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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 78 65
Rank change year-on-year -28 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Firewall 398 449 610
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.81% 3.24% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.31% 32.82% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 280 416
10th Percentile £400 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £688
90th Percentile £694 £700 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £20.13
25th Percentile £20.18 - £33.19
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% +106.19%

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 1,232 1,368 1,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.69% 9.87% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 834 1,270
10th Percentile £285 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £736 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 61
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.70 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.92 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +9.76% +23.00%
75th Percentile £26.97 £41.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.83 £43.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -1.43% -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 13 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 13 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 -24 54 £525 -4.55% 20
West London -6 15 £425 -5.56% 8
South London +4 14 £575 +22.34% 4
East London -1 4 £525 +30.43% 6
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 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.77%) Confluence
2 19 (4.77%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.51%) nginx
4 3 (0.75%) Apache
4 3 (0.75%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.50%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.50%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.25%) Traefik
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.26%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 185 (46.48%) Azure
2 108 (27.14%) AWS
3 72 (18.09%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (15.33%) GCP
5 43 (10.80%) Entra ID
6 34 (8.54%) GitHub
7 29 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 25 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (5.28%) Amazon S3
12 20 (5.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (4.77%) Amazon ELB
14 18 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (4.02%) IaaS
15 16 (4.02%) SaaS
16 15 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (3.27%) PaaS
17 13 (3.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 104 (26.13%) Network Security
1 104 (26.13%) VPN
2 90 (22.61%) WAN
3 74 (18.59%) DNS
4 62 (15.58%) LAN
5 50 (12.56%) SD-WAN
6 49 (12.31%) BGP
7 45 (11.31%) TCP/IP
8 43 (10.80%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (9.55%) OSPF
10 29 (7.29%) DHCP
10 29 (7.29%) SSL
11 27 (6.78%) MPLS
12 23 (5.78%) Wireless
13 21 (5.28%) Cisco Nexus
14 20 (5.03%) VLAN
15 15 (3.77%) HTTP
16 13 (3.27%) NGFW
16 13 (3.27%) SMTP
17 12 (3.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.50%) DB2
7 2 (0.50%) Redis
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.25%) MySQL
8 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (11.81%) Jenkins
2 35 (8.79%) Git
3 25 (6.28%) JIRA
4 18 (4.52%) GitLab
5 9 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (2.26%) Vagrant
6 6 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 96 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 52 (13.07%) Finance
3 32 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 30 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.78%) Banking
6 22 (5.53%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.27%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.76%) Legal
8 7 (1.76%) Spanish Language
9 6 (1.51%) Publishing
10 5 (1.26%) Local Government
10 5 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.26%) Military
10 5 (1.26%) Retail
11 4 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.75%) Front Office
12 3 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (20.85%) Network Engineer
2 65 (16.33%) Architect
3 46 (11.56%) Security Engineer
4 42 (10.55%) Senior
5 31 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (6.28%) Security Architect
8 23 (5.78%) Network Architect
9 20 (5.03%) Analyst
10 19 (4.77%) Consultant
11 18 (4.52%) Network Security Engineer
12 16 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.76%) Lead
14 11 (2.76%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.27%) LDAP
2 9 (2.26%) SAML
3 6 (1.51%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.51%) JSON
3 6 (1.51%) Middleware
3 6 (1.51%) XML
3 6 (1.51%) YAML
4 5 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.26%) OpenID
5 4 (1.01%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.01%) Node.js
5 4 (1.01%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.01%) VML
6 3 (0.75%) HTML
6 3 (0.75%) REST
7 2 (0.50%) CSS
7 2 (0.50%) Kafka
7 2 (0.50%) OAuth
7 2 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (15.83%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.53%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.52%) Security Posture
5 17 (4.27%) Replication
6 16 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.77%) PKI
8 13 (3.27%) Public Cloud
9 12 (3.02%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.76%) Operational Technology
11 10 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.51%) Life Science
13 6 (1.51%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.26%) YARA
15 4 (1.01%) IoT
15 4 (1.01%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.01%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 97 (24.37%) Windows
2 58 (14.57%) Linux
3 39 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 25 (6.28%) VMS
5 13 (3.27%) Unix
6 12 (3.02%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.26%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.01%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.50%) CentOS
11 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.25%) Android
12 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (24.37%) DevOps
2 84 (21.11%) CI/CD
3 83 (20.85%) Cybersecurity
4 81 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (17.09%) Cloud Security
6 62 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (15.33%) Migration
8 55 (13.82%) SIEM
9 51 (12.81%) Agile
10 46 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (11.31%) Change Management
11 45 (11.31%) Incident Response
11 45 (11.31%) Load Balancing
12 42 (10.55%) ITIL
13 41 (10.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (8.54%) Mentoring
15 33 (8.29%) Information Security
16 32 (8.04%) Security Operations
17 31 (7.79%) High Availability
18 30 (7.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (23.87%) Python
2 75 (18.84%) PowerShell
3 31 (7.79%) Bash
4 30 (7.54%) SQL
5 11 (2.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.26%) Groovy
7 8 (2.01%) Bicep
8 5 (1.26%) Perl
9 4 (1.01%) Java
9 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.50%) Ruby
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) Rust
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 66 (16.58%) Cisco Certification
3 65 (16.33%) SC Cleared
4 52 (13.07%) CCNP
5 43 (10.80%) Degree
6 31 (7.79%) Azure Certification
7 28 (7.04%) CISSP
8 24 (6.03%) CCNA
9 22 (5.53%) AWS Certification
10 21 (5.28%) DV Cleared
11 19 (4.77%) CCIE
12 16 (4.02%) CISM
13 14 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (3.02%) JNCIP
16 8 (2.01%) CCSE
16 8 (2.01%) CEH
17 7 (1.76%) GIAC
17 7 (1.76%) JNCIE
17 7 (1.76%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (8.29%) NIST
3 21 (5.28%) GDPR
4 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.76%) GRC
5 7 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.51%) SLA
7 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.01%) NCSC
8 4 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.50%) GxP
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.50%) ITGC
9 2 (0.50%) QA
10 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.25%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 78 (19.60%) Active Directory
2 45 (11.31%) Docker
3 24 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.52%) Squid
6 10 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (2.26%) DFS Replication
7 9 (2.26%) Dovecot
7 9 (2.26%) Postfix
8 7 (1.76%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.51%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.26%) Snort
11 3 (0.75%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.75%) Firmware
11 3 (0.75%) KVM
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.25%) etcd
13 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 98 (24.62%) Terraform
2 69 (17.34%) Ansible
3 33 (8.29%) Kubernetes
4 32 (8.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (7.54%) FortiGate
6 19 (4.77%) Prometheus
7 18 (4.52%) Grafana
7 18 (4.52%) SCCM
8 15 (3.77%) Nessus
9 11 (2.76%) CASB
10 9 (2.26%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.51%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.51%) SCOM
11 6 (1.51%) SCOrch
11 6 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.26%) QRadar
13 4 (1.01%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.01%) Suricata
13 4 (1.01%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.75%) vMotion
Vendors
1 108 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 103 (25.88%) Cisco
3 75 (18.84%) Palo Alto
4 50 (12.56%) Fortinet
5 44 (11.06%) F5
6 43 (10.80%) CheckPoint
7 33 (8.29%) Juniper
8 28 (7.04%) Splunk
9 26 (6.53%) Aruba
9 26 (6.53%) Google
9 26 (6.53%) VMware
9 26 (6.53%) Zscaler
10 24 (6.03%) ServiceNow
11 18 (4.52%) Citrix
12 14 (3.52%) Meraki
13 12 (3.02%) Oracle
13 12 (3.02%) Tenable
14 10 (2.51%) NetApp
14 10 (2.51%) Qualys
15 9 (2.26%) Jaspersoft