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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 59 70
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Firewall 413 500 560
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 3.93% 3.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.48% 37.68% 32.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 299 347
10th Percentile £368 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £669 £689 £775
England median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £13.40
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £24.18
75th Percentile £38.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £14.20 £63.00
% change year-on-year +294.37% -77.46% +1.61%

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 1,401 1,327 1,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.00% 10.42% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 907 860 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £265 £210
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% - -10.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 66
10th Percentile £20.08 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.65 £25.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% +92.31% -50.54%
75th Percentile £36.32 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.71 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.54% -8.39% +111.30%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -49 40 £538 -2.27% 35
South London -1 19 £519 +3.71% 3
East London -6 3 £719 +22.91%
West London -41 2 £375 -6.25% 10
North London - 1 £225 -
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 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.63%) Confluence
3 13 (3.15%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.42%) nginx
5 3 (0.73%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 182 (44.07%) Azure
2 97 (23.49%) AWS
3 66 (15.98%) Microsoft 365
4 53 (12.83%) Entra ID
5 48 (11.62%) GCP
6 31 (7.51%) GitHub
7 28 (6.78%) SaaS
7 28 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.54%) IaaS
9 26 (6.30%) PaaS
10 24 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (5.08%) Serverless
13 18 (4.36%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (4.12%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (3.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 125 (30.27%) Network Security
2 123 (29.78%) VPN
3 105 (25.42%) WAN
4 85 (20.58%) DNS
5 71 (17.19%) BGP
6 60 (14.53%) LAN
7 56 (13.56%) OSPF
8 50 (12.11%) TCP/IP
9 48 (11.62%) SD-WAN
10 38 (9.20%) VLAN
11 34 (8.23%) DHCP
12 33 (7.99%) MPLS
12 33 (7.99%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (6.54%) Multicast
14 22 (5.33%) Cisco ASA
15 21 (5.08%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (4.36%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (4.36%) NX-OS
16 18 (4.36%) Wireless
17 17 (4.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.66%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.97%) MySQL
4 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.73%) Power BI
6 2 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.48%) Metadata
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.24%) DB2
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (5.33%) Jenkins
1 22 (5.33%) JIRA
2 20 (4.84%) Git
3 10 (2.42%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.94%) GitLab
5 7 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.45%) Chocolatey
7 5 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 98 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.19%) Finance
3 41 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.99%) Documentation Skills
5 31 (7.51%) Banking
6 29 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.87%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.91%) Legal
8 12 (2.91%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.66%) Local Government
10 8 (1.94%) Front Office
10 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.94%) Retail
11 7 (1.69%) Law
12 4 (0.97%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.73%) Military
13 3 (0.73%) Police
14 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (24.70%) Network Engineer
2 67 (16.22%) Architect
3 52 (12.59%) Senior
4 42 (10.17%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (9.93%) Security Engineer
6 22 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (4.60%) Network Security Engineer
9 18 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.12%) Network Architect
11 15 (3.63%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (3.39%) Analyst
12 14 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.39%) Security Architect
12 14 (3.39%) Site Engineer
13 12 (2.91%) Consultant
13 12 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 11 (2.66%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.60%) OpenID
2 13 (3.15%) LDAP
3 11 (2.66%) SAML
4 6 (1.45%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.45%) XML
5 5 (1.21%) JSON
5 5 (1.21%) Middleware
5 5 (1.21%) REST
6 4 (0.97%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.97%) HTML
6 4 (0.97%) Jinja
6 4 (0.97%) OAuth
6 4 (0.97%) VML
7 3 (0.73%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.73%) CSS
7 3 (0.73%) LAMP
7 3 (0.73%) Node.js
7 3 (0.73%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.73%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (14.77%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.30%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.36%) PKI
4 18 (4.36%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.91%) Replication
7 11 (2.66%) Clustering
8 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.45%) IoT
12 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.97%) Client/Server
13 4 (0.97%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 97 (23.49%) Windows
2 45 (10.90%) Windows Server
3 44 (10.65%) Linux
4 18 (4.36%) VMS
5 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.45%) Unix
7 3 (0.73%) SUSE
7 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (21.55%) DevOps
2 80 (19.37%) Migration
3 73 (17.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (17.43%) CI/CD
5 65 (15.74%) Cybersecurity
6 61 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (13.08%) ITIL
8 53 (12.83%) Load Balancing
9 47 (11.38%) Agile
10 39 (9.44%) Cloud Security
11 37 (8.96%) Validation
12 36 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (8.72%) SIEM
13 35 (8.47%) Project Delivery
14 33 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (7.99%) Mentoring
15 31 (7.51%) Change Management
15 31 (7.51%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (7.26%) ITSM
17 29 (7.02%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.46%) PowerShell
2 67 (16.22%) Python
3 24 (5.81%) Bash
4 17 (4.12%) SQL
5 12 (2.91%) Bicep
6 8 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.69%) Perl
8 6 (1.45%) Java
9 4 (0.97%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.48%) Groovy
10 2 (0.48%) PHP
10 2 (0.48%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.24%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 96 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 68 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 64 (15.50%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (12.59%) CCNP
5 32 (7.75%) Azure Certification
6 31 (7.51%) Degree
7 24 (5.81%) DV Cleared
8 22 (5.33%) CCIE
9 21 (5.08%) CCNA
10 13 (3.15%) AWS Certification
10 13 (3.15%) CISSP
11 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.94%) CISM
12 8 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.69%) CCSE
13 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.69%) JNCIP
14 6 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (1.21%) CEH
15 5 (1.21%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.08%) GDPR
2 17 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.12%) SLA
3 15 (3.63%) NIST
4 8 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.69%) NCSC
6 6 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.21%) QA
8 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (18.89%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (4.84%) Docker
5 17 (4.12%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (3.63%) Hyper-V
8 12 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.42%) Squid
10 9 (2.18%) BitLocker
11 8 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (1.69%) vSphere
13 6 (1.45%) Firmware
14 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.48%) NFS
15 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.24%) Samba
16 1 (0.24%) Snort
16 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 91 (22.03%) Terraform
2 65 (15.74%) Ansible
3 49 (11.86%) Kubernetes
4 41 (9.93%) FortiGate
5 32 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (5.81%) SCCM
7 23 (5.57%) Prometheus
8 22 (5.33%) Grafana
9 14 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.91%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.42%) Puppet
12 9 (2.18%) Consul
13 8 (1.94%) vMotion
14 6 (1.45%) QRadar
14 6 (1.45%) WSUS
15 4 (0.97%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.97%) SCOM
15 4 (0.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.97%) VxRail
16 3 (0.73%) CASB
Vendors
1 131 (31.72%) Cisco
2 127 (30.75%) Microsoft
3 97 (23.49%) Palo Alto
4 68 (16.46%) Fortinet
5 54 (13.08%) VMware
6 49 (11.86%) CheckPoint
7 48 (11.62%) F5
8 36 (8.72%) Juniper
9 26 (6.30%) Arista
10 25 (6.05%) Citrix
10 25 (6.05%) Zscaler
11 22 (5.33%) Aruba
12 21 (5.08%) Google
13 16 (3.87%) ServiceNow
14 15 (3.63%) Dynatrace
14 15 (3.63%) NetApp
15 13 (3.15%) Splunk
16 12 (2.91%) Meraki
17 11 (2.66%) Red Hat
18 10 (2.42%) Bloomberg