Firewall Contract Job Trends in Newport

Firewall
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 13 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 6.67% 11.54% 6.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 60.00% 36.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £210 £220
25th Percentile £525 £247 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £365 £525
Median % change year-on-year +50.68% -30.48% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £417 £600
90th Percentile - £496 -
South Wales median daily rate £293 £375 £375
% change year-on-year -22.00% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £83.25 £27.00 -
25th Percentile £84.38 £28.13 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% - -
75th Percentile £89.38 £38.13 -
90th Percentile £89.75 £40.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £85.00 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year +161.54% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 25 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 11.11% 32.05% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 7
10th Percentile - £157 £293
25th Percentile £525 £185 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £245 £550
Median % change year-on-year +124.49% -55.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £575 £373 £600
90th Percentile - £436 £615
South Wales median daily rate £290 £275 £340
% change year-on-year +5.45% -19.12% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £83.25 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £84.38 £42.50 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% - -
75th Percentile £89.38 £50.00 -
90th Percentile £89.75 £54.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +68.42% - -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Newport

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Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Firewall

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Check_MK
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Tenable
3 1 (33.33%) VMware