Firewall Contracts in West London

Firewall
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 44 46
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 11 19 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 3.09% 3.33% 2.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.03% 20.21% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 13
10th Percentile £250 £249 £233
25th Percentile £436 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £596 £437
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +36.44% +29.48%
75th Percentile £538 £647 £513
90th Percentile - £675 £893
London median daily rate £525 £600 £533
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.68% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £34.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.51% - -
London median hourly rate £23.80 £47.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -49.89% +66.67% -53.47%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 61 94 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 17.13% 16.49% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 67 47
10th Percentile £200 £161 £160
25th Percentile £215 £306 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £600 £448
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +34.08% +19.33%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £628
90th Percentile £538 £838 £690
London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 5
10th Percentile £27.92 £31.25 £25.61
25th Percentile £34.10 £37.75 £41.52
Median hourly rate £44.40 £65.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.69% +55.69% -
75th Percentile £54.70 £75.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £60.88 - £48.10
London median hourly rate £23.50 £43.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.35% +22.86% -26.32%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West London

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Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Hillingdon +32 6 £525 +218.18% 2
Hounslow -4 2 £80 -86.86% 1
Wembley - 1 - -
Richmond upon Thames - 1 - -
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) SaaS
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Mimecast
5 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 1 (9.09%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) HTTP
2 5 (45.45%) HTTPS
2 5 (45.45%) IPsec
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
4 2 (18.18%) SSL
4 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
4 2 (18.18%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) Wireless
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) DKIM
5 1 (9.09%) DMARC
5 1 (9.09%) Extranet
5 1 (9.09%) Internet
5 1 (9.09%) LAN
5 1 (9.09%) NAS
5 1 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Network Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Field Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Data Centre
2 5 (45.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (36.36%) PKI
4 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (27.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (9.09%) Fat Client
5 1 (9.09%) Thin Client
5 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) RBAC
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
3 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCIE
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) BitLocker
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) FortiGate
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) NetBackup
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) SCOM
3 1 (9.09%) SCVMM
3 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
4 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
4 3 (27.27%) New Relic
5 2 (18.18%) VMware
6 1 (9.09%) Avaya
6 1 (9.09%) Brocade
6 1 (9.09%) Commvault
6 1 (9.09%) Dell
6 1 (9.09%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (9.09%) EMC
6 1 (9.09%) Equitrac
6 1 (9.09%) Forcepoint
6 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 1 (9.09%) HP
6 1 (9.09%) Juniper
6 1 (9.09%) Mitel
6 1 (9.09%) Wyse