Firewall Contracts in Surrey

Firewall
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 26
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing Firewall 20 48 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 6.47% 8.18% 6.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.48% 42.48% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 25
10th Percentile - £219 £257
25th Percentile £463 £254 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £305 £325
Median % change year-on-year +59.90% -6.19% -34.18%
75th Percentile £538 £465 £538
90th Percentile £563 £525 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £490
% change year-on-year -1.96% +4.08% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Median hourly rate £32.77 £60.00 £62.55
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% -4.08% -
South East median hourly rate £23.49 £83.77 £62.55
% change year-on-year -71.96% +33.92% +212.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 58 113 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 18.77% 19.25% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 83 101
10th Percentile £204 £203 £205
25th Percentile £259 £260 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -14.74% +62.39%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £700
90th Percentile £538 £663 £838
South East median daily rate £498 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile - - £30.33
25th Percentile £28.00 £57.50 £40.94
Median hourly rate £30.39 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.36% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £60.81 £62.50 £51.26
90th Percentile £70.16 - £62.55
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% -0.26% +76.92%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Surrey

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Surrey

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Surrey over the 6 months to 31 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Surrey

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Surrey

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Leatherhead +13 9 £488 - 1
Redhill +10 2 - - 6
Guildford +2 1 £450 +20.00% 4
Woking -4 1 £550 - 1
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Akamai
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) NGFW
1 5 (25.00%) VPN
2 4 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.00%) BGP
4 2 (10.00%) IPsec
4 2 (10.00%) OSPF
4 2 (10.00%) SSL
4 2 (10.00%) VLAN
4 2 (10.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.00%) DNS
5 1 (5.00%) LAN
5 1 (5.00%) MPLS
5 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Advertising
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Local Government
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Security Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) NHS
1 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (30.00%) Runbook
4 5 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 5 (25.00%) SIEM
4 5 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 3 (15.00%) High Availability
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (10.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNA
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) MCSE
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (10.00%) QRadar
2 1 (5.00%) CSIRT
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 7 (35.00%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (30.00%) Qualys
4 5 (25.00%) F5
5 4 (20.00%) Imperva
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (15.00%) Splunk
7 2 (10.00%) Cisco
7 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (5.00%) Citrix
8 1 (5.00%) Dell KACE
8 1 (5.00%) Meraki
8 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (5.00%) Ubiquiti
8 1 (5.00%) VMware