Firewall Contracts in the East Midlands

Firewall
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 41 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing Firewall 26 26 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.50% 3.39% 6.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.14% 26.80% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 52
10th Percentile £427 - £313
25th Percentile £430 £313 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £495 £540
Median % change year-on-year +14.65% -8.33% +44.00%
75th Percentile £644 £606 £690
90th Percentile £651 £643 £715
England median daily rate £513 £508 £530
% change year-on-year +0.99% -4.25% +5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.85
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £19.88
75th Percentile - - £21.38
90th Percentile - - £21.91
England median hourly rate £14.73 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -75.46% -3.23% +39.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 97 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.80% 12.65% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 63 119
10th Percentile £200 £188 £227
25th Percentile £230 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £627
90th Percentile £630 £645 £700
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 8
10th Percentile - £12.47 £14.75
25th Percentile - £12.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -33.57% +14.39%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £40.25
90th Percentile £21.98 - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Leicestershire +8 11 £618 +2.92% 13
Northamptonshire -2 7 £550 +4.02% 10
Nottinghamshire +4 5 £438 +34.62% 18
Derbyshire +7 3 - - 17
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) DNS
2 6 (23.08%) DHCP
2 6 (23.08%) OSPF
3 5 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 5 (19.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (19.23%) IPsec
3 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (15.38%) BGP
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (15.38%) HSRP
4 4 (15.38%) VLAN
5 3 (11.54%) Network Security
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (7.69%) VPN
6 2 (7.69%) Wireless
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
7 1 (3.85%) WAN
General
1 3 (11.54%) Law
1 3 (11.54%) Legal
1 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Network Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Information Assurance Manager
3 3 (11.54%) Information Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Network Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Network Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Project Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Industry 4.0
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) CentOS
2 1 (3.85%) Rocky
2 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
2 4 (15.38%) Migration
3 3 (11.54%) Biometrics
3 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (11.54%) Information Assurance
3 3 (11.54%) Information Security
3 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
3 3 (11.54%) Use Case
4 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (7.69%) Network Architecture
4 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (3.85%) Agile
5 1 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement Process
5 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL
5 1 (3.85%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (3.85%) Project Management
5 1 (3.85%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (42.31%) CCNP
3 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
4 6 (23.08%) CCNA
5 3 (11.54%) CCIE
5 3 (11.54%) CISA
5 3 (11.54%) CISM
5 3 (11.54%) CISSP
5 3 (11.54%) Degree
5 3 (11.54%) GIAC
6 2 (7.69%) CCIE Wireless
7 1 (3.85%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
1 3 (11.54%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Cisco
2 9 (34.62%) F5
2 9 (34.62%) SolarWinds
3 5 (19.23%) CheckPoint
3 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
3 5 (19.23%) Juniper
4 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft