Firewall Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Firewall
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 13.04% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £160 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 - -
75th Percentile £170 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £350 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -22.22% - +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 26.09% 5.26% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £262 - £662
25th Percentile £415 - £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.44%
75th Percentile £638 - £741
90th Percentile £705 - £748
Somerset median daily rate £275 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -45.00% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.73%
Somerset median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year +384.62% -74.95% +226.87%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Taunton

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) DKIM
2 1 (33.33%) DMARC
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Key Management
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Privileged Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft