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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 57 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 +24
Contract jobs citing Firewall 76 62 97
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.52% 3.61% 4.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.44% 38.04% 45.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 40 67
10th Percentile £381 £402 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +2.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £631
90th Percentile £702 £721 £687
Central London median daily rate £530 £539 £523
% change year-on-year -1.72% +3.21% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £20.18 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.36 -
Median % change year-on-year +121.08% - -
75th Percentile £56.50 £20.53 -
90th Percentile £61.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £20.36 -
% change year-on-year +121.08% - -

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 203 163 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.39% 9.49% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 118 128
10th Percentile £283 £261 £350
25th Percentile £381 £386 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £536 £531
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +0.99% -1.71%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £720 £721 £759
Central London median daily rate £513 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -3.39% +1.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.89 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.96 £31.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.90% -24.62% -33.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.41 £33.75
90th Percentile £119.20 £57.51 -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +155.10% -24.62% -33.33%

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 6 October 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

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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 6 October 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 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.21%) Azure
2 16 (21.05%) AWS
3 12 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (13.16%) GCP
5 6 (7.89%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.95%) IaaS
8 3 (3.95%) PaaS
8 3 (3.95%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.95%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.95%) SaaS
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.32%) Akamai
10 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.89%) VPN
2 24 (31.58%) DNS
3 21 (27.63%) Network Security
4 17 (22.37%) BGP
5 15 (19.74%) WAN
6 13 (17.11%) DHCP
6 13 (17.11%) Multicast
7 12 (15.79%) Wireless
8 11 (14.47%) LAN
8 11 (14.47%) VLAN
9 10 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (10.53%) TCP/IP
11 7 (9.21%) Cisco Wireless
12 6 (7.89%) SD-WAN
13 5 (6.58%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (6.58%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (6.58%) OSPF
14 4 (5.26%) Internet
14 4 (5.26%) MPLS
14 4 (5.26%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.95%) Big Data
1 3 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (3.95%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
2 3 (3.95%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.32%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.32%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) MSI
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (38.16%) Finance
2 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.42%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Police
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (34.21%) Network Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Architect
3 8 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Network Architect
3 8 (10.53%) Security Architect
4 7 (9.21%) Implementation Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Network Security Architect
4 7 (9.21%) Senior
4 7 (9.21%) Support Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Firewall Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.95%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.47%) Terraform
2 2 (2.63%) .NET
2 2 (2.63%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Digital Signage
3 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.95%) Clustering
5 3 (3.95%) PKI
6 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.32%) CMDB
7 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.32%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
7 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) SCADA
7 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.00%) Windows
2 10 (13.16%) Windows Server
3 9 (11.84%) Linux
4 2 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.32%) VMS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.11%) Load Balancing
2 12 (15.79%) Project Delivery
3 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
3 11 (14.47%) DevOps
4 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (13.16%) Migration
5 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.53%) High Availability
6 8 (10.53%) Zero Trust
7 7 (9.21%) Agile
7 7 (9.21%) Incident Response
7 7 (9.21%) ITIL
7 7 (9.21%) Observability
7 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (9.21%) Use Case
8 6 (7.89%) Cloud Security
9 5 (6.58%) Validation
9 5 (6.58%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 12 (15.79%) Python
3 5 (6.58%) SQL
4 4 (5.26%) Bash
5 2 (2.63%) C++
6 1 (1.32%) Java
6 1 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.84%) CCNP
4 9 (11.84%) Degree
5 6 (7.89%) CCIE
5 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.26%) CCNA
7 3 (3.95%) CISSP
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.63%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.32%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.32%) CCSP
9 1 (1.32%) CISM
9 1 (1.32%) CWNA
9 1 (1.32%) MCSE
9 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.32%) PMP
9 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.63%) NIST
1 2 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) Docker
3 6 (7.89%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.95%) BitLocker
4 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (3.95%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.32%) Firmware
6 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) Ansible
2 10 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.21%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (7.89%) FortiGate
5 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.58%) vCenter Server
6 4 (5.26%) Grafana
6 4 (5.26%) Puppet
6 4 (5.26%) SCCM
7 3 (3.95%) Nagios
7 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.95%) vMotion
8 2 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (2.63%) Nessus
9 1 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.32%) Consul
9 1 (1.32%) PingFederate
9 1 (1.32%) Salt
9 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (52.63%) Cisco
2 18 (23.68%) Palo Alto
3 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
4 16 (21.05%) Fortinet
5 15 (19.74%) F5
6 9 (11.84%) Google
6 9 (11.84%) VMware
7 7 (9.21%) CheckPoint
7 7 (9.21%) Citrix
8 6 (7.89%) Dynatrace
8 6 (7.89%) Meraki
9 5 (6.58%) Arista
9 5 (6.58%) Infoblox
9 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
10 4 (5.26%) Splunk
11 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
11 3 (3.95%) HP
11 3 (3.95%) Symantec
11 3 (3.95%) Tenable
12 2 (2.63%) Zscaler