Firewall Contracts in Central London

Firewall
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 50 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Firewall 90 95 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.38% 4.11% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.67% 40.60% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 64 78
10th Percentile £390 £350 £288
25th Percentile £500 £422 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.53% +11.43%
75th Percentile £664 £602 £649
90th Percentile £732 £663 £709
London median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £23.99 £60.00
% change year-on-year +25.05% -60.02% +61.20%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 216 234 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.51% 10.11% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 147 236
10th Percentile £263 £251 £188
25th Percentile £413 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -5.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £663 £604 £644
90th Percentile £750 £744 £738
London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £27.56 - -
25th Percentile £33.28 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £23.75
90th Percentile £61.54 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £36.54
% change year-on-year +5.67% -34.87% +40.54%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Central London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firewall in Central London

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
City of London -10 79 £550 +10.00% 20
City of Westminster -1 5 £650 +44.44% 4
West End of London - 4 £580 - 2
Camden - 1 £580 -
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.56%) Confluence
3 4 (4.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.11%) Mattermost
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (57.78%) Azure
2 24 (26.67%) AWS
3 15 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.67%) GCP
7 6 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.33%) GitHub
10 3 (3.33%) IaaS
10 3 (3.33%) Mimecast
10 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.33%) Serverless
11 2 (2.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 26 (28.89%) VPN
2 24 (26.67%) DNS
3 12 (13.33%) WAN
4 11 (12.22%) Network Security
5 10 (11.11%) NGFW
6 8 (8.89%) BGP
6 8 (8.89%) OSPF
6 8 (8.89%) TCP/IP
7 7 (7.78%) LAN
7 7 (7.78%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (6.67%) Multicast
9 5 (5.56%) SD-WAN
9 5 (5.56%) SSL
10 4 (4.44%) Unicast
11 3 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (3.33%) DHCP
11 3 (3.33%) SAN
12 2 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (2.22%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Redis
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.67%) Git
2 6 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (30.00%) Finance
2 11 (12.22%) Banking
3 10 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Japanese Language
6 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Front Office
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Military
7 1 (1.11%) Police
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 13 (14.44%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) Senior
4 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Architect
5 8 (8.89%) Network Support
5 8 (8.89%) Network Support Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Security Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Consultant
7 5 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Active Directory Support
8 4 (4.44%) Analyst
8 4 (4.44%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (4.44%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) ADO
2 3 (3.33%) Web Services
3 2 (2.22%) .NET
3 2 (2.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.22%) Node.js
3 2 (2.22%) REST
3 2 (2.22%) Spring
3 2 (2.22%) ZK
4 1 (1.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.11%) LDAP
4 1 (1.11%) Loki
4 1 (1.11%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.11%) WebRTC
4 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.00%) Anti-Spyware
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.33%) SCADA
4 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.22%) Equities
5 2 (2.22%) Insider Threat
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) Clustering
6 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.78%) Windows
2 15 (16.67%) Linux
3 12 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.11%) Agile
1 19 (21.11%) Migration
2 17 (18.89%) DevOps
3 16 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 11 (12.22%) ITIL
5 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
7 7 (7.78%) Cloud Security
7 7 (7.78%) Project Management
8 6 (6.67%) High Availability
8 6 (6.67%) Low Latency
8 6 (6.67%) Microservices
8 6 (6.67%) Network Design
8 6 (6.67%) Patch Management
9 5 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (5.56%) Project Delivery
9 5 (5.56%) SIEM
9 5 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) Python
2 11 (12.22%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.78%) SQL
4 6 (6.67%) Bash
5 5 (5.56%) Java
6 4 (4.44%) Bicep
7 3 (3.33%) C#
8 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.11%) C
9 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) SC Cleared
4 13 (14.44%) CCNP
5 10 (11.11%) Degree
6 7 (7.78%) CCNA
7 5 (5.56%) CCIE
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.22%) MCITP
10 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.33%) NIST
2 3 (3.33%) SLA
3 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (21.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.78%) Docker
3 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (22.22%) Terraform
2 15 (16.67%) Ansible
3 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.56%) Puppet
6 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.44%) SCCM
7 2 (2.22%) Argo
7 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.22%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (2.22%) SCOM
7 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (1.11%) Grafana
8 1 (1.11%) Icinga
8 1 (1.11%) Nagios
8 1 (1.11%) Observium
8 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 26 (28.89%) Cisco
3 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
4 18 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 13 (14.44%) Fortinet
6 10 (11.11%) F5
6 10 (11.11%) Infoblox
7 8 (8.89%) Arista
8 7 (7.78%) VMware
9 6 (6.67%) Citrix
10 5 (5.56%) Juniper
10 5 (5.56%) Oracle
10 5 (5.56%) SAP
11 3 (3.33%) HP
11 3 (3.33%) Meraki
11 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
11 3 (3.33%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.22%) Google
12 2 (2.22%) Refinitiv
12 2 (2.22%) Rockwell