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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 39 49
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 42 48 69
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.41% 4.52% 3.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.59% 20.78% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 37
10th Percentile £184 £275 £290
25th Percentile £356 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £551
90th Percentile £601 £756 £628
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £20.53 - -
25th Percentile £20.56 - £14.50
Median hourly rate £20.88 £20.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +33.33% -7.01%
75th Percentile £21.31 £47.16 £15.50
90th Percentile £21.43 £73.75 -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +57.04%

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 204 231 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.69% 21.73% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 117 170
10th Percentile £168 £208 £250
25th Percentile £212 £275 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.47% +1.18%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £488
90th Percentile £584 £625 £591
England median daily rate £488 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 38 75
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.63 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.93 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% -50.77% +14.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £70.10 £71.13 -
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.89% -30.00% +143.90%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +6 20 £435 -24.35% 14
Bedfordshire -10 9 £475 +18.75% 8
Norfolk -22 8 £212 - 4
Hertfordshire -29 4 £475 -13.64% 23
Suffolk - 1 £550 - 5
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 (11.90%) Apache
1 5 (11.90%) IIS
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 6 (14.29%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Azure
4 3 (7.14%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) Mimecast
4 3 (7.14%) Nutanix
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) Route 53
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.95%) Network Security
1 13 (30.95%) VPN
2 11 (26.19%) DNS
3 9 (21.43%) WAN
4 8 (19.05%) LAN
5 7 (16.67%) DHCP
6 6 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 5 (11.90%) VLAN
7 5 (11.90%) Wireless
8 4 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
9 3 (7.14%) WLAN
10 2 (4.76%) 802.11
10 2 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (2.38%) MPLS
11 1 (2.38%) NX-OS
11 1 (2.38%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.38%) Back Office
3 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Network Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) IT Support
3 5 (11.90%) Security Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
3 5 (11.90%) Switch Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Network Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Network Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.76%) DevOps Administrator
6 2 (4.76%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) JWT
2 1 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.76%) CCTV
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) NHS
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) PKI
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) CSOC
4 1 (2.38%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (38.10%) Windows
2 14 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 11 (26.19%) Linux
4 4 (9.52%) VMS
5 1 (2.38%) CentOS
5 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (19.05%) ITIL
2 8 (19.05%) Zero Trust
3 7 (16.67%) Agile
3 7 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (14.29%) Service Management
5 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps
5 5 (11.90%) Incident Response
5 5 (11.90%) ITSM
5 5 (11.90%) Network Architecture
5 5 (11.90%) PRINCE2
5 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.90%) Server Building
5 5 (11.90%) SIEM
6 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.52%) Task Automation
6 4 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 3 (7.14%) CCIE
5 3 (7.14%) CCNA
5 3 (7.14%) CCNP
5 3 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.38%) CCIE Security
7 1 (2.38%) CCSE
7 1 (2.38%) CISSP
7 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.38%) GIAC
7 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.38%) MCSE
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (2.38%) GPG13
3 1 (2.38%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (2.38%) ProxySG
6 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Ansible
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.38%) Istio
5 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Cisco
2 19 (45.24%) Palo Alto
3 14 (33.33%) VMware
4 8 (19.05%) ServiceNow
5 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 6 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 5 (11.90%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (9.52%) Google
8 3 (7.14%) Dell
8 3 (7.14%) Meraki
9 2 (4.76%) CheckPoint
9 2 (4.76%) Citrix
9 2 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (4.76%) Intel
9 2 (4.76%) Mitel
9 2 (4.76%) Splunk
9 2 (4.76%) Wyse
9 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.38%) Blue Coat
10 1 (2.38%) CloudEndure