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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 39 57
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing Firewall 72 58 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.21% 4.73% 2.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.47% 21.64% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 33
10th Percentile £418 £313 £203
25th Percentile £500 £371 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.82% +0.84%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £573
90th Percentile - £700 £581
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £61.88 - £16.01
25th Percentile £62.81 £29.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £21.63
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% +38.73% -70.17%
75th Percentile £66.56 £68.25 £25.72
90th Percentile £67.13 £90.60 £27.54
England median hourly rate £63.75 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +112.50% -50.00% -4.08%

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 272 268 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.13% 21.84% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 131 132
10th Percentile £303 £225 £201
25th Percentile £409 £363 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +30.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £559
90th Percentile £600 £638 £575
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 70 92
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.67 £28.06 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% +188.91% -66.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £81.27 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.70 £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.96% +11.25% +14.29%

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 18 July 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
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 18 July 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 -18 20 £600 +9.09% 13
Essex -3 18 £550 +66.67% 7
Suffolk +5 15 £525 +28.05% 1
Cambridgeshire -1 9 £535 -2.73% 8
Norfolk - 5 £400 - 1
Bedfordshire -14 4 - - 3
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 5
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 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.94%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) GCP
3 10 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 10 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (5.56%) SaaS
6 3 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (4.17%) Serverless
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.78%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (38.89%) VPN
2 19 (26.39%) Wi-Fi
3 18 (25.00%) Network Security
3 18 (25.00%) WAN
4 15 (20.83%) LAN
5 14 (19.44%) IPsec
6 11 (15.28%) DNS
7 9 (12.50%) VLAN
8 7 (9.72%) Broadband
9 6 (8.33%) Wireless
10 5 (6.94%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (6.94%) MPLS
11 4 (5.56%) BGP
11 4 (5.56%) SAN
11 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
12 3 (4.17%) 4G
12 3 (4.17%) SSL
13 2 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
13 2 (2.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 2 (2.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.39%) Power BI
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.17%) GitLab
2 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.78%) Git
General
1 17 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Finance
2 9 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 7 (9.72%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Automotive
5 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.39%) Back Office
6 1 (1.39%) Electronics
6 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Senior
3 9 (12.50%) Designer
3 9 (12.50%) Network Designer
3 9 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Architect
5 7 (9.72%) Backend Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) IT Support
5 7 (9.72%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.72%) Java Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Software Developer
6 6 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) IAM Developer
6 6 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (6.94%) Consultant
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) SailPoint
2 2 (2.78%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.78%) CSS
2 2 (2.78%) HTML
2 2 (2.78%) OAuth
2 2 (2.78%) React
3 1 (1.39%) LDAP
3 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.39%) OpenID
3 1 (1.39%) REST
3 1 (1.39%) SAML
3 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) IoT
1 8 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 7 (9.72%) Driving Licence
3 6 (8.33%) SCADA
4 4 (5.56%) Replication
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.17%) PKI
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.39%) Clustering
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.39%) PMI
7 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Windows
2 15 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 13 (18.06%) Linux
4 7 (9.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.94%) CentOS
5 5 (6.94%) Rocky
6 2 (2.78%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (2.78%) Unix
7 1 (1.39%) Android
7 1 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.39%) VMS
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.72%) DevOps
2 22 (30.56%) Load Balancing
3 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
4 14 (19.44%) Agile
4 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.28%) Identity Management
5 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
6 10 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (12.50%) ITIL
8 8 (11.11%) Customer Experience
8 8 (11.11%) SIEM
8 8 (11.11%) Web Development
9 7 (9.72%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (9.72%) Migration
9 7 (9.72%) Proactive Monitoring
10 6 (8.33%) Incident Response
11 5 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
12 4 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.06%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.50%) Java
3 5 (6.94%) Python
4 3 (4.17%) Bash
5 2 (2.78%) Groovy
5 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) CCNP
5 5 (6.94%) CCNA
6 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.17%) CCSP
7 3 (4.17%) CISSP
7 3 (4.17%) Degree
8 2 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.78%) CISM
9 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.39%) CCIE
9 1 (1.39%) CRISC
9 1 (1.39%) MCSE
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.94%) GDPR
3 3 (4.17%) ISA99
3 3 (4.17%) NIST
3 3 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.78%) NCSC
4 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.39%) GxP
5 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.78%) Squid
3 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.78%) vSphere
4 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Ansible
2 5 (6.94%) NetBackup
2 5 (6.94%) Terraform
3 4 (5.56%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.39%) Packer
5 1 (1.39%) Puppet
5 1 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (1.39%) SCOM
5 1 (1.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.83%) Cisco
3 11 (15.28%) VMware
4 6 (8.33%) NetApp
4 6 (8.33%) Veeam
5 4 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.56%) Google
5 4 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.17%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.17%) Qualys
6 3 (4.17%) Rockwell
7 2 (2.78%) F5
7 2 (2.78%) Meraki
7 2 (2.78%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.78%) Trend Micro
8 1 (1.39%) Allen-Bradley
8 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.39%) Splunk
8 1 (1.39%) Synology