Firewall Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Firewall Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 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
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.045% - 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.00%
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,986 2,728 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 92.01% 94.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,811 2,155
10th Percentile £205 £213 £228
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £540 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £694
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 234 104
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.83 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £22.75 £19.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.74% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £31.57 £35.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.91 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £39.55 £44.06
% change year-on-year -27.94% -10.23% +79.82%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the Midlands

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the Midlands

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the Midlands

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Firewall Engineer
England

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 June 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 Midlands region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds