Firewall Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Firewall Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £535 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 453 595
Rank change year-on-year +115 +142 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 8 19 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.073% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.077% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 25
10th Percentile £463 £428 -
25th Percentile £486 £487 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +16.67% +16.88%
75th Percentile £556 £547 £550
90th Percentile £558 £623 £655
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% +16.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Firewall Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall Engineer.

Firewall Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco
4 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (25.00%) Compliance Management
5 2 (25.00%) Arista
5 2 (25.00%) Catchpoint
5 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (25.00%) Ansible
5 2 (25.00%) F5
5 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (25.00%) AppNeta
5 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (25.00%) Tufin
5 2 (25.00%) IPv6
5 2 (25.00%) CCIE
5 2 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) SSL
5 2 (25.00%) BCP
6 1 (12.50%) Change Management
6 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (12.50%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (12.50%) WAN
6 1 (12.50%) HP

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Catchpoint
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) IPv6
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) BCP
1 2 (25.00%) Compliance Management
1 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CCNP
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) AppNeta
2 2 (25.00%) Arista
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (25.00%) Tufin
3 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 1 (12.50%) WatchGuard