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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 45 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 76 46 49
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.24% 3.53% 3.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.68% 22.01% 19.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 23 28
10th Percentile £459 £323 £198
25th Percentile £500 £389 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.84% +7.22% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £575
90th Percentile £605 £753 £595
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +125.00% +50.00% -72.41%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.25 £20.42
90th Percentile - £90.60 £24.66
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +124.90% -14.29% -46.96%

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 308 209 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.11% 16.05% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 87 109
10th Percentile £303 £220 £200
25th Percentile £389 £363 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £520 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 63 62
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.32
25th Percentile £27.81 £32.74 £20.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +28.71% -25.29%
75th Percentile £72.25 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £38.53 £41.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -7.17% -27.64% +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -4 30 £600 +26.32% 14
Essex +6 23 £550 +57.14% 15
Suffolk -5 10 £503 -3.37% 1
Bedfordshire 0 6 £518 +7.25% 3
Cambridgeshire -6 4 £530 -13.47% 12
Norfolk - 3 £425 - 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 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Azure
2 13 (17.11%) GCP
3 12 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
5 9 (11.84%) AWS
6 5 (6.58%) Mimecast
7 4 (5.26%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (3.95%) Serverless
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.63%) Datadog
9 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (34.21%) VPN
2 22 (28.95%) Network Security
3 18 (23.68%) DNS
4 16 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (19.74%) WAN
6 12 (15.79%) LAN
7 10 (13.16%) VLAN
8 9 (11.84%) TCP/IP
9 8 (10.53%) DHCP
10 6 (7.89%) BGP
10 6 (7.89%) Wireless
11 5 (6.58%) IPsec
11 5 (6.58%) NAS
11 5 (6.58%) SAN
12 4 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (5.26%) OSPF
12 4 (5.26%) SSL
13 3 (3.95%) Broadband
13 3 (3.95%) NGFW
14 2 (2.63%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) 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 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
3 10 (13.16%) 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 14 (18.42%) Senior
2 13 (17.11%) Network Engineer
3 12 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 11 (14.47%) Developer
5 10 (13.16%) Java Engineer
5 10 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Backend Developer
6 9 (11.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
6 9 (11.84%) Software Developer
7 8 (10.53%) IAM Developer
7 8 (10.53%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (9.21%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 5 (6.58%) Backup Specialist
9 5 (6.58%) NetApp Specialist
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Technical Specialist
9 5 (6.58%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 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%) Replication
2 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.95%) IoT
3 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) BYOD
5 1 (1.32%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) PMI
5 1 (1.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 26 (34.21%) Windows
2 20 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 18 (23.68%) Linux
4 10 (13.16%) 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 25 (32.89%) DevOps
2 24 (31.58%) Load Balancing
3 20 (26.32%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (18.42%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (18.42%) Identity Management
6 14 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 10 (13.16%) Migration
7 10 (13.16%) Web Development
8 9 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.53%) ITIL
10 6 (7.89%) Change Management
10 6 (7.89%) Project Management
10 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
10 6 (7.89%) Service Delivery
10 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (6.58%) Antivirus Management
11 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.74%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.79%) 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 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (10.53%) CCNP
5 5 (6.58%) CCNA
5 5 (6.58%) 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 23 (30.26%) Active Directory
2 15 (19.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.53%) vSphere
4 4 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.63%) Squid
6 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Ansible
2 6 (7.89%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.63%) Nagios
3 2 (2.63%) SCCM
3 2 (2.63%) SCOM
3 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.32%) Packer
4 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.05%) Cisco
2 16 (21.05%) VMware
3 9 (11.84%) NetApp
3 9 (11.84%) 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%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.95%) Forcepoint
7 3 (3.95%) Google
7 3 (3.95%) Remedy
8 2 (2.63%) F5
8 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.63%) Trend Micro