Firewall Contracts in Wiltshire

Firewall
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 77 52 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.93% 4.86% 3.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.05% 29.38% 27.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 46 23
10th Percentile £461 £463 £305
25th Percentile £463 £603 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £668 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% +66.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £707 £556
90th Percentile £651 £719 £613
South West median daily rate £498 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -0.50% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £21.25 £52.00
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.33% -
75th Percentile - £23.75 £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £46.39 £62.89 £54.00
% change year-on-year -26.24% +16.46% +35.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 233 177 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 24.00% 16.53% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 146 78
10th Percentile £441 £414 £313
25th Percentile £463 £506 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £518
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +15.83% +21.88%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £584
90th Percentile £699 £750 £638
South West median daily rate £538 £523 £450
% change year-on-year +2.87% +16.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 10
10th Percentile - £56.13 £52.00
25th Percentile £68.00 £60.38 £52.75
Median hourly rate £71.00 £69.00 £65.80
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +4.86% +31.60%
75th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £69.39
90th Percentile - £90.00 £76.15
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £9.80 £50.77
% change year-on-year +308.16% -80.70% +23.83%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Wiltshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Corsham +9 54 £495 -27.87% 8
Swindon +17 11 £450 +125.00% 3
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 31 (40.26%) SharePoint
2 29 (37.66%) Confluence
2 29 (37.66%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.86%) Azure
2 28 (36.36%) Azure Stack
3 2 (2.60%) AWS
3 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.60%) OCI
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (44.16%) BGP
2 8 (10.39%) Network Security
3 6 (7.79%) SD-WAN
3 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.49%) LAN
4 5 (6.49%) VLAN
4 5 (6.49%) WAN
5 4 (5.19%) DNS
6 3 (3.90%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (3.90%) PBX
7 2 (2.60%) DHCP
7 2 (2.60%) Skype
7 2 (2.60%) SMTP
7 2 (2.60%) VPN
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.30%) MPLS
8 1 (1.30%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 29 (37.66%) JIRA
General
1 38 (49.35%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Finance
6 2 (2.60%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.30%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (38.96%) Network Engineer
2 15 (19.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Engineer
4 13 (16.88%) Analyst
5 12 (15.58%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Service Analyst
8 5 (6.49%) Service Management Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Field Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Network Field Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) VMware Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Network Security Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Oracle Architect
11 2 (2.60%) Security Architect
11 2 (2.60%) Service Desk Engineer
11 2 (2.60%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) OAuth
1 1 (1.30%) OpenID
1 1 (1.30%) REST
1 1 (1.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (61.04%) Private Cloud
2 26 (33.77%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.79%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.19%) PKI
5 2 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 33 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (6.49%) Linux
3 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) ITIL
1 31 (40.26%) Service Management
2 30 (38.96%) Network Management
3 28 (36.36%) Capacity Management
3 28 (36.36%) Security Monitoring
4 27 (35.06%) ITSM
5 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (23.38%) Resource Management
9 17 (22.08%) Penetration Testing
9 17 (22.08%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 15 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 11 (14.29%) Backlog Management
12 11 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
13 7 (9.09%) Migration
14 4 (5.19%) Agile
14 4 (5.19%) Change Management
14 4 (5.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.60%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.60%) Search Processing Language
1 2 (2.60%) SQL
2 1 (1.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 61 (79.22%) Security Cleared
2 36 (46.75%) DV Cleared
3 26 (33.77%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CCNA
6 1 (1.30%) CCNP
6 1 (1.30%) CCSP
6 1 (1.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (37.66%) Government Security Classifications
2 4 (5.19%) SLA
3 3 (3.90%) GDPR
3 3 (3.90%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) GRC
4 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (23.38%) vSphere
3 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.90%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (25.97%) SCOM
2 13 (16.88%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (2.60%) OPNET
3 2 (2.60%) SCCM
3 2 (2.60%) VxRail
4 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 36 (46.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (38.96%) VMware
3 29 (37.66%) Atlassian
4 10 (12.99%) Cisco
5 4 (5.19%) F5
6 3 (3.90%) Dell
6 3 (3.90%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.90%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.90%) Splunk
7 2 (2.60%) Oracle
7 2 (2.60%) Remedy
7 2 (2.60%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.30%) Google
8 1 (1.30%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.30%) SAP