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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 43 44
Rank change year-on-year -19 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 43 50 67
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.67% 4.40% 3.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.20% 22.22% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 31
10th Percentile £356 £275 £313
25th Percentile £421 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £588
90th Percentile - £751 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £20.55 - -
25th Percentile £20.63 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +33.33% -9.45%
75th Percentile £63.50 £20.42 £15.50
90th Percentile £88.70 £47.16 -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +106.19%

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 224 225 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.91% 19.81% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 107 181
10th Percentile £164 £213 £250
25th Percentile £213 £276 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £500
90th Percentile £675 £613 £600
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 35 67
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.00 £19.09
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.46 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.50 £35.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.57% -46.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 0 19 £460 -20.00% 27
Hertfordshire -23 11 £700 +27.27% 26
Bedfordshire -10 10 £438 -14.63% 12
Norfolk -23 2 - - 4
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 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 3 (6.98%) Apache
1 3 (6.98%) IIS
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) AWS
3 6 (13.95%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.95%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.98%) Mimecast
5 3 (6.98%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) PaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (37.21%) VPN
2 11 (25.58%) DNS
2 11 (25.58%) Network Security
3 9 (20.93%) DHCP
3 9 (20.93%) VLAN
4 7 (16.28%) TCP/IP
4 7 (16.28%) WAN
5 5 (11.63%) LAN
5 5 (11.63%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (9.30%) BGP
6 4 (9.30%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (9.30%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (9.30%) OSPF
6 4 (9.30%) SD-WAN
6 4 (9.30%) Wireless
7 2 (4.65%) 802.11
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (4.65%) SAN
8 1 (2.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (11.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Games
4 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.93%) Security Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Firewall Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) IT Support
7 3 (6.98%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Switch Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (4.65%) Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) DevOps Administrator
8 2 (4.65%) Network Security Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior IT Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.65%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) JWT
2 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (11.63%) Operational Technology
2 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.98%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.65%) CCTV
4 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.65%) PKI
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Replication
5 1 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.88%) Windows
2 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.30%) VMS
4 2 (4.65%) Android
4 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.33%) CentOS
5 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.26%) SIEM
2 9 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (20.93%) Incident Response
2 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (18.60%) Network Segmentation
3 8 (18.60%) Threat Intelligence
4 7 (16.28%) Agile
4 7 (16.28%) Cloud Security
4 7 (16.28%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (16.28%) Security Operations
4 7 (16.28%) Task Automation
4 7 (16.28%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 7 (16.28%) Vulnerability Management
4 7 (16.28%) Zero Trust
5 6 (13.95%) Migration
5 6 (13.95%) SOAR
6 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 2 (4.65%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
3 8 (18.60%) CCNP
4 7 (16.28%) Degree
4 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
5 4 (9.30%) CCIE
6 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (4.65%) CCIE Security
7 2 (4.65%) CCNA
7 2 (4.65%) CISSP
7 2 (4.65%) GIAC
8 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.33%) MCSE
8 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.98%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) GxP
3 1 (2.33%) GPG13
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (25.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (18.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Ansible
2 4 (9.30%) FortiGate
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) SCCM
3 2 (4.65%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.33%) Istio
4 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Cisco
1 22 (51.16%) Palo Alto
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.91%) VMware
3 6 (13.95%) Fortinet
3 6 (13.95%) Google
3 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.95%) Splunk
4 4 (9.30%) Meraki
5 3 (6.98%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (6.98%) Citrix
5 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.98%) Zscaler
6 2 (4.65%) Aruba
6 2 (4.65%) Dell
6 2 (4.65%) Intel
6 2 (4.65%) LabWare
6 2 (4.65%) Wyse
7 1 (2.33%) CloudEndure
7 1 (2.33%) Extreme Networks