Firewall Engineer Contracts

Firewall Engineer
UK

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the UK is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 557 676
Rank change year-on-year +73 +119 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 36 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.057% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.062% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 32
10th Percentile £375 £352 £400
25th Percentile £395 £453 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £549 £650
90th Percentile £663 £556 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% +60.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +70 32 £563 +18.42% 5
London +48 18 £563 +18.42% 1
UK excluding London +63 13 £450 -15.09% 5
North of England +26 11 £563 +7.14% 2
Yorkshire +17 10 £563 +7.14% 2
Work from Home +40 7 £491 -8.18% 4
North West +15 1 - -
South East - 1 £425 -
East of England - 1 £383 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) Firewall
2 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 19 (52.78%) Fortinet
3 15 (41.67%) Network Security
4 14 (38.89%) CheckPoint
5 13 (36.11%) Azure
6 12 (33.33%) VPN
7 11 (30.56%) Migration
8 10 (27.78%) Network Management
9 9 (25.00%) Cisco
10 6 (16.67%) WAN
10 6 (16.67%) Network Design
11 5 (13.89%) F5
11 5 (13.89%) CCNP
11 5 (13.89%) LAN
11 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (13.89%) Ansible
12 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
12 4 (11.11%) Python
13 3 (8.33%) Degree
13 3 (8.33%) Load Balancing
13 3 (8.33%) WLAN
13 3 (8.33%) SAP
13 3 (8.33%) BGP
13 3 (8.33%) Wireless
13 3 (8.33%) Service Management
13 3 (8.33%) Infoblox
13 3 (8.33%) Observability
13 3 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
13 3 (8.33%) Terraform

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.78%) Apache
1 1 (2.78%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
2 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
2 1 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 36 (100.00%) Firewall
2 15 (41.67%) Network Security
3 12 (33.33%) VPN
4 6 (16.67%) WAN
5 5 (13.89%) LAN
6 3 (8.33%) BGP
6 3 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (8.33%) Wireless
6 3 (8.33%) WLAN
7 2 (5.56%) OSPF
7 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (2.78%) DHCP
8 1 (2.78%) DNS
8 1 (2.78%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.78%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.78%) NX-OS
8 1 (2.78%) VLAN
8 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
2 2 (5.56%) Law
2 2 (5.56%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Aviation
3 1 (2.78%) Banking
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
1 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Migration
2 10 (27.78%) Network Management
3 6 (16.67%) Network Design
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 3 (8.33%) Observability
4 3 (8.33%) Service Management
5 2 (5.56%) Application Security
5 2 (5.56%) Change Management
5 2 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (2.78%) Agile
6 1 (2.78%) Change Control
6 1 (2.78%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.78%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.78%) Fintech
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL
6 1 (2.78%) Network Architecture
6 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.78%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) CCNP
1 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) CCSA
3 1 (2.78%) CCSE
3 1 (2.78%) JNCIA
3 1 (2.78%) JNCIS
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Fortinet
2 14 (38.89%) CheckPoint
3 9 (25.00%) Cisco
4 5 (13.89%) F5
5 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 3 (8.33%) Infoblox
6 3 (8.33%) SAP
7 2 (5.56%) Juniper
8 1 (2.78%) Meraki
8 1 (2.78%) Remedy
8 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.78%) Splunk
8 1 (2.78%) Tufin