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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 43 41
Rank change year-on-year -58 -2 +28
Contract jobs citing Firewall 30 80 102
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.42% 4.50% 4.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.90% 42.33% 42.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 79
10th Percentile £413 £350 £263
25th Percentile £453 £488 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £613
90th Percentile £681 £730 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% -20.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
75th Percentile £20.53 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -30.77%

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 131 189 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.20% 10.64% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 127 158
10th Percentile £397 £242 £219
25th Percentile £441 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £548 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +21.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £673 £650 £595
90th Percentile £738 £715 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £19.59 - -
25th Percentile £19.97 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £21.31 £32.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% +140.74% -34.80%
75th Percentile £29.66 £33.75 £16.59
90th Percentile £40.36 - £17.99
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
% change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -21.69%

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 22 March 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 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (23.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.67%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.33%) Akamai
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) VPN
2 9 (30.00%) Network Security
3 6 (20.00%) DNS
4 5 (16.67%) WAN
5 4 (13.33%) DHCP
5 4 (13.33%) Internet
5 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
5 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (10.00%) LAN
6 3 (10.00%) SSL
6 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (6.67%) BGP
7 2 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (6.67%) IPsec
7 2 (6.67%) MPLS
8 1 (3.33%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (3.33%) iSCSI
8 1 (3.33%) Junos
8 1 (3.33%) OSPF
8 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Architect
1 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Consultant
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Security Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) NHS
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Security
1 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (26.67%) ITIL
2 7 (23.33%) Migration
3 5 (16.67%) Agile
3 5 (16.67%) Change Control
3 5 (16.67%) Change Management
3 5 (16.67%) DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) SIEM
3 5 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (13.33%) Load Balancing
4 4 (13.33%) Security Testing
4 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (10.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (10.00%) ITSM
5 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) CISSP
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) CCNP
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.00%) CISM
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) CCSE
5 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (16.67%) GDPR
3 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (6.67%) NIST
5 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) CASB
3 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Icinga
3 1 (3.33%) QRadar
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Palo Alto
3 7 (23.33%) Cisco
4 4 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 4 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) Aruba
5 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (6.67%) F5
5 2 (6.67%) Infoblox
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.33%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.33%) Databricks
6 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.33%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.33%) Foundry
6 1 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (3.33%) Okta
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow