Firewall Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 17 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 1 15
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 0.55% 1.05% 11.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.00% 7.14% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 £175 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £200 £275
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -27.27% -38.89%
75th Percentile £425 £225 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £490 £600
% change year-on-year +1.12% -18.42% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 14 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 11.05% 14.74% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £390 £165 £150
25th Percentile £413 £171 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £188 £193
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% -2.60% -50.64%
75th Percentile £600 £202 £266
90th Percentile £691 £216 £275
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - -
Median hourly rate £18.13 - -
75th Percentile £24.29 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £13.87
% change year-on-year -48.46% +260.49% -36.95%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Middlesbrough -1 1 £400 +100.00% 1
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Network Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Server Migrations
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) VMware