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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 71 120
Rank change year-on-year +1 +49 +4
Contract jobs citing Firewall 551 859 951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.15% 3.30% 2.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.13% 33.05% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 604 674
10th Percentile £301 £351 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +13.21% +11.58%
75th Percentile £642 £663 £647
90th Percentile £745 £738 £706
England median daily rate £505 £530 £510
% change year-on-year -4.72% +3.92% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 4
10th Percentile £13.08 £30.40 £25.31
25th Percentile £16.00 £32.31 £26.23
Median hourly rate £23.80 £47.50 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.89% +29.25% -26.50%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £47.02
90th Percentile £56.50 £82.38 £47.96
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +78.00%

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 1,663 2,599 3,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.99% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,823 2,551
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
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 £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 87
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.25 £20.96
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £36.27 £29.12
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% +24.55% -38.47%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.00 £46.81
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +1.74%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +11 102 £438 -27.08% 31
West London +12 13 £525 -8.10% 6
East London -7 12 £585 -22.00% 40
South London -6 1 £675 +68.75% 7
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 41 (7.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.00%) Confluence
3 10 (1.81%) Apache
3 10 (1.81%) nginx
3 10 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.27%) IIS
5 5 (0.91%) JBoss
5 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.54%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 168 (30.49%) Azure
2 109 (19.78%) AWS
3 61 (11.07%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (7.99%) Entra ID
5 42 (7.62%) IaaS
6 38 (6.90%) SaaS
7 37 (6.72%) GCP
8 29 (5.26%) PaaS
9 19 (3.45%) GitHub
10 18 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (3.09%) Mimecast
12 14 (2.54%) Serverless
13 12 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.00%) Nutanix
15 10 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.81%) Power Platform
16 9 (1.63%) WhatsApp
17 8 (1.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 115 (20.87%) WAN
2 107 (19.42%) VPN
3 105 (19.06%) DNS
3 105 (19.06%) LAN
4 81 (14.70%) Network Security
5 77 (13.97%) BGP
6 67 (12.16%) OSPF
7 63 (11.43%) MPLS
8 61 (11.07%) Wireless
9 53 (9.62%) DHCP
10 49 (8.89%) SD-WAN
11 47 (8.53%) IPsec
12 46 (8.35%) TCP/IP
13 36 (6.53%) Cisco ASA
14 35 (6.35%) Cisco Nexus
15 33 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
16 31 (5.63%) VLAN
17 27 (4.90%) EIGRP
18 24 (4.36%) Internet
19 23 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.54%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.91%) MySQL
4 5 (0.91%) RDBMS
4 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.73%) 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 32 (5.81%) Git
2 27 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.45%) JIRA
4 16 (2.90%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.73%) GitLab
9 3 (0.54%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.36%) Postman
10 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.18%) Gradle
11 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 135 (24.50%) Finance
2 93 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.16%) Banking
4 42 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.36%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.63%) Retail
9 8 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
9 8 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.91%) French Language
10 5 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.73%) German Language
11 4 (0.73%) Military
12 3 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Publishing
13 2 (0.36%) Aviation
13 2 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 165 (29.95%) Network Engineer
2 75 (13.61%) Senior
3 71 (12.89%) Architect
4 36 (6.53%) Security Engineer
4 36 (6.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 35 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 35 (6.35%) Support Engineer
6 26 (4.72%) Operations Engineer
6 26 (4.72%) Security Architect
7 25 (4.54%) Analyst
8 24 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (4.36%) Consultant
9 20 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (3.63%) Network Operations Engineer
9 20 (3.63%) Network Specialist
10 16 (2.90%) Cisco Engineer
10 16 (2.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 15 (2.72%) Senior Architect
