Firewall Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 36 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 -16 +28
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.40% 0.42% 4.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.13% 3.57% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £415 - £240
25th Percentile £436 £425 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +20.00% -10.45%
75th Percentile £509 £475 £414
90th Percentile £531 - £453
North East median daily rate £548 £550 £375
% change year-on-year -0.45% +46.67% +4.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 28 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.86% 11.72% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 27
10th Percentile £179 £203 £142
25th Percentile £211 £313 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +18.75% +42.86%
75th Percentile £522 £625 £544
90th Percentile £601 £680 £640
North East median daily rate £423 £340 £425
% change year-on-year +24.26% -20.00% +49.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £26.37 - £29.98
25th Percentile £26.56 - £40.44
Median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50
75th Percentile £34.06 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.63 - -
North East median hourly rate £27.50 - £47.50

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -17 2 £473 +5.00% 17
Firewall
North East

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISA
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Icinga
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform