Firewall Contracts in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 42 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 10 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.13% 1.91% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.83% 20.59% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 13
10th Percentile £230 £209 £363
25th Percentile £335 £217 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £259 £550
Median % change year-on-year +44.93% -52.95% +29.41%
75th Percentile £388 £383 -
90th Percentile £475 £400 £570
England median daily rate £508 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -4.25% +6.00% +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 48 34 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 15.00% 9.26% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 47
10th Percentile £301 £134 £170
25th Percentile £363 £205 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £280 £450
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -37.78% +16.13%
75th Percentile £569 £466 £575
90th Percentile £646 £665 £700
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £29.80 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.90
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Tyne and Wear +17 10 £375 +30.43% 3
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (20.00%) AMQP
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) MQTT
2 2 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DMZ
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Modbus
3 1 (10.00%) SMTP
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Server Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Build Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
1 2 (20.00%) XML
1 2 (20.00%) XSLT
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (30.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) CRUD
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) Server Building
4 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CCNA
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (20.00%) JNCIA
1 2 (20.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (10.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (10.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
1 5 (50.00%) Juniper
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
3 1 (10.00%) Symantec
3 1 (10.00%) VMware