Firewall Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Firewall
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -45 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 43 57 98
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.23% 5.99% 6.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.55% 28.22% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 45
10th Percentile £313 £438 £405
25th Percentile £453 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £634
90th Percentile £775 £623 £638
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £44.86 - -
25th Percentile £47.65 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £56.00 £23.49 £80.25
% change year-on-year +138.45% -70.73% +24.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 202 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.69% 21.24% 25.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 150 183
10th Percentile £286 £325 £415
25th Percentile £513 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -2.13% +30.56%
75th Percentile £628 £613 £638
90th Percentile £775 £650 £678
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 66
10th Percentile £46.25 £49.10 £23.13
25th Percentile £48.64 £51.42 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £55.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -4.10% -1.46%
75th Percentile £56.21 £58.73 £63.14
90th Percentile £56.86 £60.38 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.10% -0.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Hampshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Portsmouth +3 15 £436 -30.32% 1
Basingstoke -15 9 £550 -4.35% 2
Farnborough -24 6 £550 +15.79% 14
Southampton -18 4 £525 -12.50% 7
Andover - 3 £450 -
Tadley - 2 £42 -
Eastleigh -14 1 £600 +20.00%
Havant - 1 - -
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 4 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
2 3 (6.98%) IIS
2 3 (6.98%) nginx
2 3 (6.98%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.65%) CMS
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.65%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) Cloudflare
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.91%) WAN
2 11 (25.58%) DNS
3 9 (20.93%) LAN
4 8 (18.60%) VPN
5 7 (16.28%) VLAN
6 6 (13.95%) DHCP
6 6 (13.95%) Wireless
7 5 (11.63%) BGP
8 4 (9.30%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (9.30%) Network Security
8 4 (9.30%) OSPF
9 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
10 2 (4.65%) BIG-IP
10 2 (4.65%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (4.65%) Junos
10 2 (4.65%) NAS
10 2 (4.65%) SAN
10 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
10 2 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (2.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
1 2 (4.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Military
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Network Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Administrator
4 5 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Network Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Network Specialist
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.65%) IT Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) IT Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Network Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) 802.1X
1 5 (11.63%) YAML
2 3 (6.98%) LAMP
2 3 (6.98%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (6.98%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.30%) BYOD
3 2 (4.65%) CMDB
3 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) PKI
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.98%) CentOS
4 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (11.63%) High Availability
1 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (11.63%) ITIL
1 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
2 4 (9.30%) Load Balancing
2 4 (9.30%) Observability
2 4 (9.30%) Security Architecture
3 3 (6.98%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (6.98%) Identity Management
3 3 (6.98%) Integration Testing
3 3 (6.98%) Network Architecture
3 3 (6.98%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (6.98%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (6.98%) Zero Trust
4 2 (4.65%) Containerisation
4 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (4.65%) Key Management
4 2 (4.65%) RBAC
4 2 (4.65%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Bash
3 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (65.12%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (23.26%) DV Cleared
4 7 (16.28%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (13.95%) CCNP
6 4 (9.30%) CCNA
7 2 (4.65%) CISSP
7 2 (4.65%) Degree
8 1 (2.33%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) JSP 440
2 4 (9.30%) NCSC
3 2 (4.65%) NIST
3 2 (4.65%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
1 8 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.30%) VMware NSX
3 3 (6.98%) Dovecot
3 3 (6.98%) Postfix
4 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Ansible
2 5 (11.63%) Terraform
3 3 (6.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (6.98%) HAProxy
4 2 (4.65%) Endace
4 2 (4.65%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Cisco
2 12 (27.91%) VMware
3 8 (18.60%) Juniper
4 7 (16.28%) F5
5 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
6 5 (11.63%) Fortinet
6 5 (11.63%) Palo Alto
7 4 (9.30%) Aruba
8 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
9 2 (4.65%) Meraki
9 2 (4.65%) SolarWinds
9 2 (4.65%) Splunk
10 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.33%) Dell
10 1 (2.33%) Mellanox
10 1 (2.33%) NVIDIA
10 1 (2.33%) Zerto