Firewall Contracts in Bedfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 25 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 1.28% 4.07% 2.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 26.32% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £285 £363 £426
25th Percentile £338 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +12.82% +21.88%
75th Percentile £513 £574 £522
90th Percentile £565 £575 £539
East of England median daily rate £513 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% +2.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 38 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.69% 15.45% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 8
10th Percentile £235 £260 £144
25th Percentile £250 £300 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £305
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +14.75% -23.75%
75th Percentile - £519 £466
90th Percentile £570 £573 £651
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £28.36 - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +296.77% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £34.63 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 -
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Bedfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Dunstable +3 1 £250 -33.33%
Luton -3 1 £600 +7.62% 26
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) 802.11
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk