Firewall Contract Job Trends in the Home Counties

Firewall
South East > Home Counties

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Home Counties 14.29% - 13.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% +1.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 14.29% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £170
25th Percentile - - £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £343
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.31%
75th Percentile - - £448
90th Percentile - - £509
South East median daily rate £491 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.80% +7.99% +0.11%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the Home Counties

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Home Counties citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Home Counties 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST