Firewall Contracts in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 20 54 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.02% 3.70% 3.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.28% 51.43% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 48
10th Percentile £313 £315 £321
25th Percentile £434 £331 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +3.90% +15.96%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £588
90th Percentile £621 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £508 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.50% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -26.50%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.87 £37.75 £17.64
% change year-on-year -34.12% +114.00% -26.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 105 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.49% 7.19% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 85 135
10th Percentile £269 £274 £175
25th Percentile £380 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £588
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +0.79% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% +0.80%
75th Percentile £14.25 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £16.66 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +71.87% -39.74% +0.80%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Leeds -3 18 £508 -0.49% 14
Halifax +5 1 £525 -
Bradford -1 1 £483 +42.96% 3
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 7 (35.00%) Akamai
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) LAN
1 5 (25.00%) Wireshark
2 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (20.00%) Internet
2 4 (20.00%) SAN
2 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (10.00%) IPv4
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) PBX
4 1 (5.00%) Softswitch
4 1 (5.00%) VoIP
4 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 4 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) IT Support
3 4 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) OWASP
1 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (25.00%) RAD
1 5 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) Email Filtering
2 4 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (10.00%) Agile
3 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (10.00%) Observability
3 2 (10.00%) Release Automation
3 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.00%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) CCDA
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCSA
4 1 (5.00%) CCSE
4 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.00%) JNCIA
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) F5
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) AlgoSec
3 1 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Imperva
3 1 (5.00%) Juniper
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Ribbon
3 1 (5.00%) Zscaler