Firewall Contract Job Trends in Huntingdon

Firewall
Cambridgeshire > Huntingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Huntingdon requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Huntingdon 28.00% 38.46% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% 71.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile £356 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% - -
75th Percentile £454 £694 -
90th Percentile £540 £735 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £425 £550 £260
% change year-on-year -22.73% +111.54% -35.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Huntingdon

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 Huntingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Huntingdon 28.00% 53.85% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile - £456 £251
25th Percentile £356 £458 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £475 £456
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +4.11% -
75th Percentile £454 £625 £589
90th Percentile £540 £708 £667
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £495 £475 £400
% change year-on-year +4.21% +18.75% -11.11%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Huntingdon

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Huntingdon

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Huntingdon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Huntingdon citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Huntingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Huntingdon over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Huntingdon

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Huntingdon 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 5 (71.43%) Apache
1 5 (71.43%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Mimecast
2 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) 4G
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Switch Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Network Support
3 2 (28.57%) Network Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
3 2 (28.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) PRINCE2
1 5 (71.43%) Server Building
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Qualys
3 2 (28.57%) Rockwell