Firewall Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Firewall Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.21% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 -
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 454 723 1,234
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.42% 92.57% 98.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 455 890
10th Percentile £263 £305 £356
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 15
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £11.88 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +164.25% -44.31% +0.45%
75th Percentile £66.51 £15.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £85.74 £18.27 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £15.17 £21.50
% change year-on-year +45.95% -29.44% +21.88%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in Leeds

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Leeds region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk