Firewall Contracts in Kent

Firewall
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 12 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 7.76% 7.11% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.00% 53.85% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £383 £338 £357
25th Percentile £450 £409 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £444 £413
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% +7.58% +32.00%
75th Percentile £623 £523 £634
90th Percentile - £540 £764
South East median daily rate £500 £491 £500
% change year-on-year +1.78% -1.75% +0.10%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 26 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 31.03% 13.20% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 19
10th Percentile - £203 £280
25th Percentile £160 £278 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £393 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.12% -7.65% +36.00%
75th Percentile £375 £471 £749
90th Percentile £603 £538 £788
South East median daily rate £475 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -2.56% - +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -34.97% +314.50%
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.82% -0.26% +167.44%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Kent over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Kent region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Maidstone 0 5 £615 +36.67% 5
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DHCP
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
1 6 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Information Officer
5 1 (11.11%) Information Security Officer
5 1 (11.11%) SAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
1 6 (66.67%) Security Patching
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (11.11%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (11.11%) Information Security
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) CEH
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) DFS Replication
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (66.67%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Aruba
2 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto