Firewall Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Firewall
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 28 36
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.25% 1.00% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 25.00% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £412 -
25th Percentile - £420 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £444 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.51% +18.33% +0.67%
75th Percentile - £470 £388
90th Percentile - £481 -
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £41.94 - -
North West median hourly rate £54.22 £47.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +14.15% +8.57% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 16 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 10.00% 4.00% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £175 £423 £194
25th Percentile £342 £448 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £488 £375
Median % change year-on-year +37.44% +30.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £688 £509 £634
90th Percentile £700 £526 £636
North West median daily rate £438 £500 £491
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.78% +3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.76 £30.40 -
25th Percentile £49.00 £36.63 -
Median hourly rate £56.05 £49.00 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% +2.45% +17.88%
75th Percentile £63.11 £51.00 -
90th Percentile £67.34 - -
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.10%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Preston - 2 £335 - 3
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds