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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 28 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 20 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.15% 4.70% 1.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 45.45% 25.45% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 2
10th Percentile - £496 £251
25th Percentile £356 £500 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £575 £255
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +125.49% -53.64%
75th Percentile £567 £609 £261
90th Percentile £609 £751 £264
East of England median daily rate £460 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -12.38% +10.53% -13.64%

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 44 55 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.34% 18.46% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 25
10th Percentile £202 £415 £210
25th Percentile £356 £463 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £338
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +40.74% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £475
90th Percentile £618 £663 £569
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -13.16% +10.47% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 22
10th Percentile - £15.08 £15.33
25th Percentile - £15.44 £16.41
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £20.69
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +3.75% +33.45%
75th Percentile £34.81 - £63.25
90th Percentile £68.68 £22.85 £63.75
East of England median hourly rate £23.00 £24.66 £62.50
% change year-on-year -6.73% -60.54% +14.16%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -5 13 £475 -17.39% 10
Huntingdon -2 5 £363 -39.58% 2
Peterborough - 1 £190 - 4
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 5 (25.00%) Apache
1 5 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Mimecast
2 3 (15.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) VPN
3 4 (20.00%) DHCP
3 4 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
4 3 (15.00%) Wireless
5 2 (10.00%) 802.11
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (10.00%) LAN
5 2 (10.00%) Network Security
5 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.00%) NX-OS
6 1 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (5.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Switch Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Network Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Network Support
5 2 (10.00%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.00%) JWT
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) CentOS
4 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 5 (25.00%) Server Building
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 2 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (10.00%) Case Management
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Cyber Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (10.00%) Security Management
5 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CCIE
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Istio
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (60.00%) Cisco
3 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (15.00%) Dell
5 3 (15.00%) Meraki
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.00%) Google
6 2 (10.00%) Intel
6 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (10.00%) Splunk
7 1 (5.00%) Clearswift
7 1 (5.00%) CloudEndure
7 1 (5.00%) Veeam