Firewall Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Firewall
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 14 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 6.32% 3.92% 5.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 75.00% 44.44% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £565 £402 £373
25th Percentile £588 £426 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £663 £460 £650
90th Percentile £685 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £565 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +0.44% +2.27% +46.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8 9 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 8.42% 8.82% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 13
10th Percentile £240 £154 £218
25th Percentile £359 £328 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £588 £470 £600
90th Percentile £655 £560 £650
Wiltshire median daily rate £613 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +6.52% +9.52% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Swindon

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Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Swindon over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Swindon

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) RBAC
1 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Presales
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
20 Firewall jobs in Wiltshire