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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 40 37
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing Firewall 675 873 1,215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.82% 4.13% 5.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.90% 26.57% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 551 815
10th Percentile £301 £275 £273
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £587 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 34 51
10th Percentile £14.20 £22.85 £22.26
25th Percentile £14.43 £26.25 £47.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £82.38 £62.55
Median % change year-on-year -63.58% +31.71% +40.88%
75th Percentile £32.33 £87.46 £74.00
90th Percentile £44.83 £87.53 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -50.00% -4.08% +36.41%

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 2,116 3,286 3,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.12% 15.55% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,848 2,206
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £325 £350 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +3.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 370 287
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £47.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.57% +115.91% -3.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £75.27
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +114.29% -27.88%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 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
North of England +12 190 £475 -15.56% 533
South East +1 182 £500 +2.56% 548
North West +7 113 £473 -21.25% 292
Midlands -12 95 £484 -3.30% 329
South West +2 83 £500 +1.01% 251
Yorkshire +16 75 £490 -4.95% 203
West Midlands -9 69 £525 +7.69% 210
East of England +23 54 £523 +6.74% 272
Scotland -11 40 £431 -9.21% 126
Wales +19 28 £325 +23.81% 67
East Midlands 0 26 £450 -10.00% 118
Northern Ireland 0 9 - - 45
Channel Islands - 5 £725 -
North East -2 2 £500 +66.67% 43
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 47 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.11%) IBM Domino
4 16 (2.37%) Confluence
5 7 (1.04%) Apache
6 5 (0.74%) IIS
7 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.59%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.44%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.15%) WinCC
Applications
1 26 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.59%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.30%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 136 (20.15%) Azure
2 97 (14.37%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (13.48%) AWS
4 38 (5.63%) GCP
5 29 (4.30%) IaaS
6 28 (4.15%) Entra ID
7 22 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 21 (3.11%) PaaS
9 13 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (1.93%) GitHub
9 13 (1.93%) OpenShift
9 13 (1.93%) Power Platform
10 11 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.04%) AWS KMS
12 7 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 148 (21.93%) Network Security
2 140 (20.74%) VPN
3 125 (18.52%) WAN
4 102 (15.11%) DNS
5 91 (13.48%) BGP
6 86 (12.74%) OSPF
6 86 (12.74%) Wireless
7 81 (12.00%) LAN
8 77 (11.41%) DHCP
9 74 (10.96%) TCP/IP
10 63 (9.33%) Cisco ASA
11 59 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
12 50 (7.41%) Cisco Firepower
12 50 (7.41%) IPsec
13 49 (7.26%) SD-WAN
14 48 (7.11%) VLAN
15 46 (6.81%) Cisco Nexus
16 44 (6.52%) Cisco IOS
17 39 (5.78%) Cisco ISE
18 38 (5.63%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.33%) Power BI
4 8 (1.19%) Big Data
4 8 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.19%) MySQL
5 7 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.59%) DB2
6 4 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.30%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.30%) GIS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (5.33%) Jenkins
2 24 (3.56%) JIRA
3 21 (3.11%) Git
4 14 (2.07%) Postman
5 10 (1.48%) GitLab
6 7 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.74%) Maven
7 5 (0.74%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.30%) Gradle
9 2 (0.30%) Subversion
10 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
General
1 139 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 58 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (8.30%) Finance
4 55 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 23 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 21 (3.11%) Games
7 21 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.37%) Banking
8 16 (2.37%) Legal
9 13 (1.93%) Military
10 7 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.04%) Local Government
11 6 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Advertising
12 4 (0.59%) Electronics
13 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.44%) Law
13 3 (0.44%) Marketing
13 3 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 211 (31.26%) Network Engineer
2 56 (8.30%) Architect
3 55 (8.15%) Senior
4 50 (7.41%) Analyst
5 45 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 44 (6.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 43 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (5.33%) Support Engineer
9 32 (4.74%) Network Architect
10 31 (4.59%) Cisco Engineer
11 29 (4.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 25 (3.70%) Lead
13 24 (3.56%) Administrator
14 23 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
14 23 (3.41%) IT Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) IT Support
