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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 48 38
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 15 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 4.04% 3.55% 3.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.08% 22.83% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 18
10th Percentile £334 £234 £334
25th Percentile £510 £292 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £437
Median % change year-on-year +10.52% +8.70% +52.00%
75th Percentile £554 £641 £525
90th Percentile £583 £675 £718
London median daily rate £525 £600 £535
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.15% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £34.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.51% - -
London median hourly rate £23.80 £40.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -40.50% +8.84% -26.50%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 92 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 17.52% 15.57% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 49
10th Percentile £201 £161 £160
25th Percentile £215 £256 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £600 £448
Median % change year-on-year -51.67% +34.08% +49.17%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £538
90th Percentile £574 £838 £682
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 10
10th Percentile - £31.25 £15.00
25th Percentile - £34.44 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £65.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.38% +242.11% -
75th Percentile £44.40 £75.00 £41.69
90th Percentile £56.76 - £47.28
London median hourly rate £23.80 £36.54 £26.75
% change year-on-year -34.87% +36.60% -43.48%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in West London

Firewall
Contract 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 12 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
Hillingdon +38 8 £525 +118.75% 1
Hounslow -6 2 £80 -86.86% 1
Wembley - 2 - - 1
Richmond upon Thames - 1 - - 1
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 3 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (13.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (33.33%) SaaS
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Mimecast
5 2 (13.33%) Nutanix
5 2 (13.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) HTTP
2 5 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 5 (33.33%) IPsec
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
3 4 (26.67%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) Wireless
5 2 (13.33%) DKIM
5 2 (13.33%) DMARC
5 2 (13.33%) Extranet
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) LAN
5 2 (13.33%) NAS
5 2 (13.33%) SAN
5 2 (13.33%) SSL
5 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (6.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Network Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Officer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) SAML
2 2 (13.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (33.33%) PKI
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (20.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) RBAC
4 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (13.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (13.33%) Runbook
5 2 (13.33%) Server Management
5 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Go
3 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCIE
1 3 (20.00%) CCNP
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) BitLocker
3 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) FortiGate
3 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) SCOM
3 2 (13.33%) SCVMM
3 2 (13.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Cisco
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 5 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (20.00%) F5
3 3 (20.00%) New Relic
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) Avaya
4 2 (13.33%) Brocade
4 2 (13.33%) Commvault
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Forcepoint
4 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 2 (13.33%) Mitel
4 2 (13.33%) Proofpoint
4 2 (13.33%) Wyse