Firewall Contracts in Croydon

Firewall
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 25 33 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Firewall 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.20% 0.69% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.00% 9.09% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £430 - £229
25th Percentile £436 £638 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £675 £386
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +74.76% -42.35%
75th Percentile £474 £713 £485
90th Percentile £475 - £544
South London median daily rate £500 £675 £450
% change year-on-year -25.93% +50.00% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5 11 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 5.49% 7.59% 21.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 32
10th Percentile £398 £360 £450
25th Percentile £425 £363 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £380 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -30.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £631 £625
90th Percentile - £738 £673
South London median daily rate £474 £375 £513
% change year-on-year +26.33% -26.83% +7.89%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Croydon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SELinux
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (50.00%) VMware