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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 15 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.39% 1.35% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 6.67% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £575 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £458 £475
% change year-on-year -7.10% -3.68% +5.56%

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 6 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.33% 20.27% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile £153 £134 £190
25th Percentile £183 £185 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +6.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £402 £422 £417
90th Percentile £506 £499 £478
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £458 £413
% change year-on-year -12.57% +10.91% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Median hourly rate - £24.22 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.30% -5.15%
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.50 £24.22 £22.75
% change year-on-year +91.99% +6.46% +5.53%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend 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 23 February 2026. 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 - 1 £550 -
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco