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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 46 39
Rank change year-on-year -50 -7 +33
Contract jobs citing Firewall 30 78 101
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.40% 4.48% 4.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.90% 42.62% 42.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 52 77
10th Percentile £413 £350 £263
25th Percentile £463 £484 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £650 £643 £619
90th Percentile £681 £743 £788
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +2.27% +22.22% -20.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
75th Percentile £20.53 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50

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 131 183 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.09% 10.51% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 124 156
10th Percentile £397 £240 £216
25th Percentile £453 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £546 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +21.39% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £607
90th Percentile £738 £742 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £532 £450
% change year-on-year +1.08% +18.17% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £19.59 - -
25th Percentile £19.97 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £21.31 £32.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% +140.74% -35.26%
75th Percentile £29.66 £33.75 £16.59
90th Percentile £40.36 - £17.99
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £16.22
% change year-on-year -21.63% +100.43% -22.24%

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 29 March 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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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 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.33%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.33%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) VPN
2 11 (36.67%) Network Security
3 6 (20.00%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) WAN
4 5 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 4 (13.33%) Internet
5 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (10.00%) DHCP
6 3 (10.00%) LAN
6 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (6.67%) BGP
7 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (6.67%) IPsec
7 2 (6.67%) MPLS
7 2 (6.67%) SSL
7 2 (6.67%) VLAN
8 1 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (3.33%) Junos
8 1 (3.33%) NX-OS
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Lead
4 2 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Network Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.33%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) SUSE
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) ITIL
1 8 (26.67%) Migration
2 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 5 (16.67%) Change Control
5 4 (13.33%) Change Management
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.33%) Security Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Zero Trust
6 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.00%) ITSM
6 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (10.00%) Presales
6 3 (10.00%) SIEM
6 3 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) CCNP
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) CISSP
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (3.33%) CCIE
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CCSE
5 1 (3.33%) CISM
5 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) GDPR
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Firmware
3 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.33%) CASB
4 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.33%) Icinga
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) QRadar
4 1 (3.33%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Cisco
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (13.33%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) Aruba
5 2 (6.67%) F5
5 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.33%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.33%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.33%) Databricks
6 1 (3.33%) Dell
6 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.33%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.33%) Foundry
6 1 (3.33%) HP
6 1 (3.33%) Okta
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.33%) VMware