15 21 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (2.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 20 (2.96%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.96%) 802.1X
2 15 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (1.93%) RFC 2544
4 9 (1.33%) LDAP
5 8 (1.19%) JBoss Seam
6 7 (1.04%) .NET
7 6 (0.89%) Kafka
8 5 (0.74%) REST
8 5 (0.74%) Spine.js
9 3 (0.44%) CSS
9 3 (0.44%) HTML
9 3 (0.44%) Web Services
10 2 (0.30%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.30%) JSON
10 2 (0.30%) LAMP
10 2 (0.30%) XML
10 2 (0.30%) YAML
11 1 (0.15%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.15%) MUnit
11 1 (0.15%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 94 (13.93%) Data Centre
2 33 (4.89%) PKI
3 26 (3.85%) Operational Technology
4 24 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
6 17 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 13 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (1.93%) Replication
8 12 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.48%) Fibre Optics
11 9 (1.33%) CMDB
12 8 (1.19%) Clustering
12 8 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.19%) SCADA
12 8 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
12 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.04%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (22.52%) Windows
2 76 (11.26%) Linux
3 53 (7.85%) Windows Server
4 27 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 26 (3.85%) Android
6 21 (3.11%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (2.07%) Unix
8 13 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (1.48%) Solaris
10 9 (1.33%) VMS
11 7 (1.04%) CentOS
11 7 (1.04%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.89%) Check Point GAiA
12 6 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.59%) AIX
14 4 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (17.33%) Cybersecurity
2 94 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (13.04%) DevOps
4 74 (10.96%) ITIL
4 74 (10.96%) Migration
5 63 (9.33%) Agile
5 63 (9.33%) Cloud Security
5 63 (9.33%) Network Architecture
6 54 (8.00%) Change Management
6 54 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 54 (8.00%) SIEM
7 53 (7.85%) High Availability
8 48 (7.11%) Network Design
9 45 (6.67%) Security Operations
10 43 (6.37%) Service Management
11 42 (6.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 41 (6.07%) CI/CD
13 40 (5.93%) Network Management
14 39 (5.78%) Incident Response
15 37 (5.48%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 90 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 88 (13.04%) Python
3 24 (3.56%) Bash
4 16 (2.37%) Perl
5 15 (2.22%) Java
5 15 (2.22%) SQL
6 8 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.19%) Shell Script
7 5 (0.74%) Bicep
7 5 (0.74%) Groovy
8 3 (0.44%) C++
8 3 (0.44%) Go
8 3 (0.44%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.30%) PHP
9 2 (0.30%) Rust
9 2 (0.30%) VBScript
10 1 (0.15%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.15%) C#
10 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 218 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 152 (22.52%) SC Cleared
3 142 (21.04%) Cisco Certification
4 105 (15.56%) CCNP
5 78 (11.56%) CCNA
6 68 (10.07%) Degree
7 64 (9.48%) DV Cleared
8 29 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (3.85%) CCIE
10 23 (3.41%) CISSP
11 20 (2.96%) Azure Certification
12 19 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (2.22%) CISM
14 14 (2.07%) CCSE
15 11 (1.63%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.48%) CEH
16 10 (1.48%) CISMP
16 10 (1.48%) GSEC
17 9 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.59%) GDPR
2 23 (3.41%) SLA
3 21 (3.11%) NIST
4 18 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.22%) QA
6 9 (1.33%) NCSC
7 8 (1.19%) HIPAA
7 8 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.04%) GxP
9 5 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.44%) GRC
12 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
13 1 (0.15%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 109 (16.15%) Active Directory
2 69 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (5.48%) Docker
4 28 (4.15%) vSphere
5 24 (3.56%) Hyper-V
6 16 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.07%) DFS Replication
8 13 (1.93%) VMware NSX
9 10 (1.48%) Terminal Services
10 8 (1.19%) BitLocker
10 8 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.89%) Firmware
11 6 (0.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 5 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 76 (11.26%) Ansible
2 51 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (6.52%) SCCM
4 43 (6.37%) Terraform
5 35 (5.19%) Puppet
6 34 (5.04%) Kubernetes
7 30 (4.44%) FortiGate
8 21 (3.11%) vCenter Server
9 17 (2.52%) Grafana
10 13 (1.93%) Prometheus
11 12 (1.78%) Nagios
12 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (1.19%) vMotion
13 7 (1.04%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.89%) SELinux
14 6 (0.89%) VxRail
15 5 (0.74%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.74%) PowerCLI
16 4 (0.59%) OpenView
17 3 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 308 (45.63%) Cisco
2 192 (28.44%) Microsoft
3 120 (17.78%) Palo Alto
4 91 (13.48%) VMware
5 79 (11.70%) CheckPoint
6 56 (8.30%) Fortinet
7 54 (8.00%) Meraki
8 51 (7.56%) F5
9 50 (7.41%) SolarWinds
10 45 (6.67%) Splunk
11 41 (6.07%) Juniper
12 32 (4.74%) ServiceNow
13 23 (3.41%) Google
14 21 (3.11%) Oracle
15 19 (2.81%) Red Hat
16 18 (2.67%) Zscaler
17 17 (2.52%) Dell
17 17 (2.52%) HP
18 16 (2.37%) Aruba
19 15 (2.22%) Citrix