Firewall Engineer Contracts

Firewall Engineer
UK

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 561 632
Rank change year-on-year +46 +71 +190
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 33 24 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.055% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.060% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 36
10th Percentile £383 £394 £406
25th Percentile £400 £472 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £528
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.66% +17.22%
75th Percentile £625 £553 £650
90th Percentile £645 £583 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

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 6 July 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 10 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 6 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
England +65 30 £500 -2.44% 17
London +43 17 £563 +9.76% 6
UK excluding London +50 13 £475 -9.52% 11
North of England +9 11 £500 -2.44% 9
Yorkshire +14 10 £500 -4.76% 3
Work from Home +29 6 £600 +17.07% 6
East of England +27 1 £383 -4.38%
North West +5 1 - - 6
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -

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

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

1 33 (100.00%) Firewall
2 16 (48.48%) Finance
2 16 (48.48%) Network Security
2 16 (48.48%) Fortinet
3 14 (42.42%) VPN
4 13 (39.39%) CheckPoint
4 13 (39.39%) Azure
5 12 (36.36%) Migration
6 10 (30.30%) Network Management
7 7 (21.21%) Cisco
8 6 (18.18%) Ansible
9 5 (15.15%) F5
10 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
10 4 (12.12%) CCNP
10 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (12.12%) Python
10 4 (12.12%) Network Design
10 4 (12.12%) Load Balancing
11 3 (9.09%) LAN
11 3 (9.09%) WAN
11 3 (9.09%) SAP
11 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
11 3 (9.09%) GitLab
11 3 (9.09%) DevOps
11 3 (9.09%) Degree
11 3 (9.09%) Terraform
11 3 (9.09%) Observability
12 2 (6.06%) Application Security
12 2 (6.06%) Zero Trust
12 2 (6.06%) Cisco Wireless

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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (3.03%) AWS
2 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.03%) GitHub
2 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
2 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
2 1 (3.03%) Serverless
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (100.00%) Firewall
2 16 (48.48%) Network Security
3 14 (42.42%) VPN
4 3 (9.09%) LAN
4 3 (9.09%) WAN
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (6.06%) DNS
5 2 (6.06%) Wireless
5 2 (6.06%) WLAN
6 1 (3.03%) BGP
6 1 (3.03%) BIG-IP
6 1 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (3.03%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
6 1 (3.03%) OSPF
6 1 (3.03%) SSL
6 1 (3.03%) VLAN
6 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 16 (48.48%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.03%) Aviation
3 1 (3.03%) Law
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Migration
2 10 (30.30%) Network Management
3 4 (12.12%) Load Balancing
3 4 (12.12%) Network Design
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Observability
5 2 (6.06%) Agile
5 2 (6.06%) Application Security
5 2 (6.06%) Change Management
5 2 (6.06%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.06%) ITIL
5 2 (6.06%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (6.06%) Service Management
5 2 (6.06%) Zero Trust
6 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (3.03%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.03%) Network Load Balancing
6 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.03%) Release Management
6 1 (3.03%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Python
2 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) CCNP
1 4 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) CCNA
4 1 (3.03%) CCSA
4 1 (3.03%) CCSE
4 1 (3.03%) JNCIA
4 1 (3.03%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
1 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
1 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Ansible
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.03%) Kustomize
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Fortinet
2 13 (39.39%) CheckPoint
3 7 (21.21%) Cisco
4 5 (15.15%) F5
5 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
6 3 (9.09%) SAP
7 2 (6.06%) Infoblox
7 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
7 2 (6.06%) Splunk
8 1 (3.03%) Juniper
8 1 (3.03%) Meraki
8 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow