Firewall Contract Job Trends in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 60 74
Rank change year-on-year -69 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 403 489 545
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 4.04% 3.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.58% 38.66% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 289 343
10th Percentile £390 £313 £303
25th Percentile £450 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £745
England median daily rate £500 £510 £507
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.59% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.08
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £38.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £56.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £15.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +219.48% -74.58% -3.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,410 1,265 1,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.74% 10.45% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 931 808 1,122
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £411 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £708 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 51
10th Percentile £16.70 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -35.10% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £33.15 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £91.50 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +128.57%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Firewall job vacancy trend in London

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the London region over the 6 months to 26 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -51 35 £550 - 23
South London 0 19 £519 +3.71% 4
West London -40 3 £375 -6.25% 10
East London -14 1 £719 +22.91% 4
North London - 1 £225 - 1
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.47%) Confluence
3 13 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.48%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) MTS
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 169 (41.94%) Azure
2 99 (24.57%) AWS
3 55 (13.65%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (12.41%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.41%) GCP
6 33 (8.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 30 (7.44%) GitHub
8 25 (6.20%) IaaS
9 21 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (5.21%) PaaS
10 20 (4.96%) SaaS
11 18 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.47%) Amazon S3
11 18 (4.47%) Serverless
12 16 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 15 (3.72%) Route 53
14 14 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 131 (32.51%) Network Security
2 121 (30.02%) VPN
3 102 (25.31%) WAN
4 86 (21.34%) DNS
5 75 (18.61%) BGP
6 59 (14.64%) LAN
7 58 (14.39%) OSPF
8 54 (13.40%) TCP/IP
9 43 (10.67%) VLAN
10 41 (10.17%) SD-WAN
11 31 (7.69%) DHCP
12 30 (7.44%) MPLS
12 30 (7.44%) Multicast
13 29 (7.20%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (5.71%) Wireless
15 20 (4.96%) NGFW
16 19 (4.71%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (4.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 16 (3.97%) Cisco IOS
18 16 (3.97%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.99%) Power BI
4 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.74%) Metadata
5 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.74%) MySQL
6 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.25%) DB2
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (6.20%) JIRA
2 21 (5.21%) Git
2 21 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.23%) GitLab
4 8 (1.99%) Artifactory
5 7 (1.74%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.49%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 84 (20.84%) Social Skills
2 67 (16.63%) Finance
3 41 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.69%) Banking
4 31 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.72%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.98%) Legal
7 12 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.99%) Local Government
8 8 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.74%) Front Office
9 7 (1.74%) Law
10 6 (1.49%) Retail
11 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.99%) Military
13 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.74%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 112 (27.79%) Network Engineer
2 64 (15.88%) Architect
3 52 (12.90%) Senior
4 39 (9.68%) Security Engineer
5 38 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (5.96%) Network Security Engineer
8 22 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (5.21%) Senior Network Engineer
10 19 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.72%) Network Architect
11 15 (3.72%) Security Architect
11 15 (3.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (3.47%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (2.98%) Analyst
13 12 (2.98%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (2.73%) Cisco Engineer
14 11 (2.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 11 (2.73%) Consultant
14 11 (2.73%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.22%) OpenID
2 12 (2.98%) LDAP
3 9 (2.23%) SAML
4 6 (1.49%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.49%) OAuth
5 5 (1.24%) Middleware
5 5 (1.24%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.99%) HTML
6 4 (0.99%) Jinja
7 3 (0.74%) .NET
7 3 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.74%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.74%) CSS
7 3 (0.74%) VML
7 3 (0.74%) Web Services
8 2 (0.50%) JSON
8 2 (0.50%) LAMP
8 2 (0.50%) REST
8 2 (0.50%) XML
8 2 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.39%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.46%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.22%) PKI
3 17 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.98%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.73%) Clustering
7 9 (2.23%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.23%) Replication
8 8 (1.99%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.49%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.49%) IoT
10 6 (1.49%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.99%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 89 (22.08%) Windows
2 39 (9.68%) Linux
3 36 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.22%) VMS
5 7 (1.74%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.99%) Unix
7 4 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.74%) SUSE
9 2 (0.50%) Android
9 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (21.09%) DevOps
2 75 (18.61%) Migration
3 73 (18.11%) CI/CD
4 69 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (12.41%) ITIL
7 50 (12.41%) Load Balancing
8 47 (11.66%) Agile
9 41 (10.17%) Validation
10 39 (9.68%) Cloud Security
11 38 (9.43%) Project Delivery
12 35 (8.68%) Runbook
13 34 (8.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.19%) SIEM
15 32 (7.94%) Zero Trust
16 31 (7.69%) High Availability
16 31 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 29 (7.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (16.38%) Python
2 58 (14.39%) PowerShell
3 27 (6.70%) Bash
4 14 (3.47%) SQL
5 9 (2.23%) Bicep
6 6 (1.49%) Java
6 6 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.24%) Perl
8 3 (0.74%) Groovy
8 3 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.25%) C++
10 1 (0.25%) Go
10 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (24.81%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 66 (16.38%) Cisco Certification
4 53 (13.15%) CCNP
5 34 (8.44%) Azure Certification
6 25 (6.20%) Degree
7 21 (5.21%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.47%) CCIE
9 16 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (3.72%) CCNA
10 15 (3.72%) CISSP
11 13 (3.23%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.23%) CISM
13 8 (1.99%) CCSE
14 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.99%) JNCIP
16 4 (0.99%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.96%) GDPR
2 16 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.97%) NIST
3 14 (3.47%) SLA
4 11 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.49%) NCSC
5 6 (1.49%) QA
6 4 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.74%) GRC
7 3 (0.74%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.50%) GMP
8 2 (0.50%) GxP
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.50%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (17.37%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.47%) Docker
4 17 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.72%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.72%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (3.23%) Squid
8 12 (2.98%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (2.23%) BitLocker
10 8 (1.99%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.74%) vSphere
12 6 (1.49%) Firmware
13 2 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.25%) NFS
14 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 93 (23.08%) Terraform
2 65 (16.13%) Ansible
3 52 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 37 (9.18%) FortiGate
5 35 (8.68%) Grafana
6 32 (7.94%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (4.22%) SCCM
9 15 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.73%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.48%) Consul
11 10 (2.48%) Puppet
12 8 (1.99%) vMotion
13 6 (1.49%) QRadar
14 4 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.99%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.99%) Suricata
14 4 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 4 (0.99%) VxRail
14 4 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 134 (33.25%) Cisco
2 110 (27.30%) Microsoft
3 108 (26.80%) Palo Alto
4 71 (17.62%) Fortinet
5 51 (12.66%) VMware
6 50 (12.41%) CheckPoint
7 47 (11.66%) F5
8 31 (7.69%) Arista
8 31 (7.69%) Juniper
9 25 (6.20%) Zscaler
10 22 (5.46%) Dynatrace
11 21 (5.21%) Aruba
11 21 (5.21%) Citrix
11 21 (5.21%) Google
12 17 (4.22%) ServiceNow
13 14 (3.47%) Splunk
14 13 (3.23%) AppDynamics
14 13 (3.23%) NetApp
15 11 (2.73%) Infoblox
16 10 (2.48%) Meraki