (1.02%) CCIE
9 1 (1.02%) HP ASE
9 1 (1.02%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.02%) NCSC
2 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 38 (38.78%) Active Directory
2 20 (20.41%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (20.41%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (15.31%) Hyper-V
5 14 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.04%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 34 (34.69%) SCCM
1 34 (34.69%) SCOM
1 34 (34.69%) WSUS
2 21 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 20 (20.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (14.29%) NetBackup
4 14 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.06%) Terraform
6 2 (2.04%) Ansible
6 2 (2.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (2.04%) Nessus
6 2 (2.04%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (1.02%) Grafana
7 1 (1.02%) Graylog
7 1 (1.02%) Nagios
7 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (42.86%) Cisco
2 40 (40.82%) Microsoft
3 36 (36.73%) Juniper
4 20 (20.41%) Palo Alto
5 17 (17.35%) Oracle
5 17 (17.35%) VMware
6 14 (14.29%) 3PAR
6 14 (14.29%) Dell
6 14 (14.29%) EMC
6 14 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (14.29%) HP
6 14 (14.29%) Symantec
6 14 (14.29%) Veeam
7 4 (4.08%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.06%) Aruba
8 3 (3.06%) Informatica
8 3 (3.06%) Splunk
9 2 (2.04%) F5
9 2 (2.04%) McAfee
9 2 (2.04%) Zscaler