Firewall Contracts in Wokingham

Firewall
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wokingham 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wokingham 3.85% 3.53% 3.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.58% 25.00% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £503
25th Percentile - £155 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £160 £613
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -73.88% +36.11%
75th Percentile - £168 £681
90th Percentile - £169 £723
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -25.62% +0.83% +17.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 31 12 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 17.03% 14.12% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 7
10th Percentile £340 £155 £248
25th Percentile £356 £163 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +38.46% -19.55%
75th Percentile £471 £535 £525
90th Percentile £516 £583 £645
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -0.59%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Wokingham

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Intranet
2 3 (42.86%) IPv6
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Network Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) SCADA
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Data Security
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CISM
1 3 (42.86%) CISSP
2 2 (28.57%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Proofpoint
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft