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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 43 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 66 43 49
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.98% 4.41% 2.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.19% 17.99% 17.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 26 33
10th Percentile £353 £325 £215
25th Percentile £450 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £565 £688 £600
England median daily rate £500 £513 £505
% change year-on-year -2.44% +1.49% -4.72%
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 262 239 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.81% 24.51% 14.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 141 129
10th Percentile £196 £225 £200
25th Percentile £325 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £420
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +16.67% -11.58%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £595 £613 £578
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 49 101
10th Percentile £17.34 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £55.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +156.29% -58.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £87.60 -
England median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.31% -18.75% +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 21 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 21 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 +8 15 £525 +75.00% 2
Cambridgeshire +3 15 £475 -12.04% 8
Essex -6 12 £505 +53.03% 4
Hertfordshire -33 9 £500 -6.98% 6
Norfolk - 9 £400 - 3
Bedfordshire -5 5 £475 +11.76% 3
East Anglia - 1 £470 - 6
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 (4.55%) Apache
1 3 (4.55%) IIS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.27%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
2 9 (13.64%) Entra ID
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (9.09%) GCP
3 6 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (4.55%) Route 53
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (3.03%) Datadog
5 2 (3.03%) GitHub
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (42.42%) VPN
2 21 (31.82%) Network Security
3 19 (28.79%) WAN
4 17 (25.76%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (24.24%) LAN
6 14 (21.21%) IPsec
7 9 (13.64%) DNS
8 7 (10.61%) Broadband
9 5 (7.58%) MPLS
10 4 (6.06%) BGP
10 4 (6.06%) VLAN
10 4 (6.06%) Wireless
11 3 (4.55%) 4G
11 3 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (4.55%) SSL
11 3 (4.55%) WLAN
12 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 2 (3.03%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) GitLab
1 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.03%) Git
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.06%) Finance
2 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.03%) Banking
4 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.52%) Automotive
5 1 (1.52%) Back Office
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Electronics
5 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.67%) IT Support
3 9 (13.64%) Designer
3 9 (13.64%) Network Designer
4 6 (9.09%) Architect
4 6 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Firewall Engineer
5 4 (6.06%) Network Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Senior
5 4 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Network Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Network Support
6 3 (4.55%) Network Support Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) CSS
1 2 (3.03%) HTML
1 2 (3.03%) React
2 1 (1.52%) LDAP
2 1 (1.52%) OAuth
2 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.52%) OpenID
2 1 (1.52%) REST
2 1 (1.52%) SAML
2 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Operational Technology
2 8 (12.12%) IoT
3 7 (10.61%) Driving Licence
4 6 (9.09%) SCADA
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) PKI
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.52%) Clustering
7 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.52%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.52%) NHS
7 1 (1.52%) PMI
7 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (27.27%) Windows
2 17 (25.76%) Windows Server
3 10 (15.15%) Linux
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.52%) VMS
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.27%) DevOps
2 16 (24.24%) Load Balancing
3 13 (19.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (19.70%) ITIL
4 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 10 (15.15%) Agile
6 8 (12.12%) Customer Experience
7 7 (10.61%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.61%) Proactive Monitoring
7 7 (10.61%) Zero Trust
8 6 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.09%) SIEM
9 5 (7.58%) Identity Management
9 5 (7.58%) ITSM
9 5 (7.58%) Service Management
9 5 (7.58%) Software Engineering
10 4 (6.06%) Change Management
10 4 (6.06%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.58%) Python
3 3 (4.55%) Bash
3 3 (4.55%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) Groovy
4 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.09%) CCNA
4 6 (9.09%) CCNP
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.06%) Degree
6 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.03%) CCSP
7 2 (3.03%) CISM
7 2 (3.03%) CISSP
7 2 (3.03%) MCSE
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.52%) CCIE
8 1 (1.52%) CCSE
8 1 (1.52%) CRISC
8 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.55%) ISA99
3 3 (4.55%) NIST
4 2 (3.03%) GDPR
4 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.03%) NCSC
4 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.52%) GxP
5 1 (1.52%) PMO
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) Squid
3 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.03%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Docker
4 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Ansible
1 5 (7.58%) Terraform
2 3 (4.55%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.52%) Packer
4 1 (1.52%) Puppet
4 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (37.88%) Cisco
2 17 (25.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (22.73%) VMware
4 14 (21.21%) Palo Alto
5 8 (12.12%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.58%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
7 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
8 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.55%) Google
8 3 (4.55%) Qualys
8 3 (4.55%) Rockwell
9 2 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (3.03%) F5
9 2 (3.03%) Mitel
9 2 (3.03%) PagerDuty
9 2 (3.03%) Trend Micro
10 1 (1.52%) NetApp
10 1 (1.52%) Siemens
10 1 (1.52%) Wyse