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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 26 42
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 16 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.07% 4.58% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.53% 23.88% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - £430 £340
25th Percentile £525 £443 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - +17.95%
75th Percentile £535 £725 £600
90th Percentile - £789 £608
East of England median daily rate £530 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +5.74% -4.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +116.67% +50.00% -72.41%

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 38 67 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 10.19% 19.20% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 15
10th Percentile £334 £280 £262
25th Percentile £436 £363 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -16.28% +13.16%
75th Percentile £535 £625 £588
90th Percentile £635 £715 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.12 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% - -5.48%
75th Percentile £19.34 £31.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £30.22 £70.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £44.28
% change year-on-year +5.69% +38.89% -31.88%

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
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 13 September 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 -8 2 £530 -4.07% 2
Peterborough +9 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) F5