Firewall Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Firewall
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 5.06% 3.92% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% 28.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
Dorset median daily rate £300 £469 £456
% change year-on-year -36.00% +2.74% +4.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 5.06% 13.73% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £283 -
25th Percentile - £331 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £170
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +150.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile - £438 £204
90th Percentile - - £224
Dorset median daily rate £300 £444 £225
% change year-on-year -32.39% +97.22% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.33%
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median hourly rate - - £61.24
% change year-on-year - - +6.81%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Critical Thinking
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) F5