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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 40 55
Rank change year-on-year -27 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 37 46 56
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.33% 4.20% 3.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.54% 20.72% 18.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 25
10th Percentile £356 £275 £313
25th Percentile £378 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £519 £603 £488
90th Percentile £683 £759 £703
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £20.88 £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +33.33% -9.45%
75th Percentile £21.31 £47.16 £15.50
90th Percentile £21.43 £73.75 -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +112.84%

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 211 222 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.31% 20.26% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 105 163
10th Percentile £164 £213 £250
25th Percentile £213 £278 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +10.47% +1.18%
75th Percentile £506 £588 £488
90th Percentile £616 £625 £598
England median daily rate £492 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -1.60% +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 35 69
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £15.75 £21.46 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.50 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.57% -46.15% +3.59%
75th Percentile £66.63 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.25 -
England median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +121.53%

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 January 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 8 January 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
Cambridgeshire +1 19 £445 -22.61% 12
Bedfordshire -7 9 £475 +46.15% 8
Hertfordshire -32 6 £475 -17.39% 17
Norfolk -22 2 - - 4
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 1
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 (13.51%) Apache
1 5 (13.51%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) AWS
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (8.11%) Mimecast
5 3 (8.11%) Nutanix
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) Sumo Logic
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (37.84%) VPN
2 12 (32.43%) Network Security
3 9 (24.32%) DNS
4 7 (18.92%) DHCP
5 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (16.22%) WAN
6 5 (13.51%) VLAN
7 4 (10.81%) LAN
7 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (10.81%) Wireless
8 3 (8.11%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
9 2 (5.41%) 802.11
9 2 (5.41%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (5.41%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.70%) BGP
10 1 (2.70%) MPLS
10 1 (2.70%) OSPF
10 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Network Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Security Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) IT Support
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Switch Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Network Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Administrator
7 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Support
7 2 (5.41%) Network Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) 802.1X
1 2 (5.41%) REST
2 1 (2.70%) JWT
2 1 (2.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.81%) Operational Technology
3 3 (8.11%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) CCTV
4 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.41%) PKI
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Windows
2 14 (37.84%) Windows Server
3 12 (32.43%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) VMS
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
5 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (21.62%) Agile
2 8 (21.62%) Zero Trust
3 7 (18.92%) ITIL
3 7 (18.92%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (18.92%) SIEM
4 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (16.22%) Incident Response
4 6 (16.22%) Service Management
5 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) ITSM
5 5 (13.51%) PRINCE2
5 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.51%) Security Operations
5 5 (13.51%) Server Building
5 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
5 5 (13.51%) Threat Intelligence
6 4 (10.81%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 4 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (18.92%) Degree
3 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) CCNP
5 3 (8.11%) CCIE
5 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.41%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) CCIE Security
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) GIAC
7 1 (2.70%) MCSE
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.41%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) GPG13
3 1 (2.70%) GxP
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (24.32%) Active Directory
3 7 (18.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.70%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.70%) Istio
4 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Palo Alto
2 20 (54.05%) Cisco
3 13 (35.14%) VMware
4 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 8 (21.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (13.51%) Barracuda Networks
5 5 (13.51%) Google
5 5 (13.51%) SolarWinds
6 3 (8.11%) Splunk
7 2 (5.41%) Citrix
7 2 (5.41%) Dell
7 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) Intel
7 2 (5.41%) Meraki
7 2 (5.41%) Wyse
7 2 (5.41%) Zscaler
8 1 (2.70%) Aruba
8 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.70%) Clearswift
8 1 (2.70%) Mitel