Firewall Contracts in Hillingdon

Firewall
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 8 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 -27
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 39 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 44.32% 10.96% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 81.25% 44.44% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 2
10th Percentile £350 £465 £180
25th Percentile £400 £512 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £240
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +118.75% -
75th Percentile £456 £543 £278
90th Percentile £500 £587 £300
West London median daily rate £419 £518 £358
% change year-on-year -19.08% +44.75% -18.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 48 18 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 54.55% 24.66% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 31
10th Percentile £335 £204 £155
25th Percentile £394 £250 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £338 £700
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -51.79% +63.74%
75th Percentile £450 £538 £838
90th Percentile £500 £587 -
West London median daily rate £425 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.42%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Hillingdon

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Hillingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Hillingdon over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Hillingdon

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Firewall

Firewall
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockley Park - 16 £438 -
Uxbridge +3 12 £425 -19.05% 3
West Drayton +5 7 £401 -28.48%
Heathrow +4 4 £338 -48.08%
Firewall
West London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.56%) Akamai
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (79.49%) LAN
2 29 (74.36%) SD-WAN
3 21 (53.85%) Cisco Nexus
3 21 (53.85%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (51.28%) WAN
5 15 (38.46%) VPN
6 12 (30.77%) BGP
6 12 (30.77%) Network Security
6 12 (30.77%) OSPF
6 12 (30.77%) VLAN
7 10 (25.64%) DHCP
7 10 (25.64%) DNS
8 9 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (20.51%) EIGRP
9 8 (20.51%) WLAN
10 7 (17.95%) SSL
10 7 (17.95%) Wireless
11 6 (15.38%) Cisco Wireless
11 6 (15.38%) DMVPN
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
1 8 (20.51%) Telecoms
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Aviation
4 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Architect
2 15 (38.46%) Network Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Network Design Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Network Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Designer
5 3 (7.69%) Network Designer
5 3 (7.69%) Technical Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Technical Design Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Network Security Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) CentOS
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Ubuntu
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Network Design
1 9 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (15.38%) Patch Management
2 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.82%) High Availability
4 4 (10.26%) B2B
5 3 (7.69%) Change Management
6 2 (5.13%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (5.13%) Network Architecture
6 2 (5.13%) Service Migration
6 2 (5.13%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 1 (2.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (2.56%) Incident Response
7 1 (2.56%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.56%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (2.56%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (2.56%) Proactive Monitoring
7 1 (2.56%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (2.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Bash
1 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (28.21%) CCNP
3 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
4 10 (25.64%) CCSA
5 3 (7.69%) CCNA
5 3 (7.69%) JNCIA
6 2 (5.13%) CCSE
6 2 (5.13%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.56%) CCIE
7 1 (2.56%) CEH
7 1 (2.56%) CISSP
7 1 (2.56%) MCITP
7 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GRC
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) NIST
1 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Firmware
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (5.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 33 (84.62%) Cisco
2 23 (58.97%) Fortinet
3 12 (30.77%) Juniper
4 10 (25.64%) SolarWinds
5 9 (23.08%) CheckPoint
5 9 (23.08%) F5
6 8 (20.51%) Meraki
7 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
7 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.13%) VMware
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.56%) Qualys
8 1 (2.56%) Tenable