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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 23 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 46 86 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.78% 6.27% 9.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.71% 28.67% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 78
10th Percentile £450 £406 £273
25th Percentile £500 £453 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £613 £634 £538
90th Percentile £665 £638 £591
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £26.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - -54.92% +20.15%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £63.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £54.89 £75.24 £70.05
% change year-on-year -27.06% +7.41% +250.25%

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 194 300 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.15% 21.88% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 145 149
10th Percentile £289 £413 £240
25th Percentile £500 £468 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -8.16%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £613
South East median daily rate £491 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -1.80% +8.70% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 54 39
10th Percentile £48.20 £39.82 £15.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.40 £46.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £72.63 £75.60
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £61.00
% change year-on-year -4.10% -5.98% +35.56%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Basingstoke +7 12 £575 +31.43% 12
Southampton 0 11 £588 -0.34% 8
Portsmouth +1 6 £625 +38.89% 3
Farnborough -9 5 £450 -28.00% 1
Eastleigh - 4 £500 -
Winchester +9 2 £603 -3.98%
Fleet -9 1 £447 - 1
Andover - 1 £213 - 1
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) Azure
3 10 (21.74%) GCP
4 8 (17.39%) IaaS
4 8 (17.39%) OpenShift
4 8 (17.39%) PaaS
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) VPN
2 10 (21.74%) DHCP
2 10 (21.74%) DNS
3 8 (17.39%) SMTP
4 7 (15.22%) BGP
4 7 (15.22%) OSPF
4 7 (15.22%) VLAN
5 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (8.70%) MPLS
6 4 (8.70%) Wireless
7 3 (6.52%) LAN
7 3 (6.52%) Multicast
7 3 (6.52%) Network Security
7 3 (6.52%) WAN
7 3 (6.52%) Wireshark
8 2 (4.35%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (2.17%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.17%) NX-OS
9 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (17.39%) Big Data
1 8 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.17%) Git
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Military
6 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Support Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (17.39%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Analyst
5 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Tester
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Junior
8 2 (4.35%) Junior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) MUnit
1 1 (2.17%) RAML
1 1 (2.17%) REST
1 1 (2.17%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Data Centre
1 12 (26.09%) PKI
2 8 (17.39%) Clustering
3 3 (6.52%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.35%) Fat Client
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.35%) Thin Client
5 1 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Linux
2 12 (26.09%) Windows
3 10 (21.74%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.35%) CentOS
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (4.35%) Solaris
5 2 (4.35%) Unix
5 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.35%) Windows 7
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) DevOps
2 8 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (17.39%) Machine Learning
2 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.39%) Software Deployment
3 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
4 6 (13.04%) ISMS
4 6 (13.04%) ITIL
5 5 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (10.87%) Information Security
6 4 (8.70%) High Availability
6 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 4 (8.70%) Logistics
6 4 (8.70%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.70%) Security Operations
6 4 (8.70%) SIEM
6 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
6 4 (8.70%) Test Scripting
7 3 (6.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) Bash
4 2 (4.35%) Perl
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (30.43%) DV Cleared
3 13 (28.26%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
4 12 (26.09%) Degree
5 10 (21.74%) CCNP
6 6 (13.04%) CISMP
6 6 (13.04%) GSEC
7 5 (10.87%) CCNA
8 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (6.52%) CCIE
10 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
10 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (4.35%) CISSP
10 2 (4.35%) RHCE
10 2 (4.35%) RHCSA
11 1 (2.17%) MCSE
11 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
1 11 (23.91%) Docker
1 11 (23.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (21.74%) Hyper-V
3 8 (17.39%) BitLocker
3 8 (17.39%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (17.39%) Terminal Services
3 8 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.35%) KVM
5 1 (2.17%) Firmware
5 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Ansible
2 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (21.74%) Puppet
4 8 (17.39%) Nagios
4 8 (17.39%) vCenter Server
4 8 (17.39%) vMotion
5 3 (6.52%) FortiGate
5 3 (6.52%) Iperf
5 3 (6.52%) Nmap
6 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.35%) WMI
7 1 (2.17%) CloudHub
7 1 (2.17%) Rsyslog
7 1 (2.17%) SCOM
7 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (34.78%) VMware
3 14 (30.43%) Cisco
4 8 (17.39%) Citrix
4 8 (17.39%) Google
4 8 (17.39%) HP
4 8 (17.39%) Symantec
5 7 (15.22%) Fortinet
5 7 (15.22%) Palo Alto
6 6 (13.04%) Juniper
7 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
8 4 (8.70%) CheckPoint
9 3 (6.52%) SolarWinds
10 2 (4.35%) F5
10 2 (4.35%) Oracle
11 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
11 1 (2.17%) NetApp
11 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 1 (2.17%) Splunk