Firewall Contract Job Trends in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 32 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +16
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.02% 2.09% 5.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 15.79% 46.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £555 £303 £244
25th Percentile £563 £344 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% +6.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £588 £494 £425
90th Percentile £595 £528 £431
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 38 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 7.17% 13.24% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 21
10th Percentile £146 £138 £244
25th Percentile £200 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +12.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £520 £550 -
90th Percentile £575 £695 £431
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.58
25th Percentile - - £15.69
Median hourly rate - - £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.25%
75th Percentile - - £18.19
90th Percentile - - £18.53
England median hourly rate £36.25 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -36.79% +1.52% +37.73%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the North East

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North East region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Durham +6 2 £550 +29.41% 3
Tyne and Wear -11 1 £600 - 11
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Information Management
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) VMware