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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 38 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -20
Contract jobs citing Firewall 66 48 50
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.95% 4.96% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.63% 19.67% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 27 34
10th Percentile £353 £320 £216
25th Percentile £450 £371 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £574
90th Percentile £565 £680 £599
England median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £14.54
25th Percentile - £29.00 £14.59
Median hourly rate £20.75 £30.00 £15.38
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +95.12% -65.31%
75th Percentile - £52.38 £16.34
90th Percentile - £65.20 £16.51
England median hourly rate £56.00 £17.79 £60.00
% change year-on-year +214.78% -70.35% -3.65%

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 268 244 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.97% 25.21% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 140 136
10th Percentile £197 £225 £203
25th Percentile £333 £363 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £406
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +20.62% -14.47%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £590 £614 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 52 99
10th Percentile £17.57 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.09 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £58.25 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +171.44% -59.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.10 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +131.45%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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
Suffolk +8 15 £525 +75.00% 1
Cambridgeshire -3 13 £478 -11.57% 7
Essex -4 13 £505 +53.03% 4
Hertfordshire -30 10 £500 -6.98% 9
Norfolk - 9 £400 - 3
Bedfordshire -6 5 £475 +11.76% 4
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 3 (4.55%) Apache
1 3 (4.55%) IIS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.79%) Azure
2 10 (15.15%) AWS
2 10 (15.15%) Entra ID
2 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.61%) GCP
4 6 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (4.55%) Route 53
5 3 (4.55%) Serverless
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.03%) Datadog
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 27 (40.91%) VPN
2 20 (30.30%) Network Security
2 20 (30.30%) WAN
3 18 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (25.76%) LAN
5 14 (21.21%) IPsec
6 7 (10.61%) Broadband
6 7 (10.61%) DNS
7 5 (7.58%) MPLS
8 4 (6.06%) BGP
8 4 (6.06%) VLAN
8 4 (6.06%) Wireless
9 3 (4.55%) 4G
9 3 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (4.55%) SSL
9 3 (4.55%) WLAN
10 2 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (3.03%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) GitLab
1 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Finance
2 5 (7.58%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Banking
3 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.52%) Automotive
5 1 (1.52%) Back Office
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Electronics
5 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.67%) IT Support
3 9 (13.64%) Designer
3 9 (13.64%) Network Designer
4 6 (9.09%) Architect
4 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Consultant
5 4 (6.06%) Developer
5 4 (6.06%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Senior
5 4 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Backend Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) CSS
1 2 (3.03%) HTML
1 2 (3.03%) React
2 1 (1.52%) LDAP
2 1 (1.52%) OAuth
2 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.52%) OpenID
2 1 (1.52%) REST
2 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.52%) SAML
2 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Operational Technology
2 8 (12.12%) IoT
3 7 (10.61%) Driving Licence
4 6 (9.09%) SCADA
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) PKI
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.52%) Clustering
6 1 (1.52%) CSOC
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.52%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.52%) NHS
6 1 (1.52%) PMI
6 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Windows
2 17 (25.76%) Windows Server
3 11 (16.67%) Linux
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.52%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) DevOps
2 17 (25.76%) Load Balancing
3 13 (19.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (18.18%) Agile
4 12 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 12 (18.18%) ITIL
5 8 (12.12%) Customer Experience
6 7 (10.61%) Customer Requirements
6 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (10.61%) Proactive Monitoring
6 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.61%) Zero Trust
7 6 (9.09%) Identity Management
7 6 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (9.09%) SIEM
7 6 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 5 (7.58%) ITSM
8 5 (7.58%) Service Management
9 4 (6.06%) Network Design
9 4 (6.06%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.58%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) Java
4 3 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (3.03%) Groovy
5 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.09%) CCNA
5 5 (7.58%) CCNP
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Degree
7 3 (4.55%) CCSP
7 3 (4.55%) CISSP
7 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (3.03%) CISM
8 2 (3.03%) MCSE
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.52%) CCIE
9 1 (1.52%) CCSE
9 1 (1.52%) CRISC
9 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.55%) ISA99
3 3 (4.55%) NIST
4 2 (3.03%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.03%) NCSC
4 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.52%) GxP
5 1 (1.52%) PMO
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) Squid
3 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.03%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Docker
4 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Ansible
1 5 (7.58%) Terraform
2 3 (4.55%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.52%) Packer
4 1 (1.52%) Puppet
4 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Cisco
2 18 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 15 (22.73%) VMware
4 12 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.61%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.58%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.06%) Google
7 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
8 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.55%) Qualys
8 3 (4.55%) Rockwell
9 2 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.03%) F5
9 2 (3.03%) Mitel
9 2 (3.03%) PagerDuty
9 2 (3.03%) Trend Micro
10 1 (1.52%) Databricks
10 1 (1.52%) Kepware
10 1 (1.52%) OpenAI