Firewall Architect Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Firewall Architect
North West > Cheshire

The median Firewall Architect daily rate in Cheshire is £648, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £640 - -
25th Percentile £642 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £653 - -
North West median daily rate £648 - £850

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 700 534 478
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.97% 89.75% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 396 329
10th Percentile £312 £270 £299
25th Percentile £408 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £430 £465
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% -7.53% -7.00%
75th Percentile £588 £520 £575
90th Percentile £650 £644 £632
North West median daily rate £495 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.83% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 26 28
10th Percentile £15.62 £12.82 £12.74
25th Percentile £17.25 £25.49 £13.87
Median hourly rate £32.23 £31.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +77.74% -39.44%
75th Percentile £83.75 £39.30 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £50.00 £44.88
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £31.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -13.10% +18.87%

Firewall Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Firewall Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Firewall Architect job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Firewall Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Architect job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Architect job vacancies in Cheshire

Firewall Architect
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Architect within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Knutsford - 2 £648 -
Firewall Architect
North West

Firewall Architect Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 25 July 2026, Firewall Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Firewall Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust

Firewall Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft