Firewall Contracts in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 53 42 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 52 91 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.12% 4.10% 3.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.96% 41.74% 31.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 65 77
10th Percentile £252 £284 £299
25th Percentile £275 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +10.50% +6.47%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £545
90th Percentile £646 £683 £638
England median daily rate £508 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -5.14% +7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.92 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £24.87 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +84.24% -44.88%
75th Percentile £25.83 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 186 218 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.16% 9.82% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 141 230
10th Percentile £200 £165 £185
25th Percentile £313 £300 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £542
90th Percentile £634 £700 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 10
10th Percentile £12.75 - £15.84
25th Percentile £13.87 £9.80 £16.09
Median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +71.87% -39.74% +0.80%
75th Percentile £25.83 - £19.47
90th Percentile - - £22.77
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire 0 22 £500 +5.26% 25
South Yorkshire -18 14 £625 +16.28% 20
East Yorkshire - 4 £300 -
North Yorkshire -5 3 £205 -51.76% 11
Humberside - 3 £300 -
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (17.31%) Confluence
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.77%) Jupyter
3 3 (5.77%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (36.54%) Azure
2 14 (26.92%) AWS
3 13 (25.00%) GCP
4 10 (19.23%) GitHub
5 9 (17.31%) Kong
6 8 (15.38%) Cloudflare
6 8 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (13.46%) Akamai
8 6 (11.54%) Apigee
9 3 (5.77%) CloudBees
9 3 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.92%) IaaS
11 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.77%) VPN
2 15 (28.85%) DNS
3 14 (26.92%) LAN
4 9 (17.31%) HTTP
4 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
5 8 (15.38%) WAN
6 6 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (9.62%) Internet
7 5 (9.62%) SAN
7 5 (9.62%) Wireshark
8 4 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (7.69%) WLAN
9 3 (5.77%) BIG-IP
9 3 (5.77%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (5.77%) SSL
10 2 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (3.85%) DHCP
10 2 (3.85%) IPv4
10 2 (3.85%) Network Security
10 2 (3.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (5.77%) ClickHouse
2 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.15%) JIRA
3 10 (19.23%) GitLab
4 9 (17.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (17.31%) CircleCI
4 9 (17.31%) Git
4 9 (17.31%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.92%) Maven
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Retail
4 2 (3.85%) Finance
5 1 (1.92%) Back Office
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) IT Support
2 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 7 (13.46%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (13.46%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Network Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Security Architect
5 5 (9.62%) IT Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Field Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Network Field Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Network Technician
6 4 (7.69%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) JSON
2 9 (17.31%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (17.31%) XML
2 9 (17.31%) YAML
3 3 (5.77%) Apache Beam
3 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 3 (5.77%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth
4 1 (1.92%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.69%) NHS
4 3 (5.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.92%) LIMS
5 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Windows
2 13 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (30.77%) DevOps
3 14 (26.92%) Agile
3 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 12 (23.08%) Customer Service
6 10 (19.23%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (19.23%) Scrum
6 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (17.31%) API Integration
7 9 (17.31%) Continuous Deployment
7 9 (17.31%) DevSecOps
7 9 (17.31%) Project Management
7 9 (17.31%) Secure Coding
7 9 (17.31%) Task Automation
7 9 (17.31%) Use Case
7 9 (17.31%) Workflow
8 7 (13.46%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Python
2 11 (21.15%) Bash
3 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.69%) ActionScript
4 4 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.77%) Go
5 3 (5.77%) Groovy
5 3 (5.77%) Ruby
5 3 (5.77%) Scala
6 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (11.54%) CCNA
3 4 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (5.77%) CCNP
5 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.92%) CCDA
6 1 (1.92%) CCIE
6 1 (1.92%) CCSA
6 1 (1.92%) CCSE
6 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.92%) Degree
6 1 (1.92%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (28.85%) Docker
2 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.92%) vSphere
5 1 (1.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Terraform
2 14 (26.92%) Ansible
3 12 (23.08%) Grafana
4 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
4 10 (19.23%) Progress Chef
4 10 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 10 (19.23%) Puppet
5 9 (17.31%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (17.31%) Kibana
5 9 (17.31%) logstash
6 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.23%) F5
3 9 (17.31%) Splunk
4 7 (13.46%) Cisco
5 6 (11.54%) VMware
6 4 (7.69%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle
8 1 (1.92%) AlgoSec
8 1 (1.92%) Aruba
8 1 (1.92%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.92%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.92%) HP
8 1 (1.92%) Imperva
8 1 (1.92%) Juniper
8 1 (1.92%) NetApp
8 1 (1.92%) Ribbon
8 1 (1.92%) Sophos
8 1 (1.92%) Zscaler