Firewall Contracts in Central London

Firewall
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 53 63 101
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 -19
Contract jobs citing Firewall 96 129 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.92% 3.35% 2.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.18% 32.74% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 99 74
10th Percentile £260 £350 £402
25th Percentile £350 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £594
90th Percentile £788 £706 £646
London median daily rate £525 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% +12.63%
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 - - -
London median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -49.49% +66.67% -43.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 394 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.00% 10.22% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 272 354
10th Percentile £212 £210 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £670 £600
90th Percentile £738 £750 £713
London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £18.93 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile - £30.86 £64.35
London median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +24 92 £431 -28.13% 15
City of Westminster -2 1 £518 -17.20% 1
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 25 (26.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.08%) Apache
2 2 (2.08%) IIS
2 2 (2.08%) JBoss
2 2 (2.08%) nginx
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.08%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.04%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.04%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.38%) Azure
2 17 (17.71%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.54%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.46%) Mimecast
5 9 (9.38%) IaaS
6 7 (7.29%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.25%) AWS
7 6 (6.25%) PaaS
8 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.08%) NuGet
10 2 (2.08%) WhatsApp
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.04%) GCP
11 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.79%) DNS
2 14 (14.58%) SAN
3 12 (12.50%) Network Security
4 11 (11.46%) VPN
4 11 (11.46%) WAN
5 7 (7.29%) SD-WAN
6 6 (6.25%) Wireless
7 5 (5.21%) DHCP
7 5 (5.21%) LAN
7 5 (5.21%) MPLS
7 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.17%) FTP
8 4 (4.17%) HTTP
8 4 (4.17%) ICMP
8 4 (4.17%) IPv4
8 4 (4.17%) POP3
8 4 (4.17%) SMTP
8 4 (4.17%) SSH
9 3 (3.13%) SSL
10 2 (2.08%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.04%) Metadata
4 1 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.17%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.04%) GitLab
5 1 (1.04%) JIRA
5 1 (1.04%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (34.38%) Finance
2 26 (27.08%) Banking
3 14 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.17%) French Language
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Advertising
8 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.04%) Automotive
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (15.63%) Support Engineer
2 14 (14.58%) Architect
3 11 (11.46%) Analyst
3 11 (11.46%) Network Engineer
3 11 (11.46%) Operations Engineer
3 11 (11.46%) Senior
4 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Network Operations Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) ArcSight Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Consultant
7 4 (4.17%) Market Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Market Data Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) SIEM Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) ARM Templates
1 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.13%) .NET
3 2 (2.08%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.08%) HTML
3 2 (2.08%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (2.08%) LDAP
3 2 (2.08%) SAML
3 2 (2.08%) YAML
4 1 (1.04%) CSS
4 1 (1.04%) HTML5
4 1 (1.04%) JSON
4 1 (1.04%) Kafka
4 1 (1.04%) LAMP
4 1 (1.04%) Middleware
4 1 (1.04%) React
4 1 (1.04%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.75%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) PKI
5 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.08%) IoT
5 2 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) IVR
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (41.67%) Windows
2 14 (14.58%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (13.54%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2012
4 10 (10.42%) Linux
5 7 (7.29%) Unix
6 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.08%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.08%) VMS
6 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.04%) Android
7 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.96%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (15.63%) Business Continuity
4 11 (11.46%) Cloud Security
5 10 (10.42%) DevOps
5 10 (10.42%) Migration
6 9 (9.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 9 (9.38%) Load Balancing
6 9 (9.38%) SIEM
7 8 (8.33%) Change Management
7 8 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (7.29%) CI/CD
8 7 (7.29%) Information Security
9 6 (6.25%) Application Security
9 6 (6.25%) Identity Management
9 6 (6.25%) IT Strategy
9 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (6.25%) Project Delivery
9 6 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.71%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.29%) SQL
3 4 (4.17%) VBScript
4 3 (3.13%) Java
4 3 (3.13%) Python
5 2 (2.08%) C#
5 2 (2.08%) C++
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.04%) Perl
6 1 (1.04%) Ruby
6 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.13%) GIAC
6 2 (2.08%) CISSP
6 2 (2.08%) GCIA
6 2 (2.08%) GCIH
6 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.04%) CISA
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CISM
7 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.04%) CRISC
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 4 (4.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 35 (36.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.08%) XenApp
5 1 (1.04%) Firmware
5 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (19.79%) SCCM
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.25%) QRadar
4 5 (5.21%) FortiGate
5 4 (4.17%) Kibana
5 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.17%) logstash
6 3 (3.13%) Terraform
7 2 (2.08%) Ansible
7 2 (2.08%) CSIRT
7 2 (2.08%) Nessus
8 1 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.04%) Nagios
8 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Cisco
1 23 (23.96%) Citrix
1 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.63%) CheckPoint
3 13 (13.54%) Avaya
3 13 (13.54%) EMC
3 13 (13.54%) HP
4 10 (10.42%) VMware
5 5 (5.21%) Bloomberg
5 5 (5.21%) Okta
5 5 (5.21%) Refinitiv
6 4 (4.17%) ArcSight
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle
6 4 (4.17%) Splunk
7 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.08%) Acronis
8 2 (2.08%) Aruba
8 2 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (2.08%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.08%) Fortinet