Firewall Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Firewall
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 48 46
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 +31
Contract jobs citing Firewall 50 74 101
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.73% 3.77% 4.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.11% 37.56% 41.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 57 70
10th Percentile £413 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +5.26% -0.48%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £602
90th Percentile £732 £702 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £75.00
75th Percentile £20.53 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +265.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 197 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.26% 10.03% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 127 159
10th Percentile £336 £275 £310
25th Percentile £423 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +2.91% -4.63%
75th Percentile £653 £640 £613
90th Percentile £738 £731 £713
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.31 - £24.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.97
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -30.80% +129.10%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £62.86
90th Percentile £42.74 - £71.64
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Firewall job vacancy trend in the City of London

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (22.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.00%) GCP
5 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (10.00%) GitHub
6 4 (8.00%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.00%) IaaS
7 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (6.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.00%) VPN
2 10 (20.00%) DNS
3 8 (16.00%) Network Security
4 5 (10.00%) DHCP
4 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.00%) WAN
4 5 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (8.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (8.00%) LAN
5 4 (8.00%) SSL
6 3 (6.00%) BGP
6 3 (6.00%) MPLS
7 2 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (4.00%) Internet
7 2 (4.00%) Modbus
7 2 (4.00%) OSPF
7 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.00%) VLAN
7 2 (4.00%) Wireshark
8 1 (2.00%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Security Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Consultant
3 6 (12.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Network Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Security Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) ADO
1 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.00%) Faiss
1 1 (2.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (2.00%) LangChain
1 1 (2.00%) Node.js
1 1 (2.00%) SAML
1 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) SCADA
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Insider Threat
4 2 (4.00%) Life Science
4 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.00%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) STIX
5 1 (2.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Linux
3 6 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (20.00%) DevOps
2 10 (20.00%) ITIL
3 9 (18.00%) Agile
3 9 (18.00%) Cloud Security
4 7 (14.00%) Change Management
4 7 (14.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (14.00%) Information Security
4 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (14.00%) Project Management
4 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (12.00%) Migration
5 6 (12.00%) Network Design
5 6 (12.00%) SIEM
6 5 (10.00%) Change Control
6 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Python
2 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.00%) Bicep
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.00%) CISSP
6 3 (6.00%) CCNA
6 3 (6.00%) CCNP
6 3 (6.00%) CISM
6 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.00%) MCP
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (4.00%) MCITP
8 1 (2.00%) CCIE
8 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.00%) MCSA
8 1 (2.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (14.00%) GDPR
3 5 (10.00%) NIST
4 4 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (4.00%) SLA
6 1 (2.00%) EU AI Act
6 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (8.00%) Docker
4 2 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.00%) Firmware
5 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (22.00%) Terraform
3 5 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.00%) SCCM
4 2 (4.00%) SCOM
5 1 (2.00%) CASB
5 1 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Icinga
5 1 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (14.00%) CheckPoint
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco
4 5 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.00%) F5
6 3 (6.00%) Citrix
6 3 (6.00%) Infoblox
6 3 (6.00%) Oracle
6 3 (6.00%) Tenable
7 2 (4.00%) HP
7 2 (4.00%) Rockwell
8 1 (2.00%) Dell
8 1 (2.00%) Google
8 1 (2.00%) Juniper
8 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.00%) SAP
8 1 (2.00%) Veeam
8 1 (2.00%) VMware