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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 40 48
Rank change year-on-year -24 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 39 44 56
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.45% 4.07% 3.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.90% 19.82% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 26
10th Percentile - £275 £313
25th Percentile £356 £369 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £488 £603 £497
90th Percentile £608 £759 £694
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
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% +106.19%

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 196 222 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.33% 20.52% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 105 154
10th Percentile £160 £213 £264
25th Percentile £213 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +9.83% +1.76%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £492
90th Percentile £581 £625 £609
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 35 70
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £42.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -46.15% +3.59%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £67.70 £72.25 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +125.96%

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 15 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 15 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 +5 19 £435 -24.35% 5
Bedfordshire -4 9 £475 +46.15% 3
Norfolk -21 5 £381 -43.56% 5
Hertfordshire -23 5 £475 -17.39% 22
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 4
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 (12.82%) Apache
1 5 (12.82%) IIS
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Entra ID
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) GCP
3 3 (7.69%) Mimecast
3 3 (7.69%) Nutanix
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (5.13%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.56%) Route 53
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Sumo Logic
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) Network Security
1 13 (33.33%) VPN
2 10 (25.64%) DNS
3 8 (20.51%) WAN
4 7 (17.95%) DHCP
5 6 (15.38%) LAN
5 6 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 4 (10.26%) VLAN
6 4 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (10.26%) Wireless
7 3 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (7.69%) SD-WAN
8 2 (5.13%) 802.11
8 2 (5.13%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (5.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.56%) MPLS
9 1 (2.56%) SAN
9 1 (2.56%) SSL
9 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) IT Support
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Switch Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Network Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Network Support
6 2 (5.13%) Network Support Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) 802.1X
1 2 (5.13%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) JWT
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.26%) Operational Technology
3 3 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.13%) CCTV
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) NHS
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) CSOC
5 1 (2.56%) Cybercrime
5 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (41.03%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows Server
3 12 (30.77%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) VMS
5 1 (2.56%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (20.51%) Agile
2 8 (20.51%) ITIL
2 8 (20.51%) Zero Trust
3 7 (17.95%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (15.38%) Service Management
4 6 (15.38%) SIEM
5 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (12.82%) DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Incident Response
5 5 (12.82%) ITSM
5 5 (12.82%) PRINCE2
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Server Building
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.26%) Network Architecture
6 4 (10.26%) Security Operations
6 4 (10.26%) Task Automation
6 4 (10.26%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) Degree
5 3 (7.69%) CCIE
5 3 (7.69%) CCNA
5 3 (7.69%) CCNP
5 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) CCIE Security
6 1 (2.56%) CCSE
6 1 (2.56%) CISSP
6 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) GIAC
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.56%) MCSE
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) GPG13
3 1 (2.56%) GxP
3 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (17.95%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.56%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.56%) Istio
4 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Cisco
2 19 (48.72%) Palo Alto
3 13 (33.33%) VMware
4 8 (20.51%) ServiceNow
5 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
6 6 (15.38%) SolarWinds
7 5 (12.82%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (10.26%) Google
9 2 (5.13%) CheckPoint
9 2 (5.13%) Citrix
9 2 (5.13%) Dell
9 2 (5.13%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (5.13%) Intel
9 2 (5.13%) Meraki
9 2 (5.13%) Mitel
9 2 (5.13%) Splunk
9 2 (5.13%) Wyse
9 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.56%) CloudEndure
10 1 (2.56%) LabWare