Firewall Contracts in the West Midlands

Firewall
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +64
Contract jobs citing Firewall 69 89 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.64% 4.34% 6.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.70% 24.72% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 97
10th Percentile £288 £211 £263
25th Percentile £463 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +14.71% -14.57%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £626
90th Percentile £776 £775 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £23.03 - £17.25
25th Percentile £29.00 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £26.25
75th Percentile £31.00 - £28.75
90th Percentile £42.23 - -
England 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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 360 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.31% 17.54% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 218 239
10th Percentile £230 £209 £261
25th Percentile £319 £302 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £595 £585 £603
90th Percentile £725 £688 £713
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 11
10th Percentile £14.45 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.81 £13.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £16.98 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +76.73% -24.25% +19.52%
75th Percentile £38.62 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.63 £28.75 -
England median hourly rate £38.41 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -16.28% +121.59% -17.18%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham -11 22 £475 - 74
Warwickshire -2 17 £400 -27.27% 26
Coventry +5 10 £600 +68.42% 17
Solihull +3 7 £1,342 +388.00% 4
Staffordshire +7 6 - - 41
Herefordshire +15 3 £525 -17.32% 6
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 24
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.74%) AWS
2 14 (20.29%) Azure
3 12 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (11.59%) GCP
5 6 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.25%) Amazon ELB
6 5 (7.25%) Amazon Glacier
6 5 (7.25%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.25%) AWS KMS
6 5 (7.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (4.35%) GitHub
7 3 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.90%) Collibra
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.90%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (36.23%) Network Security
2 22 (31.88%) DNS
3 17 (24.64%) DHCP
4 15 (21.74%) VPN
5 14 (20.29%) WAN
5 14 (20.29%) Wireless
6 13 (18.84%) VLAN
7 11 (15.94%) BGP
7 11 (15.94%) IPsec
7 11 (15.94%) OSPF
8 10 (14.49%) SSL
9 9 (13.04%) HTTP
10 8 (11.59%) LAN
11 7 (10.14%) SD-WAN
11 7 (10.14%) TCP/IP
12 6 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (8.70%) WLAN
13 5 (7.25%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (7.25%) SMTP
13 5 (7.25%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.90%) Delta Lake
2 2 (2.90%) GIS
2 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) JIRA
2 8 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.14%) Git
4 5 (7.25%) Vagrant
5 2 (2.90%) Maven
5 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.45%) GitLab
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.04%) Manufacturing
5 7 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.80%) Finance
8 3 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Network Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Analyst
3 7 (10.14%) Architect
4 6 (8.70%) Check Point Expert
4 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Support Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Consultant
6 4 (5.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.80%) Senior
6 4 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) IT Support
7 3 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Data Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.90%) JSON
1 2 (2.90%) Kafka
1 2 (2.90%) LDAP
1 2 (2.90%) REST
1 2 (2.90%) XML
1 2 (2.90%) YAML
2 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.45%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.70%) Virtual Team
3 5 (7.25%) Replication
3 5 (7.25%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.80%) SCADA
5 3 (4.35%) IoT
5 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.35%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.45%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.45%) NB-IoT
7 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.29%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Linux
3 6 (8.70%) Check Point GAiA
3 6 (8.70%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.25%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (7.25%) VMS
5 2 (2.90%) CentOS
5 2 (2.90%) Debian
5 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) ITIL
2 14 (20.29%) Change Management
2 14 (20.29%) Cloud Security
2 14 (20.29%) High Availability
2 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (18.84%) Agile
4 12 (17.39%) DevOps
4 12 (17.39%) SIEM
5 10 (14.49%) Computer Science
6 8 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.14%) Configuration Management
7 7 (10.14%) Load Balancing
7 7 (10.14%) Migration
7 7 (10.14%) Patch Management
8 6 (8.70%) Asset Management
8 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (8.70%) Project Management
8 6 (8.70%) Service Management
9 5 (7.25%) Problem Management
9 5 (7.25%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 14 (20.29%) Python
3 5 (7.25%) Groovy
3 5 (7.25%) Java
3 5 (7.25%) Perl
4 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.90%) Bash
5 2 (2.90%) Bicep
5 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.90%) SQL
6 1 (1.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (18.84%) SC Cleared
4 12 (17.39%) CCNP
4 12 (17.39%) Degree
5 11 (15.94%) CCNA
6 8 (11.59%) CISSP
6 8 (11.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (10.14%) CCSE
7 7 (10.14%) CISM
8 6 (8.70%) CCIE
9 5 (7.25%) CEH
9 5 (7.25%) CISA
10 4 (5.80%) DV Cleared
10 4 (5.80%) GIAC
11 3 (4.35%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (2.90%) PCI QSA
12 2 (2.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) GDPR
2 3 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.90%) SLA
4 1 (1.45%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.45%) NCSC
4 1 (1.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Active Directory
1 10 (14.49%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) DFS Replication
3 2 (2.90%) Firmware
3 2 (2.90%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) FortiGate
2 7 (10.14%) Ansible
2 7 (10.14%) Terraform
3 6 (8.70%) Grafana
3 6 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.80%) OpenView
5 3 (4.35%) Puppet
6 2 (2.90%) Nagios
6 2 (2.90%) Nessus
7 1 (1.45%) CASB
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.45%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.45%) SCCM
7 1 (1.45%) SELinux
Vendors
1 33 (47.83%) Cisco
2 20 (28.99%) Microsoft
3 12 (17.39%) CheckPoint
4 11 (15.94%) Fortinet
5 10 (14.49%) ServiceNow
6 9 (13.04%) F5
7 8 (11.59%) SolarWinds
8 7 (10.14%) Palo Alto
9 5 (7.25%) Peregrine
9 5 (7.25%) Remedy
9 5 (7.25%) VMware
10 4 (5.80%) Juniper
10 4 (5.80%) Oracle
10 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
11 3 (4.35%) Meraki
12 2 (2.90%) Arista
12 2 (2.90%) Databricks
12 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.90%) SAP
12 2 (2.90%) Tenable