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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 39 60
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Firewall 58 100 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.33% 4.72% 3.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.02% 44.84% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 71 59
10th Percentile £413 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £425 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £611
90th Percentile £760 £704 £706
Central London median daily rate £539 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.38
25th Percentile £20.18 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £48.75
75th Percentile £20.53 - £64.06
90th Percentile - - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +137.80%

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 161 223 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.25% 10.52% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 140 165
10th Percentile £281 £350 £270
25th Percentile £413 £433 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -0.80% -3.37%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £753 £708
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £24.64 - £19.39
25th Percentile £31.34 £31.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +44.44% +8.43%
75th Percentile £56.54 £33.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £61.96 - £66.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
% change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% -0.17%

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 16 November 2025.

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 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) Azure
2 17 (29.31%) AWS
3 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (17.24%) Entra ID
5 7 (12.07%) GCP
6 5 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.17%) IaaS
7 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (5.17%) Mimecast
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
8 2 (3.45%) PaaS
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (20.69%) VPN
2 10 (17.24%) DNS
3 9 (15.52%) WAN
3 9 (15.52%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (13.79%) BGP
4 8 (13.79%) Network Security
5 7 (12.07%) OSPF
6 6 (10.34%) LAN
7 5 (8.62%) DHCP
7 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
8 4 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (6.90%) MPLS
8 4 (6.90%) Multicast
8 4 (6.90%) SD-WAN
8 4 (6.90%) SSL
9 3 (5.17%) Unicast
9 3 (5.17%) VLAN
10 2 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (3.45%) Modbus
10 2 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) Pinecone
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (3.45%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Banking
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Billing
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Network Engineer
2 8 (13.79%) Security Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Consultant
4 6 (10.34%) Senior
5 5 (8.62%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) Network Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Network Security Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Cisco Project Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) ADO
1 1 (1.72%) Faiss
1 1 (1.72%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.72%) LangChain
1 1 (1.72%) LDAP
1 1 (1.72%) Node.js
1 1 (1.72%) SAML
1 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Operational Technology
2 4 (6.90%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) SCADA
4 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.45%) Insider Threat
4 2 (3.45%) Life Science
4 2 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.72%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.72%) STIX
5 1 (1.72%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows
2 10 (17.24%) Linux
3 6 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.24%) ITIL
2 9 (15.52%) Cloud Security
2 9 (15.52%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (13.79%) DevOps
3 8 (13.79%) Project Management
4 7 (12.07%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (12.07%) Information Security
4 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.34%) Agile
5 6 (10.34%) Change Management
5 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (10.34%) Network Design
5 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (8.62%) SIEM
6 5 (8.62%) Zero Trust
7 4 (6.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.90%) Incident Response
7 4 (6.90%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.17%) Bash
4 2 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) C
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) Java
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
4 8 (13.79%) Degree
5 7 (12.07%) CCNA
6 5 (8.62%) CCNP
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (6.90%) CISSP
8 3 (5.17%) CCIE
8 3 (5.17%) CISM
8 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.17%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (5.17%) MCP
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (3.45%) MCITP
10 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (8.62%) GDPR
2 5 (8.62%) NIST
3 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.45%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.62%) Docker
3 3 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.72%) Firmware
4 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (13.79%) Ansible
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.45%) SCCM
4 2 (3.45%) SCOM
5 1 (1.72%) Argo
5 1 (1.72%) CASB
5 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.72%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Icinga
5 1 (1.72%) Nagios
5 1 (1.72%) Observium
5 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 16 (27.59%) Cisco
3 15 (25.86%) Palo Alto
4 7 (12.07%) CheckPoint
5 6 (10.34%) F5
5 6 (10.34%) Fortinet
6 4 (6.90%) Citrix
6 4 (6.90%) Meraki
7 3 (5.17%) Arista
7 3 (5.17%) Infoblox
7 3 (5.17%) Juniper
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle
7 3 (5.17%) Tenable
8 2 (3.45%) HP
8 2 (3.45%) Rockwell
8 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.45%) VMware
9 1 (1.72%) Dell
9 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.72%) Salesforce