Firewall Engineer Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Firewall Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Gloucester is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 0.91% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 99 87 89
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 94.57% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 77 69
10th Percentile £227 £130 £310
25th Percentile £313 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £464 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -11.71% -0.94%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £750 £714 £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile - £21.04 -
25th Percentile - £21.89 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £23.30 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.79% -3.92% -56.11%
75th Percentile £52.61 £24.71 £30.31
90th Percentile £60.69 £25.56 £33.13
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.17 £66.25 £48.72
% change year-on-year -49.93% +35.98% -30.40%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Firewall Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Firewall Engineer job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

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

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 24 March 2026, Firewall Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable