Firewall Contracts in the City of London

Firewall
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 65 99
Rank change year-on-year +23 +34 -11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 94 113 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.36% 3.24% 2.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.72% 32.47% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 83 64
10th Percentile £260 £482 £400
25th Percentile £350 £519 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £606
90th Percentile £754 £730 £650
Central London median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +9.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £14.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 348 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.98% 9.98% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 237 303
10th Percentile £206 £231 £313
25th Percentile £350 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £625
90th Percentile £745 £753 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile - £20.38 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.61 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -31.15% +106.78%
75th Percentile £14.25 £28.09 £48.81
90th Percentile - £32.24 £62.43
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% -40.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 21 (22.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.13%) Apache
2 2 (2.13%) JBoss
2 2 (2.13%) nginx
2 2 (2.13%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.91%) Azure
2 14 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (11.70%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.57%) Mimecast
5 8 (8.51%) AWS
5 8 (8.51%) IaaS
6 5 (5.32%) PaaS
6 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.19%) WhatsApp
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (2.13%) GCP
9 2 (2.13%) NuGet
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.06%) GitHub
10 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.15%) DNS
1 18 (19.15%) WAN
2 13 (13.83%) Network Security
2 13 (13.83%) SD-WAN
3 12 (12.77%) SAN
4 11 (11.70%) VPN
5 8 (8.51%) LAN
6 6 (6.38%) DHCP
6 6 (6.38%) Wireless
7 5 (5.32%) BGP
7 5 (5.32%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (5.32%) MPLS
7 5 (5.32%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.26%) OSPF
8 4 (4.26%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (3.19%) EIGRP
9 3 (3.19%) FTP
9 3 (3.19%) HTTP
9 3 (3.19%) ICMP
9 3 (3.19%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Metadata
4 1 (1.06%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.32%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.26%) Git
2 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.13%) JIRA
4 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.06%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.06%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (31.91%) Finance
2 22 (23.40%) Banking
3 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.19%) French Language
6 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (17.02%) Network Engineer
2 13 (13.83%) Support Engineer
3 12 (12.77%) Operations Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Architect
4 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) Senior
7 8 (8.51%) Network Operations Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Security Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Network Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) IT Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Market Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Market Data Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Operations Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.19%) .NET
2 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.13%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.13%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (2.13%) LDAP
3 2 (2.13%) SAML
3 2 (2.13%) YAML
4 1 (1.06%) CSS
4 1 (1.06%) HTML
4 1 (1.06%) JSON
4 1 (1.06%) Kafka
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.02%) Video Conferencing
2 12 (12.77%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.19%) PKI
4 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.13%) IoT
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) iPad
6 1 (1.06%) IVR
6 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (40.43%) Windows
2 13 (13.83%) Windows Server
2 13 (13.83%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (12.77%) Windows Server 2012
4 10 (10.64%) Linux
5 6 (6.38%) Unix
6 4 (4.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.13%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.06%) Android
9 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.28%) Disaster Recovery
1 20 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (12.77%) Business Continuity
3 11 (11.70%) Cloud Security
4 10 (10.64%) DevOps
4 10 (10.64%) Information Security
5 9 (9.57%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.57%) SIEM
6 8 (8.51%) CI/CD
6 8 (8.51%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (8.51%) Load Balancing
6 8 (8.51%) Migration
6 8 (8.51%) Security Monitoring
7 7 (7.45%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.38%) Change Management
8 6 (6.38%) Identity Management
8 6 (6.38%) Incident Management
8 6 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.32%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (5.32%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.96%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.38%) Python
3 5 (5.32%) SQL
4 3 (3.19%) VBScript
5 2 (2.13%) C#
5 2 (2.13%) C++
5 2 (2.13%) Java
5 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.06%) Bash
6 1 (1.06%) Bicep
6 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.06%) Perl
6 1 (1.06%) Ruby
6 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.70%) Degree
1 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.57%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.32%) CCNP
3 5 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) CCNA
5 3 (3.19%) GCIA
5 3 (3.19%) GCIH
5 3 (3.19%) GIAC
5 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.13%) CCIE
6 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) COBIT
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) PMO
4 1 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 31 (32.98%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.13%) XenApp
5 1 (1.06%) Docker
5 1 (1.06%) Firmware
5 1 (1.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (19.15%) SCCM
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.38%) QRadar
4 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.26%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.19%) Ansible
6 3 (3.19%) CSIRT
6 3 (3.19%) Kibana
6 3 (3.19%) logstash
6 3 (3.19%) Nessus
6 3 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.19%) Terraform
7 2 (2.13%) CASB
7 2 (2.13%) SCOrch
7 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.06%) Grafana
8 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.06%) Puppet
8 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (29.79%) Cisco
2 24 (25.53%) Microsoft
3 21 (22.34%) Citrix
4 15 (15.96%) CheckPoint
5 11 (11.70%) Avaya
5 11 (11.70%) EMC
5 11 (11.70%) HP
6 10 (10.64%) VMware
7 8 (8.51%) Palo Alto
8 5 (5.32%) Bloomberg
8 5 (5.32%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.32%) Oracle
8 5 (5.32%) Refinitiv
9 4 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (4.26%) Okta
9 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.19%) ArcSight
10 3 (3.19%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (3.19%) Dell
10 3 (3.19%) Splunk