Firewall Engineer Contracts in London

Firewall Engineer
England > London

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 481 581
Rank change year-on-year +94 +100 -134
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 8 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.078% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.082% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 11
10th Percentile £353 £490 £400
25th Percentile £394 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £581
90th Percentile - - £750
England median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +24.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in London

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in London

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 London region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Juniper
2 3 (37.50%) MPLS
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) F5
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) VRRP
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) WatchGuard
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) CCNP
4 1 (12.50%) Migration

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Akamai
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) MPLS
3 2 (25.00%) BGP
3 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (25.00%) OSPF
3 2 (25.00%) VRRP
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
4 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
4 1 (12.50%) LAN
4 1 (12.50%) NGFW
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Application Security
1 1 (12.50%) Availability Management
1 1 (12.50%) Change Management
1 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
1 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Network Design
1 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CCNA
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) F5
1 3 (37.50%) Juniper
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) WatchGuard