Firewall Contract Job Trends in Yeovil

Firewall
Somerset > Yeovil

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yeovil requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yeovil 7.84% - 3.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 88.89% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £302 - -
25th Percentile £619 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - £275
75th Percentile £705 - -
90th Percentile £713 - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £94.02 - -
25th Percentile £96.27 - -
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £96.27 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yeovil

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 Yeovil.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil 8.82% - 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £133 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.86%
75th Percentile £696 - -
90th Percentile £712 - -
Somerset median daily rate £510 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £94.02 - -
25th Percentile £96.27 - -
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.15%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £40.54 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -49.15%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yeovil

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Yeovil

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Yeovil

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Yeovil over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Yeovil

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Yeovil

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yeovil 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 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (75.00%) VSAN
3 5 (62.50%) DHCP
3 5 (62.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 3 (37.50%) OSPF
4 3 (37.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (37.50%) VLAN
4 3 (37.50%) VPN
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) ITIL
6 2 (25.00%) Network Design
6 2 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) VCAP
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
3 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (12.50%) Thales