Firewall Contracts in the City of London

Firewall
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 41 69
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +33
Contract jobs citing Firewall 73 97 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.02% 4.55% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.71% 45.12% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 66 74
10th Percentile £333 £256 £482
25th Percentile £517 £350 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -22.92% +9.09%
75th Percentile £666 £605 £675
90th Percentile £746 £675 £732
Central London median daily rate £550 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - -40.00% -
75th Percentile - £14.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year - -40.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 175 215 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.63% 10.08% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 133 240
10th Percentile £259 £239 £213
25th Percentile £418 £350 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £662 £619 £675
90th Percentile £744 £773 £789
Central London median daily rate £544 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +17.57% -15.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -45.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.85%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.05%) Azure
2 13 (17.81%) Entra ID
3 11 (15.07%) AWS
4 10 (13.70%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.48%) Serverless
8 3 (4.11%) IaaS
8 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.74%) GCP
9 2 (2.74%) GitHub
9 2 (2.74%) Mimecast
9 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.51%) DNS
2 21 (28.77%) VPN
3 13 (17.81%) Network Security
4 11 (15.07%) WAN
5 8 (10.96%) NGFW
6 7 (9.59%) BGP
6 7 (9.59%) OSPF
7 6 (8.22%) LAN
7 6 (8.22%) SD-WAN
7 6 (8.22%) TCP/IP
8 5 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (5.48%) MPLS
9 4 (5.48%) Multicast
9 4 (5.48%) Unicast
10 3 (4.11%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (4.11%) DHCP
10 3 (4.11%) HTTP
10 3 (4.11%) SAN
10 3 (4.11%) SSL
10 3 (4.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (6.85%) JIRA
2 4 (5.48%) Git
2 4 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.74%) MSI
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Maven
4 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (28.77%) Finance
2 11 (15.07%) Banking
3 8 (10.96%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.37%) Front Office
7 1 (1.37%) Law
7 1 (1.37%) Military
7 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Police
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Network Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Network Support
5 7 (9.59%) Network Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Active Directory Support
7 4 (5.48%) Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Consultant
7 4 (5.48%) Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Firewall Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Security Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Lead
8 3 (4.11%) Senior
8 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) ADO
2 3 (4.11%) REST
2 3 (4.11%) Web Services
3 2 (2.74%) .NET
3 2 (2.74%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.74%) Spring
3 2 (2.74%) ZK
4 1 (1.37%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.37%) LDAP
4 1 (1.37%) MUnit
4 1 (1.37%) Node.js
4 1 (1.37%) RAML
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.59%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.74%) Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.74%) Equities
6 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.37%) CCTV
7 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.37%) Replication
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.40%) Windows
2 10 (13.70%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.22%) Linux
4 3 (4.11%) Unix
4 3 (4.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.74%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.37%) CentOS
6 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.37%) VMS
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.29%) Agile
2 13 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 13 (17.81%) Migration
3 11 (15.07%) DevOps
4 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
4 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.96%) Microservices
5 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
6 7 (9.59%) ITIL
6 7 (9.59%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (8.22%) Project Delivery
7 6 (8.22%) Time Management
8 5 (6.85%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (6.85%) Project Management
8 5 (6.85%) SIEM
9 4 (5.48%) Configuration Management
9 4 (5.48%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (5.48%) DevSecOps
9 4 (5.48%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.07%) Python
2 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
3 6 (8.22%) SQL
4 5 (6.85%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) Bash
5 3 (4.11%) Bicep
5 3 (4.11%) C#
6 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) C
7 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Cisco Certification
1 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) Degree
4 9 (12.33%) CCNP
5 4 (5.48%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.48%) CCNA
5 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (4.11%) CCIE
7 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (2.74%) VCAP
7 2 (2.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.37%) CASP
8 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) NIST
2 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.37%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (23.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) Docker
3 3 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (19.18%) Terraform
2 8 (10.96%) Ansible
2 8 (10.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (8.22%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.85%) SCCM
5 4 (5.48%) Puppet
6 3 (4.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.74%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.37%) Argo
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (1.37%) CloudHub
8 1 (1.37%) Icinga
8 1 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.37%) Nagios
8 1 (1.37%) Observium
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Cisco
2 19 (26.03%) Palo Alto
3 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
4 11 (15.07%) CheckPoint
5 10 (13.70%) Fortinet
6 8 (10.96%) Infoblox
7 7 (9.59%) F5
8 6 (8.22%) Citrix
9 5 (6.85%) Arista
9 5 (6.85%) Juniper
9 5 (6.85%) VMware
10 4 (5.48%) Oracle
10 4 (5.48%) SAP
11 3 (4.11%) Meraki
11 3 (4.11%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.74%) Atempo
12 2 (2.74%) Databricks
12 2 (2.74%) Mellanox
12 2 (2.74%) Refinitiv
12 2 (2.74%) Reuters