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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 35 43
Rank change year-on-year -31 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 46 47 74
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.47% 4.62% 3.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.44% 19.58% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 44
10th Percentile £183 £275 £252
25th Percentile £356 £344 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +7.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £540 £594 £557
90th Percentile £559 £660 £639
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £20.53 £30.25 £14.54
25th Percentile £20.56 £45.63 £14.59
Median hourly rate £20.88 £72.50 £15.38
Median % change year-on-year -71.21% +371.54% -4.68%
75th Percentile £21.31 £73.75 £16.34
90th Percentile £21.43 - £16.51
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +26.57%

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 225 240 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.07% 23.58% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 134 174
10th Percentile £178 £215 £225
25th Percentile £213 £325 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £423
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +12.43% -10.34%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £488
90th Percentile £598 £625 £595
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 46 91
10th Percentile £13.25 £15.44 £14.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £21.46 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £62.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.71% -0.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.05 -
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.83% -12.50% +110.53%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +6 20 £425 -22.73% 10
Bedfordshire -1 9 £475 -5.00% 8
Norfolk -20 8 £212 - 3
Hertfordshire -41 4 £475 -13.64% 26
Essex -9 3 - - 10
Suffolk +3 1 £550 +83.33% 9
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 9
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 (10.87%) Apache
1 5 (10.87%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) Entra ID
3 7 (15.22%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.52%) Mimecast
5 3 (6.52%) Nutanix
5 3 (6.52%) Route 53
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub
6 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) VPN
2 12 (26.09%) LAN
2 12 (26.09%) Network Security
2 12 (26.09%) WAN
3 10 (21.74%) DNS
4 6 (13.04%) DHCP
4 6 (13.04%) VLAN
4 6 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (8.70%) MPLS
5 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.70%) Wireless
6 3 (6.52%) 4G
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (6.52%) IPsec
6 3 (6.52%) WLAN
7 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.35%) SSL
8 1 (2.17%) BGP
8 1 (2.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.17%) Back Office
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) IT Support
3 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Network Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Switch Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Network Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Network Support
7 2 (4.35%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (2.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Operational Technology
2 5 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.52%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.52%) SCADA
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) NHS
4 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) CCTV
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) CSOC
5 1 (2.17%) Cybercrime
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
2 16 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 9 (19.57%) Linux
4 3 (6.52%) VMS
5 1 (2.17%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (23.91%) ITIL
3 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (17.39%) Network Segmentation
3 8 (17.39%) Zero Trust
4 7 (15.22%) SIEM
5 6 (13.04%) Agile
5 6 (13.04%) Service Management
6 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) Incident Response
6 5 (10.87%) ITSM
6 5 (10.87%) PRINCE2
6 5 (10.87%) Server Building
7 4 (8.70%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.70%) Network Architecture
7 4 (8.70%) Security Operations
7 4 (8.70%) Task Automation
7 4 (8.70%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
1 5 (10.87%) Python
2 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (15.22%) CCNP
5 6 (13.04%) CCNA
5 6 (13.04%) Degree
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) CCIE
7 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.17%) CCIE Security
8 1 (2.17%) CCSE
8 1 (2.17%) CISSP
8 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.17%) GIAC
8 1 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (2.17%) MCSE
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) GPG13
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.87%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.35%) vSphere
5 1 (2.17%) Docker
5 1 (2.17%) ProxySG
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Ansible
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 4 (8.70%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Cisco
2 17 (36.96%) Palo Alto
3 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
4 12 (26.09%) VMware
5 8 (17.39%) ServiceNow
6 6 (13.04%) SolarWinds
7 5 (10.87%) Barracuda Networks
7 5 (10.87%) Google
8 3 (6.52%) Qualys
8 3 (6.52%) Rockwell
9 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.35%) Citrix
9 2 (4.35%) Dell
9 2 (4.35%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (4.35%) Meraki
9 2 (4.35%) Mitel
9 2 (4.35%) Splunk
9 2 (4.35%) Wyse
9 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.17%) Kepware