Firewall Contract Job Trends in West Malling

Firewall
Kent > West Malling

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Malling requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Malling 11.11% 20.00% 29.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 100.00% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £563 £608 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £495
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +24.24% +35.62%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £532
90th Percentile - - £534
Kent median daily rate £438 £615 £525
% change year-on-year -28.86% +17.14% +43.84%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Malling

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 West Malling.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Malling 33.33% 20.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £573 - £370
25th Percentile £588 £608 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £615 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +24.24% +38.46%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £531
90th Percentile - - £534
Kent median daily rate £413 £533 £521
% change year-on-year -22.54% +2.16% +42.81%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Malling

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in West Malling

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in West Malling

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Malling citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Malling citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Malling 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware