Firewall Engineer Contracts

Firewall Engineer
UK

The median Firewall Engineer daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 648 801
Rank change year-on-year +88 +153 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 24 49 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.088% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.093% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 39
10th Percentile £394 £400 £304
25th Percentile £472 £469 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £563
90th Percentile £583 £650 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £313
% change year-on-year +5.00% +60.00% -21.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
England +69 18 £525 - 3
UK excluding London +20 12 £525 +5.00%
London +74 10 £513 -14.58% 3
Work from Home +104 9 £535 +1.90%
North of England +19 4 £525 -4.55%
Scotland +45 3 £555 +5.71%
North West +17 3 £438 -35.19%
South West 0 2 £535 +7.00%
West Midlands +17 1 - -
Midlands +16 1 - -
Yorkshire +14 1 £525 +23.53%
East of England +3 1 £300 +36.36%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 job ads featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (45.83%) Cisco
3 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (37.50%) CCNP
4 8 (33.33%) Azure
5 7 (29.17%) VPN
6 6 (25.00%) AWS
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) F5
7 5 (20.83%) Juniper
7 5 (20.83%) Change Management
8 4 (16.67%) CheckPoint
8 4 (16.67%) Python
8 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
8 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 4 (16.67%) Application Security
9 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
9 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
9 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
9 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.50%) Ansible
9 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (12.50%) GCP
9 3 (12.50%) Tufin
9 3 (12.50%) JIRA
9 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
9 3 (12.50%) Network Security
9 3 (12.50%) CCSA

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Akamai
4 2 (8.33%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (29.17%) VPN
3 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
3 3 (12.50%) MPLS
3 3 (12.50%) Network Security
3 3 (12.50%) WAN
4 2 (8.33%) BGP
4 2 (8.33%) BIG-IP
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (8.33%) IPv6
4 2 (8.33%) LAN
4 2 (8.33%) OSPF
4 2 (8.33%) SSL
4 2 (8.33%) VRRP
4 2 (8.33%) Wireless
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (4.17%) DMZ
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.50%) Banking
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Agile
2 5 (20.83%) Change Management
3 4 (16.67%) Application Security
3 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 2 (8.33%) BCP
5 2 (8.33%) Compliance Management
5 2 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (4.17%) Availability Management
6 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (4.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) CCNP
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (12.50%) CCIE
2 3 (12.50%) CCSA
2 3 (12.50%) CCSE
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Cisco
2 6 (25.00%) F5
3 5 (20.83%) Juniper
4 4 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 4 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 3 (12.50%) Tufin
6 2 (8.33%) AppNeta
6 2 (8.33%) Arista
6 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.33%) WatchGuard
7 1 (4.17%) Brocade
7 1 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (4.17%) HP
7 1 (4.17%) McAfee
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle
7 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 1 (4.17%) VMware
7 1 (4.17%) Zscaler