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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 37 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 56 44 75
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.86% 4.51% 3.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.63% 18.88% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 41
10th Percentile £201 £325 £250
25th Percentile £356 £456 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +11.58% -11.63%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £551
90th Percentile £568 £620 £600
England median daily rate £513 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -1.16% +3.70% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £20.53 - £14.54
25th Percentile £20.56 £71.25 £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 £42.71 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.01% -46.15% +17.50%

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 237 233 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.09% 23.90% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 132 169
10th Percentile £185 £225 £211
25th Percentile £228 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +13.10% -11.58%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £488
90th Percentile £599 £624 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 91
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.30 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.01 £21.46 £16.65
Median hourly rate £22.50 £62.00 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.71% +4.20% +43.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £87.55 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.22% -8.75% +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 26 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 26 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 +1 19 £425 -22.73% 9
Suffolk +11 11 £525 +75.00% 7
Bedfordshire -3 9 £475 -5.00% 6
Norfolk - 8 £212 - 4
Hertfordshire -39 5 £600 +9.09% 19
Essex -7 3 - - 6
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 (8.93%) Apache
1 5 (8.93%) IIS
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) Entra ID
3 8 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (7.14%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) Mimecast
6 3 (5.36%) Nutanix
6 3 (5.36%) Route 53
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.57%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.79%) Serverless
8 1 (1.79%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.93%) VPN
2 17 (30.36%) Network Security
3 13 (23.21%) LAN
4 12 (21.43%) IPsec
4 12 (21.43%) WAN
4 12 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (19.64%) DNS
6 6 (10.71%) DHCP
7 5 (8.93%) Broadband
8 4 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (7.14%) MPLS
8 4 (7.14%) VLAN
8 4 (7.14%) Wireless
9 3 (5.36%) 4G
9 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.36%) WLAN
10 2 (3.57%) ADSL
10 2 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (3.57%) SSL
11 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) GitLab
2 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.79%) Back Office
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Network Engineer
2 8 (14.29%) Architect
2 8 (14.29%) IT Support
3 7 (12.50%) Designer
3 7 (12.50%) Network Designer
4 6 (10.71%) Firewall Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Network Architect
5 5 (8.93%) Switch Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (7.14%) Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior
7 3 (5.36%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Operational Technology
2 6 (10.71%) IoT
3 5 (8.93%) SCADA
3 5 (8.93%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.14%) PKI
5 3 (5.36%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) NHS
7 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.79%) Clustering
7 1 (1.79%) CSOC
7 1 (1.79%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Windows
1 16 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 10 (17.86%) Linux
3 2 (3.57%) VMS
4 1 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (19.64%) ITIL
3 10 (17.86%) DevOps
4 9 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (16.07%) Zero Trust
5 8 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 8 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
6 7 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 7 (12.50%) SIEM
7 6 (10.71%) Customer Experience
7 6 (10.71%) Service Management
8 5 (8.93%) Agile
8 5 (8.93%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.93%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (8.93%) ITSM
8 5 (8.93%) PRINCE2
8 5 (8.93%) Server Building
9 4 (7.14%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.93%) Python
3 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (12.50%) CCNP
5 6 (10.71%) CCNA
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Degree
7 2 (3.57%) CCIE
7 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.79%) CCIE Security
8 1 (1.79%) CCSE
8 1 (1.79%) CISSP
8 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.79%) GIAC
8 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.79%) MCSE
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) ISA99
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.57%) NCSC
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) GPG13
4 1 (1.79%) GxP
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.57%) vSphere
5 1 (1.79%) Docker
5 1 (1.79%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Ansible
1 6 (10.71%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Cisco
2 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 13 (23.21%) VMware
5 9 (16.07%) ServiceNow
6 6 (10.71%) SolarWinds
7 5 (8.93%) Barracuda Networks
7 5 (8.93%) Google
8 3 (5.36%) CheckPoint
8 3 (5.36%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.36%) Qualys
8 3 (5.36%) Rockwell
9 2 (3.57%) Aruba
9 2 (3.57%) Citrix
9 2 (3.57%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.57%) Mitel
9 2 (3.57%) Wyse
9 2 (3.57%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.79%) Blue Coat
10 1 (1.79%) Kepware