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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 49 46 80
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.13% 3.76% 4.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.37% 19.66% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 40
10th Percentile £278 £275 £307
25th Percentile £400 £375 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £581
90th Percentile £736 £718 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £28.50 - £68.63
25th Percentile £40.50 - £70.31
Median hourly rate £62.00 £20.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +210.00% -72.41% +326.47%
75th Percentile £84.50 £24.66 £74.06
90th Percentile £97.10 £46.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +27.27% -58.32% +72.00%

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 219 234 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.97% 19.13% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 109 196
10th Percentile £172 £220 £248
25th Percentile £213 £283 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £538
90th Percentile £680 £613 £613
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 42 73
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.24 £20.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.46 £50.00
Median hourly rate £49.75 £44.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -31.88% +3.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £73.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -38.22% -14.04% +25.53%

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 12 December 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 12 December 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 12 December 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 +7 18 £475 -20.83% 20
Hertfordshire -14 15 £700 +27.27% 22
Bedfordshire -8 12 £400 -23.81% 8
Suffolk - 3 £535 - 1
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 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) IIS
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Azure
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) GCP
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.20%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.08%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.08%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.08%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
6 1 (2.04%) IaaS
6 1 (2.04%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) VPN
2 12 (24.49%) DNS
3 11 (22.45%) VLAN
4 10 (20.41%) Cisco IOS
4 10 (20.41%) DHCP
5 9 (18.37%) Network Security
6 8 (16.33%) WAN
7 7 (14.29%) LAN
7 7 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 7 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (14.29%) Wireless
8 5 (10.20%) BGP
8 5 (10.20%) OSPF
8 5 (10.20%) SD-WAN
9 4 (8.16%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (4.08%) 802.11
10 2 (4.08%) BIG-IP
10 2 (4.08%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (4.08%) IPsec
10 2 (4.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) GitLab
2 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (12.24%) Games
1 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Security Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.08%) Administrator
7 2 (4.08%) Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Network Designer
7 2 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.08%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) JWT
2 1 (2.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 5 (10.20%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (10.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.12%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.08%) CCTV
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.08%) PKI
5 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.04%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.04%) NHS
6 1 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (2.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.69%) Windows
2 9 (18.37%) Linux
3 7 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 6 (12.24%) Android
4 6 (12.24%) Mac OS
5 4 (8.16%) VMS
6 2 (4.08%) CentOS
7 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (20.41%) SIEM
2 9 (18.37%) Incident Response
3 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (16.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 7 (14.29%) Agile
4 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 7 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 7 (14.29%) DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 7 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 7 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 7 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (12.24%) E-Commerce
5 6 (12.24%) ITIL
5 6 (12.24%) Migration
5 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (12.24%) SOAR
6 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.20%) Data Enrichment
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) PowerShell
2 10 (20.41%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) Bash
3 2 (4.08%) SQL
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.37%) CCNP
3 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.24%) Degree
5 4 (8.16%) CCIE
5 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.08%) CCIE Security
7 2 (4.08%) CCNA
7 2 (4.08%) CISSP
7 2 (4.08%) GIAC
8 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GxP
1 3 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.12%) NIST
2 1 (2.04%) GPG13
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) Docker
5 1 (2.04%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (12.24%) SCCM
3 5 (10.20%) Ansible
3 5 (10.20%) Terraform
4 4 (8.16%) FortiGate
5 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.08%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.04%) Istio
6 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
6 1 (2.04%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (46.94%) Cisco
2 18 (36.73%) Palo Alto
3 17 (34.69%) Microsoft
4 11 (22.45%) Meraki
5 10 (20.41%) Splunk
6 9 (18.37%) VMware
7 7 (14.29%) Fortinet
8 6 (12.24%) Google
9 3 (6.12%) Citrix
9 3 (6.12%) LabWare
9 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
9 3 (6.12%) Zscaler
10 2 (4.08%) Aruba
10 2 (4.08%) Dell
10 2 (4.08%) F5
10 2 (4.08%) Intel
10 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.08%) Wyse
11 1 (2.04%) Blue Coat
11 1 (2.04%) HP