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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 54 43
Rank change year-on-year -32 -11 +29
Contract jobs citing Firewall 53 69 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.17% 3.92% 4.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.54% 40.83% 45.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 68
10th Percentile £381 £326 £259
25th Percentile £450 £515 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £627 £669 £609
90th Percentile £656 £748 £690
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £450
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £13.50
75th Percentile £56.50 - £14.25
90th Percentile £61.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

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 158 169 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.47% 9.61% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 113 134
10th Percentile £255 £258 £239
25th Percentile £413 £423 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +15.79% -15.56%
75th Percentile £675 £661 £623
90th Percentile £735 £748 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £450
% change year-on-year -3.23% +20.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £21.27 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £24.17 £33.28 £12.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £44.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% +226.72% -40.00%
75th Percentile £48.00 £55.49 £14.25
90th Percentile £58.20 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 £44.11 £13.50
% change year-on-year +36.03% +226.72% -40.00%

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

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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 30 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

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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 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) AWS
3 9 (16.98%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (15.09%) GCP
5 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (7.55%) IaaS
7 4 (7.55%) OneDrive
7 4 (7.55%) PaaS
7 4 (7.55%) SaaS
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
8 3 (5.66%) Power Automate
8 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.66%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.77%) Cloudflare
9 2 (3.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 25 (47.17%) VPN
2 18 (33.96%) DNS
3 15 (28.30%) Network Security
3 15 (28.30%) WAN
4 13 (24.53%) LAN
5 10 (18.87%) DHCP
6 8 (15.09%) SD-WAN
7 7 (13.21%) Internet
7 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
8 6 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (9.43%) BGP
9 5 (9.43%) Wireless
10 4 (7.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (7.55%) VLAN
11 3 (5.66%) Multicast
11 3 (5.66%) NGFW
11 3 (5.66%) OSPF
11 3 (5.66%) SMTP
11 3 (5.66%) Unified Communications
12 2 (3.77%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.66%) Big Data
1 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.66%) Power BI
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
3 1 (1.89%) MSI
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
3 9 (16.98%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.89%) Military
8 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Network Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Security Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Network Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Network Security Architect
5 4 (7.55%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) .NET
1 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Clustering
2 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.89%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Replication
5 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Windows Server
3 5 (9.43%) Linux
4 2 (3.77%) VMS
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.89%) SUSE
5 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
1 9 (16.98%) DevOps
1 9 (16.98%) ITIL
2 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
2 8 (15.09%) High Availability
2 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (15.09%) Migration
3 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.21%) Zero Trust
4 5 (9.43%) Agile
4 5 (9.43%) AI
4 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery
4 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (7.55%) Containerisation
5 4 (7.55%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (7.55%) Runbook
5 4 (7.55%) Software Deployment
6 3 (5.66%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.75%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.09%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) C++
4 2 (3.77%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Bicep
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.75%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (18.87%) CCNP
4 10 (18.87%) Degree
5 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 4 (7.55%) CCNA
6 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.77%) CCIE
8 1 (1.89%) CCSE
8 1 (1.89%) CISSP
8 1 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.89%) CWNA
8 1 (1.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.21%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.55%) Docker
4 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.66%) BitLocker
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (5.66%) Terminal Services
6 2 (3.77%) Firmware
6 2 (3.77%) vSphere
7 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Ansible
1 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Terraform
3 6 (11.32%) vCenter Server
4 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.55%) Grafana
5 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.55%) Puppet
6 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
6 3 (5.66%) Nagios
6 3 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (5.66%) vMotion
7 2 (3.77%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (3.77%) Nessus
7 2 (3.77%) SCCM
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (1.89%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.89%) QRadar
8 1 (1.89%) Salt
8 1 (1.89%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (41.51%) Cisco
2 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
3 12 (22.64%) Fortinet
4 11 (20.75%) Palo Alto
5 10 (18.87%) VMware
6 9 (16.98%) F5
7 7 (13.21%) Citrix
8 6 (11.32%) Google
8 6 (11.32%) Splunk
9 5 (9.43%) Juniper
9 5 (9.43%) Zscaler
10 4 (7.55%) Dynatrace
10 4 (7.55%) HP
10 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
11 3 (5.66%) AppDynamics
11 3 (5.66%) CheckPoint
11 3 (5.66%) Symantec
11 3 (5.66%) Tenable
12 2 (3.77%) ForeScout
12 2 (3.77%) Okta