Firewall Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 34 35
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing Firewall 199 188 237
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.23% 5.23% 5.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.28% 34.06% 34.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 82 193
10th Percentile £284 £275 £325
25th Percentile £400 £389 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £627
90th Percentile £633 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.94 £40.50 £40.63
Median hourly rate £66.50 £41.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +62.20% -6.29% -10.93%
75th Percentile £74.26 £41.50 £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £28.70 £65.98
% change year-on-year +46.13% -56.50% +72.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 564 552 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.00% 15.35% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 308 512
10th Percentile £170 £180 £250
25th Percentile £305 £272 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -7.41% +5.08%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £593
90th Percentile £665 £675 £672
England median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 23
10th Percentile - £12.59 £15.73
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £32.88 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +85.55% -17.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £51.23 £24.39
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.91 £46.88
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +25.43%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the North of England

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
North West -22 104 £525 +6.06% 66
Yorkshire -18 90 £480 +12.94% 39
North East -7 8 £550 - 9
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (4.02%) Apache
2 7 (3.52%) Confluence
3 5 (2.51%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.01%) JBoss
5 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.51%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.01%) CICS
6 2 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Finacle
1 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (30.65%) AWS
2 54 (27.14%) Azure
3 32 (16.08%) GCP
4 17 (8.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (6.53%) Amazon S3
7 12 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (5.53%) Google Workspace
9 10 (5.03%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (4.02%) GitHub
11 8 (4.02%) OpenShift
12 7 (3.52%) Amazon ELB
12 7 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.52%) Serverless
13 6 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (3.02%) AWS Direct Connect
13 6 (3.02%) OCI
14 5 (2.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (28.64%) Network Security
2 38 (19.10%) WAN
3 36 (18.09%) TCP/IP
4 33 (16.58%) DNS
5 32 (16.08%) VPN
6 23 (11.56%) Cisco ISE
7 19 (9.55%) BGP
7 19 (9.55%) LAN
7 19 (9.55%) SSL
8 17 (8.54%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (8.04%) Wireless
10 15 (7.54%) NetScaler
10 15 (7.54%) VLAN
11 10 (5.03%) DHCP
11 10 (5.03%) SD-WAN
12 9 (4.52%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (4.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (4.02%) HTTP
13 8 (4.02%) Internet
13 8 (4.02%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.02%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.51%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (13.07%) Jenkins
2 20 (10.05%) Git
3 18 (9.05%) GitLab
4 12 (6.03%) JIRA
5 4 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.51%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.51%) Postman
7 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 48 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.58%) Finance
3 26 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.55%) Banking
6 8 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Legal
8 4 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.51%) Japanese Language
9 3 (1.51%) Military
9 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Law
10 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.01%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.50%) Local Government
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (31.66%) Network Engineer
2 22 (11.06%) Security Engineer
2 22 (11.06%) Senior
3 16 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (7.54%) Architect
4 15 (7.54%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (6.53%) IT Engineer
5 13 (6.53%) Support Engineer
6 12 (6.03%) IT Support
6 12 (6.03%) IT Support Engineer
7 9 (4.52%) Analyst
7 9 (4.52%) Network Security Engineer
8 7 (3.52%) Firewall Engineer
8 7 (3.52%) NetBackup Engineer
8 7 (3.52%) Network Architect
8 7 (3.52%) Security Architect
8 7 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (3.02%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.04%) 802.1X
2 8 (4.02%) Kafka
2 8 (4.02%) Middleware
3 7 (3.52%) JSON
3 7 (3.52%) LDAP
4 4 (2.01%) Node.js
4 4 (2.01%) XML
5 3 (1.51%) Lambda Expressions
5 3 (1.51%) REST
6 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.01%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (1.01%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.50%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.50%) RESTful
7 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.10%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.03%) Security Posture
3 10 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.02%) PKI
6 5 (2.51%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.51%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Clustering
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (35.18%) Linux
2 61 (30.65%) Windows
3 16 (8.04%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.03%) Unix
5 8 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.51%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (1.51%) VMS
7 2 (1.01%) Solaris
7 2 (1.01%) zOS
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) MVS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (19.10%) Containerisation
2 37 (18.59%) DevOps
3 34 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (16.08%) CI/CD
5 31 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (15.08%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (14.07%) Incident Response
8 27 (13.57%) High Availability
9 25 (12.56%) Load Balancing
10 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure Automation
11 22 (11.06%) Migration
11 22 (11.06%) Network Design
12 21 (10.55%) SIEM
13 20 (10.05%) Cloud Security
14 18 (9.05%) Network Architecture
15 17 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
16 16 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (8.04%) Observability
16 16 (8.04%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (7.54%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 57 (28.64%) Python
2 41 (20.60%) Bash
3 39 (19.60%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.53%) Perl
5 9 (4.52%) SQL
6 8 (4.02%) Java
7 5 (2.51%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.01%) Go
9 2 (1.01%) Ruby
9 2 (1.01%) Rust
10 1 (0.50%) C++
10 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.50%) Lisp
10 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (35.18%) Security Cleared
2 57 (28.64%) SC Cleared
3 35 (17.59%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (13.57%) CCNP
5 17 (8.54%) CISSP
6 14 (7.04%) Degree
7 12 (6.03%) CCNA
8 10 (5.03%) CISM
9 9 (4.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
10 6 (3.02%) CCDP
10 6 (3.02%) GIAC
11 5 (2.51%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (2.01%) CCIE
12 4 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.51%) MCSA
13 3 (1.51%) MCSE
13 3 (1.51%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.04%) NIST
2 13 (6.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.01%) GDPR
5 3 (1.51%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.01%) COBIT
6 2 (1.01%) PSD2
6 2 (1.01%) SLA
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 43 (21.61%) Docker
2 35 (17.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (13.07%) Active Directory
4 13 (6.53%) vSphere
5 5 (2.51%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.01%) KVM
8 2 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.50%) NFS
9 1 (0.50%) Snort
9 1 (0.50%) SRDF
9 1 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.50%) Xen
9 1 (0.50%) XenApp
9 1 (0.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (18.59%) Terraform
2 31 (15.58%) Kubernetes
3 30 (15.08%) Ansible
4 7 (3.52%) NetBackup
4 7 (3.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (3.02%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.51%) Fluentd
6 5 (2.51%) Grafana
6 5 (2.51%) Puppet
6 5 (2.51%) SCCM
7 4 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.01%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.51%) CASB
8 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.51%) Nessus
8 3 (1.51%) Packer
8 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 75 (37.69%) Cisco
2 49 (24.62%) Palo Alto
3 46 (23.12%) Microsoft
4 39 (19.60%) F5
5 37 (18.59%) VMware
6 22 (11.06%) CheckPoint
6 22 (11.06%) Meraki
7 21 (10.55%) Google
8 20 (10.05%) Oracle
9 19 (9.55%) Splunk
10 11 (5.53%) SolarWinds
11 10 (5.03%) CyberArk
11 10 (5.03%) Zscaler
12 8 (4.02%) Red Hat
13 7 (3.52%) Citrix
13 7 (3.52%) Fortinet
13 7 (3.52%) Veritas
14 6 (3.02%) Juniper
14 6 (3.02%) LogicMonitor
15 5 (2.51%) Cribl.io