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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 59 75
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 464 556 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.35% 4.11% 3.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.94% 39.91% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 339 344
10th Percentile £363 £325 £275
25th Percentile £419 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% -11.86%
75th Percentile £597 £603 £625
90th Percentile £650 £708 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £31.90 - £13.08
25th Percentile £36.25 - £21.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +26.05% -37.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £61.25 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +104.17% -50.00% -4.08%

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 1,550 1,393 1,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.31% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 900 1,112
10th Percentile £300 £270 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £723 £716 £738
England median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 29 47
10th Percentile £17.03 £19.33 £15.09
25th Percentile £22.28 £25.15 £18.39
Median hourly rate £28.96 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +26.05% -34.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £85.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £41.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -34.83% -6.82% +60.00%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -33 57 £525 -4.55% 36
South London 0 23 £506 -7.95%
West London -46 5 £450 +7.46% 16
East London -10 2 £435 -25.73% 2
North London - 2 £438 -
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 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.66%) Confluence
3 13 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.94%) nginx
5 4 (0.86%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.22%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.22%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 187 (40.30%) Azure
2 113 (24.35%) AWS
3 62 (13.36%) Entra ID
4 56 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (8.62%) GCP
6 35 (7.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 31 (6.68%) IaaS
8 30 (6.47%) GitHub
9 28 (6.03%) SaaS
10 26 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (5.60%) PaaS
11 25 (5.39%) Serverless
12 22 (4.74%) Amazon S3
13 20 (4.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 19 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 151 (32.54%) VPN
2 147 (31.68%) Network Security
3 119 (25.65%) WAN
4 116 (25.00%) DNS
5 84 (18.10%) BGP
6 69 (14.87%) TCP/IP
7 65 (14.01%) LAN
8 55 (11.85%) OSPF
9 52 (11.21%) VLAN
10 46 (9.91%) DHCP
11 43 (9.27%) SD-WAN
12 34 (7.33%) Multicast
13 32 (6.90%) Wireless
14 30 (6.47%) MPLS
15 28 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
16 27 (5.82%) NGFW
17 25 (5.39%) Cisco IOS
18 22 (4.74%) Cisco ASA
19 20 (4.31%) SSL
20 19 (4.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.37%) Power BI
2 11 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.65%) Big Data
6 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.65%) Db2
6 3 (0.65%) Metadata
6 3 (0.65%) MySQL
7 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (5.82%) JIRA
2 23 (4.96%) Git
3 17 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.94%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.94%) GitLab
5 7 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.51%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.51%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.32%) Finance
3 46 (9.91%) Banking
4 43 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.84%) Public Sector
6 31 (6.68%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (3.66%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.02%) Local Government
9 12 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.37%) Legal
11 10 (2.16%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.94%) Front Office
13 7 (1.51%) Law
13 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.08%) Retail
15 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.86%) Publishing
16 3 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (32.11%) Network Engineer
2 72 (15.52%) Architect
3 56 (12.07%) Senior
4 48 (10.34%) Security Engineer
5 39 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (7.11%) Network Security Engineer
7 30 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (4.74%) Network Architect
11 21 (4.53%) Senior Network Engineer
12 19 (4.09%) Consultant
12 19 (4.09%) Security Architect
13 15 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
14 14 (3.02%) Analyst
14 14 (3.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 14 (3.02%) Firewall Engineer
14 14 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.37%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (2.37%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.66%) OpenID
2 15 (3.23%) LDAP
3 12 (2.59%) SAML
4 7 (1.51%) Middleware
5 6 (1.29%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.29%) OAuth
6 5 (1.08%) .NET
6 5 (1.08%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.86%) Jinja
7 4 (0.86%) REST
8 3 (0.65%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.43%) CSS
9 2 (0.43%) eBPF
9 2 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.43%) HTML
9 2 (0.43%) LAMP
9 2 (0.43%) Loki
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (16.59%) Data Centre
2 23 (4.96%) Security Posture
3 22 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (3.88%) PKI
6 14 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 11 (2.37%) Clustering
9 9 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.72%) IoT
10 8 (1.72%) Replication
11 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.29%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 101 (21.77%) Windows
2 49 (10.56%) Linux
3 36 (7.76%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.51%) Unix
5 7 (1.51%) VMS
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.65%) SUSE
9 2 (0.43%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (19.40%) DevOps
2 80 (17.24%) Migration
3 79 (17.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (15.52%) CI/CD
5 67 (14.44%) ITIL
6 57 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
8 53 (11.42%) Agile
9 46 (9.91%) Load Balancing
10 45 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 45 (9.70%) Zero Trust
11 43 (9.27%) Validation
12 40 (8.62%) Cloud Security
12 40 (8.62%) SIEM
13 38 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (8.19%) Observability
13 38 (8.19%) Project Delivery
13 38 (8.19%) Runbook
14 35 (7.54%) High Availability
15 34 (7.33%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 86 (18.53%) Python
2 61 (13.15%) PowerShell
3 35 (7.54%) Bash
4 15 (3.23%) SQL
5 11 (2.37%) Bicep
6 8 (1.72%) Java
7 6 (1.29%) Perl
8 5 (1.08%) Groovy
8 5 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.65%) C++
10 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 77 (16.59%) Cisco Certification
2 77 (16.59%) SC Cleared
3 67 (14.44%) CCNP
4 39 (8.41%) Degree
5 27 (5.82%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.09%) CCIE
6 19 (4.09%) CCNA
6 19 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.66%) CISSP
8 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.16%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.94%) CISM
12 7 (1.51%) CCSE
13 5 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.86%) JNCIP
14 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.86%) PMP
15 3 (0.65%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.45%) GDPR
1 16 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (3.45%) NIST
2 14 (3.02%) SLA
3 11 (2.37%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.29%) NIST 800
5 6 (1.29%) QA
6 5 (1.08%) NCSC
7 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.65%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) GMP
8 2 (0.43%) GxP
8 2 (0.43%) PMO
9 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 71 (15.30%) Active Directory
2 42 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.74%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.53%) Docker
5 16 (3.45%) Hyper-V
6 15 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.02%) Squid
7 14 (3.02%) VMware NSX
8 9 (1.94%) BitLocker
8 9 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.72%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (1.72%) vSphere
10 6 (1.29%) Firmware
11 4 (0.86%) NFS
11 4 (0.86%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (21.77%) Terraform
2 67 (14.44%) Ansible
3 50 (10.78%) FortiGate
3 50 (10.78%) Kubernetes
4 44 (9.48%) Grafana
5 41 (8.84%) Prometheus
6 29 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 24 (5.17%) SCCM
8 17 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (3.45%) Puppet
10 13 (2.80%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.16%) Consul
12 8 (1.72%) vMotion
13 7 (1.51%) WSUS
14 5 (1.08%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.86%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.86%) QRadar
15 4 (0.86%) Suricata
15 4 (0.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 167 (35.99%) Cisco
2 130 (28.02%) Palo Alto
3 114 (24.57%) Microsoft
4 93 (20.04%) Fortinet
5 55 (11.85%) VMware
6 52 (11.21%) F5
7 50 (10.78%) CheckPoint
8 41 (8.84%) Juniper
9 34 (7.33%) Arista
10 31 (6.68%) Zscaler
11 28 (6.03%) Citrix
12 27 (5.82%) Dynatrace
13 24 (5.17%) Splunk
14 18 (3.88%) Google
15 17 (3.66%) AppDynamics
15 17 (3.66%) Aruba
16 16 (3.45%) ServiceNow
17 15 (3.23%) Infoblox
17 15 (3.23%) Red Hat
18 14 (3.02%) Tenable