Firewall Contracts in the South West

Firewall
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 53 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +32
Contract jobs citing Firewall 71 106 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.73% 3.83% 4.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.22% 22.36% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 80 93
10th Percentile £323 £425 £315
25th Percentile £406 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £503 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £53.21
25th Percentile - - £62.98
Median hourly rate £17.79 - £70.49
75th Percentile - - £88.13
90th Percentile - - £101.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% -58.33% +67.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 243 474 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.78% 17.11% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 308 278
10th Percentile £225 £293 £210
25th Percentile £328 £460 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £523
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +2.87% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £625
90th Percentile £676 £675 £700
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 40 50
10th Percentile £23.73 £12.32 £20.50
25th Percentile £32.65 £13.58 £48.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +15.06% +3.65%
75th Percentile £58.75 £71.56 £69.06
90th Percentile £62.50 £75.30 £85.13
England median hourly rate £43.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.73% -0.23% +57.14%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the South West

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the South West over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Wiltshire -2 29 £488 -1.52% 17
Bristol +7 22 £413 -22.35% 29
Gloucestershire +26 8 £545 -12.80% 29
Dorset +3 5 £540 +39.35% 6
Somerset -6 3 £350 -9.68% 9
Avon - 2 £275 - 9
Devon -2 1 £475 -13.64% 2
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) AWS
2 9 (12.68%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.63%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Akamai
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.41%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.72%) DNS
1 14 (19.72%) WAN
2 11 (15.49%) Network Security
3 10 (14.08%) LAN
4 9 (12.68%) VPN
5 7 (9.86%) BGP
5 7 (9.86%) OSPF
6 6 (8.45%) 5G
6 6 (8.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (7.04%) TCP/IP
8 4 (5.63%) Kerberos
8 4 (5.63%) VSAN
8 4 (5.63%) VXLAN
9 3 (4.23%) 4G
9 3 (4.23%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (4.23%) DMVPN
9 3 (4.23%) SD-WAN
9 3 (4.23%) VoIP
9 3 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (4.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.23%) GitLab
3 2 (2.82%) Git
4 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Manufacturing
2 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.45%) Military
4 4 (5.63%) Finance
4 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Advertising
6 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Electronics
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Administrator
2 16 (22.54%) Architect
3 13 (18.31%) Network Administrator
4 10 (14.08%) Network Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Network Architect
6 5 (7.04%) IT Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) IT Support
7 4 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (5.63%) Network Technical Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Security Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Security Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 4 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.23%) DevOps Administrator
8 3 (4.23%) Engineering Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) .NET
2 3 (4.23%) ModSecurity
3 2 (2.82%) Spine.js
4 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) LDAP
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.41%) OpenID
4 1 (1.41%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) SAML
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Data Centre
1 15 (21.13%) PKI
2 8 (11.27%) CMDB
3 7 (9.86%) Replication
4 4 (5.63%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.41%) CESG
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Windows
2 11 (15.49%) Linux
3 9 (12.68%) Windows 10
4 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.23%) Android
5 3 (4.23%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (2.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.41%) Solaris
7 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.41%) VMS
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Service Management
2 16 (22.54%) Change Management
3 15 (21.13%) ITIL
4 14 (19.72%) Customer Service
5 12 (16.90%) Network Architecture
6 9 (12.68%) Service Delivery
7 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
7 8 (11.27%) High Availability
7 8 (11.27%) Security Hardening
8 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (9.86%) DevOps
9 6 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.45%) Incident Response
9 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (7.04%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.04%) RBAC
10 5 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (7.04%) Test Scripting
10 5 (7.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) Python
2 7 (9.86%) Bash
2 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.23%) Perl
3 3 (4.23%) SQL
4 1 (1.41%) Java
4 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (71.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (35.21%) DV Cleared
3 24 (33.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (8.45%) CCNP
4 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.04%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.82%) CISSP
7 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.41%) CCIE
8 1 (1.41%) CCNA
8 1 (1.41%) CEH
8 1 (1.41%) CISM
8 1 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) NCSC
2 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.23%) SLA
3 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.82%) NIST
4 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.41%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.41%) PMO
4 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.27%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.86%) Docker
4 5 (7.04%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Ansible
2 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.45%) Terraform
4 5 (7.04%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.23%) Check_MK
6 3 (4.23%) Grafana
6 3 (4.23%) OPNET
7 2 (2.82%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.82%) Puppet
7 2 (2.82%) SCCM
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.41%) Nessus
8 1 (1.41%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.41%) VxRail
8 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (32.39%) Cisco
2 19 (26.76%) Juniper
3 15 (21.13%) VMware
4 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.86%) Fortinet
6 6 (8.45%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.04%) Splunk
8 4 (5.63%) F5
8 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.23%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.82%) Citrix
10 2 (2.82%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.82%) Meraki
10 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.82%) SAP
11 1 (1.41%) Aruba
11 1 (1.41%) Google
11 1 (1.41%) NetScout
11 1 (1.41%) Ruckus Wireless