Firewall Contracts in West London

Firewall
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 21 50
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 -15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Firewall 54 19 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 20.07% 6.42% 2.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 62.07% 33.33% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 14
10th Percentile £328 £355 £149
25th Percentile £378 £456 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £518 £358
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +44.75% -18.19%
75th Percentile £450 £538 £647
90th Percentile £500 £569 £675
London median daily rate £500 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.46% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.99 £60.00
% change year-on-year +25.05% -60.02% +87.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 87 57 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 32.34% 19.26% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 76
10th Percentile £275 £213 £133
25th Percentile £366 £270 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £463 £532 £700
90th Percentile £509 £575 £838
London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -70.25% +321.05%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £88.13
90th Percentile - £56.76 £89.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.65
% change year-on-year +5.67% -29.26% +40.72%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Firewall
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hillingdon +7 39 £425 -19.05% 4
Hounslow +7 4 £400 +86.05%
Wembley -3 1 - - 3
Hammersmith - 1 £425 -
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (7.41%) Azure
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) Akamai
4 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (66.67%) LAN
1 36 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 26 (48.15%) WAN
3 23 (42.59%) Cisco Nexus
3 23 (42.59%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (40.74%) VPN
5 21 (38.89%) Network Security
6 18 (33.33%) BGP
6 18 (33.33%) OSPF
7 17 (31.48%) VLAN
8 15 (27.78%) DHCP
8 15 (27.78%) DNS
9 14 (25.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 11 (20.37%) SSL
10 11 (20.37%) Wireless
11 10 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (18.52%) Cisco Wireless
11 10 (18.52%) EIGRP
11 10 (18.52%) WLAN
12 9 (16.67%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Aviation
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Architect
2 16 (29.63%) Network Engineer
3 15 (27.78%) Network Architect
4 7 (12.96%) Network Design Architect
5 6 (11.11%) Administrator
5 6 (11.11%) Network Administrator
6 5 (9.26%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Network Security Administrator
7 4 (7.41%) Security Administrator
7 4 (7.41%) Technical Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Cisco Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Designer
8 3 (5.56%) Network Designer
8 3 (5.56%) Technical Design Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Network Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) LDAP
1 1 (1.85%) OAuth
1 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.85%) OpenID
1 1 (1.85%) SailPoint
1 1 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.70%) CentOS
3 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (16.67%) Network Design
3 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 5 (9.26%) High Availability
6 4 (7.41%) B2B
7 3 (5.56%) Change Management
7 3 (5.56%) Migration
7 3 (5.56%) Network Architecture
8 2 (3.70%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (3.70%) Configuration Management
8 2 (3.70%) Incident Response
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (3.70%) ITIL
8 2 (3.70%) Security Architecture
8 2 (3.70%) Service Migration
8 2 (3.70%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 1 (1.85%) Data Protection
9 1 (1.85%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.56%) Bash
3 2 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (29.63%) CCNP
3 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
4 12 (22.22%) CCSA
5 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.56%) CCNA
6 3 (5.56%) CCSE
6 3 (5.56%) JNCIA
7 2 (3.70%) CCIE
7 2 (3.70%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.85%) CEH
8 1 (1.85%) CISSP
8 1 (1.85%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.85%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.85%) MCITP
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) GRC
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Firmware
2 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
2 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (81.48%) Cisco
2 24 (44.44%) Fortinet
3 23 (42.59%) Juniper
4 17 (31.48%) CheckPoint
5 14 (25.93%) F5
6 11 (20.37%) SolarWinds
7 10 (18.52%) Meraki
8 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.56%) VMware
9 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.85%) EMC
10 1 (1.85%) Forcepoint
10 1 (1.85%) HP
10 1 (1.85%) Mitel
10 1 (1.85%) NetApp
10 1 (1.85%) Qualys
10 1 (1.85%) Remedy
10 1 (1.85%) Veeam
10 1 (1.85%) Veritas