Firewall Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Firewall
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 3.14% 2.37% 6.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.00% 13.33% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £264 £380 £191
25th Percentile £420 £397 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £591 £513 £492
90th Percentile £619 £535 £506
South West median daily rate £540 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +13.68% -13.64% +17.02%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 30 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 20.94% 17.75% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 15
10th Percentile - £191 £165
25th Percentile £225 £397 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £438 £581 £578
90th Percentile £573 £649 £744
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - - £37.38
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 £48.31
Median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +384.62% -74.95% +226.87%
75th Percentile £64.50 £13.50 £55.47
90th Percentile - - £55.61
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £67.02 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.70% +18.64% -13.09%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Somerset

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Somerset over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Somerset

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 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
Taunton - 4 £339 - 3
Bath +5 1 £625 +38.89% 2
Firewall
South West

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DKIM
2 1 (16.67%) DMARC
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) SDH
2 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Runbook
2 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Key Management
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCNP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
3 1 (16.67%) JNCIP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) NCSC
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Nokia
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) VMware