Firewall Contracts in Essex

Firewall
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 15 17 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Firewall 5 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.25% 6.76% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.46% 45.45% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 3
10th Percentile - £420 £384
25th Percentile £325 £465 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -38.20% -0.65% +26.47%
75th Percentile £361 £581 £603
90th Percentile £377 £600 £631
East of England median daily rate £513 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +7.89% +5.56% +2.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 33 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 16.25% 14.86% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 17
10th Percentile £223 £250 £105
25th Percentile £243 £349 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £530 £230
Median % change year-on-year -43.34% +130.22% -45.88%
75th Percentile £335 £551 £363
90th Percentile £430 £599 £594
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £200.00 £11.64 -
Median % change year-on-year +1618.21% - -
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Essex

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Essex 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
Basildon +3 2 £375 -37.50% 13
Harlow - 2 £330 - 1
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Field Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Integration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) VMware