Firewall Contracts in East Sussex

Firewall
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 2.63% 5.88% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 27.78% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £228 £430 -
25th Percentile £334 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -32.14% +129.51%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - £490 -
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +2.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 18 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 5.26% 21.18% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 13
10th Percentile £263 £308 £395
25th Percentile £423 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -32.14% +109.74%
75th Percentile £563 £545 £820
90th Percentile £608 £556 £845
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in East Sussex

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in East Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in East Sussex

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in East Sussex over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in East Sussex

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in East Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in East Sussex

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Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Brighton -6 2 £525 +10.53% 14
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Email Filtering
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) D-Link
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Veeam
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) WatchGuard