Firewall Contracts in Northamptonshire

Firewall
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 12 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 4.04% 2.62% 2.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 54.55% 46.67% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £459 £490 £283
25th Percentile £492 £493 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +0.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £603 £584 £544
90th Percentile £619 £594 £557
East Midlands median daily rate £471 £504 £560
% change year-on-year -6.50% -10.04% +31.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 15 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 7.41% 5.62% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 22
10th Percentile £331 £451 £208
25th Percentile £363 £472 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £509 £538 £497
90th Percentile £598 £586 £562
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Northampton -7 12 £521 -1.47% 3
Firewall
East Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Rocky
1 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 2 (16.67%) API Development
2 2 (16.67%) Biometrics
2 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (16.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security
2 2 (16.67%) KYC
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
2 2 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (16.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
2 2 (16.67%) Service Management
2 2 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNA
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CISM
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) CRISC
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) SLA
3 2 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (16.67%) GRC
3 2 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 2 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint