Firewall Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 26 53
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.52% 5.17% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.95% 20.24% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £355 £446 £331
25th Percentile £525 £530 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +29.63%
75th Percentile £540 £700 £678
90th Percentile £567 £734 £751
East of England median daily rate £525 £540 £490
% change year-on-year -2.78% +10.32% +3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £21.63
% change year-on-year +116.67% +38.73% -70.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 84 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.48% 25.53% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 35 19
10th Percentile £163 £280 £220
25th Percentile £463 £387 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £547
90th Percentile £675 £670 £588
East of England median daily rate £495 £490 £400
% change year-on-year +1.02% +22.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 45
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £17.12 £15.87 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -2.64% +5.16%
75th Percentile £19.06 £31.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £26.53 £68.25 £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £62.25 £24.48
% change year-on-year -0.80% +154.29% -62.34%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
Cambridge -1 7 £540 -1.82% 8
Peterborough +12 2 £190 - 2
Huntingdon -6 2 £540 +25.95% 1
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) 4G
3 2 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (22.22%) IPsec
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) Modbus
4 1 (11.11%) NX-OS
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Back Office
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
4 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Network Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) SCADA
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) Runbook
2 2 (22.22%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Data Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Rockwell
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 2 (22.22%) F5
3 2 (22.22%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Kepware
4 1 (11.11%) Meraki
4 1 (11.11%) Siemens
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam