Firewall Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Firewall
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bracknell requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 2.91% - 3.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% - 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £638 - £538
90th Percentile - - £598
Berkshire median daily rate £496 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +16.71% -22.73% -5.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 14 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 10.68% 18.42% 28.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 21
10th Percentile £264 £419 £250
25th Percentile £350 £456 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% +23.05%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £519
90th Percentile £598 £616 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -15.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Bracknell

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Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Firewall

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSM
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VCDX
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto