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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 56 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 -10 +24
Contract jobs citing Firewall 60 72 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.51% 3.85% 4.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.09% 41.14% 45.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 47 62
10th Percentile £378 £353 £350
25th Percentile £450 £506 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -18.75%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £605
90th Percentile £639 £743 £663
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.09% +15.79% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
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 176 175 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.36% 9.37% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 122 119
10th Percentile £287 £263 £250
25th Percentile £413 £415 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +9.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £625
90th Percentile £721 £737 £759
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +8.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% +226.72% -53.04%
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 £14.25
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 £13.50
% change year-on-year +2.02% +226.72% -53.04%

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 28 July 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 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

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 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) AWS
3 10 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (15.00%) GCP
5 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (6.67%) IaaS
6 4 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 4 (6.67%) PaaS
6 4 (6.67%) SaaS
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.33%) Cloudflare
8 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (40.00%) VPN
2 19 (31.67%) DNS
3 16 (26.67%) Network Security
4 15 (25.00%) WAN
5 13 (21.67%) LAN
6 11 (18.33%) DHCP
7 10 (16.67%) BGP
8 9 (15.00%) VLAN
8 9 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (15.00%) Wireless
9 8 (13.33%) Multicast
9 8 (13.33%) SD-WAN
10 7 (11.67%) Internet
10 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
11 5 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
12 4 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (5.00%) NGFW
13 3 (5.00%) OSPF
13 3 (5.00%) SMTP
13 3 (5.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.00%) Big Data
1 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) MSI
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 11 (18.33%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.00%) Law
7 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.67%) Military
8 1 (1.67%) Police
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Network Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) .NET
1 2 (3.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.33%) Digital Signage
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Clustering
3 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) PKI
4 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.67%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.67%) CMDB
6 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.33%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.67%) SUSE
5 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (15.00%) DevOps
1 9 (15.00%) ITIL
2 8 (13.33%) Cloud Security
2 8 (13.33%) High Availability
2 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (13.33%) Migration
2 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (11.67%) Load Balancing
3 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (10.00%) Use Case
4 6 (10.00%) Zero Trust
5 5 (8.33%) Agile
5 5 (8.33%) AI
6 4 (6.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (6.67%) Software Deployment
7 3 (5.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (3.33%) C++
4 2 (3.33%) SQL
5 1 (1.67%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.33%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (16.67%) CCNP
4 10 (16.67%) Degree
5 6 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.67%) CCNA
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.33%) CCIE
8 2 (3.33%) CISSP
9 1 (1.67%) CCSE
9 1 (1.67%) CISM
9 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.67%) CWNA
9 1 (1.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) GRC
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) NCSC
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
2 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.67%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (6.67%) Docker
3 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.00%) BitLocker
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (5.00%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.33%) Firmware
5 2 (3.33%) vSphere
6 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Ansible
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) Terraform
3 6 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 5 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.67%) Grafana
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.67%) Puppet
6 3 (5.00%) FortiGate
6 3 (5.00%) Nagios
6 3 (5.00%) SCCM
6 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (5.00%) vMotion
7 2 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (3.33%) Nessus
8 1 (1.67%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.67%) Salt
8 1 (1.67%) VxRail
8 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (45.00%) Cisco
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 13 (21.67%) Fortinet
4 12 (20.00%) F5
5 10 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 10 (16.67%) VMware
6 7 (11.67%) Citrix
7 6 (10.00%) Google
7 6 (10.00%) Splunk
8 5 (8.33%) Juniper
8 5 (8.33%) Zscaler
9 4 (6.67%) Dynatrace
9 4 (6.67%) HP
9 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
10 3 (5.00%) AppDynamics
10 3 (5.00%) CheckPoint
10 3 (5.00%) Infoblox
10 3 (5.00%) Symantec
10 3 (5.00%) Tenable
11 2 (3.33%) ForeScout