Firewall Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Firewall
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 11.24% 0.80% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 66.67% 11.11% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £488 - £235
25th Percentile £506 - £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £470 £433
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% +8.67% -16.83%
75th Percentile £569 - £582
90th Percentile £588 - £660
South London median daily rate £525 £470 £550
% change year-on-year +11.70% -14.55% +10.55%

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 15 9 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 16.85% 7.20% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 31
10th Percentile £490 £365 £380
25th Percentile - £403 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -10.40% -6.25%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £638
90th Percentile £551 £550 £675
South London median daily rate £488 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +5.98% -16.36% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Firewall

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Croydon over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Croydon

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Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Firewall

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Confluence
1 9 (90.00%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon EC2
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon ECS
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon ELB
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon S3
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) AWS KMS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (90.00%) Route 53
1 9 (90.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
1 9 (90.00%) FTP
1 9 (90.00%) HTTP
1 9 (90.00%) IMAP
1 9 (90.00%) OpenLDAP
1 9 (90.00%) SMTP
1 9 (90.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (90.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
1 9 (90.00%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (90.00%) Presentation Skills
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Amazon Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Ubuntu
1 9 (90.00%) VMS
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Change Management
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Security
1 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
1 9 (90.00%) Patch Management
1 9 (90.00%) Performance Tuning
1 9 (90.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Groovy
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (90.00%) Python
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) AWS Certification
1 9 (90.00%) Azure Certification
1 9 (90.00%) Degree
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) DFS Replication
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
1 9 (90.00%) Dovecot
1 9 (90.00%) Postfix
1 9 (90.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Grafana
1 9 (90.00%) Nessus
1 9 (90.00%) Prometheus
1 9 (90.00%) Proxmox
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (90.00%) ServiceNow