Firewall Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Firewall
West Midlands > Staffordshire

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 12 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 13.56% 6.15% 6.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 61.54% 57.14% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - £390 -
25th Percentile - £394 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile - £456 £575
90th Percentile - £460 £620
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £525 £385
% change year-on-year -9.52% +36.36% -23.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.25
25th Percentile £29.00 - £24.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile £31.00 - £28.75
90th Percentile £37.13 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -36.84% -26.92% +225.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 14 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 22.03% 10.77% 17.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 22
10th Percentile - £371 £263
25th Percentile - £386 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £400 £506 £575
90th Percentile £430 £653 £606
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £21.96 - £22.75
25th Percentile £29.00 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £26.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +118.75%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £28.75
90th Percentile £38.65 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +46.67%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Staffordshire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Stafford +4 6 - - 3
Cannock - 1 £450 -
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (75.00%) WAN
2 6 (75.00%) Wireless
2 6 (75.00%) WLAN
3 5 (62.50%) PuTTY
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Change Management
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
1 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
2 1 (12.50%) SIEM
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
2 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CCNA
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) CCNP
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) CCSA
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Peregrine
2 5 (62.50%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds