Firewall Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Firewall Engineer
England > North of England

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 171 194
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +58
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 15 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.15% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.16% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £384 £370 -
25th Percentile £472 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% - -
75th Percentile £633 £538 -
90th Percentile £656 - -
England median daily rate £531 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.41% -5.68% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,529 4,271 5,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 92.41% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 2,643 3,557
10th Percentile £254 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £386 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -3.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £655 £680
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 382 194
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.45 £14.58
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.03 £17.47
Median hourly rate £22.32 £24.87 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% +10.53% +9.76%
75th Percentile £47.12 £47.88 £43.39
90th Percentile £75.24 £68.63 £53.24
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the North of England

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the North of England

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in the North of England

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the North of England

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Yorkshire +4 11 £488 -7.14% 3
North West +6 4 £611 +22.25%
Firewall Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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 North of England region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 13 (86.67%) CheckPoint
2 13 (86.67%) Network Management
3 11 (73.33%) Finance
3 11 (73.33%) Migration
4 5 (33.33%) Cisco
4 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (13.33%) Network Security
6 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (13.33%) Network Design
6 2 (13.33%) VPN
6 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (6.67%) Terraform
7 1 (6.67%) Grafana
7 1 (6.67%) Compliance Audit
7 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
7 1 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (6.67%) GDPR
7 1 (6.67%) Security Monitoring
7 1 (6.67%) Client Onboarding
7 1 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (6.67%) DNS
4 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
4 1 (6.67%) SSL
4 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Network Management
2 11 (73.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Network Design
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (6.67%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.67%) Database Security
4 1 (6.67%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) High Availability
4 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (6.67%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (6.67%) Release Management
4 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (6.67%) SIEM
4 1 (6.67%) Threat Detection
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) CCSA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Kustomize
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) CheckPoint
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Meraki
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk