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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 58 36
Rank change year-on-year +22 -22 +30
Contract jobs citing Firewall 55 55 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.92% 2.86% 5.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.91% 19.10% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 63
10th Percentile £309 £208 £273
25th Percentile £363 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - +14.94%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £608
90th Percentile £708 £592 £695
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile - £16.01 £46.10
25th Percentile £29.00 £17.72 £69.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.63 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.73% -70.17% +38.10%
75th Percentile £68.25 £25.72 £73.75
90th Percentile £90.60 £27.54 £74.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -50.00% -4.08% +40.72%

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 251 288 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.47% 14.99% 18.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 137 219
10th Percentile £225 £200 £209
25th Percentile £334 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £621
90th Percentile £613 £575 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 97 39
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £19.64 £16.30 £16.77
Median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.45% -57.69% +306.63%
75th Percentile £81.10 £65.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.00 - £74.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

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 3 July 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

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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 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the East of England

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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 3 July 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 +33 19 £525 +121.05% 93
Cambridgeshire +28 16 £550 +4.76% 55
Bedfordshire -5 11 £541 -1.59% 32
Essex -2 6 £330 -38.20% 54
Suffolk - 3 £410 - 21
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 8 (14.55%) IBM Domino
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (14.55%) AWS
2 8 (14.55%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) GitHub
4 5 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (9.09%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) Cisco IOS
2 11 (20.00%) WAN
3 10 (18.18%) DHCP
4 9 (16.36%) DNS
4 9 (16.36%) LAN
4 9 (16.36%) Network Security
4 9 (16.36%) VPN
5 7 (12.73%) Wireless
6 6 (10.91%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (10.91%) SD-WAN
6 6 (10.91%) WLAN
7 4 (7.27%) BGP
7 4 (7.27%) OSPF
7 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.27%) VLAN
7 4 (7.27%) VSAN
8 3 (5.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (5.45%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (3.64%) BIG-IP
9 2 (3.64%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
1 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Games
3 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Security Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Administrator
6 2 (3.64%) Designer
6 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (3.64%) Lead
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Network Designer
6 2 (3.64%) Network Field Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Senior
6 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Operational Technology
2 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.91%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.82%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Windows
2 8 (14.55%) Android
2 8 (14.55%) Mac OS
3 5 (9.09%) Apple iOS
3 5 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (1.82%) CentOS
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) Agile
2 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
4 8 (14.55%) Cloud Security
4 8 (14.55%) E-Commerce
4 8 (14.55%) Task Automation
5 7 (12.73%) Migration
6 6 (10.91%) Change Management
6 6 (10.91%) Coaching
6 6 (10.91%) Computer Security
6 6 (10.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 6 (10.91%) Incident Management
6 6 (10.91%) Incident Response
6 6 (10.91%) Security Operations
6 6 (10.91%) SIEM
6 6 (10.91%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 6 (10.91%) Threat Intelligence
6 6 (10.91%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) PowerShell
2 13 (23.64%) Python
3 3 (5.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.82%) Java
5 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (12.73%) CCNA
2 7 (12.73%) CCNP
2 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) VCAP
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) Degree
6 1 (1.82%) CCIE
6 1 (1.82%) CCIE Security
6 1 (1.82%) CISSP
6 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.82%) GIAC
6 1 (1.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) GxP
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (32.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.73%) VMware NSX
3 5 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (7.27%) vSphere
5 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.82%) Docker
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Terraform
2 9 (16.36%) Ansible
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (14.55%) SCCM
4 5 (9.09%) VxRail
5 4 (7.27%) FortiGate
5 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
5 4 (7.27%) PowerCLI
5 4 (7.27%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.64%) Puppet
7 1 (1.82%) Nagios
7 1 (1.82%) Salt
7 1 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (41.82%) Cisco
2 22 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.82%) Splunk
4 11 (20.00%) Meraki
5 8 (14.55%) VMware
6 7 (12.73%) Palo Alto
7 6 (10.91%) Fortinet
7 6 (10.91%) ServiceNow
8 5 (9.09%) CheckPoint
8 5 (9.09%) Dell
9 4 (7.27%) F5
10 3 (5.45%) Google
10 3 (5.45%) SolarWinds
11 2 (3.64%) HP
11 2 (3.64%) Huawei
11 2 (3.64%) Juniper
11 2 (3.64%) LabWare
11 2 (3.64%) Peregrine
11 2 (3.64%) Remedy
11 2 (3.64%) Zscaler