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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 46 43
Rank change year-on-year -54 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Firewall 31 78 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.41% 4.49% 4.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.03% 43.82% 42.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 74
10th Percentile £413 £350 £263
25th Percentile £463 £484 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £444
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +23.94% -26.04%
75th Percentile £650 £643 £623
90th Percentile £679 £743 £788
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £444
% change year-on-year +2.27% +23.94% -22.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.75
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £14.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £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 129 178 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 5.88% 10.24% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 123 150
10th Percentile £408 £248 £212
25th Percentile £459 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +21.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £645 £605
90th Percentile £738 £743 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £528 £450
% change year-on-year +1.90% +17.22% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £19.64 - -
25th Percentile £20.08 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.26%
75th Percentile £35.60 - £16.59
90th Percentile £42.74 - £17.99
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £16.22
% change year-on-year - - -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 5 April 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
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 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
5 4 (12.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.68%) GCP
6 3 (9.68%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
8 1 (3.23%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.23%) Rubrik
8 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (48.39%) VPN
2 12 (38.71%) Network Security
3 7 (22.58%) WAN
4 6 (19.35%) DNS
4 6 (19.35%) SD-WAN
5 5 (16.13%) Internet
6 4 (12.90%) LAN
6 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (9.68%) DHCP
7 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
8 2 (6.45%) BGP
8 2 (6.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (6.45%) IPsec
8 2 (6.45%) MPLS
8 2 (6.45%) SSL
8 2 (6.45%) VLAN
9 1 (3.23%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (3.23%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (3.23%) NX-OS
9 1 (3.23%) VSAN
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Consultant
3 3 (9.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Lead
4 2 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Presales Solution Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.23%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) SUSE
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Migration
2 8 (25.81%) Cloud Security
2 8 (25.81%) ITIL
3 7 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (16.13%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) Change Control
4 5 (16.13%) DevOps
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (16.13%) Zero Trust
5 4 (12.90%) Change Management
5 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
5 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
5 4 (12.90%) Security Testing
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (9.68%) ITSM
6 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 3 (9.68%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (9.68%) Presales
6 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) Bicep
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.90%) CCNP
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) CISSP
3 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.23%) CCIE
4 1 (3.23%) CCNA
4 1 (3.23%) CCSE
4 1 (3.23%) CISM
4 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.23%) CASB
4 1 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Icinga
4 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) QRadar
4 1 (3.23%) SCCM
4 1 (3.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco
2 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 6 (19.35%) Palo Alto
4 5 (16.13%) Juniper
5 3 (9.68%) Zscaler
6 2 (6.45%) Aruba
6 2 (6.45%) F5
6 2 (6.45%) Splunk
7 1 (3.23%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.23%) Dell
7 1 (3.23%) Forcepoint
7 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.23%) HP
7 1 (3.23%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.23%) Trend Micro
7 1 (3.23%) Veeam
7 1 (3.23%) VMware