Firewall Contracts in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 34 30
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +51
Contract jobs citing Firewall 64 125 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.34% 4.53% 5.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.91% 25.41% 40.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 78 149
10th Percentile £210 £271 £263
25th Percentile £425 £313 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% -1.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £619
90th Percentile £730 £775 £703
England median daily rate £518 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.30% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.25
25th Percentile £31.32 - £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £17.50
75th Percentile £41.97 - £20.51
90th Percentile - - £21.56
England median hourly rate £14.20 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -76.33% -3.23% +117.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 492 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.18% 17.85% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 294 337
10th Percentile £162 £200 £250
25th Percentile £249 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 17
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.31%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.50
90th Percentile £24.21 £28.75 £40.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands -31 38 £525 +5.00% 76
East Midlands +14 26 £575 +17.47% 46
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.38%) Azure
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (3.13%) Akamai
3 2 (3.13%) Cloudflare
3 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.56%) GCP
4 1 (1.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Network Security
2 13 (20.31%) DNS
3 11 (17.19%) OSPF
3 11 (17.19%) TCP/IP
3 11 (17.19%) VPN
4 10 (15.63%) DHCP
4 10 (15.63%) IPsec
4 10 (15.63%) VLAN
5 9 (14.06%) BGP
6 8 (12.50%) WAN
7 7 (10.94%) SD-WAN
8 6 (9.38%) SSL
9 5 (7.81%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (7.81%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (7.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (7.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (7.81%) LAN
9 5 (7.81%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (6.25%) HSRP
10 4 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Git
1 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.13%) JIRA
1 2 (3.13%) Maven
1 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Legal
4 4 (6.25%) Law
4 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.13%) Back Office
6 2 (3.13%) Finance
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Architect
2 17 (26.56%) Network Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Network Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Check Point Expert
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Senior Security Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Information Assurance Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Information Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Network Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Service Delivery Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) LDAP
1 2 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.69%) Industry 4.0
2 3 (4.69%) Operational Technology
2 3 (4.69%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) SCADA
3 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) NB-IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Windows
2 8 (12.50%) Linux
3 4 (6.25%) Check Point GAiA
3 4 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.69%) CentOS
4 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.13%) Debian
5 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (1.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
1 12 (18.75%) SIEM
2 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (14.06%) Risk Management
4 8 (12.50%) Information Security
4 8 (12.50%) Migration
5 7 (10.94%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.38%) Agile
6 6 (9.38%) Cloud Security
6 6 (9.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
7 5 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.81%) High Availability
7 5 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (7.81%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (7.81%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
8 4 (6.25%) Network Architecture
8 4 (6.25%) Patch Management
8 4 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Python
2 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Cisco Certification
1 19 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 13 (20.31%) CISSP
4 12 (18.75%) CCNP
5 9 (14.06%) CCNA
6 8 (12.50%) CISM
6 8 (12.50%) Degree
7 7 (10.94%) CISA
7 7 (10.94%) GIAC
8 5 (7.81%) CEH
9 4 (6.25%) CCIE
9 4 (6.25%) CCSE
10 3 (4.69%) SANS
11 2 (3.13%) CCIE Wireless
11 2 (3.13%) CCSP
11 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (3.13%) ISACA
11 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
11 2 (3.13%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) NIST
2 3 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (4.69%) NIST 800
2 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.13%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) NCSC
4 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.69%) Firmware
1 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 3 (4.69%) CASB
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
3 2 (3.13%) Nessus
3 2 (3.13%) Puppet
3 2 (3.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Cisco
2 12 (18.75%) F5
2 12 (18.75%) Fortinet
3 10 (15.63%) CheckPoint
3 10 (15.63%) SolarWinds
4 6 (9.38%) Juniper
4 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
4 6 (9.38%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) Aruba
6 2 (3.13%) Imperva
6 2 (3.13%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.13%) Mitel
6 2 (3.13%) Proofpoint
6 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.13%) Sophos
6 2 (3.13%) Tenable
6 2 (3.13%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.56%) Broadcom