Firewall Engineer Contracts in England

Firewall Engineer
UK > England

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 622 761
Rank change year-on-year +98 +139 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 17 39 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.078% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.083% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 29
10th Percentile £408 £384 £291
25th Percentile £463 £473 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £545 £650 £575
90th Percentile £553 - £635
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +16.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
London +99 7 £475 -20.83% 3
North of England +34 4 £525 -4.55% 1
Midlands +29 3 - - 1
North West +29 3 £438 -35.19% 1
West Midlands +23 3 - -
South West +21 2 £535 +7.00%
Yorkshire +20 1 £525 +23.53%
Firewall Engineer
UK

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Firewall Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
3 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (47.06%) CCNP
4 7 (41.18%) Juniper
5 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
5 6 (35.29%) Change Management
6 5 (29.41%) F5
6 5 (29.41%) WAN
6 5 (29.41%) VPN
6 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
7 4 (23.53%) LAN
7 4 (23.53%) Azure
8 3 (17.65%) High Availability
8 3 (17.65%) Ansible
8 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
8 3 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (17.65%) MPLS
8 3 (17.65%) McAfee
8 3 (17.65%) VMware
8 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
8 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
9 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
9 2 (11.76%) NGFW
9 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
9 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
9 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Akamai
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (29.41%) VPN
2 5 (29.41%) WAN
3 4 (23.53%) LAN
4 3 (17.65%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (17.65%) MPLS
4 3 (17.65%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.76%) BGP
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (11.76%) NGFW
5 2 (11.76%) OSPF
5 2 (11.76%) VRRP
5 2 (11.76%) Wireless
6 1 (5.88%) BIG-IP
6 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
6 1 (5.88%) VLAN
6 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Change Management
2 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
3 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (17.65%) High Availability
3 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
3 3 (17.65%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.88%) Application Security
5 1 (5.88%) Availability Management
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps
5 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.88%) Network Design
5 1 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) CCNP
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CCNA
3 2 (11.76%) CCSA
3 2 (11.76%) CCSE
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) Juniper
3 5 (29.41%) F5
4 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
5 3 (17.65%) McAfee
5 3 (17.65%) VMware
6 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
6 2 (11.76%) Fortinet
6 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
6 2 (11.76%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.88%) Brocade
7 1 (5.88%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (5.88%) HP
7 1 (5.88%) Tufin
7 1 (5.88%) Zscaler