Firewall Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Firewall
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 1.77% 8.54% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 51.85% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £192 £306 £258
25th Percentile £243 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +7.14% -48.15%
75th Percentile £418 £453 -
90th Percentile £467 £488 -
East Midlands median daily rate £492 £490 £503
% change year-on-year +0.51% -2.59% +11.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 27 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 11.50% 16.46% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 10
10th Percentile £146 £306 £291
25th Percentile £161 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £171 £539 £350
Median % change year-on-year -68.26% +53.93% -5.53%
75th Percentile £418 £588 £461
90th Percentile £575 £600 £508
East Midlands median daily rate £429 £500 £459
% change year-on-year -14.20% +8.94% +7.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.38 £52.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.77 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -51.39% -11.67%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.99 £13.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +65.57% -33.88% +3.70%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Derbyshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Derbyshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Derby -6 1 £165 -56.00% 3
Buxton - 1 £500 -
Firewall
East Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) PSTN
2 1 (50.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Openreach Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Openreach
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto