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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 46 63
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 65 42 48
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.92% 4.31% 2.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.62% 17.65% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 25 32
10th Percentile £352 £325 £214
25th Percentile £454 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £477
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +10.06% +0.42%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £568 £695 £600
England median daily rate £500 £513 £508
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.99% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.54
25th Percentile - £71.25 £14.59
Median hourly rate £20.75 £72.50 £15.38
Median % change year-on-year -71.38% +371.54% -1.22%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £16.34
90th Percentile - - £16.51
England median hourly rate £48.72 £14.73 £60.00
% change year-on-year +230.87% -75.46% -3.23%

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 264 238 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.86% 24.44% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 141 127
10th Percentile £196 £225 £199
25th Percentile £319 £363 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £420
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +16.67% -11.58%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £595 £613 £580
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 50 103
10th Percentile £17.34 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.66 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £53.75 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% +150.47% -58.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £80.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £87.55 -
England median hourly rate £40.54 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.68% -25.85% +122.22%

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 19 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 19 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 +6 15 £525 +75.00% 2
Cambridgeshire +5 15 £475 -12.04% 8
Essex -5 12 £505 +53.03% 5
Hertfordshire -32 9 £500 -9.09% 8
Norfolk - 8 £331 - 2
Bedfordshire -5 5 £475 +11.76% 4
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 7
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 (4.62%) Apache
1 3 (4.62%) IIS
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 9 (13.85%) Entra ID
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.31%) AWS
4 6 (9.23%) GCP
5 5 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (4.62%) Route 53
7 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (3.08%) GitHub
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) Datadog
8 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (43.08%) VPN
2 21 (32.31%) Network Security
3 18 (27.69%) WAN
4 17 (26.15%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (24.62%) LAN
6 14 (21.54%) IPsec
7 8 (12.31%) DNS
8 7 (10.77%) Broadband
9 5 (7.69%) MPLS
10 4 (6.15%) BGP
10 4 (6.15%) VLAN
10 4 (6.15%) Wireless
11 3 (4.62%) 4G
11 3 (4.62%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (4.62%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (4.62%) WLAN
12 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (3.08%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) GitLab
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.15%) Finance
2 4 (6.15%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.62%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.08%) Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.54%) Automotive
5 1 (1.54%) Back Office
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Electronics
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) IT Support
3 9 (13.85%) Designer
3 9 (13.85%) Network Designer
4 6 (9.23%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (6.15%) Firewall Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Senior
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Network Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Network Support
7 3 (4.62%) Network Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) CSS
1 2 (3.08%) HTML
1 2 (3.08%) React
2 1 (1.54%) LDAP
2 1 (1.54%) OAuth
2 1 (1.54%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.54%) OpenID
2 1 (1.54%) REST
2 1 (1.54%) SAML
2 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.85%) Operational Technology
2 8 (12.31%) IoT
3 7 (10.77%) Driving Licence
4 6 (9.23%) SCADA
5 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.62%) PKI
5 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.54%) Clustering
7 1 (1.54%) CSOC
7 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.54%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.54%) NHS
7 1 (1.54%) PMI
7 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 16 (24.62%) Windows Server
3 9 (13.85%) Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) VMS
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) DevOps
2 16 (24.62%) Load Balancing
3 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (20.00%) ITIL
4 10 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.85%) Agile
6 8 (12.31%) Customer Experience
7 7 (10.77%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.77%) Proactive Monitoring
7 7 (10.77%) Zero Trust
8 6 (9.23%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.69%) Identity Management
9 5 (7.69%) ITSM
9 5 (7.69%) Service Management
9 5 (7.69%) SIEM
9 5 (7.69%) Software Engineering
10 4 (6.15%) Change Management
10 4 (6.15%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.15%) Python
3 3 (4.62%) Java
4 2 (3.08%) Bash
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) Groovy
5 1 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.92%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) CCNA
4 6 (9.23%) CCNP
5 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Degree
6 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.08%) CCSP
7 2 (3.08%) CISM
7 2 (3.08%) CISSP
7 2 (3.08%) MCSE
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.54%) CCIE
8 1 (1.54%) CCSE
8 1 (1.54%) CRISC
8 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.62%) ISA99
3 3 (4.62%) NIST
4 2 (3.08%) GDPR
4 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.08%) NCSC
4 2 (3.08%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.54%) GxP
5 1 (1.54%) PMO
5 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (27.69%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.54%) Docker
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.54%) Squid
4 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Ansible
1 4 (6.15%) Terraform
2 3 (4.62%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) Cisco
2 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
3 15 (23.08%) VMware
4 14 (21.54%) Palo Alto
5 8 (12.31%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.69%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.15%) SolarWinds
8 3 (4.62%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.62%) Google
8 3 (4.62%) Qualys
8 3 (4.62%) Rockwell
9 2 (3.08%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.08%) F5
9 2 (3.08%) Mitel
10 1 (1.54%) Citrix
10 1 (1.54%) Dell
10 1 (1.54%) NetApp
10 1 (1.54%) Siemens
10 1 (1.54%) Wyse