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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 66 40 61
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.10% 4.25% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.78% 17.32% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 39
10th Percentile £351 £325 £223
25th Percentile £394 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £574
90th Percentile £550 £640 £603
England median daily rate £501 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.75% +1.46% -4.65%
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 £56.00 £16.60 £68.25
% change year-on-year +237.35% -75.68% +10.08%

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 256 231 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.04% 24.52% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 128 150
10th Percentile £192 £225 £205
25th Percentile £311 £353 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +13.10% -11.58%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £488
90th Percentile £575 £625 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 54 102
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.93 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £58.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +22.63% -7.32%
75th Percentile £66.75 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.95% -8.39% +111.30%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 +4 18 £425 -21.30% 9
Suffolk +13 15 £525 +75.00% 4
Norfolk - 9 £331 - 4
Essex -6 8 £575 +74.24% 9
Hertfordshire -34 8 £550 - 15
Bedfordshire -4 7 £475 +11.76% 8
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 (7.58%) Apache
1 5 (7.58%) IIS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.79%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) Entra ID
3 9 (13.64%) AWS
4 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (6.06%) GCP
7 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (4.55%) Google Workspace
7 3 (4.55%) Mimecast
7 3 (4.55%) Nutanix
7 3 (4.55%) Route 53
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (36.36%) VPN
2 21 (31.82%) Network Security
3 16 (24.24%) WAN
3 16 (24.24%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (22.73%) LAN
5 14 (21.21%) IPsec
6 12 (18.18%) DNS
7 7 (10.61%) Broadband
8 6 (9.09%) DHCP
9 5 (7.58%) MPLS
10 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
10 4 (6.06%) VLAN
11 3 (4.55%) 4G
11 3 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (4.55%) SSL
11 3 (4.55%) Wireless
11 3 (4.55%) WLAN
12 2 (3.03%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) GitLab
2 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.03%) Finance
4 2 (3.03%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.52%) Back Office
5 1 (1.52%) Banking
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 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Architect
5 6 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior
6 5 (7.58%) Switch Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
7 4 (6.06%) Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Network Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (4.55%) Network Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) REST
2 2 (3.03%) CSS
2 2 (3.03%) HTML
2 2 (3.03%) React
3 1 (1.52%) LDAP
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.52%) OpenID
3 1 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Operational Technology
2 8 (12.12%) IoT
3 6 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 6 (9.09%) SCADA
4 5 (7.58%) PKI
4 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.03%) NHS
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.52%) Clustering
7 1 (1.52%) CSOC
7 1 (1.52%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Windows
1 20 (30.30%) Windows Server
2 11 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (4.55%) VMS
4 1 (1.52%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.76%) DevOps
2 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (21.21%) ITIL
4 13 (19.70%) Load Balancing
5 9 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 9 (13.64%) Zero Trust
6 8 (12.12%) Agile
6 8 (12.12%) Customer Experience
6 8 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.61%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (10.61%) SIEM
8 6 (9.09%) Incident Response
8 6 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
8 6 (9.09%) Service Management
9 5 (7.58%) Change Management
9 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.58%) ITSM
9 5 (7.58%) PRINCE2
9 5 (7.58%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.61%) Python
3 2 (3.03%) Bash
3 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.52%) Groovy
4 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.09%) CCNA
4 6 (9.09%) CCNP
4 6 (9.09%) Degree
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.03%) CCSP
6 2 (3.03%) CISM
6 2 (3.03%) CISSP
6 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.52%) CCIE
7 1 (1.52%) CCSE
7 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.52%) CRISC
7 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.52%) MCSE
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.06%) NIST
3 3 (4.55%) ISA99
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%) GPG13
5 1 (1.52%) GxP
5 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 14 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.03%) vSphere
5 1 (1.52%) Docker
5 1 (1.52%) ProxySG
5 1 (1.52%) Squid
5 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Ansible
1 6 (9.09%) Terraform
2 5 (7.58%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (37.88%) Cisco
2 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 16 (24.24%) VMware
4 15 (22.73%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.64%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.09%) Google
6 6 (9.09%) SolarWinds
7 5 (7.58%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (6.06%) CheckPoint
9 3 (4.55%) Citrix
9 3 (4.55%) Qualys
9 3 (4.55%) Rockwell
9 3 (4.55%) Wyse
10 2 (3.03%) Aruba
10 2 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (3.03%) F5
10 2 (3.03%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.03%) Mitel
11 1 (1.52%) Blue Coat
11 1 (1.52%) NetApp