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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 17 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.84% 0.92% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.37% 7.55% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £423 £340 -
25th Percentile £443 £414 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £736 £600 £575
90th Percentile £800 £608 -
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.39% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -72.41% +237.21%

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 67 53 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.09% 12.21% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 50
10th Percentile £273 £262 £225
25th Percentile £363 £326 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £517
90th Percentile £718 - £575
East of England median daily rate £523 £406 £450
% change year-on-year +28.62% -9.72% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 12
10th Percentile - - £15.26
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.46
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year - -9.99% +16.84%
75th Percentile £31.31 £21.37 £33.71
90th Percentile £71.25 - £34.95
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.71% -25.29% +30.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Cambridge +7 10 £575 - 6
Peterborough - 2 - - 3
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 5
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
1 6 (35.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (23.53%) DHCP
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
1 4 (23.53%) WAN
1 4 (23.53%) Wireless
2 2 (11.76%) 802.11
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) PuTTY
2 2 (11.76%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (11.76%) WLAN
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Security Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.88%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.88%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) CentOS
3 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) SIEM
2 7 (41.18%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (35.29%) Case Management
3 6 (35.29%) Cloud Security
3 6 (35.29%) Cyber Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Data Enrichment
3 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
3 6 (35.29%) Migration
3 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
3 6 (35.29%) SOAR
3 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
3 6 (35.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 6 (35.29%) Threat Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (11.76%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) DV Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) CCNP
4 2 (11.76%) CCIE
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
4 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (52.94%) Palo Alto
3 7 (41.18%) Cisco
4 4 (23.53%) Google
4 4 (23.53%) Splunk
5 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 2 (11.76%) Clearswift
6 2 (11.76%) Dell
6 2 (11.76%) Intel
6 2 (11.76%) Meraki
6 2 (11.76%) Peregrine
6 2 (11.76%) Remedy
7 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds