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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 18 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.65% 1.68% 2.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 14.29% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £356 £548 £251
25th Percentile £443 £563 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £260
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +130.77% -50.48%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £420
90th Percentile £735 £703 £513
East of England median daily rate £483 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.27% +15.79% -

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 54 42 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 13.95% 11.76% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 16 33
10th Percentile £376 £265 £246
25th Percentile £406 £503 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £553
90th Percentile £690 £656 £585
East of England median daily rate £419 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -11.84% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 14
10th Percentile - £21.32 £15.38
25th Percentile £16.00 - £16.99
Median hourly rate £40.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.72% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £73.13 £22.25 £34.24
90th Percentile £81.25 £31.40 £54.25
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £44.28 £65.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -31.88% +1.56%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +3 14 £525 -10.64% 7
Huntingdon -2 2 £363 -50.00% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
3 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
1 5 (27.78%) VPN
2 3 (16.67%) DHCP
2 3 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) 802.11
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security
3 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) VLAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Security Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.56%) JWT
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) SIEM
2 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (27.78%) Case Management
3 5 (27.78%) Cloud Security
3 5 (27.78%) Cyber Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Data Enrichment
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) SOAR
3 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
3 5 (27.78%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 5 (27.78%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) CCIE
4 2 (11.11%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.56%) SANS
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Istio
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Google
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Dell
6 2 (11.11%) Intel
6 2 (11.11%) Meraki
6 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.56%) Clearswift
7 1 (5.56%) CloudEndure