Firewall Contracts in Cambridge

Firewall
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 12 29 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.02% 1.55% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.10% 15.00% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile - £295 £361
25th Percentile £500 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £376
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +32.89% -27.64%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £388
90th Percentile £630 £745 £391
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 £260 £385
% change year-on-year +103.85% -32.47% -25.96%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 20 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 18.42% 10.31% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 31
10th Percentile £378 £203 £275
25th Percentile £415 £235 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £475 £494
90th Percentile £618 £538 £535
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £474 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.44% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.77
25th Percentile - £86.25 £16.95
Median hourly rate £23.00 £87.50 £33.74
Median % change year-on-year -73.71% +159.37% +92.77%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £53.44
90th Percentile - - £53.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £18.84 £15.50
% change year-on-year -18.02% +21.52% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Cloudflare
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) VSAN
4 1 (12.50%) SNA
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Zero Trust
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) SOAR
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) VCAP
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware NSX
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
1 3 (37.50%) VxRail
2 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
2 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dell
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) LogRhythm
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk