Firewall Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Firewall Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 96 113
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 11 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.78% 0.25% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.27% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £423 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £538
90th Percentile £623 - -
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,317 1,460 2,047
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 90.07% 97.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 929 1,345
10th Percentile £263 £273 £224
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £619
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 57 36
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.20 £12.14
25th Percentile £18.29 £13.96 £16.44
Median hourly rate £22.14 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.70% - +6.95%
75th Percentile £25.49 £33.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £44.25
England median hourly rate £26.50 £42.91 £44.11
% change year-on-year -38.24% -2.72% +72.98%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in Yorkshire

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in Yorkshire

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in Yorkshire

Firewall Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire +11 11 £488 -7.14% 2
Firewall Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 across the Yorkshire region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (90.91%) CheckPoint
3 9 (81.82%) Finance
3 9 (81.82%) Migration
3 9 (81.82%) Network Management
4 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
4 2 (18.18%) Network Security
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (9.09%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
5 1 (9.09%) Release Management
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) CCSA
5 1 (9.09%) Network Design
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (9.09%) High Availability

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (9.09%) Serverless
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (9.09%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Migration
1 9 (81.82%) Network Management
2 1 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (9.09%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (9.09%) Database Security
2 1 (9.09%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (9.09%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (9.09%) SIEM
2 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
2 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) CCSA
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) CheckPoint
2 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk