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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 66 100
Rank change year-on-year +21 +34 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 98 126 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.09% 3.36% 2.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.83% 33.07% 23.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 97 75
10th Percentile £263 £338 £400
25th Percentile £350 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.29% +10.18%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £584
90th Percentile £743 £712 £650
London median daily rate £523 £600 £528
% change year-on-year -12.92% +13.74% +11.05%
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 £23.80 £47.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year -49.89% +29.25% -26.50%

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 240 381 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.01% 10.17% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 267 339
10th Percentile £205 £184 £313
25th Percentile £333 £364 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £616
90th Percentile £721 £743 £713
London median daily rate £500 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -12.43% +3.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £20.46 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £24.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £57.44
90th Percentile - £30.86 £63.43
London median hourly rate £22.75 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -43.13% +14.29% -29.51%

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 17 May 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

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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 17 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
City of London +26 94 £425 -29.17% 31
City of Westminster -2 1 £518 -17.20%
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 (25.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) JBoss
3 2 (2.04%) nginx
3 2 (2.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) IIS
4 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Azure
2 17 (17.35%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.27%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.20%) Mimecast
5 9 (9.18%) IaaS
6 7 (7.14%) AWS
7 6 (6.12%) Power Platform
8 5 (5.10%) PaaS
9 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.06%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.06%) WhatsApp
11 2 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (2.04%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (2.04%) NuGet
12 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.02%) GCP
12 1 (1.02%) GitHub
12 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
12 1 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.39%) DNS
2 17 (17.35%) WAN
3 14 (14.29%) SAN
4 12 (12.24%) VPN
5 11 (11.22%) Network Security
5 11 (11.22%) SD-WAN
6 7 (7.14%) LAN
7 6 (6.12%) DHCP
7 6 (6.12%) MPLS
7 6 (6.12%) Wireless
8 4 (4.08%) FTP
8 4 (4.08%) HTTP
8 4 (4.08%) ICMP
8 4 (4.08%) IPv4
8 4 (4.08%) POP3
8 4 (4.08%) SMTP
8 4 (4.08%) SSH
8 4 (4.08%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (3.06%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.04%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Metadata
4 1 (1.02%) MySQL
4 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.08%) Git
3 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.04%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.02%) GitLab
5 1 (1.02%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (30.61%) Finance
2 24 (24.49%) Banking
3 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.08%) French Language
7 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Retail
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Local Government
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (15.31%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 12 (12.24%) Architect
3 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Analyst
4 11 (11.22%) Operations Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Senior
6 7 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Consultant
7 5 (5.10%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) ArcSight Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Market Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Market Data Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.08%) Security Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) SIEM Engineer
8 4 (4.08%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.06%) .NET
2 3 (3.06%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.04%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (2.04%) LDAP
3 2 (2.04%) SAML
3 2 (2.04%) YAML
4 1 (1.02%) CSS
4 1 (1.02%) HTML
4 1 (1.02%) JSON
4 1 (1.02%) Kafka
4 1 (1.02%) LAMP
4 1 (1.02%) Middleware
4 1 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.35%) Video Conferencing
2 13 (13.27%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.06%) PKI
5 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.04%) IoT
5 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) iPad
6 1 (1.02%) IVR
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (41.84%) Windows
2 16 (16.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (15.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (13.27%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (10.20%) Linux
6 7 (7.14%) Unix
7 4 (4.08%) Windows 10
8 3 (3.06%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.04%) Mac OS X
9 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.02%) Android
10 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.02%) VMS
10 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (13.27%) Business Continuity
4 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security
5 10 (10.20%) Data Loss Prevention
6 9 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (9.18%) DevOps
6 9 (9.18%) Information Security
6 9 (9.18%) Load Balancing
6 9 (9.18%) Migration
6 9 (9.18%) SIEM
7 8 (8.16%) Security Monitoring
8 7 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (7.14%) Identity Management
8 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (6.12%) Application Security
9 6 (6.12%) Change Management
9 6 (6.12%) Computer Science
9 6 (6.12%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (6.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.12%) SQL
3 4 (4.08%) Python
3 4 (4.08%) VBScript
4 2 (2.04%) C#
4 2 (2.04%) C++
4 2 (2.04%) Java
4 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.02%) Bicep
5 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.02%) Perl
5 1 (1.02%) Ruby
5 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) Degree
1 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.04%) CCNP
6 2 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.04%) GCIA
6 2 (2.04%) GCIH
6 2 (2.04%) GIAC
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CCNA
7 1 (1.02%) CISM
7 1 (1.02%) CISSP
7 1 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.04%) COBIT
3 2 (2.04%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) NCSC
3 2 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
4 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 35 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.04%) XenApp
5 1 (1.02%) Firmware
5 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) SCCM
2 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.12%) QRadar
4 5 (5.10%) FortiGate
5 4 (4.08%) Kibana
5 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.08%) logstash
6 3 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.06%) Terraform
7 2 (2.04%) CASB
7 2 (2.04%) CSIRT
7 2 (2.04%) Nessus
7 2 (2.04%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.02%) Ansible
8 1 (1.02%) Nagios
8 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.02%) WSUS
8 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.51%) Cisco
3 22 (22.45%) Citrix
4 14 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 12 (12.24%) Avaya
5 12 (12.24%) EMC
5 12 (12.24%) HP
5 12 (12.24%) VMware
6 7 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 5 (5.10%) Bloomberg
7 5 (5.10%) Fortinet
7 5 (5.10%) Okta
7 5 (5.10%) Refinitiv
8 4 (4.08%) ArcSight
8 4 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (4.08%) Oracle
8 4 (4.08%) Splunk
9 3 (3.06%) Aruba
9 3 (3.06%) Dell
9 3 (3.06%) Red Hat