Firewall Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Firewall
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 47 47
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 76 47 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.14% 3.59% 3.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.49% 22.93% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 22 31
10th Percentile £475 £318 £200
25th Percentile £503 £411 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -4.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £578
90th Percentile - £757 £613
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £44.75 - -
25th Percentile £64.38 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% +50.00% -72.41%
75th Percentile - £68.25 £24.66
90th Percentile - £90.60 £46.75
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +124.90% +9.09% -58.32%

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 338 205 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.95% 15.64% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 83 115
10th Percentile £313 £203 £202
25th Percentile £392 £363 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 61 58
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £15.66
25th Percentile £46.56 £28.41 £20.05
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% +6.34% -21.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £44.25 £39.66 £57.35
% change year-on-year +11.57% -30.85% +1.52%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the East of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firewall

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 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the East of England

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 26 September 2026. 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 -6 32 £600 +26.32% 22
Essex +7 24 £550 +69.23% 14
Suffolk -12 7 £505 -2.88% 4
Bedfordshire -5 6 £518 +7.25% 2
Cambridgeshire -11 4 £530 -13.47% 14
Norfolk - 3 £425 - 4
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.58%) Confluence
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) GCP
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.84%) Entra ID
5 8 (10.53%) AWS
6 5 (6.58%) Mimecast
7 4 (5.26%) SaaS
8 3 (3.95%) Serverless
8 3 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.63%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.63%) Datadog
9 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (35.53%) VPN
2 23 (30.26%) Network Security
3 19 (25.00%) DNS
4 14 (18.42%) WAN
4 14 (18.42%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (17.11%) LAN
6 11 (14.47%) TCP/IP
6 11 (14.47%) VLAN
7 8 (10.53%) BGP
7 8 (10.53%) DHCP
8 6 (7.89%) OSPF
8 6 (7.89%) SSL
9 5 (6.58%) NAS
9 5 (6.58%) SAN
9 5 (6.58%) Wireless
10 4 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (5.26%) HSRP
10 4 (5.26%) IP Telephony
10 4 (5.26%) Unified Communications
10 4 (5.26%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) JIRA
2 4 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) Snyk
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 11 (14.47%) Banking
3 11 (14.47%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Automotive
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber-Physical System
6 1 (1.32%) Electronics
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Network Engineer
1 13 (17.11%) Senior
1 13 (17.11%) Software Engineer
2 12 (15.79%) Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Java Engineer
3 11 (14.47%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Backend Developer
4 10 (13.16%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.16%) Software Developer
5 9 (11.84%) IAM Developer
5 9 (11.84%) Java Software Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (6.58%) Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Backup Specialist
8 5 (6.58%) IT Support
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 5 (6.58%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.95%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.63%) CSS
3 2 (2.63%) HTML
3 2 (2.63%) OAuth
3 2 (2.63%) React
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) LDAP
4 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.32%) OpenID
4 1 (1.32%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) SAML
4 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.58%) Replication
1 5 (6.58%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.63%) IoT
4 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) BYOD
5 1 (1.32%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) PMI
5 1 (1.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (36.84%) Windows
2 22 (28.95%) Windows Server
3 20 (26.32%) Linux
4 12 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.89%) CentOS
5 6 (7.89%) Rocky
6 5 (6.58%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.63%) Check Point GAiA
7 2 (2.63%) Unix
8 1 (1.32%) Android
8 1 (1.32%) VMS
8 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) DevOps
2 24 (31.58%) Load Balancing
3 21 (27.63%) Agile
4 20 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 20 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (19.74%) Identity Access Management
6 15 (19.74%) Identity Management
6 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
7 11 (14.47%) Web Development
8 9 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (11.84%) Migration
9 8 (10.53%) ITIL
10 7 (9.21%) Project Management
10 7 (9.21%) Service Delivery
10 7 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.89%) Project Delivery
11 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
12 5 (6.58%) Antivirus Management
12 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.74%) PowerShell
2 13 (17.11%) Java
3 5 (6.58%) Bash
3 5 (6.58%) Python
4 2 (2.63%) Groovy
4 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.32%) Bicep
5 1 (1.32%) C
5 1 (1.32%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (13.16%) CCNP
5 7 (9.21%) CCNA
5 7 (9.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.95%) CCSP
6 3 (3.95%) CISSP
6 3 (3.95%) Degree
7 2 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.63%) CISM
7 2 (2.63%) MCSE
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.32%) CRISC
8 1 (1.32%) CWNA
8 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.58%) GDPR
3 3 (3.95%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.32%) ISA99
5 1 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 17 (22.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (14.47%) vSphere
4 5 (6.58%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) Squid
7 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Ansible
2 6 (7.89%) NetBackup
3 4 (5.26%) Nagios
4 2 (2.63%) SCCM
4 2 (2.63%) SCOM
4 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.32%) Packer
5 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (23.68%) Microsoft
1 18 (23.68%) VMware
2 16 (21.05%) Cisco
3 10 (13.16%) NetApp
3 10 (13.16%) Veeam
4 8 (10.53%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.58%) Adobe
5 5 (6.58%) Meraki
5 5 (6.58%) Sophos
5 5 (6.58%) Synology
5 5 (6.58%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (5.26%) Remedy
6 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.95%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.95%) Forcepoint
7 3 (3.95%) Google
8 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.63%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.32%) CyberArk