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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 43 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 76 49 50
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.27% 3.80% 3.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.85% 22.90% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 25 25
10th Percentile £460 £333 £196
25th Percentile £503 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +0.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £575
90th Percentile £603 £746 £603
England median daily rate £504 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £61.88 - -
25th Percentile £62.81 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% +50.00% -72.41%
75th Percentile £66.56 £68.25 £20.56
90th Percentile £67.13 £90.60 £25.48
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +124.90% -17.24% -45.06%

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 294 214 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.66% 16.59% 16.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 90 105
10th Percentile £303 £225 £202
25th Percentile £400 £363 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £528 £413
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +27.88% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £700 £588
England median daily rate £500 £492 £508
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.05% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 62 64
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.73 £29.00 £19.08
Median hourly rate £67.50 £58.25 £44.28
Median % change year-on-year +15.88% +31.55% -31.88%
75th Percentile £73.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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
Hertfordshire -5 27 £600 +26.32% 14
Essex +1 22 £550 +57.14% 11
Suffolk -1 14 £525 +0.96%
Bedfordshire +2 6 £518 +7.25% 2
Cambridgeshire -14 5 £530 -5.78% 10
Norfolk - 2 £425 - 2
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 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) GCP
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.16%) AWS
4 10 (13.16%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.58%) Mimecast
5 5 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (5.26%) SaaS
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (3.95%) Serverless
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.63%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (36.84%) VPN
2 22 (28.95%) Network Security
3 18 (23.68%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (22.37%) DNS
5 13 (17.11%) WAN
6 9 (11.84%) IPsec
6 9 (11.84%) LAN
6 9 (11.84%) VLAN
7 6 (7.89%) Broadband
7 6 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
7 6 (7.89%) DHCP
7 6 (7.89%) TCP/IP
7 6 (7.89%) Wireless
8 5 (6.58%) NAS
8 5 (6.58%) SAN
9 4 (5.26%) BGP
10 3 (3.95%) NGFW
11 2 (2.63%) ADSL
11 2 (2.63%) MPLS
11 2 (2.63%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) Git
3 2 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Banking
3 10 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Automotive
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber-Physical System
6 1 (1.32%) Electronics
6 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (18.42%) Senior
2 12 (15.79%) Network Engineer
2 12 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Developer
3 10 (13.16%) Java Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Backend Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Software Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Designer
5 8 (10.53%) IAM Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Java Software Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Network Designer
6 7 (9.21%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Consultant
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 5 (6.58%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.95%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) CSS
3 2 (2.63%) HTML
3 2 (2.63%) OAuth
3 2 (2.63%) React
4 1 (1.32%) LDAP
4 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.32%) OpenID
4 1 (1.32%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) SAML
4 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) IoT
1 5 (6.58%) Replication
2 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
3 3 (3.95%) SCADA
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) BYOD
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.32%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.32%) PMI
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.26%) Windows
2 17 (22.37%) Linux
2 17 (22.37%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.89%) CentOS
4 6 (7.89%) Rocky
5 5 (6.58%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.63%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (2.63%) Unix
7 1 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (1.32%) VMS
7 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) DevOps
2 25 (32.89%) Load Balancing
3 20 (26.32%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 19 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (18.42%) Identity Access Management
6 14 (18.42%) Identity Management
6 14 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (13.16%) Migration
8 10 (13.16%) Web Development
9 8 (10.53%) ITIL
10 6 (7.89%) Change Management
10 6 (7.89%) Customer Experience
10 6 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (7.89%) Incident Response
10 6 (7.89%) Roadmaps
11 5 (6.58%) Antivirus Management
11 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.79%) Java
3 7 (9.21%) Python
4 5 (6.58%) Bash
5 2 (2.63%) Groovy
5 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.47%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (9.21%) CCNP
5 3 (3.95%) CCNA
5 3 (3.95%) CCSP
5 3 (3.95%) CISSP
5 3 (3.95%) Degree
5 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.63%) CISM
6 2 (2.63%) MCSE
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.32%) CCIE
7 1 (1.32%) CRISC
7 1 (1.32%) CWNA
7 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.58%) GDPR
3 3 (3.95%) ISA99
3 3 (3.95%) NCSC
3 3 (3.95%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 13 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.26%) vSphere
4 3 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.63%) Squid
5 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Ansible
2 6 (7.89%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) SCCM
3 2 (2.63%) SCOM
3 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.32%) Packer
4 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.05%) Cisco
3 14 (18.42%) VMware
4 8 (10.53%) NetApp
4 8 (10.53%) Palo Alto
4 8 (10.53%) Veeam
5 5 (6.58%) Adobe
5 5 (6.58%) Meraki
5 5 (6.58%) Sophos
5 5 (6.58%) Synology
5 5 (6.58%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (5.26%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.26%) Google
6 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.95%) Forcepoint
7 3 (3.95%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.63%) F5
8 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.63%) Remedy
8 2 (2.63%) Trend Micro