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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 71 61
Rank change year-on-year -42 -10 +28
Contract jobs citing Firewall 392 461 622
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.56% 3.39% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.92% 33.85% 33.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 283 402
10th Percentile £385 £355 £326
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £688
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £13.08
25th Percentile £20.18 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% +41.41% -20.80%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £64.06
90th Percentile - - £77.38
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +52.12%

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 1,310 1,362 1,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.54% 10.01% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 813 1,239
10th Percentile £263 £255 £206
25th Percentile £404 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 70
10th Percentile £20.18 £24.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +28.71% -1.79%
75th Percentile £28.07 £39.75 £56.06
90th Percentile £93.75 £55.45 £72.62
England median hourly rate £28.88 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% -31.58% +138.21%

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 14 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 14 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 -38 44 £525 -8.70% 34
South London -4 17 £519 +10.33% 7
West London -18 6 £375 -16.67% 7
East London -1 4 £525 +9.38% 10
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 30 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.10%) Confluence
3 15 (3.83%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.57%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (1.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 184 (46.94%) Azure
2 108 (27.55%) AWS
3 67 (17.09%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (14.54%) GCP
5 44 (11.22%) Entra ID
6 34 (8.67%) GitHub
7 31 (7.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 25 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.61%) Amazon S3
11 20 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (4.85%) Azure Sentinel
12 19 (4.85%) Route 53
12 19 (4.85%) SaaS
13 18 (4.59%) PaaS
14 17 (4.34%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.34%) IaaS
15 15 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (3.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 117 (29.85%) Network Security
2 112 (28.57%) VPN
3 91 (23.21%) WAN
4 80 (20.41%) DNS
5 58 (14.80%) LAN
6 55 (14.03%) BGP
7 49 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 45 (11.48%) SD-WAN
9 43 (10.97%) OSPF
10 39 (9.95%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (7.91%) DHCP
12 30 (7.65%) MPLS
13 26 (6.63%) VLAN
14 23 (5.87%) SSL
15 21 (5.36%) Wireless
16 16 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (3.83%) NGFW
18 14 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
19 13 (3.32%) EIGRP
19 13 (3.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.51%) DB2
8 2 (0.51%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.26%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.26%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.26%) Power BI
9 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.63%) JIRA
3 23 (5.87%) Git
4 17 (4.34%) GitLab
5 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.53%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Chocolatey
8 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
9 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 102 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 56 (14.29%) Finance
3 32 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.89%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.38%) Banking
6 24 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.30%) Legal
8 9 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.79%) Local Government
10 7 (1.79%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.28%) Retail
12 4 (1.02%) Front Office
12 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.02%) Military
13 3 (0.77%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
14 2 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (20.66%) Network Engineer
2 75 (19.13%) Architect
3 46 (11.73%) Security Engineer
4 41 (10.46%) Senior
5 29 (7.40%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (6.38%) Security Architect
7 21 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (5.10%) Network Security Engineer
9 19 (4.85%) Analyst
9 19 (4.85%) Consultant
9 19 (4.85%) Network Architect
9 19 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 18 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) Site Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (2.55%) Firewall Engineer
13 10 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.08%) LDAP
2 12 (3.06%) OpenID
3 9 (2.30%) SAML
4 6 (1.53%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.53%) JSON
4 6 (1.53%) Middleware
4 6 (1.53%) XML
5 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.02%) HTML
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.02%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.02%) VML
6 3 (0.77%) CSS
6 3 (0.77%) Node.js
6 3 (0.77%) OAuth
6 3 (0.77%) REST
6 3 (0.77%) YAML
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
7 2 (0.51%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (13.78%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.85%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.59%) PKI
5 17 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 14 (3.57%) Replication
8 10 (2.55%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.28%) Clustering
11 5 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.02%) IoT
12 4 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 84 (21.43%) Windows
2 46 (11.73%) Linux
3 37 (9.44%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.61%) VMS
5 10 (2.55%) Unix
6 9 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.53%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.28%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.51%) Android
10 2 (0.51%) CentOS
10 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (23.21%) DevOps
2 79 (20.15%) CI/CD
2 79 (20.15%) Cybersecurity
3 76 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (16.84%) Migration
6 65 (16.58%) Cloud Security
7 51 (13.01%) SIEM
8 47 (11.99%) Load Balancing
9 46 (11.73%) Agile
10 43 (10.97%) ITIL
11 42 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (9.95%) Incident Response
14 38 (9.69%) Change Management
15 32 (8.16%) Zero Trust
16 31 (7.91%) High Availability
16 31 (7.91%) Mentoring
16 31 (7.91%) Project Delivery
17 30 (7.65%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 70 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 69 (17.60%) Python
3 23 (5.87%) SQL
4 22 (5.61%) Bash
5 9 (2.30%) Bicep
6 8 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.53%) Groovy
8 4 (1.02%) Java
8 4 (1.02%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.02%) Perl
9 2 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 59 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (12.24%) CCNP
5 37 (9.44%) Degree
6 30 (7.65%) Azure Certification
7 25 (6.38%) CISSP
8 24 (6.12%) CCNA
8 24 (6.12%) DV Cleared
9 21 (5.36%) AWS Certification
10 16 (4.08%) CCIE
11 15 (3.83%) CISM
12 11 (2.81%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.55%) JNCIP
14 8 (2.04%) JNCIS
15 7 (1.79%) CEH
15 7 (1.79%) FFIEC
15 7 (1.79%) GIAC
16 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.65%) NIST
3 23 (5.87%) GDPR
4 11 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.04%) GRC
6 7 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.79%) SLA
7 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.02%) NCSC
8 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.51%) GxP
9 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.51%) 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%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (18.88%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.91%) Docker
3 30 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (4.59%) Squid
6 16 (4.08%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.53%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.53%) Dovecot
9 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.53%) Postfix
10 5 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.28%) Snort
11 4 (1.02%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.02%) Firmware
12 2 (0.51%) KVM
12 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.26%) etcd
13 1 (0.26%) iptables
Systems Management
1 93 (23.72%) Terraform
2 56 (14.29%) Ansible
3 42 (10.71%) Kubernetes
4 37 (9.44%) FortiGate
5 32 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (5.61%) Grafana
6 22 (5.61%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.36%) SCCM
8 13 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (2.55%) Nessus
10 9 (2.30%) CASB
11 6 (1.53%) Consul
11 6 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.53%) QRadar
11 6 (1.53%) SCOrch
12 5 (1.28%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.02%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.02%) Suricata
13 4 (1.02%) vMotion
Vendors
1 107 (27.30%) Microsoft
2 102 (26.02%) Cisco
3 81 (20.66%) Palo Alto
4 51 (13.01%) Fortinet
5 45 (11.48%) CheckPoint
6 43 (10.97%) F5
7 35 (8.93%) VMware
8 33 (8.42%) Juniper
9 27 (6.89%) Aruba
9 27 (6.89%) Splunk
10 26 (6.63%) Zscaler
11 21 (5.36%) Google
12 20 (5.10%) ServiceNow
13 19 (4.85%) Citrix
14 16 (4.08%) Meraki
15 12 (3.06%) Tenable
16 11 (2.81%) NetApp
16 11 (2.81%) Red Hat
17 9 (2.30%) Oracle
17 9 (2.30%) Qualys