Firewall Contract Job Trends in Devon

Firewall
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Firewall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 25
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 1.27% 4.44% 2.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.00% 52.63% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £249 £410 £399
25th Percentile £284 £423 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.27% -14.58% +41.18%
75th Percentile £434 £575 £647
90th Percentile £466 - £731
South West median daily rate £485 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.11% - +1.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 19 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 3.18% 8.44% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £237 £383 £176
25th Percentile £255 £423 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -43.69% -14.17% +60.00%
75th Percentile £391 £575 -
90th Percentile £449 £600 £675
South West median daily rate £473 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.53%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Devon

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Devon over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Devon

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Devon region over the 6 months to 19 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
Exeter +6 1 £250 -40.48% 3
Plymouth -5 1 £475 -
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware