Firewall Engineer Contracts in England

Firewall Engineer
UK > England

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 521 592
Rank change year-on-year +50 +71 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 35 25 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.069% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.075% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 21
10th Percentile £357 £348 £400
25th Percentile £400 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £553 £650
90th Percentile £650 £616 -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.28% +19.39%

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 25,186 33,515 44,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 92.98% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,387 22,034 31,463
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 2,292 1,392
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%
75th Percentile £56.52 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +46 17 £581 +13.41% 2
North of England +13 15 £549 +7.07% 3
Yorkshire +10 11 £488 -7.14% 3
North West +3 4 £611 +22.25%
East of England +10 1 £383 -4.38%
West Midlands +8 1 £400 -50.00%
Midlands -6 1 £400 -50.00%
South East - 1 £425 - 3
Firewall Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 35 (100.00%) Firewall
2 19 (54.29%) Fortinet
3 17 (48.57%) Finance
3 17 (48.57%) CheckPoint
4 16 (45.71%) Network Security
5 15 (42.86%) VPN
6 14 (40.00%) Migration
7 13 (37.14%) Azure
7 13 (37.14%) Network Management
8 10 (28.57%) Cisco
9 5 (14.29%) CCNP
9 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (14.29%) Palo Alto
10 4 (11.43%) Ansible
11 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
11 3 (8.57%) Degree
11 3 (8.57%) Network Design
11 3 (8.57%) SAP
12 2 (5.71%) ITIL
12 2 (5.71%) Python
12 2 (5.71%) LAN
12 2 (5.71%) WAN
12 2 (5.71%) DNS
12 2 (5.71%) Change Management
12 2 (5.71%) Wireless
12 2 (5.71%) CCSA
12 2 (5.71%) Agile
12 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
12 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared

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 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (2.86%) AWS
2 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.86%) GitHub
2 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (2.86%) Mimecast
2 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
2 1 (2.86%) Serverless
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (100.00%) Firewall
2 16 (45.71%) Network Security
3 15 (42.86%) VPN
4 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (5.71%) DNS
5 2 (5.71%) LAN
5 2 (5.71%) WAN
5 2 (5.71%) Wireless
6 1 (2.86%) BGP
6 1 (2.86%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.86%) DHCP
6 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.86%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.86%) OSPF
6 1 (2.86%) SSL
6 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.86%) VLAN
6 1 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Aviation
3 1 (2.86%) Law
3 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
1 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Migration
2 13 (37.14%) Network Management
3 3 (8.57%) Network Design
4 2 (5.71%) Agile
4 2 (5.71%) Application Security
4 2 (5.71%) Change Management
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) High Availability
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (5.71%) ITIL
4 2 (5.71%) Load Balancing
4 2 (5.71%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (5.71%) Observability
4 2 (5.71%) Zero Trust
5 1 (2.86%) CI/CD
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security
5 1 (2.86%) Containerisation
5 1 (2.86%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (2.86%) Incident Response
5 1 (2.86%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) CCNP
1 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) CCSA
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) CCNA
4 1 (2.86%) CCSE
4 1 (2.86%) JNCIA
4 1 (2.86%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.86%) NIST
1 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Kustomize
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Fortinet
2 17 (48.57%) CheckPoint
3 10 (28.57%) Cisco
4 5 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 3 (8.57%) SAP
6 2 (5.71%) F5
6 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.71%) Splunk
7 1 (2.86%) Aruba
7 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.86%) Juniper
7 1 (2.86%) Meraki
7 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) Zscaler