Firewall Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Firewall
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 3.96% - 5.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.45% - 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £175 - -
25th Percentile £184 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 - £193
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.67%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £488 £528 £475
% change year-on-year -7.58% +11.05% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £20.53 - £14.54
25th Percentile £20.56 - £14.59
Median hourly rate £20.88 - £15.38
75th Percentile £21.31 - £16.34
90th Percentile £21.43 - £16.51
East of England median hourly rate £20.88 £72.50 £15.38
% change year-on-year -71.21% +371.54% -4.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 44 4 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 19.38% 11.11% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 7
10th Percentile £185 £146 £164
25th Percentile £196 £155 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £170 £213
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -20.00% +26.87%
75th Percentile £330 £185 £219
90th Percentile £488 £194 £281
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £415
% change year-on-year -5.26% +14.46% -12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 3
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.19
25th Percentile £15.50 - £13.68
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.33 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% +2.20% -3.63%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £16.06
90th Percentile - - £16.40
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £61.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.01% +23.50% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Norfolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Norfolk over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Norfolk

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Norwich - 6 £500 - 3
Firewall
East of England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Route 53
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Datadog
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) WLAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) SSL
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) CSOC
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
1 2 (22.22%) Open Source
1 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
1 2 (22.22%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Assurance
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Network Management
2 1 (11.11%) Observability
2 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Runbook
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM
2 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Groovy
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) CCNA
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) CCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Squid
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) CheckPoint
2 2 (22.22%) Extreme Networks
2 2 (22.22%) Mitel
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Trend Micro
3 1 (11.11%) VMware