Firewall Contracts in the City of London

Firewall
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 69 108
Rank change year-on-year +27 +39 -13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 100 111 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.64% 3.20% 2.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 45.25% 32.08% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 79 64
10th Percentile £263 £481 £402
25th Percentile £359 £522 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +18.64%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £628
90th Percentile £739 £731 £685
Central London median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +10.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £14.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 221 346 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.25% 9.98% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 234 302
10th Percentile £208 £227 £313
25th Percentile £350 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £629
90th Percentile £749 £750 £725
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £23.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -20.42% +137.29%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £53.13
90th Percentile - £33.62 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
% change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +136.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 21 (21.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.00%) Apache
2 2 (2.00%) JBoss
2 2 (2.00%) nginx
2 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.00%) Azure
2 13 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (10.00%) AWS
3 10 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.00%) Mimecast
5 7 (7.00%) IaaS
6 5 (5.00%) PaaS
6 5 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.00%) GCP
8 2 (2.00%) NuGet
8 2 (2.00%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.00%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.00%) GitHub
9 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (19.00%) WAN
2 17 (17.00%) DNS
3 15 (15.00%) Network Security
3 15 (15.00%) SD-WAN
3 15 (15.00%) VPN
4 14 (14.00%) SAN
5 9 (9.00%) LAN
6 6 (6.00%) BGP
6 6 (6.00%) DHCP
6 6 (6.00%) Wireless
7 5 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
7 5 (5.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.00%) MPLS
8 4 (4.00%) OSPF
8 4 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (3.00%) EIGRP
9 3 (3.00%) FTP
9 3 (3.00%) HTTP
9 3 (3.00%) ICMP
9 3 (3.00%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.00%) Metadata
4 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (4.00%) Git
2 4 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) JIRA
4 2 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.00%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (33.00%) Finance
2 23 (23.00%) Banking
3 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.00%) French Language
7 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Advertising
8 1 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (21.00%) Network Engineer
2 14 (14.00%) Support Engineer
3 13 (13.00%) Operations Engineer
4 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Analyst
5 10 (10.00%) Architect
5 10 (10.00%) Senior
6 9 (9.00%) Network Operations Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) IT Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Security Consultant
9 4 (4.00%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) ArcSight Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.00%) .NET
3 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (2.00%) LDAP
3 2 (2.00%) SAML
3 2 (2.00%) YAML
4 1 (1.00%) CSS
4 1 (1.00%) HTML
4 1 (1.00%) JSON
4 1 (1.00%) Middleware
4 1 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.00%) Video Conferencing
2 14 (14.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.00%) PKI
4 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) iPad
6 1 (1.00%) IVR
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.00%) Windows
2 15 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 13 (13.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 10 (10.00%) Linux
6 6 (6.00%) Unix
7 5 (5.00%) Windows 10
8 4 (4.00%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.00%) Mac OS X
9 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.00%) Android
10 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (13.00%) Business Continuity
4 11 (11.00%) Cloud Security
5 10 (10.00%) Information Security
6 9 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (9.00%) DevOps
6 9 (9.00%) Migration
6 9 (9.00%) SIEM
7 8 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.00%) Computer Science
7 8 (8.00%) Load Balancing
7 8 (8.00%) Security Monitoring
8 7 (7.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 7 (7.00%) Incident Management
9 6 (6.00%) Application Security
9 6 (6.00%) Change Management
9 6 (6.00%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (5.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.00%) Python
3 4 (4.00%) SQL
4 3 (3.00%) VBScript
5 2 (2.00%) C#
5 2 (2.00%) C++
5 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.00%) Bash
6 1 (1.00%) Bicep
6 1 (1.00%) Java
6 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
2 11 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.00%) CCNP
4 7 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.00%) CCIE
6 3 (3.00%) CCNA
6 3 (3.00%) GCIA
6 3 (3.00%) GCIH
6 3 (3.00%) GIAC
6 3 (3.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (3.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.00%) COBIT
3 2 (2.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) NCSC
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.00%) PMO
System Software
1 33 (33.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.00%) XenApp
6 1 (1.00%) Docker
6 1 (1.00%) Firmware
6 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) SCCM
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.00%) QRadar
4 4 (4.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) FortiGate
4 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.00%) CSIRT
5 3 (3.00%) Kibana
5 3 (3.00%) logstash
5 3 (3.00%) Nessus
5 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.00%) Terraform
6 2 (2.00%) CASB
6 2 (2.00%) SCOrch
6 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.00%) Puppet
7 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 31 (31.00%) Cisco
2 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 22 (22.00%) Citrix
4 17 (17.00%) CheckPoint
5 12 (12.00%) Avaya
5 12 (12.00%) EMC
5 12 (12.00%) HP
6 10 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 10 (10.00%) VMware
7 8 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.00%) Bloomberg
8 5 (5.00%) Oracle
8 5 (5.00%) Refinitiv
8 5 (5.00%) SolarWinds
9 4 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (3.00%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (3.00%) Dell
10 3 (3.00%) F5
10 3 (3.00%) Okta
10 3 (3.00%) Red Hat