Firewall Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 342 393
Rank change year-on-year -47 +51 +82
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 19 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.14% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 7
10th Percentile £278 £444 £277
25th Percentile £343 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £538
90th Percentile £579 £669 £555
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 16,166 13,980 18,568
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 92.36% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,949 8,317 12,127
10th Percentile £210 £213 £214
25th Percentile £366 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,625 835 1,208
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.36 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.28 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.49 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Firewall Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Firewall Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
North of England -45 7 £561 +12.25% 1
South East +5 5 £425 -10.53%
North West -29 4 £598 +19.50% 1
West Midlands -33 4 £328 -59.06%
Midlands -43 4 £328 -59.06%
East of England -20 3 £363 -27.50%
Yorkshire -51 3 £310 -
Firewall Engineer
UK

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) Cisco
3 10 (52.63%) CheckPoint
4 7 (36.84%) DNS
4 7 (36.84%) Network Security
5 6 (31.58%) VPN
6 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
6 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
6 5 (26.32%) Wireless
7 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
7 4 (21.05%) Azure
7 4 (21.05%) Change Management
7 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (21.05%) F5
7 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
7 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Migration
7 4 (21.05%) Network Management
7 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
7 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
7 4 (21.05%) WAN
7 4 (21.05%) Windows
7 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
8 3 (15.79%) 802.1X
8 3 (15.79%) Blue Coat
8 3 (15.79%) Cisco IPT
8 3 (15.79%) DMVPN
8 3 (15.79%) Inventory Management
8 3 (15.79%) IPsec
8 3 (15.79%) Juniper

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) Mimecast
2 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.26%) Akamai
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (5.26%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) DNS
2 7 (36.84%) Network Security
3 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) Wireless
5 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (21.05%) WAN
6 3 (15.79%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (15.79%) DMVPN
6 3 (15.79%) IPsec
6 3 (15.79%) SSL
7 2 (10.53%) DHCP
7 2 (10.53%) NGFW
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (5.26%) LAN
8 1 (5.26%) SMS
8 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) 802.1X
2 1 (5.26%) Regular Expression
2 1 (5.26%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.26%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
1 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Change Management
1 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (21.05%) Migration
1 4 (21.05%) Network Management
2 3 (15.79%) Inventory Management
3 2 (10.53%) Agile
3 2 (10.53%) High Availability
3 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
3 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
3 2 (10.53%) Security Management
3 2 (10.53%) Server Building
3 2 (10.53%) Service Management
3 2 (10.53%) SIEM
3 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.26%) B2B
4 1 (5.26%) Business Enablement
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Security
4 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.26%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CCNP
2 1 (5.26%) CCSA
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.53%) vSphere
3 1 (5.26%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
1 2 (10.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) CheckPoint
3 5 (26.32%) Fortinet
3 5 (26.32%) Palo Alto
4 4 (21.05%) F5
5 3 (15.79%) Blue Coat
5 3 (15.79%) Juniper
6 2 (10.53%) Aruba
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
6 2 (10.53%) VMware
6 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
7 1 (5.26%) ArcSight
7 1 (5.26%) Imperva
7 1 (5.26%) Qualys
7 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.26%) Splunk