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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 76 66
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 +25
Contract jobs citing Firewall 409 454 595
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.87% 3.22% 3.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.80% 32.50% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 288 402
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £698 £681 £775
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £20.95
25th Percentile £20.18 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% -41.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +112.84%

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 1,247 1,397 1,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.76% 9.90% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 860 1,244
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £628 £627
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -2.00% +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £26.97 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.83 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +125.96%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -15 57 £519 -5.68% 20
West London -4 18 £413 -8.33% 8
South London +1 15 £575 +22.34% 4
East London +1 5 £363 -9.94% 5
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 31 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.65%) Confluence
3 18 (4.40%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.69%) nginx
5 3 (0.73%) Apache
5 3 (0.73%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.49%) Traefik
6 2 (0.49%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 189 (46.21%) Azure
2 109 (26.65%) AWS
3 73 (17.85%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (14.91%) GCP
5 44 (10.76%) Entra ID
6 35 (8.56%) GitHub
7 30 (7.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (5.38%) Amazon S3
12 21 (5.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (4.89%) Amazon ELB
14 18 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.91%) SaaS
16 15 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (3.67%) IaaS
17 14 (3.42%) Route 53
18 12 (2.93%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (26.41%) VPN
2 107 (26.16%) Network Security
3 89 (21.76%) WAN
4 76 (18.58%) DNS
5 61 (14.91%) LAN
6 52 (12.71%) SD-WAN
7 49 (11.98%) BGP
8 46 (11.25%) TCP/IP
8 46 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (9.29%) OSPF
10 30 (7.33%) SSL
11 28 (6.85%) DHCP
12 27 (6.60%) MPLS
13 23 (5.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 23 (5.62%) Wireless
14 21 (5.13%) VLAN
15 16 (3.91%) HTTP
16 14 (3.42%) NGFW
17 13 (3.18%) SMTP
18 12 (2.93%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.49%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.49%) DB2
8 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.49%) Redis
9 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.24%) MySQL
9 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.24%) Power BI
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 49 (11.98%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.80%) Git
3 27 (6.60%) JIRA
4 18 (4.40%) GitLab
5 10 (2.44%) Vagrant
6 9 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.47%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 102 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.20%) Finance
3 36 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 32 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.60%) Banking
6 22 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.71%) Spanish Language
10 6 (1.47%) Legal
10 6 (1.47%) Publishing
11 5 (1.22%) Local Government
11 5 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.22%) Military
11 5 (1.22%) Retail
12 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.73%) Front Office
13 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (21.03%) Network Engineer
2 67 (16.38%) Architect
3 49 (11.98%) Security Engineer
4 42 (10.27%) Senior
5 32 (7.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.85%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (5.87%) Network Architect
8 24 (5.87%) Security Architect
9 22 (5.38%) Consultant
10 21 (5.13%) Analyst
10 21 (5.13%) Network Security Engineer
11 16 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (3.18%) Lead
13 12 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (2.93%) Project Manager
14 11 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.42%) LDAP
2 9 (2.20%) SAML
3 6 (1.47%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.47%) JSON
3 6 (1.47%) Middleware
3 6 (1.47%) XML
3 6 (1.47%) YAML
4 5 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.22%) OpenID
5 4 (0.98%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (0.98%) Node.js
5 4 (0.98%) VML
6 3 (0.73%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.73%) REST
7 2 (0.49%) gRPC
7 2 (0.49%) HTML
7 2 (0.49%) Kafka
7 2 (0.49%) OAuth
7 2 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.40%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.62%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (4.65%) Replication
4 17 (4.16%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.18%) PKI
6 13 (3.18%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.93%) Operational Technology
8 10 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.47%) Life Science
10 6 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.22%) SCADA
11 5 (1.22%) YARA
12 4 (0.98%) IoT
12 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 99 (24.21%) Windows
2 59 (14.43%) Linux
3 39 (9.54%) Windows Server
4 26 (6.36%) VMS
5 14 (3.42%) Ubuntu
6 13 (3.18%) Unix
7 10 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.98%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.49%) CentOS
10 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.24%) Android
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (24.21%) DevOps
2 87 (21.27%) CI/CD
3 86 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (20.78%) Cybersecurity
5 73 (17.85%) Cloud Security
6 65 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (14.91%) Migration
8 55 (13.45%) SIEM
9 51 (12.47%) Agile
10 48 (11.74%) Incident Response
11 45 (11.00%) Change Management
11 45 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (11.00%) Load Balancing
12 41 (10.02%) ITIL
12 41 (10.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (8.31%) Mentoring
14 33 (8.07%) Information Security
15 31 (7.58%) Data Loss Prevention
15 31 (7.58%) High Availability
15 31 (7.58%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 95 (23.23%) Python
2 75 (18.34%) PowerShell
3 32 (7.82%) SQL
4 31 (7.58%) Bash
5 11 (2.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (2.44%) Bicep
6 10 (2.44%) Groovy
7 5 (1.22%) Perl
8 4 (0.98%) Java
9 3 (0.73%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) Rust
11 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 68 (16.63%) SC Cleared
3 64 (15.65%) Cisco Certification
4 50 (12.22%) CCNP
5 44 (10.76%) Degree
6 32 (7.82%) Azure Certification
7 31 (7.58%) CISSP
8 24 (5.87%) CCNA
9 23 (5.62%) AWS Certification
10 20 (4.89%) DV Cleared
11 18 (4.40%) CCIE
11 18 (4.40%) CISM
12 14 (3.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (2.93%) JNCIP
14 10 (2.44%) CEH
15 8 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.71%) FFIEC
16 7 (1.71%) GIAC
16 7 (1.71%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 37 (9.05%) NIST
2 21 (5.13%) GDPR
3 12 (2.93%) PCI DSS
4 8 (1.96%) GRC
5 7 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.71%) SLA
6 5 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.98%) NCSC
7 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.73%) QA
9 2 (0.49%) GxP
9 2 (0.49%) ITGC
10 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.24%) COBIT
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 79 (19.32%) Active Directory
2 46 (11.25%) Docker
3 23 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.67%) Squid
6 10 (2.44%) DFS Replication
6 10 (2.44%) Dovecot
6 10 (2.44%) Postfix
6 10 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.47%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.22%) Snort
8 5 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.98%) Firmware
9 4 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.73%) KVM
11 2 (0.49%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.24%) etcd
12 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 103 (25.18%) Terraform
2 70 (17.11%) Ansible
3 34 (8.31%) Kubernetes
4 32 (7.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (7.33%) FortiGate
6 20 (4.89%) Grafana
6 20 (4.89%) Prometheus
7 18 (4.40%) SCCM
8 16 (3.91%) Nessus
9 11 (2.69%) CASB
10 10 (2.44%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.47%) SCOM
11 6 (1.47%) SCOrch
11 6 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.22%) QRadar
13 4 (0.98%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.98%) Suricata
14 3 (0.73%) Argo
14 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 103 (25.18%) Cisco
3 77 (18.83%) Palo Alto
4 54 (13.20%) Fortinet
5 43 (10.51%) F5
6 42 (10.27%) CheckPoint
7 35 (8.56%) Juniper
8 28 (6.85%) Splunk
9 26 (6.36%) Google
10 25 (6.11%) ServiceNow
10 25 (6.11%) VMware
10 25 (6.11%) Zscaler
11 23 (5.62%) Aruba
12 17 (4.16%) Citrix
13 14 (3.42%) Meraki
14 13 (3.18%) Oracle
14 13 (3.18%) Tenable
15 11 (2.69%) Qualys
16 10 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
17 9 (2.20%) NetApp