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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 77 75
Rank change year-on-year -60 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 454 470 517
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 3.51% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.63% 36.58% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 289 333
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £689 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 5
10th Percentile £52.40 £21.16 -
25th Percentile £59.06 £22.63 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £25.18 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +207.81% +5.79% -64.08%
75th Percentile £78.75 £27.63 £24.18
90th Percentile £102.50 £29.05 £30.67
England median hourly rate £67.47 £31.39 £27.50
% change year-on-year +114.98% +14.13% -58.32%

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 1,643 1,285 1,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.12% 9.59% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 821 962
10th Percentile £294 £281 £256
25th Percentile £405 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £624 £630 £636
90th Percentile £725 £711 £725
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 36 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.66 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.50 - £24.59
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -28.14% +33.33%
75th Percentile £92.50 £39.06 £58.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £59.88 £74.14
England median hourly rate £38.62 £34.00 £57.38
% change year-on-year +13.60% -40.74% +1.57%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -10 83 £550 +1.38% 79
South London -22 15 £469 -8.54% 9
West London -44 11 £538 +26.47% 10
East London +1 4 £500 -14.53% 10
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.41%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.42%) Confluence
4 4 (0.88%) nginx
5 3 (0.66%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.22%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.44%) Eikon
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 200 (44.05%) Azure
2 100 (22.03%) AWS
3 67 (14.76%) Entra ID
4 51 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.05%) GitHub
6 29 (6.39%) GCP
7 24 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.85%) IaaS
8 22 (4.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 21 (4.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 18 (3.96%) SaaS
11 17 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.52%) PaaS
13 13 (2.86%) Datadog
14 12 (2.64%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.64%) OneDrive
15 11 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 147 (32.38%) Network Security
2 139 (30.62%) VPN
3 118 (25.99%) WAN
4 109 (24.01%) DNS
5 71 (15.64%) BGP
6 70 (15.42%) LAN
6 70 (15.42%) TCP/IP
7 54 (11.89%) VLAN
8 51 (11.23%) DHCP
9 49 (10.79%) Wireless
10 41 (9.03%) SD-WAN
10 41 (9.03%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (7.05%) OSPF
12 26 (5.73%) MPLS
13 25 (5.51%) Multicast
13 25 (5.51%) NGFW
14 22 (4.85%) Internet
15 19 (4.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (3.96%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (3.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.42%) Power BI
4 8 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.88%) Big Data
6 4 (0.88%) Db2
7 3 (0.66%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.66%) Metadata
7 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.22%) MySQL
9 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (5.73%) Git
2 24 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.19%) JIRA
4 10 (2.20%) GitLab
5 7 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.88%) Chocolatey
6 4 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.66%) MSI
8 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.44%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.22%) Maven
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 89 (19.60%) Finance
3 59 (13.00%) Banking
4 43 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 40 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (3.96%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.30%) Local Government
8 14 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.64%) Retail
10 10 (2.20%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.98%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.98%) Legal
12 7 (1.54%) Front Office
12 7 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.88%) Automotive
15 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 164 (36.12%) Network Engineer
2 62 (13.66%) Senior
3 49 (10.79%) Architect
4 42 (9.25%) Security Engineer
5 34 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 33 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (6.83%) Consultant
8 30 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (6.39%) Network Security Engineer
10 27 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 27 (5.95%) Senior Network Engineer
11 25 (5.51%) Network Architect
12 23 (5.07%) Cisco Engineer
13 22 (4.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 21 (4.63%) Firewall Engineer
14 21 (4.63%) Security Architect
15 18 (3.96%) Lead
16 17 (3.74%) Project Manager
16 17 (3.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (3.30%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (22.69%) Terraform
2 15 (3.30%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.20%) OAuth
4 9 (1.98%) REST
5 8 (1.76%) OpenID
6 6 (1.32%) LDAP
6 6 (1.32%) Middleware
6 6 (1.32%) OAuth2
6 6 (1.32%) SAML
7 4 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (0.88%) JSON
7 4 (0.88%) Kafka
8 3 (0.66%) .NET
8 3 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (0.66%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.44%) RFC 2544
9 2 (0.44%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 78 (17.18%) Data Centre
2 31 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 31 (6.83%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.19%) PKI
5 18 (3.96%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 12 (2.64%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.20%) CMDB
7 10 (2.20%) IoT
7 10 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 10 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.20%) Replication
8 9 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.76%) Digital Signage
9 8 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 104 (22.91%) Windows
2 53 (11.67%) Linux
3 41 (9.03%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.86%) Unix
5 10 (2.20%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.88%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.66%) VMS
9 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.22%) Android
11 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (19.82%) Migration
2 83 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (16.74%) DevOps
4 74 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 65 (14.32%) CI/CD
5 65 (14.32%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (14.10%) ITIL
7 59 (13.00%) Zero Trust
8 55 (12.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (12.11%) Project Delivery
9 52 (11.45%) Change Management
10 47 (10.35%) Agile
10 47 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (10.13%) Cloud Security
12 45 (9.91%) Load Balancing
13 44 (9.69%) Incident Response
14 39 (8.59%) SIEM
15 37 (8.15%) Network Segmentation
16 36 (7.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (7.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 96 (21.15%) Python
2 73 (16.08%) PowerShell
3 42 (9.25%) Bash
4 16 (3.52%) SQL
5 15 (3.30%) Bicep
6 13 (2.86%) Java
7 10 (2.20%) Groovy
8 6 (1.32%) Perl
9 5 (1.10%) C++
10 3 (0.66%) C#
10 3 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.44%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.22%) VB
12 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 83 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 68 (14.98%) Cisco Certification
3 65 (14.32%) SC Cleared
4 59 (13.00%) CCNP
5 40 (8.81%) Degree
6 30 (6.61%) Azure Certification
7 24 (5.29%) CISSP
8 16 (3.52%) CCNA
9 15 (3.30%) CISM
9 15 (3.30%) DV Cleared
10 14 (3.08%) CCIE
10 14 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.64%) AWS Certification
12 10 (2.20%) PMI Certification
12 10 (2.20%) PMP
13 6 (1.32%) CCSE
13 6 (1.32%) JNCIP
13 6 (1.32%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.63%) NIST
3 13 (2.86%) SLA
4 9 (1.98%) NIST 800
4 9 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.76%) GDPR
6 7 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.10%) QA
8 4 (0.88%) COBIT
8 4 (0.88%) NCSC
9 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.66%) GRC
10 2 (0.44%) GMP
10 2 (0.44%) GxP
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.44%) PMO
11 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.22%) GLBA
11 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (16.74%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.29%) Docker
4 15 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.54%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.54%) Squid
8 4 (0.88%) Firmware
8 4 (0.88%) NFS
8 4 (0.88%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.66%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.66%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.66%) vSphere
10 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.44%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.44%) Postfix
11 1 (0.22%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 65 (14.32%) Ansible
2 44 (9.69%) FortiGate
3 39 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (7.49%) Grafana
5 33 (7.27%) Kubernetes
6 29 (6.39%) Prometheus
7 23 (5.07%) SCCM
8 11 (2.42%) Puppet
9 9 (1.98%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.54%) systemd
12 6 (1.32%) Nessus
12 6 (1.32%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.10%) WSUS
14 4 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.88%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.88%) Suricata
15 3 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.66%) vMotion
Vendors
1 176 (38.77%) Cisco
2 124 (27.31%) Palo Alto
3 110 (24.23%) Microsoft
4 89 (19.60%) Fortinet
5 45 (9.91%) F5
6 43 (9.47%) VMware
7 38 (8.37%) Zscaler
8 35 (7.71%) CheckPoint
8 35 (7.71%) Juniper
9 26 (5.73%) Splunk
10 21 (4.63%) Arista
10 21 (4.63%) Google
11 20 (4.41%) Meraki
12 19 (4.19%) ServiceNow
13 18 (3.96%) Dynatrace
14 16 (3.52%) Citrix
15 15 (3.30%) AppDynamics
15 15 (3.30%) Aruba
16 10 (2.20%) Infoblox
16 10 (2.20%) Tenable