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 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 50 46 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 +28
Contract jobs citing Firewall 72 92 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.10% 4.19% 3.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.60% 43.60% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 66 88
10th Percentile £390 £256 £417
25th Percentile £513 £359 £509
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 £738 £788 £730
Central London median daily rate £550 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +25.71% -27.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 -

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 169 211 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.62% 9.60% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 249
10th Percentile £258 £213 £246
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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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 1 May 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 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
4 2 (2.78%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.39%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (15.28%) AWS
3 11 (15.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.33%) Serverless
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
8 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.17%) IaaS
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (2.78%) GCP
9 2 (2.78%) GitHub
9 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (29.17%) DNS
1 21 (29.17%) VPN
2 15 (20.83%) Network Security
3 10 (13.89%) WAN
4 7 (9.72%) NGFW
5 6 (8.33%) LAN
5 6 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 6 (8.33%) Wireless
6 5 (6.94%) TCP/IP
7 4 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (5.56%) MPLS
7 4 (5.56%) VLAN
8 3 (4.17%) DHCP
8 3 (4.17%) HTTP
8 3 (4.17%) SSL
9 2 (2.78%) FTP
9 2 (2.78%) Internet
9 2 (2.78%) IPsec
9 2 (2.78%) SMTP
9 2 (2.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) MSI
3 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.39%) Maven
3 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (29.17%) Finance
2 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 9 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.78%) Spanish Language
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.39%) French Language
6 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
6 1 (1.39%) Military
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Police
6 1 (1.39%) Retail
6 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
1 16 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 9 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 8 (11.11%) Architect
4 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.72%) Network Support
4 7 (9.72%) Network Support Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Security Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Lead
6 4 (5.56%) Senior
7 3 (4.17%) Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.17%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Analyst
8 2 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) ADO
2 3 (4.17%) REST
2 3 (4.17%) Web Services
3 2 (2.78%) .NET
3 2 (2.78%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.78%) Spring
3 2 (2.78%) ZK
4 1 (1.39%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.39%) JSON
4 1 (1.39%) MUnit
4 1 (1.39%) RAML
4 1 (1.39%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.39%) XML
4 1 (1.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.72%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.78%) BYOD
5 2 (2.78%) Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) Equities
5 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) e-Health
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (29.17%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.33%) Linux
4 4 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.78%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.39%) CentOS
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.39%) Unix
6 1 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Agile
2 16 (22.22%) Migration
3 12 (16.67%) DevOps
4 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 8 (11.11%) Microservices
6 8 (11.11%) SIEM
7 7 (9.72%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (8.33%) Project Management
9 5 (6.94%) Change Management
9 5 (6.94%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
9 5 (6.94%) Time Management
10 4 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.56%) Network Design
10 4 (5.56%) Patch Management
10 4 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) Python
2 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.94%) Bicep
4 4 (5.56%) SQL
5 3 (4.17%) Java
6 2 (2.78%) Bash
6 2 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.28%) Degree
3 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.50%) CCNP
4 9 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.78%) CCNA
6 2 (2.78%) CCSA
6 2 (2.78%) CCSE
6 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.78%) VCAP
6 2 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.39%) GCIA
7 1 (1.39%) GCIH
7 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.39%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.78%) Docker
3 2 (2.78%) Firmware
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.78%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (16.67%) Terraform
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) SCCM
4 5 (6.94%) Ansible
5 3 (4.17%) Puppet
6 2 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.78%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.39%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.39%) OPNET
Vendors
1 18 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 17 (23.61%) Cisco
3 15 (20.83%) CheckPoint
3 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 10 (13.89%) Fortinet
4 10 (13.89%) Infoblox
5 8 (11.11%) Citrix
6 6 (8.33%) F5
7 5 (6.94%) Juniper
7 5 (6.94%) Meraki
7 5 (6.94%) VMware
8 4 (5.56%) Oracle
8 4 (5.56%) SAP
9 3 (4.17%) Arista
9 3 (4.17%) Forcepoint
10 2 (2.78%) Databricks
10 2 (2.78%) Mellanox
10 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.78%) Refinitiv
10 2 (2.78%) Reuters