11 15 (2.72%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
11 15 (2.72%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.36%) LDAP
2 13 (2.36%) Node.js
2 13 (2.36%) SAML
3 11 (2.00%) JSON
4 9 (1.63%) Middleware
5 8 (1.45%) .NET
5 8 (1.45%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.27%) NETCONF
6 7 (1.27%) XML
6 7 (1.27%) YANG
7 6 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.09%) RESTful
8 5 (0.91%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (0.91%) Web Services
8 5 (0.91%) YAML
9 4 (0.73%) OAuth
9 4 (0.73%) React
10 3 (0.54%) gRPC
10 3 (0.54%) Kafka
10 3 (0.54%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.89%) Data Centre
2 38 (6.90%) PKI
3 28 (5.08%) Video Conferencing
4 21 (3.81%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 18 (3.27%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.36%) Clustering
8 12 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.81%) Replication
11 7 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.09%) NHS
12 6 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.91%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 141 (25.59%) Windows
2 73 (13.25%) Windows Server
3 72 (13.07%) Linux
4 42 (7.62%) Unix
5 35 (6.35%) Windows 10
6 21 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (2.36%) Mac OS
8 13 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.27%) Android
9 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (1.09%) Solaris
10 6 (1.09%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.18%) CentOS
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (12.89%) DevOps
2 59 (10.71%) Cloud Security
3 56 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (9.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 54 (9.80%) Disaster Recovery
5 54 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (9.80%) SIEM
6 53 (9.62%) Migration
7 46 (8.35%) Roadmaps
8 45 (8.17%) Agile
8 45 (8.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (7.44%) CI/CD
10 40 (7.26%) Information Security
11 39 (7.08%) Load Balancing
12 38 (6.90%) ITIL
13 33 (5.99%) Change Management
13 33 (5.99%) Data Loss Prevention
14 31 (5.63%) Vulnerability Management
15 30 (5.44%) Identity Access Management
16 25 (4.54%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 81 (14.70%) Python
2 59 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.63%) SQL
4 19 (3.45%) Bash
5 16 (2.90%) Go
6 9 (1.63%) Java
7 8 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.91%) Perl
9 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.73%) C
10 4 (0.73%) C#
10 4 (0.73%) 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
12 2 (0.36%) VBA
13 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (12.52%) DV Cleared
4 63 (11.43%) CCNP
5 50 (9.07%) SC Cleared
6 44 (7.99%) Degree
7 26 (4.72%) CCNA
8 19 (3.45%) CCIE
9 17 (3.09%) CISSP
10 16 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.54%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.18%) AWS Certification
12 12 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.00%) CISM
14 8 (1.45%) CISA
15 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.91%) GIAC
17 4 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.73%) GCIA
17 4 (0.73%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (4.36%) NIST
3 19 (3.45%) GDPR
4 17 (3.09%) SLA
5 15 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.63%) NCSC
8 7 (1.27%) QA
9 6 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.73%) COBIT
11 3 (0.54%) GPG13
11 3 (0.54%) NIST 800
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
13 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 92 (16.70%) Active Directory
2 39 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.17%) Docker
4 16 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (2.54%) Hyper-V
6 12 (2.18%) Firmware
7 11 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (1.81%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.91%) XenApp
10 4 (0.73%) Samba
11 3 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.36%) KVM
12 2 (0.36%) Squid
13 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.18%) NFS
13 1 (0.18%) vSphere
13 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (10.16%) Terraform
2 48 (8.71%) SCCM
3 44 (7.99%) Ansible
4 34 (6.17%) FortiGate
5 31 (5.63%) Kubernetes
6 25 (4.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.45%) Puppet
9 7 (1.27%) QRadar
10 6 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
10 6 (1.09%) Netcool
10 6 (1.09%) SolarWinds Orion
10 6 (1.09%) Tivoli
10 6 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (0.91%) Nessus
12 4 (0.73%) Kibana
12 4 (0.73%) logstash
13 3 (0.54%) CASB
13 3 (0.54%) Grafana
13 3 (0.54%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 176 (31.94%) Cisco
2 111 (20.15%) Microsoft
3 97 (17.60%) Palo Alto
4 78 (14.16%) F5
5 69 (12.52%) Fortinet
6 61 (11.07%) VMware
7 59 (10.71%) CheckPoint
8 43 (7.80%) Juniper
9 38 (6.90%) Dell
10 31 (5.63%) Citrix
11 28 (5.08%) SolarWinds
12 22 (3.99%) HP
13 21 (3.81%) EMC
14 20 (3.63%) Qualys
14 20 (3.63%) ServiceNow
15 18 (3.27%) Infoblox
16 16 (2.90%) Aruba
17 15 (2.72%) Avaya
18 14 (2.54%) Oracle
18 14 (2.54%) Splunk