Firewall Engineer Contract Job Trends in East London

Firewall Engineer
London > East London

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in East London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 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
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 0.85% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +6.33% -1.25% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 99 125 258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.62% 84.46% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 221
10th Percentile £190 £288 £188
25th Percentile £333 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £650
90th Percentile £776 £669 £750
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £23.33 £21.11 -
25th Percentile £24.24 £21.13 -
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.80 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +46.82% +15.13% -41.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £23.09 -
90th Percentile £80.36 £23.48 -
London median hourly rate £29.04 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -17.04% -6.27% +18.54%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in East London

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in East London

Firewall Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in East London

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Docklands, London - 1 £525 -
Firewall Engineer
London

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 East London region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto