Firewall Contracts in East London

Firewall
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 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 13 21 18
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 7 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 6.67% 6.06% 8.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.00% 43.75% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 14
10th Percentile £373 £520 £254
25th Percentile £515 £540 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £585 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -22.00% +93.55%
75th Percentile - £611 -
90th Percentile £603 £725 -
London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 32 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 19.05% 13.85% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 34
10th Percentile £209 £194 £188
25th Percentile £243 £540 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £585 £663
Median % change year-on-year -23.49% -11.70% +59.64%
75th Percentile £559 £725 £750
90th Percentile £585 £770 £775
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.54%
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in East London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in East London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in East London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in East London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in East London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East London 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
Tower Hamlets +5 4 £585 -
Lewisham - 1 £550 -
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) Mimecast
2 3 (42.86%) OneDrive
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
3 3 (42.86%) Wireless
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) IPsec
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (28.57%) NGFW
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (14.29%) Internet
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security
5 1 (14.29%) PSTN
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) VoIP
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Management
1 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Robotic Process Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Database Security
3 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Aruba
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) VMware