Firewall Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firewall
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 37 42
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Firewall 558 894 1,164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.37% 4.30% 4.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.40% 25.88% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 581 830
10th Percentile £300 £275 £287
25th Percentile £385 £413 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £584 £609 £588
90th Percentile £645 £738 £690
UK median daily rate £509 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.21% -1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 31 38
10th Percentile - £23.92 £17.83
25th Percentile £14.20 £52.45 £43.04
Median hourly rate £32.07 £83.77 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.71% +35.10% +178.65%
75th Percentile £41.62 £87.46 £64.56
90th Percentile £59.38 £87.53 £80.48
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -38.93% -3.23% +39.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +7 159 £475 -8.67% 225
South East -16 136 £500 +1.01% 315
North West +12 114 £475 -26.92% 116
South West -5 86 £546 +9.20% 127
Midlands -17 64 £560 +13.13% 137
East of England +14 41 £513 +7.89% 120
Yorkshire -1 41 £450 -6.74% 87
Scotland -4 38 £425 -19.05% 52
West Midlands -31 38 £525 +5.00% 76
Wales +22 35 £383 +4.79% 19
East Midlands +14 26 £575 +17.47% 51
Northern Ireland -6 3 - - 16
North East -8 3 £550 +46.67% 30
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 1
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 42 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.25%) Confluence
4 5 (0.90%) IIS
5 3 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.18%) WinCC
Applications
1 24 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 121 (21.68%) Azure
2 68 (12.19%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (11.47%) AWS
4 32 (5.73%) Entra ID
5 30 (5.38%) IaaS
6 21 (3.76%) GCP
6 21 (3.76%) PaaS
7 14 (2.51%) OpenShift
8 12 (2.15%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.43%) GitHub
10 6 (1.08%) Akamai
10 6 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (1.08%) Serverless
11 5 (0.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.90%) Cloudflare
11 5 (0.90%) Google Workspace
11 5 (0.90%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 136 (24.37%) Network Security
2 133 (23.84%) VPN
3 117 (20.97%) WAN
4 89 (15.95%) DNS
5 84 (15.05%) Wireless
6 83 (14.87%) BGP
7 80 (14.34%) OSPF
8 79 (14.16%) LAN
9 71 (12.72%) Cisco ASA
10 60 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
11 59 (10.57%) TCP/IP
12 57 (10.22%) DHCP
13 48 (8.60%) Cisco Firepower
14 47 (8.42%) SD-WAN
15 45 (8.06%) Cisco Nexus
16 44 (7.89%) IPsec
17 37 (6.63%) VLAN
18 36 (6.45%) EIGRP
19 31 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
20 30 (5.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.43%) Big Data
4 7 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.25%) Power BI
5 4 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.54%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 14 (2.51%) Jenkins
2 12 (2.15%) JIRA
3 8 (1.43%) Git
3 8 (1.43%) GitLab
4 6 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.54%) Maven
6 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.36%) Subversion
7 1 (0.18%) Gradle
7 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 118 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 47 (8.42%) Public Sector
3 45 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (6.27%) Finance
5 32 (5.73%) Telecoms
6 15 (2.69%) Legal
7 14 (2.51%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.97%) Aerospace
9 11 (1.97%) Banking
10 10 (1.79%) Military
11 7 (1.25%) Electronics
11 7 (1.25%) Marketing
12 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Law
12 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Retail
13 4 (0.72%) Advertising
13 4 (0.72%) Local Government
14 2 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (35.66%) Network Engineer
2 74 (13.26%) Architect
3 47 (8.42%) Senior
4 40 (7.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 37 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (6.63%) Network Architect
6 35 (6.27%) Support Engineer
7 28 (5.02%) Security Engineer
8 26 (4.66%) IT Engineer
9 23 (4.12%) Cisco Engineer
9 23 (4.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 23 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (3.58%) IT Support
11 19 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (3.05%) Administrator
12 17 (3.05%) Analyst
12 17 (3.05%) Lead
12 17 (3.05%) Senior Network Engineer
13 15 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 15 (2.69%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.76%) 802.1X
2 16 (2.87%) .NET
3 8 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (1.25%) LDAP
5 5 (0.90%) JBoss Seam
5 5 (0.90%) Spine.js
6 4 (0.72%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.72%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.54%) RFC 2544
7 3 (0.54%) Web Services
8 2 (0.36%) LAMP
8 2 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.36%) React
8 2 (0.36%) YAML
9 1 (0.18%) Kafka
9 1 (0.18%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.18%) OAuth
9 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.18%) OpenID
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.77%) Data Centre
2 37 (6.63%) PKI
3 21 (3.76%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.87%) Replication
5 14 (2.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.51%) Operational Technology
5 14 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
6 13 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 10 (1.79%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.61%) CMDB
9 9 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.61%) NHS
10 8 (1.43%) Clustering
10 8 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.08%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.08%) SCADA
12 5 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 119 (21.33%) Windows
2 61 (10.93%) Linux
3 58 (10.39%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.58%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.43%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.25%) Unix
9 7 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (1.08%) Solaris
11 5 (0.90%) CentOS
12 4 (0.72%) Android
12 4 (0.72%) Check Point GAiA
12 4 (0.72%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.54%) Windows XP
14 2 (0.36%) Debian
14 2 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (15.41%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (11.47%) Network Architecture
4 59 (10.57%) Migration
5 53 (9.50%) ITIL
6 50 (8.96%) DevOps
7 48 (8.60%) Agile
8 47 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 45 (8.06%) Network Management
10 41 (7.35%) Network Design
11 40 (7.17%) Change Management
12 36 (6.45%) High Availability
13 35 (6.27%) SIEM
14 34 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
15 30 (5.38%) CI/CD
15 30 (5.38%) Customer Service
16 29 (5.20%) Load Balancing
16 29 (5.20%) Project Delivery
16 29 (5.20%) Validation
17 27 (4.84%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 54 (9.68%) PowerShell
2 48 (8.60%) Python
3 20 (3.58%) Bash
4 14 (2.51%) SQL
5 7 (1.25%) Perl
6 5 (0.90%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.72%) Bicep
8 3 (0.54%) C++
9 2 (0.36%) Go
9 2 (0.36%) Groovy
9 2 (0.36%) Java
9 2 (0.36%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.36%) PHP
9 2 (0.36%) Rust
9 2 (0.36%) VBScript
10 1 (0.18%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.18%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.18%) Korn
10 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 202 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 146 (26.16%) SC Cleared
3 116 (20.79%) Cisco Certification
4 86 (15.41%) CCNP
5 64 (11.47%) CCNA
6 61 (10.93%) Degree
7 48 (8.60%) DV Cleared
8 25 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (3.94%) CISSP
10 21 (3.76%) CCIE
11 18 (3.23%) Azure Certification
11 18 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.97%) CISM
12 11 (1.97%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (1.61%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.61%) CCSE
13 9 (1.61%) CEH
14 8 (1.43%) GIAC
15 7 (1.25%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.23%) NIST
2 16 (2.87%) SLA
3 13 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.97%) GDPR
5 7 (1.25%) GxP
5 7 (1.25%) NCSC
5 7 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.25%) QA
6 6 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.90%) NIST 800
8 4 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) IEC 61131
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.18%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (16.49%) Active Directory
2 63 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.56%) vSphere
4 25 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 21 (3.76%) VMware NSX
6 20 (3.58%) Docker
7 16 (2.87%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.79%) Terminal Services
9 8 (1.43%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.43%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.08%) DFS Replication
10 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.72%) Firmware
12 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.36%) XenApp
15 1 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 47 (8.42%) Ansible
2 39 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (5.91%) FortiGate
4 29 (5.20%) Kubernetes
5 26 (4.66%) Terraform
6 20 (3.58%) SCCM
6 20 (3.58%) vCenter Server
7 17 (3.05%) Puppet
8 9 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
8 9 (1.61%) Nagios
9 8 (1.43%) Grafana
9 8 (1.43%) vMotion
10 7 (1.25%) SELinux
11 6 (1.08%) VxRail
12 5 (0.90%) CASB
12 5 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.90%) PowerCLI
12 5 (0.90%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.72%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (43.73%) Cisco
2 131 (23.48%) Microsoft
3 127 (22.76%) Palo Alto
4 88 (15.77%) VMware
5 76 (13.62%) CheckPoint
6 45 (8.06%) Fortinet
7 41 (7.35%) SolarWinds
8 36 (6.45%) Meraki
9 35 (6.27%) F5
10 32 (5.73%) Juniper
11 25 (4.48%) Aruba
11 25 (4.48%) ServiceNow
12 19 (3.41%) Google
13 18 (3.23%) HP
14 16 (2.87%) Splunk
15 14 (2.51%) Citrix
15 14 (2.51%) Infoblox
16 13 (2.33%) Red Hat
17 12 (2.15%) Dell
18 11 (1.97%) Symantec