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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 72 69 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.17% 3.89% 4.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.11% 38.55% 46.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 42 60
10th Percentile £381 £319 £350
25th Percentile £450 £496 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +5.77% -9.57%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £617
90th Percentile £675 £749 £678
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £518
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.28% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.50 - -
90th Percentile £61.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 194 179 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.54% 10.10% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 126 112
10th Percentile £294 £263 £350
25th Percentile £400 £381 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £526
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.33% -3.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £715 £775 £762
Central London median daily rate £515 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.39 £27.56 -
25th Percentile £19.46 £33.28 -
Median hourly rate £25.50 £44.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% - -
75th Percentile £39.50 £55.49 -
90th Percentile £54.80 £61.54 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

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 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in the City of London

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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 8 September 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 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.72%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) AWS
3 12 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.89%) GCP
5 6 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.94%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (5.56%) IaaS
7 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.56%) PaaS
7 4 (5.56%) SaaS
8 3 (4.17%) GitHub
8 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.11%) VPN
2 22 (30.56%) DNS
3 20 (27.78%) Network Security
4 16 (22.22%) WAN
5 15 (20.83%) BGP
6 12 (16.67%) DHCP
6 12 (16.67%) LAN
6 12 (16.67%) Multicast
6 12 (16.67%) VLAN
7 11 (15.28%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (15.28%) Wireless
8 8 (11.11%) SD-WAN
9 7 (9.72%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (9.72%) Cisco Wireless
9 7 (9.72%) TCP/IP
10 6 (8.33%) Internet
11 4 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (5.56%) OSPF
11 4 (5.56%) Unified Communications
12 3 (4.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.17%) Big Data
1 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.17%) GitLab
2 3 (4.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.78%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.39%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.39%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) MSI
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (34.72%) Finance
2 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Banking
4 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Police
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (36.11%) Network Engineer
2 8 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (9.72%) Architect
3 7 (9.72%) Implementation Engineer
3 7 (9.72%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 6 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 6 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Senior
4 6 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Network Security Architect
6 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) .NET
2 2 (2.78%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.72%) Digital Signage
3 4 (5.56%) Clustering
4 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) CMDB
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.39%) Replication
6 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.00%) Windows
2 9 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) SUSE
5 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) DevOps
1 12 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 11 (15.28%) CI/CD
2 11 (15.28%) Migration
3 10 (13.89%) Load Balancing
4 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (11.11%) High Availability
5 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (9.72%) Agile
6 7 (9.72%) Cloud Security
6 7 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.72%) Incident Response
6 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.72%) Use Case
7 6 (8.33%) ITIL
7 6 (8.33%) Observability
7 6 (8.33%) Zero Trust
8 5 (6.94%) AI
8 5 (6.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.06%) PowerShell
2 11 (15.28%) Python
3 5 (6.94%) Bash
4 4 (5.56%) SQL
5 2 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (1.39%) Bicep
6 1 (1.39%) Java
6 1 (1.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (12.50%) Degree
5 8 (11.11%) CCNP
6 6 (8.33%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.56%) CCIE
7 4 (5.56%) CCNA
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.39%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.39%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.39%) CISM
9 1 (1.39%) CISSP
9 1 (1.39%) CWNA
9 1 (1.39%) MCSE
9 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.39%) PMP
9 1 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) GRC
2 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.39%) NCSC
2 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (9.72%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (8.33%) Docker
5 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.17%) BitLocker
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (4.17%) Terminal Services
6 3 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.78%) Firmware
7 2 (2.78%) vSphere
8 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.89%) Ansible
3 7 (9.72%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 5 (6.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.56%) FortiGate
6 4 (5.56%) Grafana
6 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.56%) Puppet
7 3 (4.17%) Nagios
7 3 (4.17%) SCCM
7 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (4.17%) vMotion
8 2 (2.78%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.78%) Nessus
9 1 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.39%) Consul
9 1 (1.39%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (1.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 37 (51.39%) Cisco
2 17 (23.61%) Microsoft
3 16 (22.22%) F5
4 15 (20.83%) Palo Alto
5 14 (19.44%) Fortinet
6 10 (13.89%) VMware
7 8 (11.11%) Google
8 7 (9.72%) Citrix
9 6 (8.33%) CheckPoint
9 6 (8.33%) Dynatrace
10 5 (6.94%) Infoblox
10 5 (6.94%) Meraki
10 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
11 4 (5.56%) Arista
11 4 (5.56%) Splunk
12 3 (4.17%) AppDynamics
12 3 (4.17%) HP
12 3 (4.17%) Juniper
12 3 (4.17%) Symantec
12 3 (4.17%) Zscaler