Firewall Contracts in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 70 111
Rank change year-on-year -5 +41 +14
Contract jobs citing Firewall 541 864 982
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.06% 3.44% 2.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.51% 33.68% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 613 704
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% +12.63%
75th Percentile £641 £663 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 4
10th Percentile £13.40 £29.55 £25.31
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.25 £26.23
Median hourly rate £23.80 £40.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.50% +8.84% -26.50%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £47.02
90th Percentile £53.00 £72.00 £47.96
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +69.86% +36.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,664 2,565 3,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.41% 10.20% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 1,804 2,579
10th Percentile £216 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 48 90
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.27 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +35.59% -43.48%
75th Percentile £41.25 £67.44 £43.29
90th Percentile £59.75 £75.00 £63.39
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +3.02%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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
Central London +15 106 £450 -25.00% 33
West London +16 15 £525 +10.52% 13
East London -12 10 £585 -22.00% 9
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 38 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.03%) Apache
2 11 (2.03%) nginx
2 11 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.66%) Confluence
4 8 (1.48%) IIS
5 5 (0.92%) JBoss
5 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.74%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
Applications
1 13 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.74%) Endur
3 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 163 (30.13%) Azure
2 113 (20.89%) AWS
3 58 (10.72%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (8.32%) Entra ID
5 41 (7.58%) IaaS
6 38 (7.02%) SaaS
7 31 (5.73%) GCP
8 30 (5.55%) PaaS
9 20 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.14%) GitHub
10 17 (3.14%) Mimecast
11 15 (2.77%) Serverless
12 12 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.03%) Nutanix
14 10 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (1.85%) Power Platform
14 10 (1.85%) WhatsApp
15 9 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 98 (18.11%) WAN
2 95 (17.56%) DNS
3 93 (17.19%) VPN
4 89 (16.45%) LAN
5 85 (15.71%) Network Security
6 70 (12.94%) BGP
7 58 (10.72%) OSPF
8 56 (10.35%) MPLS
9 52 (9.61%) SD-WAN
10 51 (9.43%) Wireless
11 45 (8.32%) DHCP
12 39 (7.21%) TCP/IP
13 36 (6.65%) IPsec
14 35 (6.47%) Cisco Nexus
15 29 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
16 27 (4.99%) EIGRP
16 27 (4.99%) Wi-Fi
17 26 (4.81%) Internet
17 26 (4.81%) VLAN
18 23 (4.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.29%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.92%) MySQL
4 5 (0.92%) Power BI
4 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
4 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
7 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.37%) Metadata
8 1 (0.18%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.18%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.18%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 30 (5.55%) Git
2 29 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.51%) JIRA
4 16 (2.96%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.29%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.29%) GitLab
8 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.18%) Gradle
10 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.18%) Subversion
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 147 (27.17%) Finance
2 100 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 59 (10.91%) Banking
4 38 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.40%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.22%) Retail
9 8 (1.48%) Mandarin Language
10 7 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.92%) Publishing
12 4 (0.74%) Front Office
12 4 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.55%) French Language
13 3 (0.55%) German Language
13 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.55%) Military
14 2 (0.37%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 169 (31.24%) Network Engineer
2 72 (13.31%) Senior
3 63 (11.65%) Architect
4 40 (7.39%) Security Engineer
5 38 (7.02%) Senior Network Engineer
6 36 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 34 (6.28%) Support Engineer
8 30 (5.55%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (5.18%) Operations Engineer
10 26 (4.81%) Consultant
11 23 (4.25%) Analyst
11 23 (4.25%) Security Architect
12 22 (4.07%) Network Operations Engineer
13 21 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
14 19 (3.51%) Cisco Engineer
14 19 (3.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 15 (2.77%) Security Consultant
15 15 (2.77%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
15 15 (2.77%) Senior Operations Engineer
16 13 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.70%) LDAP
2 13 (2.40%) Node.js
2 13 (2.40%) SAML
3 11 (2.03%) JSON
4 9 (1.66%) .NET
4 9 (1.66%) Middleware
5 7 (1.29%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.29%) NETCONF
5 7 (1.29%) XML
5 7 (1.29%) YANG
6 6 (1.11%) RESTful
7 5 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.92%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (0.92%) Web Services
7 5 (0.92%) YAML
8 4 (0.74%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.74%) Kafka
8 4 (0.74%) OAuth
8 4 (0.74%) React
9 3 (0.55%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.09%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.73%) PKI
3 28 (5.18%) Video Conferencing
4 23 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.70%) Virtual Team
6 18 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 18 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
7 13 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.22%) Clustering
8 12 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.66%) Replication
11 8 (1.48%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.11%) Fat Client
13 6 (1.11%) Hedge funds
13 6 (1.11%) Thin Client
14 5 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 142 (26.25%) Windows
2 68 (12.57%) Windows Server
3 67 (12.38%) Linux
4 36 (6.65%) Unix
5 34 (6.28%) Windows 10
6 22 (4.07%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (2.59%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (1.48%) Android
10 8 (1.48%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.11%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.92%) Solaris
13 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.37%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.18%) CentOS
15 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (13.68%) DevOps
2 60 (11.09%) SIEM
3 59 (10.91%) Cloud Security
4 56 (10.35%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (9.61%) Migration
6 51 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 49 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 45 (8.32%) Agile
9 45 (8.32%) CI/CD
10 44 (8.13%) Roadmaps
11 41 (7.58%) Information Security
11 41 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (6.28%) ITIL
12 34 (6.28%) Load Balancing
13 33 (6.10%) Data Loss Prevention
14 32 (5.91%) Vulnerability Management
15 29 (5.36%) Change Management
15 29 (5.36%) Identity Access Management
16 27 (4.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 87 (16.08%) Python
2 60 (11.09%) PowerShell
3 17 (3.14%) Bash
4 16 (2.96%) SQL
5 15 (2.77%) Go
6 8 (1.48%) Java
7 7 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.92%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.74%) Bicep
9 4 (0.74%) C
9 4 (0.74%) C#
9 4 (0.74%) VBA
10 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.37%) C++
11 2 (0.37%) Ruby
11 2 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.18%) Perl
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 103 (19.04%) Security Cleared
2 77 (14.23%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (12.94%) CCNP
4 69 (12.75%) DV Cleared
5 46 (8.50%) Degree
6 36 (6.65%) SC Cleared
7 32 (5.91%) CCNA
8 24 (4.44%) CCIE
9 18 (3.33%) CISSP
10 17 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.77%) AWS Certification
11 15 (2.77%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.03%) CISM
14 10 (1.85%) GIAC
15 8 (1.48%) CISA
15 8 (1.48%) GCIH
16 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 6 (1.11%) GCIA
17 4 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.25%) NIST
3 20 (3.70%) GDPR
4 17 (3.14%) SLA
5 15 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 11 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.66%) NCSC
8 8 (1.48%) QA
9 5 (0.92%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.55%) GPG13
12 2 (0.37%) COBIT
12 2 (0.37%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.18%) ISA99
13 1 (0.18%) PMO
13 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 88 (16.27%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.62%) Docker
4 18 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (2.96%) Hyper-V
6 12 (2.22%) Firmware
7 10 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (1.66%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.92%) XenApp
10 4 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.55%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.37%) Samba
12 2 (0.37%) Snort
12 2 (0.37%) Squid
13 1 (0.18%) Ceph
13 1 (0.18%) NFS
13 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (11.83%) Terraform
2 48 (8.87%) SCCM
3 46 (8.50%) Ansible
4 31 (5.73%) Kubernetes
5 27 (4.99%) FortiGate
6 24 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.22%) Puppet
8 9 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.48%) QRadar
10 7 (1.29%) Nessus
10 7 (1.29%) SolarWinds Orion
11 5 (0.92%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.92%) logstash
11 5 (0.92%) Netcool
11 5 (0.92%) Tivoli
11 5 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (0.74%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.74%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.55%) CASB
Vendors
1 173 (31.98%) Cisco
2 107 (19.78%) Microsoft
3 97 (17.93%) Palo Alto
4 82 (15.16%) F5
5 76 (14.05%) Fortinet
6 64 (11.83%) CheckPoint
7 57 (10.54%) VMware
8 39 (7.21%) Juniper
9 37 (6.84%) Dell
10 32 (5.91%) Citrix
11 31 (5.73%) SolarWinds
12 22 (4.07%) HP
13 21 (3.88%) EMC
14 19 (3.51%) Qualys
15 18 (3.33%) Infoblox
15 18 (3.33%) ServiceNow
16 16 (2.96%) Avaya
17 15 (2.77%) Oracle
18 14 (2.59%) Splunk
19 13 (2.40%) Arista