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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 54 39
Rank change year-on-year -29 -15 +38
Contract jobs citing Firewall 40 68 111
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.12% 3.65% 4.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.40% 35.79% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 51 82
10th Percentile £413 £350 £350
25th Percentile £432 £475 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +14.43% -6.51%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £613
90th Percentile £731 £738 £786
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £490
% change year-on-year -8.70% +17.35% -6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
75th Percentile £20.53 - £45.88
90th Percentile - - £64.85
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 - £13.50
% change year-on-year - - -32.50%

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 146 190 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.73% 10.21% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 125 164
10th Percentile £252 £252 £212
25th Percentile £413 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +13.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £605
90th Percentile £738 £731 £726
Central London median daily rate £510 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% +10.53% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £16.22
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +100.43% -20.90%
75th Percentile £35.60 £33.75 £33.57
90th Percentile £42.74 - £59.93
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
% change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -7.66%

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 5 February 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 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (27.50%) AWS
3 11 (27.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (7.50%) Mimecast
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (5.00%) IaaS
6 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.50%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.50%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) VPN
2 9 (22.50%) Network Security
3 8 (20.00%) DNS
4 5 (12.50%) DHCP
5 4 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (10.00%) MPLS
5 4 (10.00%) WAN
5 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (7.50%) BGP
6 3 (7.50%) LAN
6 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (5.00%) Internet
7 2 (5.00%) Modbus
7 2 (5.00%) OSPF
7 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.00%) SSL
7 2 (5.00%) VLAN
7 2 (5.00%) Wireshark
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Pinecone
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) GitLab
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Banking
2 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.50%) Billing
3 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Security Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Model Context Protocol
2 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) Faiss
2 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.50%) LangChain
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Insider Threat
4 2 (5.00%) Life Science
4 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.00%) SCADA
5 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (20.00%) ITIL
3 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 6 (15.00%) Information Security
4 6 (15.00%) Migration
4 6 (15.00%) Project Management
4 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (12.50%) Change Control
5 5 (12.50%) Change Management
5 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) Network Design
5 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (12.50%) Zero Trust
6 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) Bash
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) CCNA
4 3 (7.50%) CCNP
4 3 (7.50%) CISM
4 3 (7.50%) CISSP
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 2 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.50%) CCIE
6 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.50%) MCSA
6 1 (2.50%) MCSE
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (17.50%) GDPR
3 4 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (7.50%) NIST
5 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (2.50%) EU AI Act
6 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.50%) SLA
6 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.00%) Docker
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.50%) Firmware
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) SCCM
4 1 (2.50%) CASB
4 1 (2.50%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.50%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Icinga
4 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) SCOM
4 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Palo Alto
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco
4 4 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (7.50%) Tenable
6 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.00%) F5
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) Rockwell
7 1 (2.50%) Aruba
7 1 (2.50%) Broadcom
7 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.50%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) Dell
7 1 (2.50%) HP
7 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.50%) Meraki
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (2.50%) Veeam