Firewall Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 46 41
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 15 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.48% 0.66% 1.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.23% 4.17% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £485 £331 £364
25th Percentile £545 £393 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £405
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +29.63% -22.12%
75th Percentile £706 £678 £463
90th Percentile £738 £751 £530
East of England median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -
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 £21.63 £72.50
% change year-on-year +38.73% -70.17% +38.10%

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 78 72 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.28% 15.93% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 57
10th Percentile £250 £215 £226
25th Percentile £371 £250 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £494
90th Percentile £700 - £575
East of England median daily rate £520 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +30.00% -15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 11
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.87 £16.30 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +1.88% +3.23%
75th Percentile £31.00 £21.37 £25.11
90th Percentile £68.25 £21.46 £34.50
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 £21.46 £65.00
% change year-on-year +188.91% -66.98% +306.63%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Cambridgeshire

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 26 July 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 +6 8 £550 +4.76% 14
Peterborough - 2 - -
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 8
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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
1 4 (26.67%) VSAN
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) PuTTY
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Wireless
3 2 (13.33%) WLAN
4 1 (6.67%) SNA
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Security Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (6.67%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Task Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 6 (40.00%) Case Management
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (40.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (40.00%) Data Enrichment
2 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 6 (40.00%) SIEM
2 6 (40.00%) SOAR
2 6 (40.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 6 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) PowerShell
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) VCAP
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 5 (33.33%) VxRail
4 4 (26.67%) PowerCLI
4 4 (26.67%) vCenter Server
5 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.67%) Puppet
5 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Dell
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 5 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Google
3 4 (26.67%) Splunk
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Peregrine
5 2 (13.33%) Remedy
5 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.67%) Clearswift
6 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm
6 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow