Firewall Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Firewall
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 11 14 29
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.66% 3.63% 4.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.64% 15.22% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile £463 £445 £375
25th Percentile £522 £500 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £694 £719
90th Percentile - £788 £775
East of England median daily rate £479 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -8.81% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £68.63
25th Percentile - £71.25 £70.31
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £72.50
75th Percentile - £73.75 £74.06
90th Percentile - - £74.63
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +5.00% -72.41% +326.47%

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 87 92 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.14% 23.83% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 44 85
10th Percentile £160 £316 £355
25th Percentile £263 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £435
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +16.38% -8.42%
75th Percentile £580 £591 £544
90th Percentile £700 £613 £700
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 16 55
10th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £45.50
25th Percentile £46.31 £55.63 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £66.94 £69.06 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £71.50
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -46.15% +3.17%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Hertfordshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Firewall

Firewall
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 19 December 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 -7 6 £700 - 7
Watford 0 2 £475 -13.64% 2
Hatfield - 2 - -
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Google Workspace
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VLAN
2 6 (54.55%) VPN
3 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) BGP
4 4 (36.36%) OSPF
5 3 (27.27%) DHCP
5 3 (27.27%) DNS
6 2 (18.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (18.18%) Network Security
7 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
7 1 (9.09%) NAS
7 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) CCTV Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) CCTV
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
1 2 (18.18%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) VMS
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CCNP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) LabWare
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Wyse
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) HP
5 1 (9.09%) Veeam