Firewall Contracts in Central London

Firewall
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 53 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +37
Contract jobs citing Firewall 79 96 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.96% 3.92% 3.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.74% 39.51% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 69 96
10th Percentile £401 £260 £350
25th Percentile £513 £350 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -27.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £715
London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
London median hourly rate - £23.99 £47.50
% change year-on-year - -49.49% +66.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

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 1 May 2025.

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

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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 1 May 2025. 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 -4 72 £550 +25.71% 36
West End of London - 3 £580 - 2
City of Westminster +1 1 £650 +25.60%
Camden - 1 £580 -
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 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.80%) Confluence
4 2 (2.53%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.27%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.70%) Azure
2 15 (18.99%) AWS
3 12 (15.19%) Entra ID
4 11 (13.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (11.39%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.59%) Serverless
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.06%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.80%) GCP
10 3 (3.80%) IaaS
10 3 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.53%) GitHub
11 2 (2.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.65%) VPN
2 22 (27.85%) DNS
3 16 (20.25%) Network Security
4 11 (13.92%) WAN
5 8 (10.13%) NGFW
6 7 (8.86%) LAN
7 6 (7.59%) SD-WAN
7 6 (7.59%) Wireless
8 5 (6.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (6.33%) TCP/IP
9 4 (5.06%) MPLS
9 4 (5.06%) VLAN
10 3 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (3.80%) DHCP
10 3 (3.80%) HTTP
10 3 (3.80%) SSL
11 2 (2.53%) BIG-IP
11 2 (2.53%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (2.53%) SMTP
11 2 (2.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) MSI
3 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.27%) Maven
3 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (30.38%) Finance
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.39%) Banking
4 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.27%) French Language
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Police
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Network Engineer
2 16 (20.25%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (11.39%) Architect
3 9 (11.39%) Support Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Network Support
4 7 (8.86%) Network Support Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Senior
5 6 (7.59%) Security Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Consultant
6 5 (6.33%) Lead
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Firewall Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.80%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) ADO
2 3 (3.80%) REST
2 3 (3.80%) Web Services
3 2 (2.53%) .NET
3 2 (2.53%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.53%) Spring
3 2 (2.53%) ZK
4 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) MUnit
4 1 (1.27%) RAML
4 1 (1.27%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.27%) XML
4 1 (1.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.19%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.13%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.53%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.53%) BYOD
5 2 (2.53%) Clustering
5 2 (2.53%) Equities
5 2 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.27%) e-Health
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.11%) Windows
2 10 (12.66%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.13%) Linux
4 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.53%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.27%) CentOS
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.27%) Unix
6 1 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.05%) Migration
2 17 (21.52%) Agile
3 13 (16.46%) DevOps
4 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
5 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (10.13%) Cloud Security
7 8 (10.13%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (10.13%) Microservices
7 8 (10.13%) SIEM
8 6 (7.59%) Project Management
8 6 (7.59%) Time Management
9 5 (6.33%) Change Management
9 5 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (6.33%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (6.33%) Incident Management
9 5 (6.33%) ITIL
9 5 (6.33%) Project Delivery
10 4 (5.06%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.19%) Python
2 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.33%) Bicep
4 4 (5.06%) SQL
5 3 (3.80%) Bash
5 3 (3.80%) Java
6 2 (2.53%) C#
7 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.19%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (15.19%) Degree
3 11 (13.92%) CCNP
3 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.80%) CCNA
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) CCIE
6 2 (2.53%) CCSA
6 2 (2.53%) CCSE
6 2 (2.53%) VCAP
6 2 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.27%) GIAC
7 1 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.27%) NIST
2 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.27%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Firmware
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.53%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (17.72%) Terraform
2 9 (11.39%) Ansible
2 9 (11.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.59%) SCCM
4 4 (5.06%) Puppet
5 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.53%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 2 (2.53%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.27%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.27%) OPNET
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) Cisco
1 21 (26.58%) Palo Alto
2 17 (21.52%) CheckPoint
2 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.19%) Fortinet
4 10 (12.66%) Infoblox
5 8 (10.13%) Citrix
5 8 (10.13%) F5
6 7 (8.86%) VMware
7 5 (6.33%) Arista
7 5 (6.33%) Juniper
7 5 (6.33%) Meraki
7 5 (6.33%) SolarWinds
8 4 (5.06%) Oracle
8 4 (5.06%) SAP
9 3 (3.80%) Forcepoint
9 3 (3.80%) Google
10 2 (2.53%) Atempo
10 2 (2.53%) NetScout
10 2 (2.53%) Red Hat