Firewall Engineer Contracts in England

Firewall Engineer
UK > England

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in England is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 523 616
Rank change year-on-year +70 +93 +128
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 32 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.051% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.055% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 30
10th Percentile £377 £325 £384
25th Percentile £413 £416 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £650
90th Percentile £665 £553 -
UK median daily rate £531 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +3.66% -2.38% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
London +48 18 £563 +18.42% 1
North of England +26 11 £563 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire +17 10 £563 +7.14% 2
North West +15 1 - -
South East - 1 £425 -
East of England - 1 £383 - 2
Firewall Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Firewall
2 18 (56.25%) Fortinet
3 16 (50.00%) Finance
4 14 (43.75%) CheckPoint
4 14 (43.75%) Network Security
5 13 (40.63%) Azure
6 12 (37.50%) VPN
7 11 (34.38%) Migration
8 10 (31.25%) Network Management
9 8 (25.00%) Cisco
10 6 (18.75%) Network Design
11 5 (15.63%) WAN
12 4 (12.50%) CCNP
12 4 (12.50%) LAN
12 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (12.50%) Ansible
12 4 (12.50%) Palo Alto
13 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
13 3 (9.38%) Cisco Wireless
13 3 (9.38%) Terraform
13 3 (9.38%) Observability
13 3 (9.38%) GitLab
13 3 (9.38%) DevOps
13 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
13 3 (9.38%) F5
13 3 (9.38%) Degree
13 3 (9.38%) Wireless
13 3 (9.38%) Service Management
13 3 (9.38%) WLAN
13 3 (9.38%) Python

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
2 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 32 (100.00%) Firewall
2 14 (43.75%) Network Security
3 12 (37.50%) VPN
4 5 (15.63%) WAN
5 4 (12.50%) LAN
6 3 (9.38%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (9.38%) Wireless
6 3 (9.38%) WLAN
7 2 (6.25%) BGP
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (3.13%) DHCP
8 1 (3.13%) DNS
8 1 (3.13%) EIGRP
8 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.13%) OSPF
8 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.13%) VLAN
8 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) GitLab
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.25%) Law
2 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Aviation
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Migration
2 10 (31.25%) Network Management
3 6 (18.75%) Network Design
4 3 (9.38%) DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) Observability
4 3 (9.38%) Service Management
5 2 (6.25%) Application Security
5 2 (6.25%) Change Management
5 2 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.13%) Agile
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection
6 1 (3.13%) High Availability
6 1 (3.13%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL
6 1 (3.13%) Load Balancing
6 1 (3.13%) Network Architecture
6 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.13%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) CCNP
1 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CCNA
3 1 (3.13%) CCSA
3 1 (3.13%) CCSE
3 1 (3.13%) JNCIA
3 1 (3.13%) JNCIS
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Fortinet
2 14 (43.75%) CheckPoint
3 8 (25.00%) Cisco
4 4 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.38%) F5
5 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
5 3 (9.38%) SAP
6 2 (6.25%) Juniper
7 1 (3.13%) Meraki
7 1 (3.13%) Remedy
7 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.13%) Splunk
7 1 (3.13%) Tufin