Firewall Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 31
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 4.23% 9.09% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.91% 60.00% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £217 £209 -
25th Percentile - £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £325
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +61.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £511 £568 £406
90th Percentile £730 £581 £448
East of England median daily rate £483 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.27% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.00% -72.41% +326.47%

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 22 25 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.33% 15.15% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 20
10th Percentile £61 £187 £311
25th Percentile £95 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £511 £545 £500
90th Percentile £643 £580 £553
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £49.16 £29.20 -
25th Percentile £60.73 £29.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -42.86% +237.40%
75th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £100.40 £46.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £55.50 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +58.57% -46.15% +3.59%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Bedfordshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Firewall

Firewall
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 15 December 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
Luton -11 5 £400 -27.93% 5
Leighton Buzzard - 3 - -
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Games
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Advisor
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
1 3 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 3 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CCIE
1 2 (22.22%) CCIE Security
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Salt
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Meraki
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Vertica