Firewall Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Firewall Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £491, 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 297 337 458
Rank change year-on-year +40 +121 +146
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 7 8 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.052% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.056% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £376 £463 £428
25th Percentile £378 £486 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +1.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £547
90th Percentile - £558 £623
UK median daily rate £531 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +3.66% -2.38% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Firewall Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Firewall Engineer.

Firewall Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Firewall Engineer daily rate histogram 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) SAP
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Application Security
5 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
5 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
5 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Server Building
5 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
5 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) DHCP
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Application Security
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
1 2 (28.57%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) Server Building
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
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