Firewall Contracts in the West Midlands

Firewall
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 31 32 88
Rank change year-on-year +1 +56 -30
Contract jobs citing Firewall 92 140 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.87% 6.19% 2.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.34% 39.22% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 91 63
10th Percentile £200 £263 £182
25th Percentile £295 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £633 £622 £588
90th Percentile £775 £700 £695
England median daily rate £508 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -5.14% +7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £20.00
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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 363 357 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.21% 15.78% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 216 263
10th Percentile £200 £263 £163
25th Percentile £303 £361 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +24.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £525
90th Percentile £695 £700 £625
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 8 16
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.82
25th Percentile £13.50 £14.38 £13.22
Median hourly rate £19.95 £19.60 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +15.31% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £23.68 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £28.25 £20.51
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham +13 49 £475 - 27
Solihull -6 16 £275 -47.12% 1
Warwickshire 0 14 £625 -1.96% 11
Coventry -9 5 £356 -10.94% 2
Staffordshire -2 1 £275 - 16
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England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) IIS
2 2 (2.17%) WordPress
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.74%) Azure
2 12 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.26%) AWS
3 3 (3.26%) IaaS
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.17%) PaaS
5 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.83%) VPN
2 17 (18.48%) WAN
3 16 (17.39%) LAN
4 13 (14.13%) DNS
5 12 (13.04%) Network Security
6 10 (10.87%) VoIP
7 9 (9.78%) SD-WAN
8 8 (8.70%) DHCP
8 8 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (7.61%) SAN
10 6 (6.52%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (6.52%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (6.52%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (6.52%) Internet
11 5 (5.43%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (5.43%) MPLS
11 5 (5.43%) PBX
11 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
11 5 (5.43%) WLAN
12 4 (4.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 15 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Legal
2 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Law
6 2 (2.17%) German Language
6 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Advertising
7 1 (1.09%) Back Office
7 1 (1.09%) Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Finance
7 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Analyst
2 19 (20.65%) SOC Analyst
3 17 (18.48%) 1st Line Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) Network Engineer
4 9 (9.78%) Architect
5 6 (6.52%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.43%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) 1st/2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (2.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Test Environment Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Web Services
2 2 (2.17%) JSON
2 2 (2.17%) LAMP
2 2 (2.17%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.17%) YAML
3 1 (1.09%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.09%) OLE
3 1 (1.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) PKI
1 17 (18.48%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.61%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) Clustering
3 3 (3.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (3.26%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.17%) Replication
4 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.09%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Linux
1 14 (15.22%) Windows
2 10 (10.87%) Mac OS X
2 10 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (7.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (5.43%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.26%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.26%) VMS
7 2 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.65%) Cybersecurity
1 19 (20.65%) SIEM
2 18 (19.57%) Incident Management
3 17 (18.48%) Impact Assessments
4 14 (15.22%) Project Delivery
5 13 (14.13%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 11 (11.96%) Malware Reverse Engineering
6 11 (11.96%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (11.96%) Risk Management
6 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (11.96%) Vulnerability Management
7 10 (10.87%) Computer Forensics
7 10 (10.87%) Purple Team
7 10 (10.87%) Security Operations
7 10 (10.87%) Threat Analysis
8 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (8.70%) Agile
9 8 (8.70%) ITIL
9 8 (8.70%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.61%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.26%) SQL
3 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (11.96%) Degree
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.52%) CCNA
7 5 (5.43%) CCIE
7 5 (5.43%) CCIE Data Center
7 5 (5.43%) CCNP
8 4 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.26%) CISSP
9 3 (3.26%) GIAC
10 2 (2.17%) BC Cleared
10 2 (2.17%) CASP
10 2 (2.17%) GCED
10 2 (2.17%) GSEC
10 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.09%) CEH
11 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) NIST
2 11 (11.96%) GDPR
2 11 (11.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (10.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (10.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.17%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.09%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (6.52%) SCCM
2 5 (5.43%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.43%) Terraform
3 3 (3.26%) Ansible
3 3 (3.26%) Autotask
3 3 (3.26%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.09%) Kibana
4 1 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Cisco
2 17 (18.48%) CA
3 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
4 11 (11.96%) Palo Alto
5 10 (10.87%) CheckPoint
5 10 (10.87%) VMware
6 9 (9.78%) F5
7 7 (7.61%) Aruba
7 7 (7.61%) Juniper
8 6 (6.52%) Zscaler
9 5 (5.43%) Infoblox
9 5 (5.43%) Symantec
10 3 (3.26%) Apple
10 3 (3.26%) Datto
10 3 (3.26%) LogRhythm
10 3 (3.26%) McAfee
10 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.26%) TippingPoint
11 2 (2.17%) Synology
11 2 (2.17%) Zerto