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 31 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 47 73
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Firewall 75 92 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.00% 4.46% 3.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.13% 46.46% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 66
10th Percentile £366 £350 £481
25th Percentile £500 £402 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +10.60%
75th Percentile £664 £605 £675
90th Percentile £740 £663 £741
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.76%

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 178 198 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.50% 9.59% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 118 214
10th Percentile £263 £255 £213
25th Percentile £424 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £516 £556
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -7.19% +5.95%
75th Percentile £662 £625 £675
90th Percentile £746 £759 £796
Central London median daily rate £543 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +7.43% -8.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £22.63
25th Percentile £33.28 - £24.69
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.55%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £32.19
90th Percentile £61.54 - £33.88
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £28.75
% change year-on-year - - -30.72%

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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 31 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 5 (6.67%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (54.67%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) AWS
3 11 (14.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.33%) GCP
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.00%) GitHub
8 3 (4.00%) Serverless
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.67%) IaaS
9 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (32.00%) DNS
2 22 (29.33%) VPN
3 11 (14.67%) Network Security
3 11 (14.67%) WAN
4 9 (12.00%) NGFW
5 8 (10.67%) TCP/IP
6 7 (9.33%) BGP
6 7 (9.33%) OSPF
7 6 (8.00%) LAN
7 6 (8.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (6.67%) Multicast
8 5 (6.67%) SSL
9 4 (5.33%) Unicast
10 3 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (4.00%) DHCP
10 3 (4.00%) SAN
11 2 (2.67%) FTP
11 2 (2.67%) HTTP
11 2 (2.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.00%) JIRA
3 5 (6.67%) Git
4 2 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.33%) GitLab
5 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (30.67%) Finance
2 11 (14.67%) Banking
3 9 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Front Office
7 1 (1.33%) Law
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Military
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Police
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Network Engineer
2 14 (18.67%) Azure Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Network Support
4 8 (10.67%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead
7 5 (6.67%) Senior
8 4 (5.33%) Active Directory Support
8 4 (5.33%) Analyst
8 4 (5.33%) Consultant
8 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (5.33%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Network Architect
9 3 (4.00%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.67%) ADO
2 3 (4.00%) Web Services
3 2 (2.67%) .NET
3 2 (2.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.67%) REST
3 2 (2.67%) Spring
3 2 (2.67%) ZK
4 1 (1.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.33%) LDAP
4 1 (1.33%) Node.js
4 1 (1.33%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.67%) Anti-Spyware
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.67%) Clustering
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.67%) Equities
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) CCTV
6 1 (1.33%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) SCADA
6 1 (1.33%) STIX
6 1 (1.33%) Wiki
6 1 (1.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.33%) Windows
2 10 (13.33%) Linux
3 9 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.33%) CentOS
5 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.00%) Agile
2 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (20.00%) DevOps
4 14 (18.67%) Migration
5 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.00%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (10.67%) ITIL
8 6 (8.00%) Cloud Security
8 6 (8.00%) Microservices
8 6 (8.00%) Project Management
9 5 (6.67%) High Availability
9 5 (6.67%) Project Delivery
9 5 (6.67%) SIEM
10 4 (5.33%) Change Management
10 4 (5.33%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.33%) Network Management
10 4 (5.33%) Patch Management
10 4 (5.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.67%) Python
2 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.33%) SQL
4 5 (6.67%) Java
5 4 (5.33%) Bash
5 4 (5.33%) Bicep
6 3 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.33%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (17.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.00%) CCNP
5 8 (10.67%) Degree
6 4 (5.33%) CCNA
7 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.00%) CCIE
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (2.67%) VCAP
8 2 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) NIST
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.67%) SLA
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.00%) Docker
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (24.00%) Terraform
2 11 (14.67%) Ansible
3 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.33%) Puppet
6 3 (4.00%) FortiGate
6 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.00%) SCCM
7 2 (2.67%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.33%) Argo
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (1.33%) Icinga
8 1 (1.33%) Nagios
8 1 (1.33%) Observium
8 1 (1.33%) SCOM
8 1 (1.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (32.00%) Palo Alto
2 22 (29.33%) Cisco
3 16 (21.33%) CheckPoint
4 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (14.67%) Fortinet
6 10 (13.33%) Infoblox
7 9 (12.00%) F5
8 6 (8.00%) Citrix
8 6 (8.00%) VMware
9 5 (6.67%) Arista
9 5 (6.67%) Juniper
9 5 (6.67%) SAP
10 4 (5.33%) Oracle
11 3 (4.00%) Meraki
11 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
12 2 (2.67%) Atempo
12 2 (2.67%) Databricks
12 2 (2.67%) Mellanox
12 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.67%) Refinitiv