Firewall Contracts in London

Firewall
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 81 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 558 860 930
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.15% 3.18% 2.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.59% 32.16% 25.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 616 654
10th Percentile £338 £359 £363
25th Percentile £400 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% +12.63%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £775 £738 £700
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 5
10th Percentile £13.73 £30.40 £25.31
25th Percentile £17.81 £32.31 £26.25
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.49% +66.67% -43.00%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £46.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.38 £47.75
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +55.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,712 2,674 3,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.67% 9.88% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,889 2,582
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 52 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.22 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.64 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.55
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +10 96 £438 -27.08% 22
East London -4 15 £585 -22.00% 8
West London +9 11 £525 -8.10% 9
South London +2 1 £675 +50.00% 8
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 47 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.33%) Confluence
3 11 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.79%) Apache
4 10 (1.79%) nginx
5 8 (1.43%) IIS
6 5 (0.90%) JBoss
6 5 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.54%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 166 (29.75%) Azure
2 99 (17.74%) AWS
3 65 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (8.60%) Entra ID
5 45 (8.06%) IaaS
6 38 (6.81%) SaaS
7 35 (6.27%) GCP
8 28 (5.02%) PaaS
9 20 (3.58%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (3.58%) Mimecast
10 19 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.05%) GitHub
12 14 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (2.33%) Nutanix
13 13 (2.33%) Serverless
14 11 (1.97%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.79%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.79%) Rubrik
16 9 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 126 (22.58%) VPN
2 122 (21.86%) WAN
3 114 (20.43%) DNS
3 114 (20.43%) LAN
4 93 (16.67%) BGP
5 87 (15.59%) Network Security
6 79 (14.16%) OSPF
7 71 (12.72%) MPLS
8 70 (12.54%) Wireless
9 58 (10.39%) IPsec
10 57 (10.22%) DHCP
11 51 (9.14%) TCP/IP
12 43 (7.71%) SD-WAN
13 41 (7.35%) Cisco ASA
14 35 (6.27%) VLAN
14 35 (6.27%) Wi-Fi
14 35 (6.27%) WLAN
15 28 (5.02%) Cisco Nexus
15 28 (5.02%) EIGRP
16 25 (4.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.90%) MySQL
4 5 (0.90%) RDBMS
4 5 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.72%) Power BI
6 3 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Adabas
7 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (6.27%) Git
2 27 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.41%) JIRA
4 15 (2.69%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.72%) GitLab
8 3 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.36%) Postman
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.18%) Gradle
10 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.18%) Subversion
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 137 (24.55%) Finance
2 85 (15.23%) Social Skills
3 53 (9.50%) Banking
4 46 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.43%) Mandarin Language
10 6 (1.08%) French Language
10 6 (1.08%) Retail
11 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.72%) German Language
12 4 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.54%) Legal
13 3 (0.54%) Local Government
13 3 (0.54%) Marketing
13 3 (0.54%) Military
13 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 166 (29.75%) Network Engineer
2 84 (15.05%) Senior
3 67 (12.01%) Architect
4 42 (7.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 38 (6.81%) Security Engineer
6 36 (6.45%) Support Engineer
7 34 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (5.02%) Network Specialist
9 26 (4.66%) Operations Engineer
9 26 (4.66%) Security Architect
10 24 (4.30%) Analyst
10 24 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.12%) Cisco Engineer
12 22 (3.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 20 (3.58%) Consultant
13 20 (3.58%) Network Operations Engineer
14 19 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.23%) Senior Architect
16 17 (3.05%) Lead
17 15 (2.69%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.84%) LDAP
2 15 (2.69%) SAML
3 14 (2.51%) JSON
4 13 (2.33%) Node.js
5 12 (2.15%) XML
6 10 (1.79%) NETCONF
6 10 (1.79%) YANG
7 9 (1.61%) Middleware
8 8 (1.43%) 802.1X
9 6 (1.08%) .NET
9 6 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.08%) RESTful
9 6 (1.08%) YAML
10 5 (0.90%) IBM Integration Bus
11 4 (0.72%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.72%) OAuth
11 4 (0.72%) React
11 4 (0.72%) Web Services
12 3 (0.54%) gRPC
12 3 (0.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 69 (12.37%) Data Centre
2 47 (8.42%) PKI
3 29 (5.20%) Video Conferencing
4 18 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 17 (3.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 15 (2.69%) Clustering
7 12 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (1.97%) Replication
9 9 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.08%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 147 (26.34%) Windows
2 75 (13.44%) Windows Server
3 71 (12.72%) Linux
4 36 (6.45%) Unix
5 35 (6.27%) Windows 10
6 20 (3.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 19 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (2.15%) Mac OS
10 8 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (1.43%) Solaris
11 6 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.90%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.72%) Android
13 4 (0.72%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.54%) CentOS
15 2 (0.36%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.36%) VMS
16 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (11.83%) DevOps
2 65 (11.65%) Migration
3 62 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 59 (10.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 59 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (10.22%) Cloud Security
5 57 (10.22%) Cybersecurity
5 57 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (9.32%) Agile
6 52 (9.32%) SIEM
7 44 (7.89%) Roadmaps
8 39 (6.99%) ITIL
9 38 (6.81%) Change Management
9 38 (6.81%) CI/CD
9 38 (6.81%) Load Balancing
10 33 (5.91%) Data Loss Prevention
10 33 (5.91%) Network Design
11 32 (5.73%) Information Security
12 30 (5.38%) High Availability
13 27 (4.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (13.80%) Python
2 61 (10.93%) PowerShell
3 22 (3.94%) Bash
4 21 (3.76%) SQL
5 15 (2.69%) Go
6 11 (1.97%) Java
7 10 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.90%) Perl
9 5 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.72%) C
10 4 (0.72%) C#
10 4 (0.72%) VBScript
11 3 (0.54%) Ruby
11 3 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.36%) Bicep
12 2 (0.36%) C++
12 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (12.54%) DV Cleared
4 59 (10.57%) CCNP
5 57 (10.22%) SC Cleared
6 46 (8.24%) Degree
7 24 (4.30%) CCNA
8 19 (3.41%) CISSP
9 17 (3.05%) CCIE
10 15 (2.69%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.79%) CISA
12 10 (1.79%) CISM
13 8 (1.43%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.43%) GIAC
14 7 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (1.08%) CCSK
16 5 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.84%) NIST
3 19 (3.41%) GDPR
4 18 (3.23%) SLA
5 17 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (2.15%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.61%) NCSC
7 9 (1.61%) QA
8 8 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.90%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.54%) GPG13
12 2 (0.36%) COBIT
12 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.18%) ISA99
13 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 103 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.12%) Docker
4 15 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.51%) VMware NSX
6 13 (2.33%) Hyper-V
7 11 (1.97%) Firmware
7 11 (1.97%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.90%) XenApp
9 4 (0.72%) Samba
9 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.54%) NFS
11 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.36%) KVM
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.36%) Squid
12 1 (0.18%) Ceph
12 1 (0.18%) iptables
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 54 (9.68%) Terraform
2 45 (8.06%) Ansible
3 44 (7.89%) SCCM
4 43 (7.71%) FortiGate
5 30 (5.38%) Kubernetes
6 29 (5.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.79%) Puppet
8 8 (1.43%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (1.43%) Netcool
8 8 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.43%) Tivoli
8 8 (1.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 7 (1.25%) QRadar
10 5 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.90%) Nessus
10 5 (0.90%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
10 5 (0.90%) vRealize
10 5 (0.90%) VxRail
11 4 (0.72%) logstash
Vendors
1 187 (33.51%) Cisco
2 113 (20.25%) Microsoft
3 101 (18.10%) Palo Alto
4 69 (12.37%) Fortinet
5 68 (12.19%) F5
6 63 (11.29%) VMware
7 58 (10.39%) CheckPoint
8 47 (8.42%) Juniper
9 42 (7.53%) Dell
10 29 (5.20%) Citrix
11 25 (4.48%) HP
11 25 (4.48%) SolarWinds
12 24 (4.30%) EMC
13 21 (3.76%) Qualys
13 21 (3.76%) ServiceNow
14 19 (3.41%) Infoblox
15 16 (2.87%) Aruba
15 16 (2.87%) Avaya
15 16 (2.87%) Nokia
15 16 (2.87%) Oracle