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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 38 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 54 51 86
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.60% 4.03% 4.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.58% 21.43% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 41
10th Percentile £260 £275 £273
25th Percentile £400 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £700 £597 £575
90th Percentile £736 £695 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £23.05 - £69.38
25th Percentile £26.88 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -72.41% +326.47%
75th Percentile £49.63 £24.66 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.15 £46.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +23.64% -58.32% +77.27%

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 229 238 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.26% 18.78% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 112 210
10th Percentile £169 £220 £223
25th Percentile £213 £290 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +4.17% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £682 £600 £638
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 40 70
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.17 £20.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £22.62 £50.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% -24.18% +1.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £82.00 £70.33 £73.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +26.38%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +3 17 £588 - 14
Hertfordshire -10 17 £475 -13.64% 29
Bedfordshire -11 14 £400 -23.81% 3
Suffolk - 3 £535 - 2
Essex -13 2 £325 +13.04% 6
Norfolk -22 1 - - 1
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 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
5 5 (9.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) IaaS
8 1 (1.85%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) PaaS
8 1 (1.85%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) VPN
2 14 (25.93%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (24.07%) VLAN
4 11 (20.37%) WAN
5 10 (18.52%) DHCP
5 10 (18.52%) DNS
5 10 (18.52%) Wireless
6 9 (16.67%) LAN
6 9 (16.67%) Network Security
7 7 (12.96%) BGP
7 7 (12.96%) OSPF
7 7 (12.96%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (11.11%) SD-WAN
8 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 4 (7.41%) WLAN
10 3 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (3.70%) 802.11
11 2 (3.70%) BIG-IP
11 2 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (3.70%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (14.81%) Games
2 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Network Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Administrator
8 3 (5.56%) Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Architect
8 3 (5.56%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.70%) Designer
9 2 (3.70%) DevOps Administrator
9 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
9 2 (3.70%) Network Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Network Security Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (1.85%) JWT
2 1 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Operational Technology
2 5 (9.26%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.70%) CCTV
4 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.70%) PKI
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.85%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 17 (31.48%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Linux
3 8 (14.81%) Android
3 8 (14.81%) Mac OS
4 5 (9.26%) Windows Server
5 4 (7.41%) VMS
6 2 (3.70%) CentOS
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.37%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (18.52%) DevOps
2 10 (18.52%) SIEM
3 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 9 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 8 (14.81%) Cloud Security
4 8 (14.81%) E-Commerce
4 8 (14.81%) Threat Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.96%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.96%) Security Operations
5 7 (12.96%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 7 (12.96%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (11.11%) Migration
6 6 (11.11%) SOAR
7 5 (9.26%) Agile
7 5 (9.26%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 13 (24.07%) Python
3 4 (7.41%) Bash
4 2 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (1.85%) Java
5 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.52%) CCNP
3 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 8 (14.81%) Degree
5 4 (7.41%) CCIE
5 4 (7.41%) CCNA
5 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.70%) CCIE Security
7 2 (3.70%) CISSP
7 2 (3.70%) GIAC
7 2 (3.70%) SANS
8 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NIST
2 3 (5.56%) GxP
2 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) GPG13
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.85%) Docker
5 1 (1.85%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (14.81%) SCCM
2 8 (14.81%) Terraform
3 6 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (7.41%) FortiGate
4 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.85%) Istio
6 1 (1.85%) Nagios
6 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.85%) Puppet
6 1 (1.85%) Salt
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) Cisco
2 21 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.93%) Palo Alto
4 13 (24.07%) Meraki
5 12 (22.22%) Splunk
6 9 (16.67%) Fortinet
6 9 (16.67%) VMware
7 6 (11.11%) Google
8 4 (7.41%) Zscaler
9 3 (5.56%) Citrix
9 3 (5.56%) LabWare
10 2 (3.70%) Aruba
10 2 (3.70%) Clearswift
10 2 (3.70%) Dell
10 2 (3.70%) F5
10 2 (3.70%) Huawei
10 2 (3.70%) Intel
10 2 (3.70%) Peregrine
10 2 (3.70%) Remedy
10 2 (3.70%) Wyse