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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 68 103
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 -10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 101 111 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.63% 3.24% 2.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 45.70% 32.17% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 78 65
10th Percentile £263 £484 £402
25th Percentile £350 £532 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £611 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +16.43% +17.65%
75th Percentile £622 £675 £638
90th Percentile £763 £731 £720
Central London median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +10.53%
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 - - -
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 221 345 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.13% 10.07% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 231 308
10th Percentile £194 £220 £313
25th Percentile £350 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £24.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +112.86%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £61.94
90th Percentile - £33.62 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £39.50
% change year-on-year -51.53% -29.49% +125.71%

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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 19 June 2024.

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 22 (21.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.98%) Apache
2 2 (1.98%) JBoss
2 2 (1.98%) nginx
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.98%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.69%) Azure
2 14 (13.86%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.89%) AWS
3 11 (10.89%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.91%) Mimecast
5 8 (7.92%) IaaS
6 5 (4.95%) PaaS
6 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.98%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.98%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.98%) NuGet
8 2 (1.98%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.99%) GCP
9 1 (0.99%) GitHub
9 1 (0.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.81%) WAN
2 16 (15.84%) DNS
2 16 (15.84%) Network Security
3 15 (14.85%) SD-WAN
3 15 (14.85%) VPN
4 14 (13.86%) SAN
5 9 (8.91%) LAN
6 6 (5.94%) BGP
6 6 (5.94%) Wireless
7 5 (4.95%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (4.95%) TCP/IP
8 4 (3.96%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (3.96%) DHCP
8 4 (3.96%) MPLS
8 4 (3.96%) OSPF
8 4 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (2.97%) EIGRP
9 3 (2.97%) ICMP
9 3 (2.97%) Spanning Tree
9 3 (2.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) Metadata
4 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
1 5 (4.95%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.96%) Git
3 3 (2.97%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.97%) GitLab
4 2 (1.98%) JIRA
4 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.99%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (34.65%) Finance
2 23 (22.77%) Banking
3 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.98%) French Language
7 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (24.75%) Network Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Operations Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Support Engineer
3 12 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (10.89%) Senior
5 10 (9.90%) Network Operations Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Architect
7 8 (7.92%) Analyst
7 8 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (6.93%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Consultant
9 5 (4.95%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Security Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) Security Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.97%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.97%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.98%) .NET
3 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.98%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (1.98%) SAML
3 2 (1.98%) YAML
4 1 (0.99%) CSS
4 1 (0.99%) HTML
4 1 (0.99%) JSON
4 1 (0.99%) LDAP
4 1 (0.99%) Middleware
4 1 (0.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Video Conferencing
2 13 (12.87%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.91%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.97%) PKI
6 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.98%) IoT
7 1 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) iPad
7 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (41.58%) Windows
2 15 (14.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (12.87%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (11.88%) Linux
5 6 (5.94%) Unix
6 5 (4.95%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.98%) Mac OS X
8 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.99%) Android
9 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (17.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (11.88%) Business Continuity
4 10 (9.90%) Cloud Security
4 10 (9.90%) Information Security
4 10 (9.90%) SIEM
5 9 (8.91%) CI/CD
5 9 (8.91%) Computer Science
5 9 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (8.91%) DevOps
5 9 (8.91%) Migration
5 9 (8.91%) Security Monitoring
6 8 (7.92%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (7.92%) Incident Management
7 7 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (5.94%) Agile
8 6 (5.94%) Change Management
8 6 (5.94%) Identity Management
8 6 (5.94%) Load Balancing
8 6 (5.94%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.87%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.91%) Python
3 4 (3.96%) SQL
4 2 (1.98%) Bash
4 2 (1.98%) C#
4 2 (1.98%) C++
4 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.99%) Bicep
5 1 (0.99%) Java
5 1 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Degree
2 12 (11.88%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.90%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.91%) CCNP
4 9 (8.91%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.96%) CCIE
6 4 (3.96%) GCIA
6 4 (3.96%) GCIH
6 4 (3.96%) GIAC
7 3 (2.97%) CCNA
7 3 (2.97%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.99%) CCNA CyberOps
9 1 (0.99%) CCSE
9 1 (0.99%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.98%) COBIT
3 2 (1.98%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) NCSC
3 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.99%) PMO
4 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (32.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.91%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.98%) Docker
5 2 (1.98%) XenApp
6 1 (0.99%) Firmware
6 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (19.80%) SCCM
2 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.93%) QRadar
4 6 (5.94%) Ansible
5 5 (4.95%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.96%) CSIRT
6 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
6 4 (3.96%) Nessus
6 4 (3.96%) Terraform
7 3 (2.97%) Kibana
7 3 (2.97%) logstash
7 3 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.98%) CASB
8 2 (1.98%) SCOrch
8 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.99%) Puppet
9 1 (0.99%) WSUS
9 1 (0.99%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (32.67%) Cisco
2 24 (23.76%) Citrix
2 24 (23.76%) Microsoft
3 19 (18.81%) CheckPoint
4 12 (11.88%) Avaya
4 12 (11.88%) EMC
4 12 (11.88%) HP
4 12 (11.88%) Palo Alto
5 11 (10.89%) VMware
6 10 (9.90%) Fortinet
7 7 (6.93%) SolarWinds
8 6 (5.94%) Oracle
9 4 (3.96%) Arista
9 4 (3.96%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (3.96%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (3.96%) Okta
10 3 (2.97%) ArcSight
10 3 (2.97%) F5
10 3 (2.97%) Refinitiv
10 3 (2.97%) Splunk