Firewall Contracts in the City of London

Firewall
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 65 100
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 -9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 93 113 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.32% 3.20% 2.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.26% 32.10% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 87 65
10th Percentile £258 £423 £400
25th Percentile £350 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +14.29% +18.64%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £625
90th Percentile £762 £730 £673
Central London median daily rate £431 £600 £522
% change year-on-year -28.13% +14.94% +9.55%
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 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 215 352 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.98% 9.97% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 244 309
10th Percentile £206 £231 £313
25th Percentile £350 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
Central London median daily rate £438 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -20.45% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +167.80%
75th Percentile £14.25 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile - £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -35.71% -48.15% +157.14%

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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 14 May 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 (23.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.15%) Apache
2 2 (2.15%) JBoss
2 2 (2.15%) nginx
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.15%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
3 1 (1.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.41%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.90%) Entra ID
4 11 (11.83%) Mimecast
5 9 (9.68%) IaaS
6 7 (7.53%) AWS
7 6 (6.45%) PaaS
7 6 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.15%) NuGet
10 2 (2.15%) WhatsApp
11 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.08%) GitHub
11 1 (1.08%) Route 53
11 1 (1.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (19.35%) DNS
2 13 (13.98%) SAN
2 13 (13.98%) VPN
2 13 (13.98%) WAN
3 11 (11.83%) Network Security
3 11 (11.83%) SD-WAN
4 6 (6.45%) MPLS
4 6 (6.45%) Wireless
5 5 (5.38%) DHCP
5 5 (5.38%) LAN
6 4 (4.30%) FTP
6 4 (4.30%) HTTP
6 4 (4.30%) ICMP
6 4 (4.30%) IPv4
6 4 (4.30%) POP3
6 4 (4.30%) SMTP
6 4 (4.30%) SSH
6 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) MySQL
4 1 (1.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.30%) Git
3 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.15%) JIRA
4 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.08%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (32.26%) Finance
2 23 (24.73%) Banking
3 14 (15.05%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.60%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.30%) French Language
7 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.15%) Advertising
8 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.08%) Automotive
9 1 (1.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (13.98%) Network Engineer
1 13 (13.98%) Support Engineer
2 12 (12.90%) Analyst
2 12 (12.90%) Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Operations Engineer
4 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Senior
6 7 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Network Operations Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Consultant
7 5 (5.38%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) ArcSight Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Market Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) Market Data Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) Security Consultant
8 4 (4.30%) SIEM Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.23%) .NET
2 3 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.15%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.15%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (2.15%) LDAP
3 2 (2.15%) SAML
3 2 (2.15%) YAML
4 1 (1.08%) CSS
4 1 (1.08%) HTML
4 1 (1.08%) JSON
4 1 (1.08%) Kafka
4 1 (1.08%) LAMP
4 1 (1.08%) Middleware
4 1 (1.08%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Video Conferencing
2 11 (11.83%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.23%) PKI
5 2 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.15%) IoT
5 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) iPad
6 1 (1.08%) IVR
6 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.08%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
6 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (40.86%) Windows
2 13 (13.98%) Windows Server
2 13 (13.98%) Windows Server 2016
3 11 (11.83%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (9.68%) Linux
5 7 (7.53%) Unix
6 4 (4.30%) Windows 10
7 3 (3.23%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.15%) Mac OS X
8 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.08%) Android
9 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.08%) VMS
9 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (13.98%) Business Continuity
4 10 (10.75%) Cloud Security
5 9 (9.68%) DevOps
5 9 (9.68%) Migration
5 9 (9.68%) SIEM
6 8 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (8.60%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (8.60%) Information Security
6 8 (8.60%) Load Balancing
7 7 (7.53%) Change Management
7 7 (7.53%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.45%) Application Security
8 6 (6.45%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.45%) Identity Management
8 6 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (6.45%) Project Delivery
8 6 (6.45%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.38%) SQL
3 4 (4.30%) Python
3 4 (4.30%) VBScript
4 2 (2.15%) C#
4 2 (2.15%) C++
4 2 (2.15%) Java
4 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.08%) Bicep
5 1 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.08%) Perl
5 1 (1.08%) Ruby
5 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) Degree
1 11 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.15%) CCNP
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.15%) GCIA
5 2 (2.15%) GCIH
5 2 (2.15%) GIAC
5 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) CCNA
6 1 (1.08%) CISM
6 1 (1.08%) CISSP
6 1 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 33 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.15%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.15%) XenApp
5 1 (1.08%) Firmware
5 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (19.35%) SCCM
2 11 (11.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.45%) QRadar
4 5 (5.38%) FortiGate
5 4 (4.30%) Kibana
5 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.30%) logstash
6 3 (3.23%) Terraform
7 2 (2.15%) CSIRT
7 2 (2.15%) Nessus
8 1 (1.08%) Ansible
8 1 (1.08%) Nagios
8 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.08%) WSUS
8 1 (1.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (26.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (24.73%) Cisco
3 22 (23.66%) Citrix
4 13 (13.98%) CheckPoint
5 11 (11.83%) Avaya
5 11 (11.83%) EMC
5 11 (11.83%) HP
5 11 (11.83%) VMware
6 5 (5.38%) Bloomberg
6 5 (5.38%) Okta
6 5 (5.38%) Refinitiv
7 4 (4.30%) ArcSight
7 4 (4.30%) Oracle
7 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.30%) Splunk
8 3 (3.23%) Dell
8 3 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.15%) Apple
9 2 (2.15%) IBM