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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 44 40
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 69 48 57
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.87% 3.60% 3.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.72% 22.75% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 23 34
10th Percentile £475 £323 £275
25th Percentile £503 £421 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.26% +19.44%
75th Percentile - £700 £581
90th Percentile £608 £766 £609
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £18.93 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £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 £31.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +114.98% +14.13% -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 333 211 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.86% 15.82% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 86 121
10th Percentile £313 £200 £213
25th Percentile £368 £363 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +30.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 64 53
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £16.30
25th Percentile £22.76 £16.30 £21.37
Median hourly rate £66.25 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% -18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.91 -
England median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +10.63% -39.13% +1.79%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -3 32 £600 +26.32% 20
Essex +3 20 £550 +69.23% 13
Bedfordshire -6 6 £518 -22.33%
Suffolk -16 5 £500 -3.85% 3
Cambridgeshire -11 4 - - 15
Norfolk - 2 £400 - 3
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 6 (8.70%) Confluence
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (7.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.29%) Azure
1 14 (20.29%) GCP
2 9 (13.04%) Entra ID
2 9 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (8.70%) AWS
4 5 (7.25%) Mimecast
5 4 (5.80%) SaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.90%) Serverless
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.45%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.45%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) VPN
2 20 (28.99%) Network Security
3 19 (27.54%) DNS
4 13 (18.84%) VLAN
5 12 (17.39%) TCP/IP
6 11 (15.94%) LAN
6 11 (15.94%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (14.49%) WAN
8 8 (11.59%) BGP
8 8 (11.59%) DHCP
9 7 (10.14%) OSPF
10 6 (8.70%) SSL
11 5 (7.25%) HTTP
11 5 (7.25%) IP Telephony
11 5 (7.25%) NAS
11 5 (7.25%) SAN
11 5 (7.25%) Unified Communications
11 5 (7.25%) VRRP
11 5 (7.25%) Wireless
11 5 (7.25%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.45%) Snyk
General
1 13 (18.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Automotive
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Billing
7 1 (1.45%) Cyber-Physical System
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Network Engineer
1 12 (17.39%) Software Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Developer
2 11 (15.94%) Java Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Java Software Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Senior
3 10 (14.49%) Backend Developer
3 10 (14.49%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) IAM Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Java Software Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Software Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) NetApp Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) Project Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 5 (7.25%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) SailPoint
2 3 (4.35%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.90%) OAuth
3 2 (2.90%) Terraform
4 1 (1.45%) LDAP
4 1 (1.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.45%) OpenID
4 1 (1.45%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) SAML
4 1 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.25%) Replication
2 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) BYOD
6 1 (1.45%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.45%) NHS
6 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.45%) PKI
6 1 (1.45%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (39.13%) Windows
2 21 (30.43%) Linux
2 21 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.70%) CentOS
4 6 (8.70%) Rocky
5 5 (7.25%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.90%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (2.90%) Unix
7 1 (1.45%) Android
7 1 (1.45%) VMS
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) DevOps
2 20 (28.99%) Load Balancing
3 19 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.09%) Agile
4 18 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 15 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (18.84%) Identity Management
6 13 (18.84%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.94%) Web Development
8 9 (13.04%) Migration
9 8 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (11.59%) Project Management
9 8 (11.59%) Service Delivery
10 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (8.70%) ITIL
11 6 (8.70%) ITSM
11 6 (8.70%) Project Delivery
11 6 (8.70%) Roadmaps
12 5 (7.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.29%) PowerShell
2 13 (18.84%) Java
3 5 (7.25%) Python
4 4 (5.80%) Bash
5 1 (1.45%) Bicep
5 1 (1.45%) C
5 1 (1.45%) C++
5 1 (1.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.19%) SC Cleared
3 15 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (15.94%) CCNP
5 8 (11.59%) CCNA
5 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.35%) CCSP
7 2 (2.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.90%) CISSP
7 2 (2.90%) Degree
7 2 (2.90%) MCSE
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.45%) CISM
8 1 (1.45%) CRISC
8 1 (1.45%) CWNA
8 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) GDPR
1 5 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
3 2 (2.90%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.45%) NCSC
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (31.88%) Active Directory
2 17 (24.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (18.84%) vSphere
4 6 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Ansible
2 6 (8.70%) NetBackup
3 5 (7.25%) Nagios
4 2 (2.90%) SCCM
4 2 (2.90%) SCOM
4 2 (2.90%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.45%) Packer
5 1 (1.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (26.09%) VMware
2 17 (24.64%) Microsoft
3 15 (21.74%) Cisco
4 11 (15.94%) NetApp
4 11 (15.94%) Veeam
5 7 (10.14%) Palo Alto
6 5 (7.25%) Adobe
6 5 (7.25%) Meraki
6 5 (7.25%) Remedy
6 5 (7.25%) SolarWinds
6 5 (7.25%) Sophos
6 5 (7.25%) Synology
6 5 (7.25%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.35%) Forcepoint
8 3 (4.35%) Google
9 2 (2.90%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.45%) Apple
10 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.45%) Trend Micro