Firewall Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Firewall
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Firewall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 7 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 3.76% 6.16% 5.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 53.85% 39.13% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 13
10th Percentile £403 - £258
25th Percentile £438 £425 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +19.50%
75th Percentile £606 £488 £525
90th Percentile £693 £585 £535
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 23 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 6.99% 15.75% 9.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 19
10th Percentile £288 £197 £250
25th Percentile £413 £388 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £738 £550 £525
90th Percentile £785 £603 £538
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.50% +7.53% +0.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +33.33%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West Sussex over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West Sussex

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Worthing -1 4 £588 +30.56%
Crawley -7 3 £425 -29.17% 2
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Nutanix Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Release Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) SABSA
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) GAMP
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Aruba
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam