Firewall Engineer Contracts in Halifax

Firewall Engineer
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Halifax 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 2 4 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax 47.37% 11.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 50.00% 11.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £503 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £628 £538 -
90th Percentile £656 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £525 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Halifax

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Halifax. 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 Halifax with a recognized job title 18 9 25
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £406 - £449
25th Percentile £500 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £330 £550
Median % change year-on-year +55.30% -40.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £434 £588
90th Percentile £575 £496 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in Halifax

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in Halifax.

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in Halifax

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Halifax

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in Halifax over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in Halifax

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax

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 Halifax region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
1 9 (100.00%) Network Management
2 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Network Design
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 9 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Migration
1 9 (100.00%) Network Management
2 1 (11.11%) Network Design
2 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet