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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 42 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +22
Contract jobs citing Firewall 617 851 1,207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.69% 4.04% 5.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.92% 25.87% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 541 821
10th Percentile £300 £275 £273
25th Percentile £400 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.88% +4.07%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 45
10th Percentile - £23.92 £19.60
25th Percentile £14.20 £26.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £83.50 £62.55
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +33.49% +178.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £87.46 £73.75
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.53 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -50.00% -4.08% +39.78%

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 2,062 3,289 3,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.66% 15.63% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,861 2,198
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £313 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £585
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £481 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -2.93% -3.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 354 301
10th Percentile £14.12 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £45.88 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.61% +154.89% -16.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £60.50
90th Percentile £81.50 £72.40 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £18.34
% change year-on-year - +118.16% -29.48%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +8 166 £485 -7.62% 272
South East -6 157 £500 +2.56% 445
North West +7 104 £475 -29.73% 128
Midlands -12 86 £525 +10.53% 160
South West -3 84 £500 +1.01% 134
Yorkshire +14 60 £489 -2.30% 113
West Midlands -5 56 £500 +5.26% 101
East of England +23 49 £513 +11.53% 153
Scotland -3 39 £438 -7.89% 88
Wales +22 37 £350 +12.00% 30
East Midlands +10 30 £550 +10.00% 55
Northern Ireland -1 7 - - 17
North East -9 2 £500 +33.33% 36
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 13
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 39 (6.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.78%) Confluence
4 6 (0.97%) IBM Domino
5 5 (0.81%) IIS
6 3 (0.49%) Apache
6 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.16%) WinCC
Applications
1 24 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
1 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (0.32%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 128 (20.75%) Azure
2 82 (13.29%) AWS
3 78 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (5.02%) Entra ID
4 31 (5.02%) IaaS
5 30 (4.86%) GCP
6 21 (3.40%) PaaS
7 17 (2.76%) OpenShift
8 12 (1.94%) GitHub
9 11 (1.78%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (1.62%) Serverless
11 9 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.13%) Akamai
13 7 (1.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 7 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 147 (23.82%) Network Security
2 135 (21.88%) VPN
3 115 (18.64%) WAN
4 90 (14.59%) DNS
5 84 (13.61%) BGP
6 80 (12.97%) OSPF
7 79 (12.80%) LAN
8 78 (12.64%) Wireless
9 70 (11.35%) TCP/IP
10 66 (10.70%) DHCP
11 63 (10.21%) Cisco ASA
12 59 (9.56%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (7.78%) Cisco Firepower
14 45 (7.29%) IPsec
15 43 (6.97%) Cisco Nexus
15 43 (6.97%) SD-WAN
15 43 (6.97%) VLAN
16 37 (6.00%) Intrusion Detection
17 34 (5.51%) EIGRP
18 33 (5.35%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (1.46%) Power BI
5 8 (1.30%) Big Data
6 6 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.81%) MySQL
8 4 (0.65%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.32%) DB2
9 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.32%) GIS
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.16%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 30 (4.86%) Jenkins
2 21 (3.40%) JIRA
3 20 (3.24%) Git
4 11 (1.78%) Postman
5 10 (1.62%) GitLab
6 7 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.65%) Maven
8 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.32%) Gradle
9 2 (0.32%) Subversion
9 2 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 131 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 55 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 51 (8.27%) Finance
5 33 (5.35%) Telecoms
6 21 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.92%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.59%) Legal
9 14 (2.27%) Banking
10 11 (1.78%) Military
11 8 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.97%) Games
12 6 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.65%) Advertising
13 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.65%) Electronics
13 4 (0.65%) Local Government
13 4 (0.65%) Retail
14 3 (0.49%) Law
14 3 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 201 (32.58%) Network Engineer
2 64 (10.37%) Architect
3 53 (8.59%) Senior
4 41 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (6.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 39 (6.32%) Network Architect
6 37 (6.00%) Support Engineer
7 34 (5.51%) Analyst
7 34 (5.51%) Security Engineer
8 31 (5.02%) Cisco Engineer
9 29 (4.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 24 (3.89%) Administrator
10 24 (3.89%) IT Engineer
11 21 (3.40%) IT Support
12 19 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (2.92%) Lead
14 17 (2.76%) Senior Network Engineer
15 16 (2.59%) 3rd Line Support
15 16 (2.59%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.24%) 802.1X
2 14 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (1.94%) RFC 2544
4 9 (1.46%) LDAP
5 7 (1.13%) .NET
5 7 (1.13%) JBoss Seam
6 5 (0.81%) Spine.js
7 4 (0.65%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.49%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.49%) Kafka
8 3 (0.49%) Web Services
9 2 (0.32%) LAMP
9 2 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.32%) React
9 2 (0.32%) REST
9 2 (0.32%) YAML
10 1 (0.16%) ModSecurity
10 1 (0.16%) OAuth
10 1 (0.16%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.16%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.42%) Data Centre
2 24 (3.89%) PKI
3 22 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.27%) Operational Technology
5 14 (2.27%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
7 12 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.62%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.62%) Fibre Optics
8 10 (1.62%) Replication
9 9 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.30%) Clustering
10 8 (1.30%) CMDB
10 8 (1.30%) SCADA
11 7 (1.13%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.13%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.97%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 131 (21.23%) Windows
2 71 (11.51%) Linux
3 52 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 21 (3.40%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.11%) Android
6 13 (2.11%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.78%) Unix
8 10 (1.62%) Solaris
9 9 (1.46%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.13%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.97%) CentOS
11 6 (0.97%) Check Point GAiA
12 5 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.65%) AIX
13 4 (0.65%) VMS
13 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (17.18%) Cybersecurity
2 104 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (12.48%) DevOps
4 69 (11.18%) ITIL
4 69 (11.18%) Migration
5 65 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 62 (10.05%) Agile
7 51 (8.27%) Change Management
7 51 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 49 (7.94%) High Availability
9 46 (7.46%) Cloud Security
10 44 (7.13%) SIEM
11 43 (6.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 43 (6.97%) Network Design
11 43 (6.97%) Network Management
12 41 (6.65%) CI/CD
13 40 (6.48%) Service Management
14 36 (5.83%) Network Monitoring
15 34 (5.51%) Customer Service
15 34 (5.51%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 78 (12.64%) Python
2 71 (11.51%) PowerShell
3 26 (4.21%) Bash
4 14 (2.27%) SQL
5 11 (1.78%) Perl
6 8 (1.30%) Java
7 7 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.97%) Bicep
9 4 (0.65%) Groovy
10 3 (0.49%) C++
10 3 (0.49%) Go
11 2 (0.32%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.32%) PHP
11 2 (0.32%) Rust
11 2 (0.32%) VBScript
12 1 (0.16%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.16%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.16%) C#
12 1 (0.16%) VB
Qualifications
1 205 (33.23%) Security Cleared
2 142 (23.01%) SC Cleared
3 125 (20.26%) Cisco Certification
4 96 (15.56%) CCNP
5 67 (10.86%) Degree
6 66 (10.70%) CCNA
7 60 (9.72%) DV Cleared
8 27 (4.38%) CCIE
9 26 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (3.73%) Azure Certification
10 23 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (3.40%) CISSP
12 14 (2.27%) CCSE
13 13 (2.11%) CISM
14 12 (1.94%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (1.30%) A+ Certification
16 8 (1.30%) CCSA
16 8 (1.30%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.05%) SLA
2 22 (3.57%) GDPR
3 21 (3.40%) NIST
4 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.30%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.30%) QA
6 7 (1.13%) GxP
7 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.81%) NCSC
9 4 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.49%) GRC
10 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (15.72%) Active Directory
2 70 (11.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.51%) vSphere
4 27 (4.38%) Docker
5 22 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 15 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (2.43%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.78%) DFS Replication
8 9 (1.46%) Terminal Services
9 8 (1.30%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.97%) Firmware
11 5 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (11.35%) Ansible
2 41 (6.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.16%) Terraform
4 32 (5.19%) FortiGate
5 30 (4.86%) Puppet
6 26 (4.21%) SCCM
7 21 (3.40%) vCenter Server
8 13 (2.11%) Grafana
9 12 (1.94%) Nagios
10 10 (1.62%) Prometheus
11 8 (1.30%) vMotion
12 7 (1.13%) Cisco Prime
12 7 (1.13%) SELinux
13 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.97%) VxRail
14 5 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.81%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.65%) OpenView
15 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 276 (44.73%) Cisco
2 159 (25.77%) Microsoft
3 117 (18.96%) Palo Alto
4 95 (15.40%) VMware
5 78 (12.64%) CheckPoint
6 51 (8.27%) Fortinet
7 43 (6.97%) F5
8 40 (6.48%) SolarWinds
9 36 (5.83%) Juniper
9 36 (5.83%) ServiceNow
10 35 (5.67%) Meraki
11 25 (4.05%) Splunk
12 22 (3.57%) Google
13 20 (3.24%) Red Hat
14 19 (3.08%) Aruba
15 17 (2.76%) HP
16 15 (2.43%) Sophos
17 13 (2.11%) Dell
18 11 (1.78%) Citrix
18 11 (1.78%) Oracle