Firewall Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 26 37
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 29 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.79% 5.67% 3.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.59% 27.54% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 16
10th Percentile £406 £592 £310
25th Percentile £429 £623 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £594 £677 £650
90th Percentile £700 £697 £1,038
Yorkshire median daily rate £449 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.53% -15.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 69 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.79% 20.60% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 31
10th Percentile £289 £203 £200
25th Percentile £449 £220 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £419 £430
Median % change year-on-year +24.60% -2.62% -18.10%
75th Percentile £650 £596 £622
90th Percentile £700 £694 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £408 £428
% change year-on-year +10.36% -4.62% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +2.33%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in South Yorkshire

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Sheffield -38 28 £525 -16.00% 7
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 5 (17.24%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) CICS
2 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.90%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) Akamai
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Cloudflare
5 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.34%) IaaS
5 3 (10.34%) PaaS
5 3 (10.34%) SaaS
6 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.45%) Apigee
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.45%) Kong
7 1 (3.45%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) VPN
3 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
4 4 (13.79%) HTTP
4 4 (13.79%) NAS
4 4 (13.79%) SAN
5 3 (10.34%) DHCP
5 3 (10.34%) HTTPS
5 3 (10.34%) LAN
5 3 (10.34%) NGFW
5 3 (10.34%) SMS
5 3 (10.34%) WAN
6 2 (6.90%) Network Security
6 2 (6.90%) SSL
7 1 (3.45%) BGP
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (3.45%) Internet
7 1 (3.45%) IPsec
7 1 (3.45%) iSCSI
7 1 (3.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) JIRA
3 6 (20.69%) GitLab
4 3 (10.34%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.90%) Jaeger
5 2 (6.90%) Postman
6 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Private Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Administrator
2 3 (10.34%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (10.34%) Senior
2 3 (10.34%) Server Migration Specialist
2 3 (10.34%) Server Specialist
2 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Middleware
2 4 (13.79%) JSON
2 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) XML
3 3 (10.34%) LDAP
3 3 (10.34%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.45%) Regular Expression
5 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.90%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.90%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 12 (41.38%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) VMS
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Solaris
4 2 (6.90%) Unix
4 2 (6.90%) zOS
5 1 (3.45%) MVS
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) DevSecOps
3 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (20.69%) Application Security
4 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (20.69%) High Availability
4 6 (20.69%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (17.24%) Scrum
5 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.79%) Observability
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.79%) Bash
6 2 (6.90%) Go
6 2 (6.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) CEH
2 3 (10.34%) GIAC
2 3 (10.34%) GWAPT
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) CCA
4 1 (3.45%) CCIE
4 1 (3.45%) CCNP
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CISSP
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (20.69%) Docker
4 5 (17.24%) VMware NSX
5 4 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (13.79%) vSphere
6 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (6.90%) KVM
8 1 (3.45%) NFS
8 1 (3.45%) Snort
8 1 (3.45%) SRDF
8 1 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (3.45%) Xen
8 1 (3.45%) XenApp
8 1 (3.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Ansible
2 10 (34.48%) Terraform
3 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (17.24%) Grafana
5 4 (13.79%) Puppet
5 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
6 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (10.34%) vRealize
7 2 (6.90%) Kiali
7 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (6.90%) SCCM
8 1 (3.45%) Argo
8 1 (3.45%) CSIRT
8 1 (3.45%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (3.45%) Kibana
8 1 (3.45%) logstash
8 1 (3.45%) Podman
8 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) F5
2 11 (37.93%) VMware
3 7 (24.14%) Cisco
4 6 (20.69%) Splunk
5 4 (13.79%) Imperva
5 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
5 4 (13.79%) Oracle
6 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
6 3 (10.34%) NetApp
7 2 (6.90%) EMC
7 2 (6.90%) MuleSoft
7 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
8 1 (3.45%) ArcSight
8 1 (3.45%) Aruba
8 1 (3.45%) Citrix
8 1 (3.45%) Genesys
8 1 (3.45%) IBM
8 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.45%) Red Hat