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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -47 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing Firewall 33 70 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.43% 4.01% 4.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.38% 42.17% 43.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 45 68
10th Percentile £340 £339 £259
25th Percentile £450 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +29.41% -29.17%
75th Percentile £625 £661 £628
90th Percentile £655 £738 £758
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £425
% change year-on-year - +29.41% -29.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £13.50

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 130 166 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.63% 9.50% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 111 141
10th Percentile £240 £250 £206
25th Percentile £425 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% +25.14% -20.45%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £719 £745
Central London median daily rate £550 £539 £431
% change year-on-year +2.09% +24.93% -21.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £19.49 - -
25th Percentile £19.71 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.80 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +81.48% -35.71%
75th Percentile £22.62 £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £23.27 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.19 £24.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +81.48% -35.71%

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 17 May 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 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.03%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (45.45%) VPN
2 13 (39.39%) Network Security
3 7 (21.21%) WAN
4 6 (18.18%) DNS
5 5 (15.15%) Internet
5 5 (15.15%) LAN
6 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
7 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 3 (9.09%) VLAN
7 3 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (9.09%) Wireless
8 2 (6.06%) BGP
8 2 (6.06%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.06%) DHCP
8 2 (6.06%) IPsec
8 2 (6.06%) NGFW
8 2 (6.06%) OSPF
8 2 (6.06%) SSL
9 1 (3.03%) VSAN
9 1 (3.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.03%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Police
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.03%) Security Auditor
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.03%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) VMS
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) SUSE
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
1 8 (24.24%) Cloud Security
1 8 (24.24%) DevOps
1 8 (24.24%) ITIL
1 8 (24.24%) Migration
2 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Change Control
5 4 (12.12%) Change Management
5 4 (12.12%) High Availability
5 4 (12.12%) Load Balancing
5 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.12%) Security Testing
5 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (12.12%) Zero Trust
6 3 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 3 (9.09%) Identity Management
6 3 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 3 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (18.18%) CCNP
5 4 (12.12%) Degree
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.06%) CCIE
7 2 (6.06%) CCNA
7 2 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.03%) CCSE
8 1 (3.03%) CISSP
8 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (3.03%) CWNA
8 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 1 (3.03%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.06%) Firmware
3 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) vSphere
4 1 (3.03%) Docker
4 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Consul
6 1 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (3.03%) Icinga
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) QRadar
6 1 (3.03%) Salt
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Cisco
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) Palo Alto
3 6 (18.18%) Fortinet
4 4 (12.12%) Juniper
5 3 (9.09%) F5
5 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
6 2 (6.06%) Aruba
6 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.06%) VMware
7 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
7 1 (3.03%) Charles River
7 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.03%) Dell
7 1 (3.03%) EMC
7 1 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (3.03%) HP
7 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.03%) Trend Micro