Firewall Engineer Contracts in England

Firewall Engineer
UK > England

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 630 742
Rank change year-on-year +101 +112 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 19 38 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.075% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.079% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 30
10th Percentile £325 £400 £230
25th Percentile £428 £478 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £428
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +22.81% +22.14%
75th Percentile £549 £650 £528
90th Percentile £554 - £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +16.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +92 8 £475 -20.83%
North of England +35 4 £525 -4.55% 1
West Midlands +28 3 - - 1
Midlands +26 3 - - 2
North West +18 3 £438 -35.19% 1
South West +20 2 £535 +7.00%
Yorkshire +27 1 £525 +23.53%
Firewall Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 England region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) Cisco
3 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (42.11%) CCNP
5 7 (36.84%) Juniper
5 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
6 6 (31.58%) Change Management
6 6 (31.58%) WAN
7 5 (26.32%) VPN
7 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
7 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
8 4 (21.05%) LAN
8 4 (21.05%) Azure
8 4 (21.05%) F5
9 3 (15.79%) High Availability
9 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
9 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
9 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
9 3 (15.79%) MPLS
9 3 (15.79%) McAfee
9 3 (15.79%) CCNA
9 3 (15.79%) VMware
9 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
9 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
9 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
9 3 (15.79%) Ansible
9 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (31.58%) WAN
3 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 4 (21.05%) LAN
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (15.79%) MPLS
5 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
6 2 (10.53%) BGP
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (10.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (10.53%) NGFW
6 2 (10.53%) OSPF
6 2 (10.53%) VRRP
6 2 (10.53%) Wireless
7 1 (5.26%) Network Security
7 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
7 1 (5.26%) VLAN
7 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Change Management
2 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
3 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (15.79%) High Availability
3 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
3 3 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.26%) Availability Management
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.26%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.26%) Network Design
5 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.26%) Server Building
5 1 (5.26%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (42.11%) CCNP
3 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.79%) CCNA
4 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
5 2 (10.53%) CCSA
5 2 (10.53%) CCSE
6 1 (5.26%) CCIE
6 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Juniper
3 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
4 4 (21.05%) F5
5 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
5 3 (15.79%) McAfee
5 3 (15.79%) VMware
6 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
6 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 2 (10.53%) WatchGuard
6 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
7 1 (5.26%) Aruba
7 1 (5.26%) Brocade
7 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (5.26%) HP
7 1 (5.26%) Tufin