Firewall Contracts in the East of England

Firewall
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 55 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 41 58 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.37% 3.04% 4.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.64% 19.59% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 38 55
10th Percentile £325 £221 £223
25th Percentile £395 £366 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £578
90th Percentile £635 £600 £700
England median daily rate £518 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.30% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £14.54 £14.21
25th Percentile £71.25 £14.59 £14.53
Median hourly rate £72.50 £15.38 £15.57
Median % change year-on-year +371.54% -1.22% -70.35%
75th Percentile £73.75 £16.34 £16.10
90th Percentile - £16.51 £16.12
England median hourly rate £14.20 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -76.33% -3.23% +117.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the East of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the East of England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire +31 17 £550 +37.50% 46
Cambridgeshire +22 16 £530 +103.85% 28
Essex +2 5 £330 -38.20% 8
Bedfordshire -6 2 £425 -22.73% 20
Suffolk -16 1 £300 -36.84% 5
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) IIS
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
1 6 (14.63%) GitHub
2 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Cloudflare
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) IaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) VPN
1 10 (24.39%) WAN
2 8 (19.51%) Network Security
2 8 (19.51%) TCP/IP
3 7 (17.07%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (17.07%) DNS
3 7 (17.07%) LAN
4 5 (12.20%) DHCP
4 5 (12.20%) SD-WAN
4 5 (12.20%) WLAN
5 4 (9.76%) VSAN
6 3 (7.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (7.32%) OSPF
7 2 (4.88%) BGP
7 2 (4.88%) IP Telephony
7 2 (4.88%) VoIP
7 2 (4.88%) Wireless
8 1 (2.44%) BGP-4
8 1 (2.44%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.44%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
1 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Network Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Architect
3 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Field Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Network Field Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Network Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.44%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Data Centre
1 7 (17.07%) Operational Technology
2 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Apple iOS
2 6 (14.63%) Linux
3 5 (12.20%) Windows
4 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Agile
2 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.07%) Coaching
3 7 (17.07%) Computer Security
3 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
3 7 (17.07%) Software Testing
3 7 (17.07%) Validation
3 7 (17.07%) Zero Trust
4 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (12.20%) Network Management
6 4 (9.76%) Change Management
6 4 (9.76%) Cloud Security
6 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (9.76%) Migration
6 4 (9.76%) Network Architecture
6 4 (9.76%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (9.76%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (9.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
1 7 (17.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) CCNA
4 3 (7.32%) CCNP
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.32%) VCAP
4 3 (7.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIE
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIS
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) GxP
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.95%) VMware NSX
3 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (12.20%) vSphere
5 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Ansible
1 6 (14.63%) FortiGate
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) VxRail
3 4 (9.76%) PowerCLI
3 4 (9.76%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Cisco
2 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
3 12 (29.27%) VMware
4 8 (19.51%) ServiceNow
5 6 (14.63%) Palo Alto
6 5 (12.20%) CheckPoint
6 5 (12.20%) Dell
7 3 (7.32%) Splunk
8 2 (4.88%) F5
8 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.88%) Google
8 2 (4.88%) HP
8 2 (4.88%) Juniper
8 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.44%) Aruba
9 1 (2.44%) LogRhythm