Firewall Contracts in South London

Firewall
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 29 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 6 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.24% 0.41% 3.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.00% 6.67% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £443 - £295
25th Percentile £470 £638 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +50.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £713 £500
90th Percentile - - £542
London median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 15 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 8.11% 6.20% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 54
10th Percentile £263 £198 £156
25th Percentile £414 £305 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £375 £513
Median % change year-on-year +26.33% -26.83% +7.89%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £582
90th Percentile £594 £728 £643
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £50.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.46%
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 South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in South London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in South London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in South London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in South London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South 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
Croydon +8 2 £460 -31.85%
Bromley - 2 £600 - 9
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £500 -
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (33.33%) DMZ
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) DWDM
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (33.33%) L2TP
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) Multicast
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
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 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) B2B
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Product Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) SELinux
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (33.33%) Arista
3 2 (33.33%) McAfee
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
4 1 (16.67%) VMware