Hybrid/Remote Senior Firewall Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Firewall Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Firewall Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 - 372
Rank change year-on-year - - +190
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Firewall Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £421 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 - £465
75th Percentile £464 - £473
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £465
% change year-on-year - +29.03% -14.68%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 9,476 10,969 16,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 93.14% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,182 6,942 11,190
10th Percentile £326 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 202 362
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.50 £17.19
25th Percentile £20.62 £23.50 £26.24
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -28.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.38
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

Senior Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Firewall Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Firewall Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Senior Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Firewall Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Senior Firewall Engineer job vacancies

Senior Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Senior Firewall Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Senior Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python

Senior Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto