Firewall Contracts in the City of Westminster

Firewall
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 11 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 2.27% 2.27% 5.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% 25.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 £509 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £518 £625
Median % change year-on-year +25.60% -17.20% -
75th Percentile £675 £526 £638
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +25.71% -27.08% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 20.45% 9.09% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £385 £366 £560
25th Percentile £400 £390 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £459 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -26.60% +85.19%
75th Percentile £580 £507 £638
90th Percentile £637 £519 £645
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the City of Westminster

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the City of Westminster

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the City of Westminster

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Mayfair - 1 £650 -
Firewall
Central London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft