Firewall Contract Job Trends in Maidstone

Firewall
Kent > Maidstone

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Maidstone requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Maidstone 15.63% 3.85% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.71% 20.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 £608 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £615 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.46% - -
75th Percentile £455 £623 -
90th Percentile £528 - -
Kent median daily rate £438 £615 £524
% change year-on-year -28.86% +17.42% +43.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Maidstone

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 Maidstone.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidstone 43.75% 19.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £146 £279 -
25th Percentile £329 £334 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £430 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% - -
75th Percentile £443 £529 -
90th Percentile £452 £585 -
Kent median daily rate £400 £465 £520
% change year-on-year -13.98% -10.58% +42.47%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Maidstone

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Daily Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing Firewall

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Daily Rate Histogram in Maidstone

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Maidstone over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Maidstone

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Hourly Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Maidstone citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Maidstone 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) IPsec
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Aruba
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware