Firewall Contracts in London

Firewall
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 72 73 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 +38 +11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 545 863 959
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.11% 3.39% 2.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.65% 33.33% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 611 680
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £741 £738 £710
England median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile £13.40 £30.40 £25.31
25th Percentile £16.00 £32.31 £26.23
Median hourly rate £23.80 £47.50 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.89% +29.25% -26.50%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £47.02
90th Percentile £53.00 £82.38 £47.96
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.55 £28.50
% change year-on-year -4.08% +119.47% +16.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,669 2,589 3,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.18% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,818 2,545
10th Percentile £215 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +13.52%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £650
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 49 89
10th Percentile £14.48 £18.93 £16.45
25th Percentile £16.71 £22.75 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +29.35% -43.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £59.75 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +135.29% -28.90% +3.48%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +18 106 £450 -25.00% 17
West London +12 14 £525 -4.55% 8
East London -13 10 £585 -22.00% 9
South London -5 1 £675 +50.00% 5
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 37 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.02%) Apache
2 11 (2.02%) nginx
2 11 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.65%) Confluence
4 8 (1.47%) IIS
5 5 (0.92%) JBoss
5 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.92%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.37%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 163 (29.91%) Azure
2 111 (20.37%) AWS
3 57 (10.46%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 40 (7.34%) IaaS
6 38 (6.97%) SaaS
7 35 (6.42%) GCP
8 30 (5.50%) PaaS
9 19 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (3.12%) GitHub
11 16 (2.94%) Mimecast
12 14 (2.57%) Serverless
13 12 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.02%) Nutanix
15 10 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (1.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.83%) WhatsApp
16 9 (1.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 110 (20.18%) WAN
2 101 (18.53%) LAN
2 101 (18.53%) VPN
3 100 (18.35%) DNS
4 86 (15.78%) Network Security
5 76 (13.94%) BGP
6 65 (11.93%) OSPF
7 59 (10.83%) Wireless
8 57 (10.46%) MPLS
9 53 (9.72%) SD-WAN
10 50 (9.17%) DHCP
11 43 (7.89%) IPsec
12 42 (7.71%) TCP/IP
13 36 (6.61%) Cisco Nexus
14 31 (5.69%) Cisco ASA
15 29 (5.32%) Wi-Fi
16 28 (5.14%) VLAN
17 27 (4.95%) EIGRP
18 26 (4.77%) Internet
19 23 (4.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.28%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.92%) MySQL
3 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
3 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
4 4 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.73%) Power BI
5 3 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.18%) Adabas
6 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.18%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.18%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (5.50%) Git
2 29 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.49%) JIRA
4 16 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 6 (1.10%) GitLab
9 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.18%) Gradle
11 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 140 (25.69%) Finance
2 97 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 59 (10.83%) Banking
4 40 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (6.97%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.39%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.83%) Retail
10 8 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
10 8 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.73%) Military
13 3 (0.55%) German Language
13 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.55%) Publishing
14 2 (0.37%) Cantonese Language
14 2 (0.37%) French Language
14 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 166 (30.46%) Network Engineer
2 75 (13.76%) Senior
3 65 (11.93%) Architect
4 39 (7.16%) Security Engineer
5 38 (6.97%) Senior Network Engineer
6 36 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (6.42%) Support Engineer
8 28 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
9 27 (4.95%) Operations Engineer
10 26 (4.77%) Consultant
11 24 (4.40%) Analyst
12 23 (4.22%) Security Architect
13 21 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.85%) Network Operations Engineer
14 20 (3.67%) Network Specialist
15 18 (3.30%) Cisco Engineer
15 18 (3.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 15 (2.75%) Security Consultant
16 15 (2.75%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
16 15 (2.75%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.22%) LDAP
2 13 (2.39%) Node.js
2 13 (2.39%) SAML
3 11 (2.02%) JSON
4 9 (1.65%) Middleware
5 8 (1.47%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.28%) .NET
6 7 (1.28%) NETCONF
6 7 (1.28%) XML
6 7 (1.28%) YANG
7 6 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (1.10%) RESTful
8 5 (0.92%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (0.92%) Web Services
8 5 (0.92%) YAML
9 4 (0.73%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.73%) OAuth
9 4 (0.73%) React
10 3 (0.55%) AWS SAM
10 3 (0.55%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.74%) Data Centre
2 38 (6.97%) PKI
3 28 (5.14%) Video Conferencing
4 22 (4.04%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 20 (3.67%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.12%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.20%) Clustering
8 12 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.65%) Replication
11 8 (1.47%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.10%) Fat Client
13 6 (1.10%) Hedge funds
13 6 (1.10%) Thin Client
14 5 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 138 (25.32%) Windows
2 67 (12.29%) Windows Server
3 65 (11.93%) Linux
4 38 (6.97%) Unix
5 35 (6.42%) Windows 10
6 22 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (2.57%) Mac OS
9 12 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (1.47%) Android
10 8 (1.47%) Apple iOS
11 6 (1.10%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.92%) Solaris
13 4 (0.73%) 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 72 (13.21%) DevOps
2 58 (10.64%) Cloud Security
2 58 (10.64%) SIEM
3 56 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
3 56 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 55 (10.09%) Migration
5 54 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 46 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (8.26%) Agile
8 44 (8.07%) CI/CD
8 44 (8.07%) Roadmaps
9 38 (6.97%) Information Security
10 37 (6.79%) Load Balancing
11 36 (6.61%) ITIL
12 34 (6.24%) Change Management
13 32 (5.87%) Vulnerability Management
14 31 (5.69%) Identity Access Management
15 30 (5.50%) Data Loss Prevention
16 26 (4.77%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 83 (15.23%) Python
2 60 (11.01%) PowerShell
3 17 (3.12%) Bash
4 16 (2.94%) Go
5 15 (2.75%) SQL
6 8 (1.47%) Java
7 7 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.73%) Bicep
10 4 (0.73%) C
10 4 (0.73%) C#
11 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.55%) VBScript
12 2 (0.37%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 2 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.18%) Perl
13 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.76%) Cisco Certification
3 68 (12.48%) CCNP
3 68 (12.48%) DV Cleared
4 45 (8.26%) Degree
5 44 (8.07%) SC Cleared
6 31 (5.69%) CCNA
7 21 (3.85%) CCIE
8 18 (3.30%) CISSP
9 17 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (2.75%) AWS Certification
10 15 (2.75%) Azure Certification
11 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.83%) CISM
13 8 (1.47%) CISA
14 7 (1.28%) GIAC
15 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.92%) GCIA
16 5 (0.92%) GCIH
17 4 (0.73%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (4.04%) NIST
3 19 (3.49%) GDPR
4 18 (3.30%) SLA
5 15 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 10 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.65%) NCSC
8 6 (1.10%) QA
9 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.55%) COBIT
11 3 (0.55%) GPG13
11 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.18%) ISA99
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
12 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 91 (16.70%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.22%) Docker
4 16 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.20%) Firmware
6 11 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (1.65%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.92%) XenApp
9 4 (0.73%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.55%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.55%) Samba
10 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.37%) Squid
12 1 (0.18%) iptables
12 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.18%) NFS
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (11.19%) Terraform
2 48 (8.81%) SCCM
3 45 (8.26%) Ansible
4 31 (5.69%) Kubernetes
5 30 (5.50%) FortiGate
6 23 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (2.20%) Puppet
8 9 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.28%) QRadar
9 7 (1.28%) SolarWinds Orion
10 6 (1.10%) Nessus
11 5 (0.92%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.92%) Netcool
11 5 (0.92%) Tivoli
11 5 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.73%) Grafana
12 4 (0.73%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.73%) SCOM
13 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 177 (32.48%) Cisco
2 111 (20.37%) Microsoft
3 102 (18.72%) Palo Alto
4 80 (14.68%) F5
5 77 (14.13%) Fortinet
6 63 (11.56%) CheckPoint
7 57 (10.46%) VMware
8 45 (8.26%) Juniper
9 37 (6.79%) Dell
10 31 (5.69%) SolarWinds
11 30 (5.50%) Citrix
12 22 (4.04%) HP
13 21 (3.85%) EMC
14 19 (3.49%) Qualys
15 18 (3.30%) Infoblox
15 18 (3.30%) ServiceNow
16 16 (2.94%) Avaya
17 14 (2.57%) Oracle
18 13 (2.39%) Google
19 12 (2.20%) Aruba