Firewall Contracts in Worcestershire

Firewall
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 2.94% - 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 - -
75th Percentile £570 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £385
% change year-on-year -7.32% +33.12% -23.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 10 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 5.88% 11.11% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
10th Percentile £207 £480 £225
25th Percentile £299 £513 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £594
90th Percentile £569 - £651
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Worcestershire

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Firewall

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Firewall

Firewall
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Malvern - 1 £538 - 2
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco