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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 75 116
Rank change year-on-year +3 +41 +8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 550 849 939
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.15% 3.28% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.05% 32.79% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 598 664
10th Percentile £300 £357 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £528
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.74% +11.05%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £748 £738 £710
England median daily rate £508 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -5.14% +7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 4
10th Percentile £13.08 £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 £56.50 £82.38 £47.96
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -3.23% +39.33% +69.52%

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 1,664 2,589 3,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.53% 10.01% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,817 2,524
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +4.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 56 82
10th Percentile £14.46 £20.11 £20.90
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.09% +27.41% -32.03%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £47.35
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +9 98 £425 -29.17% 35
West London +14 13 £525 -11.39% 7
East London -8 13 £585 -22.00% 6
South London -4 1 £675 +50.00% 3
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 42 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.00%) Confluence
2 11 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.82%) Apache
3 10 (1.82%) nginx
4 7 (1.27%) IIS
5 5 (0.91%) JBoss
5 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.64%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 168 (30.55%) Azure
2 109 (19.82%) AWS
3 64 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 43 (7.82%) IaaS
6 38 (6.91%) SaaS
7 37 (6.73%) GCP
8 30 (5.45%) PaaS
9 19 (3.45%) GitHub
10 18 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (3.27%) Mimecast
11 14 (2.55%) Serverless
12 13 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.00%) Nutanix
14 11 (2.00%) Power Platform
15 10 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (1.45%) Akamai
16 8 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 112 (20.36%) WAN
2 108 (19.64%) VPN
3 107 (19.45%) DNS
4 104 (18.91%) LAN
5 83 (15.09%) Network Security
6 74 (13.45%) BGP
7 65 (11.82%) MPLS
8 64 (11.64%) OSPF
9 61 (11.09%) Wireless
10 54 (9.82%) DHCP
11 47 (8.55%) SD-WAN
12 46 (8.36%) TCP/IP
13 45 (8.18%) IPsec
14 32 (5.82%) Cisco ASA
14 32 (5.82%) Cisco Nexus
15 31 (5.64%) VLAN
15 31 (5.64%) Wi-Fi
16 24 (4.36%) EIGRP
17 23 (4.18%) HTTP
17 23 (4.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 5 (0.91%) MySQL
4 5 (0.91%) RDBMS
4 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 4 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.73%) Power BI
6 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
6 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.18%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.18%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.18%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (6.00%) Git
2 27 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.45%) JIRA
4 16 (2.91%) TeamCity
5 10 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.73%) GitLab
9 3 (0.55%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.36%) Postman
10 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.18%) Gradle
11 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 139 (25.27%) Finance
2 92 (16.73%) Social Skills
3 57 (10.36%) Banking
4 43 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.64%) Retail
10 8 (1.45%) Mandarin Language
11 5 (0.91%) French Language
11 5 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.73%) German Language
12 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.73%) Military
13 3 (0.55%) Advertising
13 3 (0.55%) Local Government
13 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (29.45%) Network Engineer
2 78 (14.18%) Senior
3 72 (13.09%) Architect
4 38 (6.91%) Senior Network Engineer
5 36 (6.55%) Security Engineer
6 35 (6.36%) Support Engineer
7 34 (6.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (4.73%) Analyst
8 26 (4.73%) Operations Engineer
8 26 (4.73%) Security Architect
9 24 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (4.36%) Consultant
10 20 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (3.64%) Network Operations Engineer
11 19 (3.45%) Network Specialist
12 17 (3.09%) Cisco Engineer
12 17 (3.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 15 (2.73%) Senior Architect
13 15 (2.73%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
13 15 (2.73%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.36%) LDAP
2 13 (2.36%) Node.js
2 13 (2.36%) SAML
3 12 (2.18%) JSON
4 9 (1.64%) Middleware
5 8 (1.45%) .NET
5 8 (1.45%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.45%) NETCONF
5 8 (1.45%) XML
5 8 (1.45%) YANG
6 6 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (1.09%) RESTful
6 6 (1.09%) Web Services
7 5 (0.91%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (0.91%) YAML
8 4 (0.73%) OAuth
8 4 (0.73%) React
9 3 (0.55%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.55%) AWS SAM
9 3 (0.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.73%) Data Centre
2 38 (6.91%) PKI
3 28 (5.09%) Video Conferencing
4 19 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 18 (3.27%) Virtual Team
6 13 (2.36%) Clustering
6 13 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.18%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.18%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.82%) Replication
10 8 (1.45%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.09%) NHS
11 6 (1.09%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.91%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 142 (25.82%) Windows
2 71 (12.91%) Windows Server
3 69 (12.55%) Linux
4 42 (7.64%) Unix
5 36 (6.55%) Windows 10
6 20 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (2.36%) Mac OS
8 13 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.27%) Android
9 7 (1.27%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (1.09%) Solaris
10 6 (1.09%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.18%) VMS
13 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (12.91%) DevOps
2 57 (10.36%) Cloud Security
3 56 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 56 (10.18%) Migration
4 55 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 53 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (9.64%) SIEM
6 46 (8.36%) Roadmaps
7 45 (8.18%) Agile
8 44 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (7.45%) CI/CD
10 39 (7.09%) Information Security
10 39 (7.09%) Load Balancing
11 38 (6.91%) ITIL
12 33 (6.00%) Change Management
13 32 (5.82%) Data Loss Prevention
14 30 (5.45%) Identity Access Management
15 29 (5.27%) Vulnerability Management
16 25 (4.55%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (14.91%) Python
2 60 (10.91%) PowerShell
3 20 (3.64%) SQL
4 19 (3.45%) Bash
5 16 (2.91%) Go
6 9 (1.64%) Java
7 8 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.91%) Perl
9 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.73%) C
10 4 (0.73%) C#
10 4 (0.73%) VBScript
11 3 (0.55%) Ruby
11 3 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.36%) Bicep
12 2 (0.36%) C++
12 2 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.36%) VBA
13 1 (0.18%) Natural
Qualifications
1 112 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.91%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (12.55%) DV Cleared
4 64 (11.64%) CCNP
5 47 (8.55%) SC Cleared
6 44 (8.00%) Degree
7 26 (4.73%) CCNA
8 19 (3.45%) CCIE
9 17 (3.09%) CISSP
10 16 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.73%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.18%) AWS Certification
13 11 (2.00%) CISM
13 11 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.45%) CISA
15 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.91%) GIAC
16 5 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.73%) GCIA
17 4 (0.73%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (4.55%) NIST
3 18 (3.27%) GDPR
4 17 (3.09%) SLA
5 15 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 12 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.45%) NCSC
8 7 (1.27%) QA
9 6 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.55%) GPG13
10 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.36%) COBIT
11 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.18%) ISA99
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
12 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 93 (16.91%) Active Directory
2 39 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.18%) Docker
4 14 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.18%) Firmware
6 11 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (1.82%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.91%) XenApp
9 4 (0.73%) Samba
10 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.36%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.36%) KVM
11 2 (0.36%) Squid
12 1 (0.18%) Ceph
12 1 (0.18%) iptables
12 1 (0.18%) Lustre
12 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 56 (10.18%) Terraform
2 46 (8.36%) SCCM
3 44 (8.00%) Ansible
4 35 (6.36%) FortiGate
5 31 (5.64%) Kubernetes
6 28 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.45%) Puppet
7 8 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.27%) QRadar
9 6 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (1.09%) Netcool
9 6 (1.09%) SolarWinds Orion
9 6 (1.09%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (0.91%) Nessus
11 4 (0.73%) Kibana
11 4 (0.73%) logstash
12 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.55%) Grafana
12 3 (0.55%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 173 (31.45%) Cisco
2 112 (20.36%) Microsoft
3 93 (16.91%) Palo Alto
4 78 (14.18%) F5
5 69 (12.55%) Fortinet
6 61 (11.09%) VMware
7 60 (10.91%) CheckPoint
8 42 (7.64%) Juniper
9 38 (6.91%) Dell
10 29 (5.27%) Citrix
11 25 (4.55%) SolarWinds
12 22 (4.00%) HP
13 21 (3.82%) EMC
14 20 (3.64%) Qualys
15 19 (3.45%) ServiceNow
16 18 (3.27%) Infoblox
17 15 (2.73%) Aruba
17 15 (2.73%) Avaya
18 14 (2.55%) Meraki
18 14 (2.55%) Splunk