Firewall Contract Job Trends in Durham

Firewall
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 1.64% 2.27% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 10.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £300
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +83.33% -
75th Percentile £550 - £325
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £625 £500 £300
% change year-on-year +25.00% +66.67% -5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 13.11% 22.73% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £263 - £318
25th Percentile £356 £153 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £225 £500
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -55.00% -
75th Percentile £430 £307 £606
90th Percentile £502 £336 £663
North East median daily rate £475 £340 £450
% change year-on-year +39.71% -24.44% +58.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £43.00
75th Percentile £24.29 - £46.00
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £24.74 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +171.43%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Durham

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Durham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DMZ
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler