Firewall Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Firewall
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Firewall 25 39 61
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 19.84% 20.21% 31.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 60.98% 52.00% 65.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 53
10th Percentile £410 £404 £483
25th Percentile £447 £426 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -21.15% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £627
90th Percentile £561 £568 £629
North West median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +17.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 75 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 32.54% 38.86% 48.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 30 81
10th Percentile £420 £399 £486
25th Percentile £500 £430 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £499 £615
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -18.90% +53.75%
75th Percentile £555 £585 £640
90th Percentile £651 £674 £672
North West median daily rate £457 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.84% -5.00% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £17.72
% change year-on-year -58.81% +174.04% -10.87%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cumbria over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Barrow-in-Furness -1 22 £519 +14.08% 5
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 4 (16.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) WAN
1 14 (56.00%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (52.00%) NetScaler
3 12 (48.00%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (16.00%) 3GPP
4 4 (16.00%) 4G
4 4 (16.00%) 5G
4 4 (16.00%) BGP
4 4 (16.00%) DHCP
4 4 (16.00%) DNS
4 4 (16.00%) IPsec
4 4 (16.00%) MPLS
4 4 (16.00%) OSPF
4 4 (16.00%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (16.00%) SNMP
4 4 (16.00%) VLAN
4 4 (16.00%) VPN
4 4 (16.00%) Wireshark
5 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Designer
3 4 (16.00%) Network Designer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 14 (56.00%) Network Architecture
3 13 (52.00%) Impact Assessments
4 11 (44.00%) Network Design
4 11 (44.00%) Network Management
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (16.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (16.00%) Server Building
6 3 (12.00%) User Experience
7 1 (4.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (4.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Bash
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (76.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 4 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Cisco
2 13 (52.00%) Meraki
2 13 (52.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (16.00%) Dell
3 4 (16.00%) Juniper
3 4 (16.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk