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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 70 80
Rank change year-on-year -57 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 481 490 496
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 3.65% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.13% 36.90% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 293 326
10th Percentile £363 £338 £341
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -2.84% -4.49%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £660 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £52.40 - -
25th Percentile £59.06 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +158.33% +26.05% -66.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £102.50 - £45.67
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +124.90% -14.29% -46.96%

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 1,651 1,328 1,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.18% 9.89% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 846 963
10th Percentile £295 £289 £250
25th Percentile £405 £404 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £713 £721
England median daily rate £500 £490 £508
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 33 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.56 £20.40
25th Percentile £22.50 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £78.75 £44.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £155.10 £62.05 £66.38
England median hourly rate £35.52 £41.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -14.41% -27.64% +1.52%

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 16 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in London

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 16 September 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 -18 80 £525 -4.55% 59
South London -12 18 £525 +2.44% 12
West London -51 10 £525 +23.53% 9
East London -1 4 £500 -14.53% 8
North London - 1 £650 - 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 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.16%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.49%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) nginx
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.42%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 211 (43.87%) Azure
2 109 (22.66%) AWS
3 72 (14.97%) Entra ID
4 57 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.44%) GitHub
6 30 (6.24%) GCP
7 25 (5.20%) IaaS
7 25 (5.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 24 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (4.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 23 (4.78%) SaaS
10 21 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (3.95%) PaaS
12 18 (3.74%) Serverless
13 17 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (3.12%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.70%) Datadog
17 12 (2.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 149 (30.98%) Network Security
1 149 (30.98%) VPN
2 124 (25.78%) WAN
3 118 (24.53%) DNS
4 78 (16.22%) BGP
5 75 (15.59%) TCP/IP
6 68 (14.14%) LAN
7 67 (13.93%) VLAN
8 53 (11.02%) DHCP
9 49 (10.19%) Wireless
10 41 (8.52%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (7.69%) OSPF
11 37 (7.69%) SD-WAN
12 28 (5.82%) Multicast
13 24 (4.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 24 (4.99%) NGFW
14 23 (4.78%) MPLS
15 21 (4.37%) Internet
16 20 (4.16%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (3.95%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.08%) Power BI
4 9 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.83%) Db2
8 3 (0.62%) Big Data
8 3 (0.62%) Metadata
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.21%) MySQL
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (5.20%) Git
2 21 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.16%) JIRA
4 10 (2.08%) GitLab
5 7 (1.46%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.04%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.62%) MSI
7 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.88%) Finance
3 53 (11.02%) Banking
4 48 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 46 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.37%) Telecoms
7 19 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (3.74%) Local Government
9 13 (2.70%) Retail
10 11 (2.29%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.87%) Front Office
11 9 (1.87%) Legal
12 7 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Law
13 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 167 (34.72%) Network Engineer
2 69 (14.35%) Senior
3 47 (9.77%) Architect
4 42 (8.73%) Security Engineer
5 37 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 37 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (6.86%) Senior Network Engineer
7 32 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (6.24%) Consultant
8 30 (6.24%) Network Security Engineer
9 25 (5.20%) Cisco Engineer
10 24 (4.99%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 24 (4.99%) Network Architect
11 21 (4.37%) Security Architect
12 19 (3.95%) Firewall Engineer
13 17 (3.53%) Project Manager
14 16 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.12%) Analyst
15 15 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.83%) Terraform
2 14 (2.91%) 802.1X
3 12 (2.49%) OpenID
4 11 (2.29%) SAML
5 10 (2.08%) REST
6 9 (1.87%) OAuth
7 8 (1.66%) LDAP
7 8 (1.66%) Middleware
8 7 (1.46%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.04%) ARM Templates
10 4 (0.83%) JSON
11 3 (0.62%) .NET
12 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
12 2 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (0.42%) RFC 2544
12 2 (0.42%) Software Packaging
13 1 (0.21%) Apache NiFi
13 1 (0.21%) AWS CDK
13 1 (0.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.63%) Data Centre
2 33 (6.86%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.74%) PKI
5 16 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 14 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (2.70%) Replication
8 11 (2.29%) IoT
8 11 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.08%) CMDB
9 10 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.66%) Clustering
11 8 (1.66%) Digital Signage
11 8 (1.66%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.66%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (23.91%) Windows
2 58 (12.06%) Linux
3 41 (8.52%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.29%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.08%) Unix
7 8 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (1.46%) VMS
9 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.62%) SUSE
10 3 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.42%) Android
11 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (19.33%) Migration
2 84 (17.46%) DevOps
3 82 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (13.93%) ITIL
5 66 (13.72%) CI/CD
6 63 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
6 63 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (11.64%) Project Delivery
8 55 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 53 (11.02%) Zero Trust
10 49 (10.19%) Change Management
11 48 (9.98%) Agile
11 48 (9.98%) Load Balancing
12 47 (9.77%) Cloud Security
13 43 (8.94%) High Availability
13 43 (8.94%) Incident Response
14 40 (8.32%) SIEM
15 37 (7.69%) Validation
16 34 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 103 (21.41%) Python
2 81 (16.84%) PowerShell
3 46 (9.56%) Bash
4 14 (2.91%) Bicep
5 13 (2.70%) SQL
6 9 (1.87%) Groovy
6 9 (1.87%) Java
7 6 (1.25%) Perl
8 3 (0.62%) C++
9 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) Go
10 1 (0.21%) Korn
10 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.21%) VB
10 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 73 (15.18%) Cisco Certification
3 71 (14.76%) SC Cleared
4 64 (13.31%) CCNP
5 43 (8.94%) Degree
6 35 (7.28%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.78%) CISSP
8 19 (3.95%) CCNA
9 17 (3.53%) CISM
9 17 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (3.12%) DV Cleared
12 12 (2.49%) AWS Certification
13 11 (2.29%) CCIE
14 10 (2.08%) PMI Certification
14 10 (2.08%) PMP
15 6 (1.25%) CCSE
15 6 (1.25%) JNCIP
15 6 (1.25%) JNCIS
15 6 (1.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.74%) NIST
3 11 (2.29%) GDPR
3 11 (2.29%) SLA
4 10 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.46%) NIST 800
6 7 (1.46%) QA
7 6 (1.25%) NCSC
8 5 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.83%) COBIT
10 3 (0.62%) GRC
11 2 (0.42%) GMP
11 2 (0.42%) GxP
11 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.42%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 33 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (5.82%) Docker
4 21 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.66%) Squid
7 8 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.25%) Firmware
8 6 (1.25%) vSphere
9 5 (1.04%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.04%) NFS
10 4 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.83%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.62%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.42%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.42%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.42%) Postfix
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 69 (14.35%) Ansible
2 47 (9.77%) FortiGate
3 39 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 39 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (7.07%) Grafana
5 32 (6.65%) Prometheus
6 27 (5.61%) SCCM
7 12 (2.49%) Puppet
8 10 (2.08%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.87%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.46%) systemd
10 7 (1.46%) WSUS
11 6 (1.25%) Nessus
12 4 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.83%) Suricata
12 4 (0.83%) vMotion
13 3 (0.62%) Avamar
13 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 187 (38.88%) Cisco
2 131 (27.23%) Palo Alto
3 123 (25.57%) Microsoft
4 96 (19.96%) Fortinet
5 52 (10.81%) F5
6 46 (9.56%) VMware
7 39 (8.11%) CheckPoint
7 39 (8.11%) Zscaler
8 38 (7.90%) Juniper
9 26 (5.41%) Arista
10 25 (5.20%) Splunk
11 20 (4.16%) Meraki
11 20 (4.16%) ServiceNow
12 19 (3.95%) Citrix
12 19 (3.95%) Dynatrace
13 18 (3.74%) Google
14 15 (3.12%) AppDynamics
14 15 (3.12%) Aruba
15 12 (2.49%) Infoblox
15 12 (2.49%) Tenable