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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 77 111
Rank change year-on-year +29 +34 -25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 92 115 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.15% 3.13% 2.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.01% 31.94% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 86 63
10th Percentile £260 £416 £405
25th Percentile £350 £507 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £608
90th Percentile £788 £730 £648
Central London median daily rate £444 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -26.04% +14.29% +5.00%
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 219 360 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.87% 9.81% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 242 327
10th Percentile £220 £233 £313
25th Percentile £350 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +4.53%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £620
90th Percentile £775 £750 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

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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 23 April 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 24 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) IIS
2 2 (2.17%) JBoss
2 2 (2.17%) nginx
2 2 (2.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.09%) CMS
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.09%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 31 (33.70%) Azure
2 16 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (11.96%) Entra ID
3 11 (11.96%) Mimecast
4 9 (9.78%) IaaS
5 6 (6.52%) PaaS
5 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.43%) AWS
6 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.17%) NuGet
8 2 (2.17%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.09%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.09%) Route 53
9 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.48%) DNS
2 14 (15.22%) SAN
3 12 (13.04%) Network Security
4 11 (11.96%) VPN
5 9 (9.78%) WAN
6 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.43%) FTP
7 5 (5.43%) HTTP
7 5 (5.43%) ICMP
7 5 (5.43%) MPLS
7 5 (5.43%) POP3
7 5 (5.43%) SD-WAN
7 5 (5.43%) SMTP
7 5 (5.43%) SSH
7 5 (5.43%) Wireless
8 4 (4.35%) DHCP
8 4 (4.35%) IPv4
8 4 (4.35%) LAN
9 3 (3.26%) SSL
10 2 (2.17%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.17%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.09%) Metadata
4 1 (1.09%) MySQL
4 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.43%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.35%) Git
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.09%) JIRA
5 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (34.78%) Finance
2 27 (29.35%) Banking
3 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.35%) French Language
7 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Advertising
8 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Automotive
9 1 (1.09%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (16.30%) Support Engineer
2 13 (14.13%) Architect
3 11 (11.96%) Analyst
4 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Network Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Operations Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) Senior
5 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Network Operations Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) ArcSight Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) SIEM Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Market Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Market Data Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Consultant
8 3 (3.26%) Integration Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.35%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.26%) .NET
4 2 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.17%) HTML
4 2 (2.17%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (2.17%) LDAP
4 2 (2.17%) SAML
5 1 (1.09%) CSS
5 1 (1.09%) HTML5
5 1 (1.09%) JSON
5 1 (1.09%) Kafka
5 1 (1.09%) LAMP
5 1 (1.09%) Middleware
5 1 (1.09%) React
5 1 (1.09%) REST
5 1 (1.09%) XML
5 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.57%) Video Conferencing
2 9 (9.78%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.17%) IoT
4 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.17%) PKI
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.09%) IVR
5 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (42.39%) Windows
2 15 (16.30%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (15.22%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (11.96%) Windows Server
5 10 (10.87%) Linux
6 8 (8.70%) Unix
7 2 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.17%) Mac OS X
7 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.17%) VMS
7 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.09%) Android
8 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.91%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (16.30%) Business Continuity
4 10 (10.87%) Data Loss Prevention
5 9 (9.78%) Cloud Security
5 9 (9.78%) DevOps
5 9 (9.78%) Migration
5 9 (9.78%) SIEM
6 8 (8.70%) Change Management
6 8 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (8.70%) Load Balancing
7 7 (7.61%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (7.61%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (6.52%) Application Security
8 6 (6.52%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.52%) Identity Management
8 6 (6.52%) Information Security
8 6 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.43%) B2B
9 5 (5.43%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.43%) SQL
3 4 (4.35%) VBScript
4 3 (3.26%) Java
5 2 (2.17%) C#
5 2 (2.17%) C++
5 2 (2.17%) Python
5 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.09%) Bicep
6 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.09%) Perl
6 1 (1.09%) Ruby
6 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) Degree
3 8 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.52%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.26%) GIAC
6 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.17%) CISSP
7 2 (2.17%) GCIA
7 2 (2.17%) GCIH
8 1 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.09%) CCNP
8 1 (1.09%) CISA
8 1 (1.09%) CISM
8 1 (1.09%) CRISC
8 1 (1.09%) FFIEC
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.35%) NIST
3 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
5 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 33 (35.87%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.17%) XenApp
5 1 (1.09%) Firmware
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (20.65%) SCCM
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (7.61%) QRadar
4 6 (6.52%) FortiGate
5 5 (5.43%) Kibana
5 5 (5.43%) logstash
6 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.17%) Ansible
7 2 (2.17%) CSIRT
7 2 (2.17%) Nessus
7 2 (2.17%) Terraform
8 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.09%) Nagios
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (25.00%) Cisco
1 23 (25.00%) Citrix
2 21 (22.83%) Microsoft
3 15 (16.30%) CheckPoint
4 13 (14.13%) Avaya
4 13 (14.13%) EMC
4 13 (14.13%) HP
5 9 (9.78%) VMware
6 5 (5.43%) ArcSight
6 5 (5.43%) Bloomberg
6 5 (5.43%) Okta
6 5 (5.43%) Refinitiv
6 5 (5.43%) Splunk
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle
8 3 (3.26%) Aruba
9 2 (2.17%) Acronis
9 2 (2.17%) Dell
9 2 (2.17%) IBM
9 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.17%) Temenos