Firewall Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Firewall Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £295, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.083% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £293 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 - -
75th Percentile £298 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +23.53%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,099 1,557 1,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 91.43% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 850 1,068
10th Percentile £325 £313 £302
25th Percentile £413 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 81 55
10th Percentile £14.75 £30.41 £17.27
25th Percentile £18.09 £56.25 £44.10
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.80 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.71% +5.18% +142.27%
75th Percentile £68.75 £76.99 £72.96
90th Percentile £85.80 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in Berkshire

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Firewall Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 30 August 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) RFC 2544
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco