Firewall Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Firewall
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 59 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 3 18
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.90% 0.68% 3.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.63% 8.82% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £361 £493 £387
25th Percentile £475 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.00% -7.37%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £490
90th Percentile £598 £608 £544
South West median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
South West median hourly rate £17.79 - £65.98
% change year-on-year - - +29.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 34 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.02% 7.73% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 33
10th Percentile £221 £196 £386
25th Percentile £270 £424 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year -17.82% -4.08% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £688
90th Percentile £636 £586 £768
South West median daily rate £486 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.18
25th Percentile - - £24.19
Median hourly rate - - £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.91%
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £78.25
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -5.60%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Gloucestershire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Gloucester - 3 £500 - 4
Cheltenham +23 2 £458 -12.86% 5
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PC Support
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) ITSM
1 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) NetScout
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) VMware