Firewall Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Firewall
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tower Hamlets 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 10 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Firewall 4 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 7.14% 8.11% 5.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% 42.86% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile - £540 £249
25th Percentile - - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £585 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +23.16% -
75th Percentile £596 £638 £538
90th Percentile £617 £725 £605
East London median daily rate £585 £585 £750
% change year-on-year - -22.00% +93.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7 21 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 12.50% 18.92% 23.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 16
10th Percentile £465 - £188
25th Percentile £543 £540 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £594 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +3.30% +19.79%
75th Percentile - £770 £775
90th Percentile £603 - -
East London median daily rate £448 £585 £663
% change year-on-year -23.49% -11.70% +59.64%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Tower Hamlets

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Tower Hamlets.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Tower Hamlets

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Tower Hamlets.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Tower Hamlets

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Mimecast
2 3 (75.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Management
1 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco