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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 45 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +22
Contract jobs citing Firewall 47 51 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.60% 3.32% 4.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.38% 19.69% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 53
10th Percentile £318 £199 £273
25th Percentile £411 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £700 £575 £600
90th Percentile £757 £593 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile £29.00 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -72.41% +237.21%
75th Percentile £68.25 £24.66 £73.75
90th Percentile £90.60 £46.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £65.99
% change year-on-year -25.00% -39.38% +63.89%

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 210 259 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.10% 16.85% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 111 206
10th Percentile £213 £200 £203
25th Percentile £363 £263 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £588 £675
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 62 54
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.37 £17.06
25th Percentile £30.87 £20.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £62.00 £49.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.81% -24.18% +30.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £87.25 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +14 17 £613 +6.52% 17
Hertfordshire +13 16 £475 -5.00% 39
Bedfordshire -15 10 £483 -12.27% 5
Essex -8 2 £325 +13.04% 6
Suffolk - 2 £520 - 3
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.02%) AWS
4 6 (12.77%) Azure Sentinel
4 6 (12.77%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.13%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.13%) OCI
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (29.79%) Cisco IOS
2 13 (27.66%) VLAN
2 13 (27.66%) VPN
3 8 (17.02%) DHCP
3 8 (17.02%) DNS
3 8 (17.02%) WAN
3 8 (17.02%) Wireless
4 7 (14.89%) BGP
4 7 (14.89%) OSPF
5 6 (12.77%) Network Security
5 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
6 5 (10.64%) LAN
6 5 (10.64%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
7 4 (8.51%) WLAN
8 3 (6.38%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (4.26%) 802.11
9 2 (4.26%) BIG-IP
9 2 (4.26%) IPsec
9 2 (4.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (17.02%) Games
2 6 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Network Engineer
1 10 (21.28%) Security Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Senior
5 4 (8.51%) Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.26%) Designer
7 2 (4.26%) DevOps Administrator
7 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) IT Security Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Network Administrator
7 2 (4.26%) Network Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (10.64%) Operational Technology
3 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.38%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.26%) CCTV
5 2 (4.26%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.13%) Replication
6 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Windows
2 8 (17.02%) Android
2 8 (17.02%) Mac OS
3 6 (12.77%) Linux
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.26%) CentOS
5 2 (4.26%) VMS
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (19.15%) SIEM
3 8 (17.02%) Cloud Security
3 8 (17.02%) E-Commerce
3 8 (17.02%) Task Automation
4 7 (14.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps
4 7 (14.89%) Incident Response
4 7 (14.89%) Security Operations
4 7 (14.89%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 7 (14.89%) Threat Intelligence
4 7 (14.89%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (12.77%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (12.77%) Agile
5 6 (12.77%) Case Management
5 6 (12.77%) Cyber Intelligence
5 6 (12.77%) Data Enrichment
5 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (12.77%) Migration
5 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) PowerShell
2 12 (25.53%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (4.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (19.15%) CCNP
3 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.77%) Degree
5 4 (8.51%) CCNA
5 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.38%) CCIE
6 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.26%) SANS
8 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.13%) CCIE Security
8 1 (2.13%) CISSP
8 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.13%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) GxP
1 3 (6.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (34.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (10.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (17.02%) SCCM
2 7 (14.89%) Ansible
3 5 (10.64%) Terraform
4 4 (8.51%) FortiGate
4 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.13%) Istio
5 1 (2.13%) Nagios
5 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (2.13%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (46.81%) Cisco
2 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
3 14 (29.79%) Palo Alto
4 13 (27.66%) Meraki
5 12 (25.53%) Splunk
6 8 (17.02%) Fortinet
7 6 (12.77%) VMware
8 4 (8.51%) Google
9 3 (6.38%) LabWare
10 2 (4.26%) Clearswift
10 2 (4.26%) Dell
10 2 (4.26%) F5
10 2 (4.26%) Huawei
10 2 (4.26%) Intel
10 2 (4.26%) Peregrine
10 2 (4.26%) Remedy
10 2 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.13%) Citrix
11 1 (2.13%) Juniper