Firewall Contracts in Hertfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 62 23
Rank change year-on-year +34 -39 +19
Contract jobs citing Firewall 19 13 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.48% 1.50% 7.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.27% 10.83% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 35
10th Percentile £225 £164 £223
25th Percentile £381 £190 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £225 £400
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -43.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £338 £578
90th Percentile £650 £475 £676
East of England median daily rate £510 £460 £463
% change year-on-year +10.99% -0.65% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £73.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £21.63 £44.32
% change year-on-year +38.73% -51.20% -15.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 110 120 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 31.70% 13.82% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 53 106
10th Percentile £409 £238 £246
25th Percentile £465 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile £625 - £714
East of England median daily rate £490 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +22.50% -15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 43 16
10th Percentile £52.75 - £54.25
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £59.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £70.94
90th Percentile £86.10 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year +12.73% -5.98% +277.42%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Stevenage +25 8 £225 - 46
Watford - 5 £550 - 64
Bishop's Stortford - 2 £588 -
St Albans +1 1 £760 +204.00% 3
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) WAN
2 4 (21.05%) DHCP
2 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
2 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
2 4 (21.05%) VLAN
3 3 (15.79%) BGP
3 3 (15.79%) DNS
3 3 (15.79%) OSPF
3 3 (15.79%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (10.53%) IP Telephony
4 2 (10.53%) Wireless
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) Network Security
5 1 (5.26%) VoIP
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Operational Technology
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Apple iOS
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Windows
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
1 6 (31.58%) Computer Security
2 5 (26.32%) Coaching
2 5 (26.32%) Incident Management
2 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
2 5 (26.32%) Validation
3 3 (15.79%) Break/Fix
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Network Architecture
3 3 (15.79%) Network Management
4 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Project Management
5 1 (5.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Bash
1 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) CCNP
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) ServiceNow
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco
3 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
5 2 (10.53%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) Huawei
6 1 (5.26%) Juniper
6 1 (5.26%) LabWare
6 1 (5.26%) Meraki
6 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.26%) VMware