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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 79 68
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +22
Contract jobs citing Firewall 416 460 600
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.91% 3.22% 3.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.23% 32.53% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 290 407
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £678
90th Percentile £692 £677 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £42.13
25th Percentile £20.18 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% -47.17% +120.83%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £77.19
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +104.59%

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 1,252 1,414 1,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.75% 9.88% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 868 1,259
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £628 £636
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +10.67% +26.50%
75th Percentile £31.13 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.75 £75.31 £76.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +71.18%

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 4 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 4 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 -20 59 £525 -4.55% 38
West London +3 24 £425 -5.56% 11
South London 0 15 £575 +22.34% 3
East London +4 5 £363 +88.45% 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 29 (6.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.57%) Confluence
3 18 (4.33%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.64%) nginx
5 3 (0.72%) Apache
5 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.48%) Traefik
6 2 (0.48%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 188 (45.19%) Azure
2 109 (26.20%) AWS
3 71 (17.07%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (14.66%) GCP
5 44 (10.58%) Entra ID
6 35 (8.41%) GitHub
7 30 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (5.29%) Amazon S3
12 21 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (4.81%) Amazon ELB
14 19 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.85%) SaaS
16 15 (3.61%) IaaS
17 14 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (3.37%) Route 53
18 12 (2.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (26.20%) VPN
2 108 (25.96%) Network Security
3 91 (21.88%) WAN
4 77 (18.51%) DNS
5 67 (16.11%) LAN
6 56 (13.46%) SD-WAN
7 52 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
8 49 (11.78%) BGP
9 46 (11.06%) TCP/IP
10 38 (9.13%) OSPF
11 30 (7.21%) SSL
12 29 (6.97%) Cisco Nexus
12 29 (6.97%) DHCP
13 27 (6.49%) MPLS
14 23 (5.53%) Wireless
15 22 (5.29%) VLAN
16 16 (3.85%) HTTP
17 14 (3.37%) NGFW
18 13 (3.13%) SMTP
19 12 (2.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.96%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.48%) DB2
8 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.48%) 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 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.65%) Git
3 25 (6.01%) JIRA
4 18 (4.33%) GitLab
5 10 (2.40%) Vagrant
6 9 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.44%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 104 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.74%) Finance
3 35 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 31 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.49%) Banking
6 23 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.68%) Spanish Language
10 6 (1.44%) Publishing
11 5 (1.20%) Legal
11 5 (1.20%) Local Government
11 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.20%) Military
11 5 (1.20%) Retail
12 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Front Office
13 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (20.67%) Network Engineer
2 73 (17.55%) Architect
3 49 (11.78%) Security Engineer
4 42 (10.10%) Senior
5 32 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.73%) Network Architect
6 28 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (6.01%) Security Architect
8 22 (5.29%) Consultant
9 21 (5.05%) Analyst
9 21 (5.05%) Network Security Engineer
10 16 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (3.37%) Lead
12 12 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (2.88%) Project Manager
12 12 (2.88%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.37%) LDAP
2 9 (2.16%) SAML
3 6 (1.44%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.44%) JSON
3 6 (1.44%) Middleware
3 6 (1.44%) XML
3 6 (1.44%) YAML
4 5 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.20%) OpenID
5 4 (0.96%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (0.96%) Node.js
5 4 (0.96%) VML
6 3 (0.72%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.72%) REST
7 2 (0.48%) gRPC
7 2 (0.48%) HTML
7 2 (0.48%) Kafka
7 2 (0.48%) OAuth
7 2 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.53%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.81%) Replication
4 19 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.09%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.13%) PKI
9 12 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.88%) Operational Technology
10 10 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
11 7 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.44%) Life Science
12 6 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.20%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.20%) SCADA
13 5 (1.20%) YARA
14 4 (0.96%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 96 (23.08%) Windows
2 58 (13.94%) Linux
3 37 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 26 (6.25%) VMS
5 14 (3.37%) Ubuntu
6 13 (3.13%) Unix
7 10 (2.40%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.96%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.48%) CentOS
10 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.24%) Android
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (23.80%) DevOps
2 87 (20.91%) CI/CD
3 86 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (20.19%) Cybersecurity
5 73 (17.55%) Cloud Security
6 64 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (14.90%) Migration
8 55 (13.22%) SIEM
9 49 (11.78%) Agile
10 48 (11.54%) Incident Response
11 45 (10.82%) Change Management
11 45 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (10.82%) Load Balancing
12 43 (10.34%) ITIL
13 40 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (7.93%) Information Security
14 33 (7.93%) Mentoring
14 33 (7.93%) Network Design
15 32 (7.69%) High Availability
16 31 (7.45%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 95 (22.84%) Python
2 75 (18.03%) PowerShell
3 32 (7.69%) SQL
4 31 (7.45%) Bash
5 11 (2.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (2.40%) Bicep
6 10 (2.40%) Groovy
7 5 (1.20%) Perl
8 4 (0.96%) Java
9 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.48%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.48%) 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 97 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 70 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 64 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 50 (12.02%) CCNP
5 44 (10.58%) Degree
6 32 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 31 (7.45%) CISSP
8 24 (5.77%) CCNA
9 23 (5.53%) AWS Certification
10 19 (4.57%) DV Cleared
11 18 (4.33%) CCIE
11 18 (4.33%) CISM
12 14 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (2.88%) JNCIP
14 10 (2.40%) CEH
15 8 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (1.68%) FFIEC
16 7 (1.68%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.89%) NIST
2 36 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.81%) GDPR
4 12 (2.88%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.92%) GRC
6 7 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.44%) SLA
8 5 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.96%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.72%) NCSC
10 3 (0.72%) QA
11 2 (0.48%) GxP
11 2 (0.48%) ITGC
12 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.24%) COBIT
12 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (18.51%) Active Directory
2 46 (11.06%) Docker
3 24 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.61%) Squid
6 10 (2.40%) DFS Replication
6 10 (2.40%) Dovecot
6 10 (2.40%) Postfix
6 10 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.68%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.44%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.20%) Snort
9 5 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.96%) Firmware
10 4 (0.96%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.72%) KVM
12 2 (0.48%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.24%) etcd
13 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 103 (24.76%) Terraform
2 70 (16.83%) Ansible
3 34 (8.17%) Kubernetes
4 32 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (7.21%) FortiGate
6 20 (4.81%) Grafana
6 20 (4.81%) Prometheus
7 18 (4.33%) SCCM
8 16 (3.85%) Nessus
9 11 (2.64%) CASB
10 10 (2.40%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.44%) SCOM
11 6 (1.44%) SCOrch
11 6 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.20%) QRadar
13 4 (0.96%) Nexpose
13 4 (0.96%) Suricata
14 3 (0.72%) Argo
14 3 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (26.68%) Microsoft
2 108 (25.96%) Cisco
3 77 (18.51%) Palo Alto
4 60 (14.42%) Fortinet
5 43 (10.34%) CheckPoint
5 43 (10.34%) F5
6 35 (8.41%) Juniper
7 28 (6.73%) Splunk
8 26 (6.25%) Google
8 26 (6.25%) VMware
9 25 (6.01%) Zscaler
10 23 (5.53%) Aruba
10 23 (5.53%) ServiceNow
11 17 (4.09%) Citrix
12 14 (3.37%) Meraki
13 13 (3.13%) Oracle
13 13 (3.13%) Tenable
14 11 (2.64%) Qualys
15 10 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (2.40%) NetApp