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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 38 40
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 53 51 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.43% 3.97% 4.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.66% 21.07% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 40
10th Percentile £291 £275 £271
25th Percentile £400 £300 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £700 £597 £575
90th Percentile £730 £695 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £22.20 - £68.63
25th Percentile £24.75 - £70.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -72.41% +326.47%
75th Percentile £68.25 £24.66 £74.06
90th Percentile £90.60 £46.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +23.64% -58.32% +96.96%

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 224 242 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 14.50% 18.83% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 197
10th Percentile £160 £220 £215
25th Percentile £213 £284 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £682 £600 £609
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 42 73
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.24 £20.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.46 £50.00
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.11% -31.88% +3.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £78.50 £68.63 £73.50
England median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +27.23%

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 28 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the East of England

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 28 November 2025. 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 +8 19 £475 -20.83% 11
Hertfordshire -11 16 £588 +6.82% 22
Bedfordshire -6 13 £400 -23.81% 3
Suffolk - 3 £535 -
Essex -12 1 - - 5
Norfolk -23 1 - - 3
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 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 8 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (13.21%) GCP
5 5 (9.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.77%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.77%) Mimecast
6 2 (3.77%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.89%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.19%) VPN
2 13 (24.53%) DNS
3 12 (22.64%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (22.64%) VLAN
4 11 (20.75%) DHCP
5 10 (18.87%) Network Security
5 10 (18.87%) WAN
6 8 (15.09%) LAN
6 8 (15.09%) Wireless
7 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
7 7 (13.21%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (11.32%) BGP
8 6 (11.32%) OSPF
8 6 (11.32%) SD-WAN
9 4 (7.55%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (5.66%) WLAN
11 2 (3.77%) 802.11
11 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (3.77%) Cisco Wireless
11 2 (3.77%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) GitLab
2 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (13.21%) Games
2 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Security Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Senior
6 5 (9.43%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Administrator
7 3 (5.66%) Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Network Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Network Designer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior IT Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.77%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) JWT
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Operational Technology
2 5 (9.43%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (9.43%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.77%) CCTV
5 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) PKI
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.89%) NHS
6 1 (1.89%) Replication
6 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (33.96%) Windows
2 9 (16.98%) Linux
3 7 (13.21%) Android
3 7 (13.21%) Mac OS
3 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.55%) VMS
5 2 (3.77%) CentOS
6 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.75%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (18.87%) SIEM
3 9 (16.98%) Incident Response
4 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (15.09%) Security Operations
4 8 (15.09%) Task Automation
4 8 (15.09%) Threat Intelligence
5 7 (13.21%) Agile
5 7 (13.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 7 (13.21%) E-Commerce
5 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (13.21%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 7 (13.21%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (11.32%) ITIL
6 6 (11.32%) Migration
6 6 (11.32%) SOAR
7 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.19%) PowerShell
2 11 (20.75%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.87%) CCNP
3 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
4 7 (13.21%) Degree
5 4 (7.55%) CCIE
5 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.66%) CCNA
6 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.77%) CCIE Security
7 2 (3.77%) CISSP
7 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.77%) GIAC
8 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) NIST
2 3 (5.66%) GxP
2 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) GPG13
3 1 (1.89%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (33.96%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (13.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.89%) Docker
5 1 (1.89%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (13.21%) SCCM
3 6 (11.32%) Ansible
3 6 (11.32%) Terraform
4 4 (7.55%) FortiGate
5 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.77%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.89%) Istio
7 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.89%) Puppet
7 1 (1.89%) Salt
Vendors
1 25 (47.17%) Cisco
2 19 (35.85%) Microsoft
3 18 (33.96%) Palo Alto
4 12 (22.64%) Meraki
5 11 (20.75%) Splunk
6 9 (16.98%) VMware
7 8 (15.09%) Fortinet
8 6 (11.32%) Google
9 4 (7.55%) Zscaler
10 3 (5.66%) Citrix
10 3 (5.66%) LabWare
10 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.77%) Aruba
11 2 (3.77%) Dell
11 2 (3.77%) F5
11 2 (3.77%) Intel
11 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
11 2 (3.77%) Wyse
12 1 (1.89%) Veeam
12 1 (1.89%) Vertica