Firewall Contracts in England

Firewall
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1,118 1,366 2,016
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.49% 3.62% 4.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.81% 28.22% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 850 1,408
10th Percentile £325 £289 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.84%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 46 58
10th Percentile - £17.25 £21.96
25th Percentile £14.20 £23.92 £36.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £60.00 £62.28
Median % change year-on-year -54.17% -3.65% +118.51%
75th Percentile £31.00 £85.65 £74.13
90th Percentile £52.40 £87.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -50.00% -4.08% +39.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,212 4,841 5,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.91% 12.83% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,993 2,881 3,862
10th Percentile £225 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £363 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £731
UK median daily rate £484 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.20% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 393 406
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.41 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £35.75 £43.00 £18.37
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +134.08% -23.17%
75th Percentile £64.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £72.90 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +110.53% -32.93%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
London +11 495 £525 +0.96% 1,515
North of England +11 189 £475 -13.64% 690
South East -1 172 £500 +2.56% 643
North West +8 113 £473 -31.27% 361
Midlands -9 92 £492 +2.07% 462
South West -5 82 £485 -2.02% 305
Yorkshire +24 74 £490 -4.95% 275
West Midlands -7 64 £525 +10.53% 266
East of England +28 52 £525 +14.25% 344
East Midlands +6 28 £492 -2.33% 196
North East -2 2 £500 +33.33% 56
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 78 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 30 (2.68%) Confluence
4 18 (1.61%) IBM Domino
5 6 (0.54%) Apache
6 5 (0.45%) CMS
6 5 (0.45%) IIS
6 5 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.27%) JBoss
7 3 (0.27%) nginx
7 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.089%) Camunda
9 1 (0.089%) WinCC
Applications
1 35 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Alphatax
1 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.18%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.089%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.089%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 333 (29.79%) Azure
2 215 (19.23%) AWS
3 127 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (6.98%) Entra ID
5 74 (6.62%) GCP
6 63 (5.64%) IaaS
7 39 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (3.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 36 (3.22%) Serverless
9 34 (3.04%) PaaS
10 31 (2.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (2.33%) GitHub
13 24 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (1.79%) SaaS
16 19 (1.70%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.43%) Akamai
18 15 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 282 (25.22%) VPN
2 264 (23.61%) Network Security
3 213 (19.05%) DNS
4 203 (18.16%) WAN
5 163 (14.58%) BGP
6 156 (13.95%) OSPF
7 125 (11.18%) LAN
8 120 (10.73%) Wireless
9 113 (10.11%) DHCP
10 105 (9.39%) TCP/IP
11 93 (8.32%) SD-WAN
12 86 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
13 79 (7.07%) Cisco ASA
13 79 (7.07%) IPsec
14 77 (6.89%) VLAN
15 68 (6.08%) Cisco Nexus
16 62 (5.55%) MPLS
17 59 (5.28%) Cisco ISE
18 55 (4.92%) Cisco IOS
18 55 (4.92%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.04%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 11 (0.98%) Power BI
5 10 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.81%) Big Data
7 8 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.36%) MySQL
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.36%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.18%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.18%) GIS
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.089%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.089%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.089%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 44 (3.94%) JIRA
3 34 (3.04%) Git
4 20 (1.79%) GitLab
5 18 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.25%) Postman
7 5 (0.45%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.36%) Maven
8 4 (0.36%) Vagrant
9 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.18%) MSI
10 2 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.089%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.089%) Poetry
11 1 (0.089%) TeamCity
General
1 259 (23.17%) Social Skills
2 161 (14.40%) Finance
3 105 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (7.42%) Public Sector
5 59 (5.28%) Banking
6 50 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 30 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 19 (1.70%) Games
9 19 (1.70%) Legal
10 18 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (1.43%) Marketing
12 12 (1.07%) Military
13 11 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Law
14 8 (0.72%) Local Government
15 7 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.45%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 341 (30.50%) Network Engineer
2 146 (13.06%) Architect
3 96 (8.59%) Senior
4 89 (7.96%) Security Engineer
5 84 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 64 (5.72%) Network Architect
7 63 (5.64%) Analyst
8 57 (5.10%) Support Engineer
9 54 (4.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 51 (4.56%) Cisco Engineer
