Firewall Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 389 417
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 +75
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 13 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.057% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.061% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile £387 £322 £324
25th Percentile £400 £475 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £500 £549 £538
90th Percentile £605 £553 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%

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 12,465 19,524 21,566
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.40% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,773 11,665 14,895
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 980 2,450 1,123
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.63 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -29.33% -14.29% +71.57%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer 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 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer 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 27 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
North of England +12 11 £500 -2.44% 3
Yorkshire +6 10 £500 -4.76%
East of England +26 1 £383 -4.38%
North West +10 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -
Firewall Engineer
UK

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 27 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 UK excluding London region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (76.92%) Migration
2 10 (76.92%) CheckPoint
2 10 (76.92%) Network Management
3 9 (69.23%) Finance
4 4 (30.77%) Cisco
5 3 (23.08%) Ansible
5 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (15.38%) DNS
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Network Design
6 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
6 2 (15.38%) Network Security
6 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
7 1 (7.69%) AWS
7 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
7 1 (7.69%) Puppet
7 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
7 1 (7.69%) Git
7 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (7.69%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
7 1 (7.69%) Release Management
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (7.69%) F5

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
1 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub
1 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (7.69%) Mimecast
1 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) BIG-IP
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) NetScaler
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Migration
1 10 (76.92%) Network Management
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
2 2 (15.38%) Network Design
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.69%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.69%) Database Security
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.69%) Release Management
3 1 (7.69%) Resource Management
3 1 (7.69%) SIEM
3 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) CheckPoint
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) F5
5 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk