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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 76 59
Rank change year-on-year -38 -17 +33
Contract jobs citing Firewall 387 454 640
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.31% 3.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.19% 33.58% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 278 423
10th Percentile £399 £353 £338
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +1.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £684
90th Percentile £689 £697 £775
England median daily rate £504 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.05% +0.96% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.18 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% +42.86% -21.60%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £41.24 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +17.83% -46.95% +60.81%

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 1,282 1,352 1,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.59% 9.85% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 809 1,286
10th Percentile £280 £255 £206
25th Percentile £406 £400 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £619
90th Percentile £694 £725 £745
England median daily rate £488 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.88% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 71
10th Percentile £20.37 £24.13 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.95 £24.66 £19.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +32.35% -0.82%
75th Percentile £28.47 £41.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £88.88 £53.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +146.91%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -28 47 £525 -8.70% 35
South London -1 15 £519 +10.33% 9
West London -17 6 £375 -16.67% 5
East London 0 4 £525 +9.38% 8
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 32 (8.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.17%) Confluence
3 17 (4.39%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.36%) nginx
5 3 (0.78%) Apache
5 3 (0.78%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.52%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 187 (48.32%) Azure
2 105 (27.13%) AWS
3 71 (18.35%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (14.47%) GCP
5 48 (12.40%) Entra ID
6 34 (8.79%) GitHub
7 30 (7.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.43%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (4.91%) SaaS
12 18 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 18 (4.65%) IaaS
12 18 (4.65%) Route 53
13 17 (4.39%) PaaS
14 16 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (3.10%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 109 (28.17%) Network Security
2 106 (27.39%) VPN
3 89 (23.00%) WAN
4 74 (19.12%) DNS
5 56 (14.47%) LAN
6 51 (13.18%) BGP
7 46 (11.89%) SD-WAN
8 43 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 40 (10.34%) OSPF
10 37 (9.56%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (7.24%) DHCP
11 28 (7.24%) MPLS
12 23 (5.94%) VLAN
13 22 (5.68%) SSL
14 21 (5.43%) Wireless
15 15 (3.88%) NGFW
16 14 (3.62%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (3.36%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (3.36%) HTTP
17 13 (3.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.52%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.52%) DB2
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (8.79%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.72%) JIRA
3 25 (6.46%) Git
4 17 (4.39%) GitLab
5 8 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.81%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.81%) Vagrant
7 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.26%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
9 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 101 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.44%) Finance
3 30 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.72%) Banking
6 22 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.33%) Legal
10 7 (1.81%) Spanish Language
11 6 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.55%) Local Government
12 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.29%) Retail
13 4 (1.03%) Front Office
13 4 (1.03%) Military
14 3 (0.78%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Billing
15 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (20.16%) Network Engineer
2 70 (18.09%) Architect
3 45 (11.63%) Security Engineer
4 38 (9.82%) Senior
5 29 (7.49%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.20%) Security Architect
8 21 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.17%) Consultant
10 19 (4.91%) Analyst
10 19 (4.91%) Network Architect
10 19 (4.91%) Network Security Engineer
10 19 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (3.36%) Site Engineer
12 12 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.10%) Technical Architect
13 10 (2.58%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (2.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (2.58%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.88%) LDAP
2 10 (2.58%) OpenID
3 9 (2.33%) SAML
4 6 (1.55%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.55%) JSON
4 6 (1.55%) Middleware
4 6 (1.55%) XML
5 4 (1.03%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.03%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.03%) VML
5 4 (1.03%) YAML
6 3 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.78%) HTML
6 3 (0.78%) Node.js
6 3 (0.78%) OAuth
6 3 (0.78%) REST
7 2 (0.52%) eBPF
7 2 (0.52%) gRPC
7 2 (0.52%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.47%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.39%) PKI
6 16 (4.13%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.88%) Replication
8 14 (3.62%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.84%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.84%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.55%) Life Science
11 6 (1.55%) SCADA
12 5 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.03%) IoT
13 4 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (22.22%) Windows
2 49 (12.66%) Linux
3 37 (9.56%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.94%) VMS
5 10 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.58%) Unix
6 7 (1.81%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.52%) Android
10 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (23.77%) DevOps
2 81 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (20.67%) CI/CD
4 77 (19.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (17.31%) Cloud Security
6 65 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (16.54%) Migration
8 51 (13.18%) SIEM
9 47 (12.14%) Agile
10 45 (11.63%) Load Balancing
11 44 (11.37%) ITIL
12 43 (11.11%) Incident Response
13 42 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 39 (10.08%) Change Management
16 31 (8.01%) Security Operations
17 30 (7.75%) Mentoring
17 30 (7.75%) Project Delivery
18 29 (7.49%) Information Security
18 29 (7.49%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 73 (18.86%) Python
2 72 (18.60%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.20%) Bash
3 24 (6.20%) SQL
4 9 (2.33%) Bicep
5 8 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (1.81%) Groovy
7 5 (1.29%) Java
7 5 (1.29%) Perl
8 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Rust
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 58 (14.99%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (12.14%) CCNP
5 40 (10.34%) Degree
6 31 (8.01%) Azure Certification
7 25 (6.46%) CISSP
8 24 (6.20%) CCNA
9 22 (5.68%) DV Cleared
10 21 (5.43%) AWS Certification
11 16 (4.13%) CCIE
11 16 (4.13%) CISM
12 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (2.58%) JNCIP
14 8 (2.07%) CEH
14 8 (2.07%) JNCIS
15 7 (1.81%) FFIEC
15 7 (1.81%) GIAC
16 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.75%) NIST
3 22 (5.68%) GDPR
4 11 (2.84%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.07%) GRC
6 7 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.81%) SLA
7 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.03%) NCSC
8 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.52%) GxP
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.52%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 32 (8.27%) Docker
3 29 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (4.39%) Squid
6 15 (3.88%) VMware NSX
7 11 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.81%) DFS Replication
8 7 (1.81%) Dovecot
8 7 (1.81%) Postfix
9 6 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.29%) Snort
11 4 (1.03%) Firmware
12 3 (0.78%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.78%) KVM
13 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
14 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 92 (23.77%) Terraform
2 55 (14.21%) Ansible
3 38 (9.82%) Kubernetes
4 35 (9.04%) FortiGate
4 35 (9.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.68%) SCCM
6 21 (5.43%) Grafana
7 11 (2.84%) Nessus
7 11 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.33%) CASB
9 7 (1.81%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.55%) SCOrch
11 5 (1.29%) Consul
11 5 (1.29%) QRadar
11 5 (1.29%) SCOM
12 4 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (1.03%) Nexpose
12 4 (1.03%) Suricata
12 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 98 (25.32%) Cisco
3 77 (19.90%) Palo Alto
4 50 (12.92%) Fortinet
5 41 (10.59%) CheckPoint
6 40 (10.34%) F5
7 33 (8.53%) VMware
8 32 (8.27%) Juniper
9 26 (6.72%) Aruba
9 26 (6.72%) Splunk
10 23 (5.94%) Zscaler
11 22 (5.68%) Google
12 20 (5.17%) ServiceNow
13 18 (4.65%) Citrix
14 15 (3.88%) Meraki
15 11 (2.84%) Tenable
16 10 (2.58%) NetApp
16 10 (2.58%) Oracle
17 9 (2.33%) Qualys
17 9 (2.33%) Red Hat