11 49 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (4.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 48 (4.29%) Security Architect
13 43 (3.85%) Lead
14 42 (3.76%) Network Security Engineer
15 35 (3.13%) Consultant
16 31 (2.77%) Firewall Engineer
17 30 (2.68%) Administrator
18 26 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
19 25 (2.24%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (3.04%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.52%) ARM Templates
2 17 (1.52%) LDAP
3 16 (1.43%) ADO
3 16 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (1.43%) REST
4 13 (1.16%) .NET
5 12 (1.07%) RFC 2544
6 9 (0.81%) JBoss Seam
7 8 (0.72%) JSON
8 6 (0.54%) Kafka
8 6 (0.54%) SAML
8 6 (0.54%) Web Services
8 6 (0.54%) XML
8 6 (0.54%) YAML
9 5 (0.45%) OAuth
9 5 (0.45%) OpenID
9 5 (0.45%) Spine.js
10 4 (0.36%) OAuth2
11 3 (0.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.43%) Data Centre
2 40 (3.58%) PKI
3 39 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 38 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.50%) Operational Technology
7 25 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
9 17 (1.52%) Anti-Spyware
9 17 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
9 17 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.25%) Replication
12 12 (1.07%) Clustering
12 12 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.07%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.07%) Public Cloud
13 11 (0.98%) SCADA
13 11 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 240 (21.47%) Windows
2 131 (11.72%) Linux
3 85 (7.60%) Windows Server
4 42 (3.76%) Windows 10
5 29 (2.59%) Mac OS
6 25 (2.24%) Android
7 17 (1.52%) Unix
8 16 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.81%) Solaris
10 9 (0.81%) VMS
11 8 (0.72%) CentOS
12 6 (0.54%) Check Point GAiA
12 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
13 5 (0.45%) CatOS
13 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
14 4 (0.36%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
2 151 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
3 149 (13.33%) DevOps
4 144 (12.88%) Migration
5 125 (11.18%) Agile
6 107 (9.57%) Cloud Security
6 107 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 104 (9.30%) SIEM
8 101 (9.03%) ITIL
9 100 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 85 (7.60%) Network Architecture
11 81 (7.25%) Network Monitoring
12 76 (6.80%) High Availability
12 76 (6.80%) Incident Response
13 75 (6.71%) Change Management
13 75 (6.71%) Security Operations
14 71 (6.35%) CI/CD
15 67 (5.99%) Information Security
15 67 (5.99%) Project Delivery
16 62 (5.55%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 163 (14.58%) Python
2 161 (14.40%) PowerShell
3 49 (4.38%) Bash
4 34 (3.04%) SQL
5 33 (2.95%) Bicep
6 20 (1.79%) Java
7 17 (1.52%) Perl
8 11 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.54%) C#
11 5 (0.45%) Groovy
11 5 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.36%) PHP
13 3 (0.27%) C++
13 3 (0.27%) Go
13 3 (0.27%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.18%) VBScript
15 1 (0.089%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.089%) C
15 1 (0.089%) VB
Qualifications
1 320 (28.62%) Security Cleared
2 236 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 218 (19.50%) Cisco Certification
4 164 (14.67%) CCNP
5 107 (9.57%) Degree
6 97 (8.68%) CCNA
7 78 (6.98%) DV Cleared
8 52 (4.65%) CISSP
8 52 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (3.94%) Azure Certification
10 40 (3.58%) CCIE
11 31 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (2.42%) CISM
13 21 (1.88%) CCSE
14 20 (1.79%) AWS Certification
15 19 (1.70%) CEH
16 16 (1.43%) CCSA
17 14 (1.25%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (1.25%) JNCIA
18 13 (1.16%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.83%) NIST
2 42 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (3.67%) GDPR
4 27 (2.42%) SLA
5 18 (1.61%) HIPAA
5 18 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 11 (0.98%) GRC
7 10 (0.89%) NCSC
7 10 (0.89%) QA
8 9 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.54%) GxP
9 6 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 167 (14.94%) Active Directory
2 96 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (4.56%) Docker
4 38 (3.40%) vSphere
5 23 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 23 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.70%) VMware NSX
8 16 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
9 13 (1.16%) DFS Replication
10 12 (1.07%) Firmware
11 10 (0.89%) BitLocker
11 10 (0.89%) Terminal Services
12 6 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 5 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.36%) iptables
14 4 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 3 (0.27%) XenApp
16 1 (0.089%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 158 (14.13%) Ansible
2 126 (11.27%) Terraform
3 78 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 75 (6.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 53 (4.74%) FortiGate
5 53 (4.74%) Puppet
6 52 (4.65%) SCCM
7 23 (2.06%) vCenter Server
8 20 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.61%) Nagios
10 17 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.43%) Grafana
12 15 (1.34%) Prometheus
13 14 (1.25%) SELinux
14 12 (1.07%) CASB
15 11 (0.98%) ZABBIX
16 10 (0.89%) vMotion
17 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
17 8 (0.72%) PowerCLI
18 7 (0.63%) QRadar
Vendors
1 446 (39.89%) Cisco
2 291 (26.03%) Microsoft
3 204 (18.25%) Palo Alto
4 155 (13.86%) CheckPoint
5 137 (12.25%) VMware
6 121 (10.82%) Fortinet
7 102 (9.12%) F5
8 86 (7.69%) Juniper
9 82 (7.33%) SolarWinds
10 76 (6.80%) Meraki
11 59 (5.28%) Splunk
12 47 (4.20%) Google
13 40 (3.58%) ServiceNow
14 39 (3.49%) Arista
15 37 (3.31%) Infoblox
16 34 (3.04%) Aruba
17 29 (2.59%) Oracle
18 28 (2.50%) Zscaler
19 27 (2.42%) Citrix
20 23 (2.06%) HP