Firewall Contract Job Trends in East London

Firewall
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Firewall skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 5.36% 5.77% 9.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.29% 64.29% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 21
10th Percentile £256 £192 £108
25th Percentile £381 £221 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £250 £540
Median % change year-on-year +134.00% -53.70% +132.26%
75th Percentile - £585 £750
90th Percentile £636 - -
London median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -

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 17 14 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 15.18% 8.97% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 60
10th Percentile £309 £196 £187
25th Percentile £359 £225 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £395 £575
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% -31.30% +142.36%
75th Percentile £585 £585 £588
90th Percentile - - £750
London median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.61% -5.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £18.93
London median hourly rate £25.15 £25.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% -26.47% +42.20%

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
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in East London over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in East London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Firewall

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 7 September 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 -2 4 £585 +134.00%
Docklands, London +2 1 £325 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Junos
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Multicast
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SNMP
2 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Network Delivery Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Change Management
1 2 (33.33%) Communications Security
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
1 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) JNCIE
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Mellanox
2 1 (16.67%) NVIDIA
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow