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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 55 46
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing Firewall 68 74 88
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.93% 4.08% 4.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.56% 40.22% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 44 58
10th Percentile £381 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £499 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +8.64% -13.46%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £607
90th Percentile £664 £746 £666
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -13.04%
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 186 184 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.03% 10.15% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 127 115
10th Percentile £299 £263 £261
25th Percentile £413 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £625
90th Percentile £715 £760 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £518
% change year-on-year -3.23% +4.83% -4.17%
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

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 (10.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) Azure
2 13 (19.12%) AWS
3 11 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (14.71%) GCP
5 6 (8.82%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.35%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (5.88%) IaaS
7 4 (5.88%) OneDrive
7 4 (5.88%) PaaS
7 4 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub
8 3 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.41%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.94%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.82%) VPN
2 21 (30.88%) DNS
3 17 (25.00%) Network Security
4 15 (22.06%) WAN
5 12 (17.65%) LAN
6 11 (16.18%) BGP
6 11 (16.18%) DHCP
7 10 (14.71%) Multicast
7 10 (14.71%) VLAN
7 10 (14.71%) Wireless
8 9 (13.24%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (10.29%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
10 6 (8.82%) Cisco Wireless
10 6 (8.82%) Internet
10 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
11 4 (5.88%) Unified Communications
12 3 (4.41%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (4.41%) NGFW
12 3 (4.41%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.41%) Big Data
1 3 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.41%) Power BI
2 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.41%) GitLab
2 3 (4.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.94%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.47%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.47%) Git
4 1 (1.47%) MSI
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (27.94%) Finance
2 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Banking
4 7 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Law
7 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.47%) Military
7 1 (1.47%) Police
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 7 (10.29%) Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Implementation Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Network Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Security Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Security Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Network Security Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Senior
5 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.47%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.82%) Digital Signage
3 4 (5.88%) Clustering
4 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.41%) PKI
5 2 (2.94%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.47%) CMDB
6 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) NHS
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (26.47%) Windows
2 9 (13.24%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.76%) Linux
4 2 (2.94%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) SUSE
5 1 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
1 11 (16.18%) DevOps
1 11 (16.18%) Migration
2 10 (14.71%) Project Delivery
3 9 (13.24%) Load Balancing
4 8 (11.76%) High Availability
4 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.76%) ITIL
5 7 (10.29%) Cloud Security
5 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.82%) Agile
6 6 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (8.82%) Incident Response
6 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (8.82%) Use Case
6 6 (8.82%) Zero Trust
7 5 (7.35%) AI
7 5 (7.35%) Data Protection
7 5 (7.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.12%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.71%) Python
3 5 (7.35%) Bash
4 2 (2.94%) C++
4 2 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (1.47%) Bicep
5 1 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (14.71%) Degree
5 9 (13.24%) CCNP
6 6 (8.82%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.88%) CCIE
7 4 (5.88%) CCNA
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.47%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 1 (1.47%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.47%) CCSE
9 1 (1.47%) CISM
9 1 (1.47%) CISSP
9 1 (1.47%) CWNA
9 1 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) GDPR
2 1 (1.47%) GRC
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) NCSC
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.29%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (8.82%) Docker
5 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.41%) BitLocker
6 3 (4.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (4.41%) Terminal Services
6 3 (4.41%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (2.94%) Firmware
7 2 (2.94%) vSphere
8 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.71%) Ansible
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco Prime
3 6 (8.82%) vCenter Server
4 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 4 (5.88%) Grafana
5 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (5.88%) Puppet
6 3 (4.41%) Nagios
6 3 (4.41%) SCCM
6 3 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (4.41%) vMotion
7 2 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (2.94%) Nessus
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (1.47%) Consul
8 1 (1.47%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.47%) Salt
8 1 (1.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (48.53%) Cisco
2 18 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 15 (22.06%) F5
4 14 (20.59%) Fortinet
5 12 (17.65%) Palo Alto
6 10 (14.71%) VMware
7 8 (11.76%) Google
8 7 (10.29%) CheckPoint
8 7 (10.29%) Citrix
9 6 (8.82%) Dynatrace
9 6 (8.82%) Infoblox
9 6 (8.82%) ServiceNow
10 5 (7.35%) Splunk
11 4 (5.88%) HP
11 4 (5.88%) Juniper
11 4 (5.88%) Meraki
11 4 (5.88%) Zscaler
12 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
12 3 (4.41%) Arista
12 3 (4.41%) Tenable