Firewall Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Firewall
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -17 -12 +27
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.44% 0.46% 3.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% 3.70% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £415 - £301
25th Percentile £436 £425 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +20.00% -31.82%
75th Percentile £509 £475 £388
90th Percentile £531 - £493
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £473 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +5.00% +20.00% -10.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 34 27 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.47% 12.39% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 22
10th Percentile £201 £201 £134
25th Percentile £337 £316 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £498 £395
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% +25.95% +32.22%
75th Percentile £539 £625 £547
90th Percentile £617 £684 £643
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £410 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -13.68% +18.75% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £26.37 - £29.98
25th Percentile £26.56 - £40.44
Median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50
75th Percentile £34.06 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.63 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Icinga
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform