Firewall Contract Job Trends in High Wycombe

Firewall
Buckinghamshire > High Wycombe

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in High Wycombe requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in High Wycombe 4.17% - 5.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £170
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +10.34% -7.73% +5.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
High Wycombe

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 High Wycombe.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in High Wycombe 4.17% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £170
Median % change year-on-year - - -68.37%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.88
Median hourly rate - - £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.84%
75th Percentile - - £17.63
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.52
% change year-on-year - -36.94% +18.53%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in High Wycombe

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in High Wycombe

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Daily Rate Trend in High Wycombe

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in High Wycombe citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in High Wycombe citing Firewall

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Hourly Rate Trend in High Wycombe

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in High Wycombe citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in High Wycombe citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in High Wycombe 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat