Firewall Engineer Contracts in West Sussex

Firewall Engineer
South East > West Sussex

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in West Sussex is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 0.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 - £488
% change year-on-year - - +14.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Sussex. 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 West Sussex with a recognized job title 158 183 319
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.41% 94.33% 97.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 142 258
10th Percentile £205 £200 £200
25th Percentile £284 £359 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.12% -3.10%
75th Percentile £537 £535 £538
90th Percentile £675 £611 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 5
10th Percentile - £24.45 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £22.23
Median hourly rate £18.82 £28.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.79% +14.47% +35.89%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £48.00
90th Percentile £47.25 £35.75 £61.24
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +134.74%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in West Sussex

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in West Sussex

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Crawley - 1 £425 -
Firewall Engineer
South East

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 West Sussex region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler