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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 43 29
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +55
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 124 100 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.92% 3.72% 6.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.75% 26.60% 34.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 62 132
10th Percentile £350 £301 £222
25th Percentile £425 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £504 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +25.94% -15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £775 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile £22.04 - £25.13
25th Percentile £28.00 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £31.00 - £67.81
90th Percentile £34.68 - £69.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -58.33% +54.51%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 320 376 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.70% 13.99% 18.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 233 316
10th Percentile £241 £205 £206
25th Percentile £334 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £564 £627 £575
90th Percentile £643 £745 £720
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 23
10th Percentile - - £13.55
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £14.27 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +76.24% -48.11% +52.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile £39.80 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +42.47%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +18 106 £475 -9.52% 57
East Midlands -23 18 £492 +0.41% 26
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 18 (14.52%) Confluence
2 7 (5.65%) nginx
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.84%) AWS
2 28 (22.58%) Azure
3 19 (15.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (14.52%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (14.52%) Amazon ELB
4 18 (14.52%) Amazon S3
4 18 (14.52%) AWS KMS
4 18 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (14.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (13.71%) GCP
6 11 (8.87%) Amazon Glacier
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.65%) Akamai
8 7 (5.65%) Route 53
9 4 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.42%) GitHub
10 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.61%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (38.71%) DNS
2 32 (25.81%) Network Security
3 28 (22.58%) WAN
4 26 (20.97%) VPN
5 24 (19.35%) Wireless
6 21 (16.94%) HTTP
7 20 (16.13%) DHCP
8 18 (14.52%) FTP
8 18 (14.52%) SMTP
8 18 (14.52%) SSH
9 17 (13.71%) IPsec
10 15 (12.10%) SD-WAN
11 14 (11.29%) BGP
11 14 (11.29%) OSPF
11 14 (11.29%) SSL
11 14 (11.29%) VLAN
12 13 (10.48%) TCP/IP
13 12 (9.68%) Wireshark
14 10 (8.06%) LAN
15 8 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.52%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.65%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.61%) GIS
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 23 (18.55%) JIRA
2 19 (15.32%) Jenkins
3 18 (14.52%) Git
3 18 (14.52%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.81%) GitLab
4 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 21 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.87%) Manufacturing
5 10 (8.06%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.03%) Finance
8 4 (3.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (20.16%) Network Engineer
2 18 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.10%) Architect
4 13 (10.48%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 13 (10.48%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (8.87%) Analyst
6 11 (8.87%) Security Engineer
7 10 (8.06%) Network Architect
8 7 (5.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Check Point Expert
9 6 (4.84%) Cisco Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Consultant
10 5 (4.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) LDAP
2 6 (4.84%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.42%) RFC 2544
4 2 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.61%) JSON
4 2 (1.61%) Kafka
4 2 (1.61%) REST
4 2 (1.61%) XML
5 1 (0.81%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.52%) Replication
2 17 (13.71%) Data Centre
3 15 (12.10%) Security Posture
4 8 (6.45%) Operational Technology
5 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.84%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.84%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.23%) SCADA
8 3 (2.42%) IoT
9 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.61%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.77%) Windows
2 22 (17.74%) Linux
3 20 (16.13%) VMS
4 18 (14.52%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (6.45%) Ubuntu
6 6 (4.84%) Check Point GAiA
6 6 (4.84%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.61%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.81%) CentOS
9 1 (0.81%) Rocky
9 1 (0.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.61%) Change Management
2 27 (21.77%) Cloud Security
3 24 (19.35%) Configuration Management
3 24 (19.35%) DevOps
4 23 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (15.32%) Patch Management
6 18 (14.52%) ITIL
6 18 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (14.52%) SIEM
7 15 (12.10%) CI/CD
8 14 (11.29%) High Availability
9 13 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.87%) Agile
10 11 (8.87%) Incident Response
10 11 (8.87%) Migration
11 10 (8.06%) Computer Science
11 10 (8.06%) Service Management
12 9 (7.26%) Load Balancing
12 9 (7.26%) Security Operations
12 9 (7.26%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 30 (24.19%) Python
3 18 (14.52%) Groovy
4 13 (10.48%) Java
4 13 (10.48%) SQL
5 11 (8.87%) Perl
6 5 (4.03%) Bash
6 5 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.61%) Bicep
8 1 (0.81%) Go
8 1 (0.81%) Korn
Qualifications
1 46 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 38 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 27 (21.77%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (16.13%) CCNP
5 19 (15.32%) Degree
6 16 (12.90%) CCNA
7 12 (9.68%) CISSP
8 9 (7.26%) CISM
9 8 (6.45%) AWS Certification
9 8 (6.45%) CCIE
9 8 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (5.65%) Azure Certification
10 7 (5.65%) CCSE
10 7 (5.65%) DV Cleared
11 6 (4.84%) CEH
12 5 (4.03%) CISA
13 4 (3.23%) CRISC
13 4 (3.23%) GIAC
14 3 (2.42%) CCIE Routing and Switching
15 2 (1.61%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) GDPR
2 6 (4.84%) SLA
3 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.23%) NIST
4 3 (2.42%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.42%) QA
5 2 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.61%) GRC
6 1 (0.81%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.81%) NCSC
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (16.94%) Docker
2 18 (14.52%) DFS Replication
3 17 (13.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.65%) Dovecot
4 7 (5.65%) Postfix
4 7 (5.65%) Squid
5 3 (2.42%) Firmware
6 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (17.74%) Terraform
2 19 (15.32%) Grafana
2 19 (15.32%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.26%) FortiGate
4 8 (6.45%) Ansible
4 8 (6.45%) Nessus
5 7 (5.65%) CSIRT
5 7 (5.65%) Proxmox
6 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
6 4 (3.23%) OpenView
7 2 (1.61%) Nagios
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.81%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.81%) Kibana
8 1 (0.81%) logstash
8 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.81%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.81%) SCCM
8 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 55 (44.35%) Cisco
2 29 (23.39%) Microsoft
3 25 (20.16%) F5
4 23 (18.55%) ServiceNow
5 20 (16.13%) CheckPoint
6 16 (12.90%) Fortinet
7 13 (10.48%) Juniper
8 12 (9.68%) SolarWinds
9 11 (8.87%) Palo Alto
10 7 (5.65%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (5.65%) Splunk
11 6 (4.84%) Blue Coat
12 5 (4.03%) Peregrine
12 5 (4.03%) Remedy
13 4 (3.23%) Meraki
13 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
14 3 (2.42%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (2.42%) Oracle
14 3 (2.42%) Veeam
15 2 (1.61%) Proofpoint