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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -58 +3 +21
Contract jobs citing Firewall 398 471 601
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.46% 3.64% 3.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.84% 35.93% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 290 376
10th Percentile £400 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.08%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £666
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.18 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% +45.83% -26.15%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +26.57%

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 1,334 1,311 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.26% 10.13% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 825 1,198
10th Percentile £258 £256 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 73
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.78
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +59.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £39.32 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £60.35 £61.40
England median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.34% -12.50% +110.53%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -52 39 £519 -9.78% 16
South London -6 15 £516 +9.10% 6
East London -3 4 £622 +9.60% 2
West London -24 4 £375 -11.76% 8
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 32 (8.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.77%) Confluence
3 14 (3.52%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.26%) nginx
5 2 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 189 (47.49%) Azure
2 100 (25.13%) AWS
3 70 (17.59%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (14.07%) GCP
5 51 (12.81%) Entra ID
6 36 (9.05%) GitHub
7 25 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 24 (6.03%) IaaS
9 23 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.78%) PaaS
9 23 (5.78%) SaaS
10 21 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (4.77%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (3.77%) Serverless
13 14 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (3.52%) Route 53
14 13 (3.27%) Amazon S3
15 12 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 121 (30.40%) Network Security
2 119 (29.90%) VPN
3 108 (27.14%) WAN
4 72 (18.09%) DNS
5 67 (16.83%) LAN
6 65 (16.33%) BGP
7 53 (13.32%) SD-WAN
8 51 (12.81%) OSPF
9 46 (11.56%) TCP/IP
10 43 (10.80%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (9.30%) MPLS
12 33 (8.29%) DHCP
13 28 (7.04%) VLAN
14 22 (5.53%) Wireless
15 21 (5.28%) Cisco ASA
16 19 (4.77%) Multicast
17 18 (4.52%) NGFW
18 16 (4.02%) Cisco IOS
19 15 (3.77%) EIGRP
19 15 (3.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.50%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.50%) DB2
5 2 (0.50%) MySQL
5 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.50%) Power BI
5 2 (0.50%) Redis
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.25%) Metadata
6 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (6.03%) Jenkins
2 22 (5.53%) JIRA
3 19 (4.77%) Git
4 14 (3.52%) GitLab
5 10 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.26%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 97 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.58%) Finance
3 38 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.29%) Banking
5 28 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (6.28%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.02%) Legal
10 10 (2.51%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.01%) Local Government
12 7 (1.76%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.26%) Retail
14 4 (1.01%) Front Office
14 4 (1.01%) Law
15 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (23.62%) Network Engineer
2 74 (18.59%) Architect
3 45 (11.31%) Senior
4 43 (10.80%) Security Engineer
5 35 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (5.28%) Security Architect
8 19 (4.77%) Network Architect
8 19 (4.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 17 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.27%) Network Security Engineer
10 15 (3.77%) Consultant
11 13 (3.27%) Analyst
11 13 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.27%) Site Engineer
11 13 (3.27%) Technical Architect
12 12 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (2.76%) Lead
14 10 (2.51%) Firewall Engineer
14 10 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.27%) OpenID
2 12 (3.02%) LDAP
3 7 (1.76%) 802.1X
3 7 (1.76%) SAML
4 6 (1.51%) XML
5 5 (1.26%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.26%) JSON
6 4 (1.01%) HTML
6 4 (1.01%) Jinja
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.01%) VML
7 3 (0.75%) CSS
7 3 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.75%) Middleware
7 3 (0.75%) Node.js
7 3 (0.75%) OAuth
7 3 (0.75%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.75%) REST
8 2 (0.50%) gRPC
8 2 (0.50%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.33%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.28%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.53%) Security Posture
4 19 (4.77%) PKI
5 17 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.52%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.76%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.01%) Replication
9 7 (1.76%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.51%) Clustering
10 6 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.51%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.26%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.01%) Life Science
12 4 (1.01%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 89 (22.36%) Windows
2 42 (10.55%) Windows Server
3 35 (8.79%) Linux
4 15 (3.77%) VMS
5 7 (1.76%) Unix
6 5 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.50%) Android
8 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (22.11%) DevOps
2 76 (19.10%) CI/CD
3 74 (18.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (17.84%) Cybersecurity
5 69 (17.34%) Migration
6 63 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (12.81%) ITIL
8 50 (12.56%) Cloud Security
9 49 (12.31%) Agile
9 49 (12.31%) Load Balancing
10 45 (11.31%) SIEM
11 42 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (9.05%) Change Management
14 32 (8.04%) Incident Response
14 32 (8.04%) Project Delivery
15 31 (7.79%) Analytics
15 31 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (7.29%) Mentoring
17 28 (7.04%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 65 (16.33%) PowerShell
2 63 (15.83%) Python
3 22 (5.53%) SQL
4 19 (4.77%) Bash
5 9 (2.26%) Bicep
5 9 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.26%) Perl
7 4 (1.01%) Java
7 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.50%) Ruby
9 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.09%) Cisco Certification
3 58 (14.57%) SC Cleared
4 53 (13.32%) CCNP
5 33 (8.29%) Degree
6 26 (6.53%) Azure Certification
7 25 (6.28%) CCNA
8 23 (5.78%) CCIE
8 23 (5.78%) CISSP
8 23 (5.78%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.02%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.02%) CISM
10 11 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (2.51%) JNCIP
11 10 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.01%) JNCIS
13 7 (1.76%) CCSE
13 7 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.51%) CEH
14 6 (1.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (5.78%) GDPR
3 20 (5.03%) NIST
4 15 (3.77%) SLA
5 7 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.26%) NCSC
7 3 (0.75%) GRC
7 3 (0.75%) QA
8 2 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.50%) GxP
8 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (21.11%) Active Directory
2 33 (8.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (4.27%) VMware NSX
5 16 (4.02%) Docker
6 10 (2.51%) Squid
7 9 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.76%) Hyper-V
10 6 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.26%) BitLocker
12 4 (1.01%) Firmware
13 3 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.50%) Snort
14 2 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.25%) KVM
15 1 (0.25%) NFS
15 1 (0.25%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.25%) Samba
15 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (21.61%) Terraform
2 58 (14.57%) Ansible
3 41 (10.30%) Kubernetes
4 40 (10.05%) FortiGate
5 39 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (6.03%) SCCM
7 19 (4.77%) Grafana
8 18 (4.52%) Prometheus
9 12 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (2.01%) CASB
11 7 (1.76%) Consul
12 6 (1.51%) Puppet
12 6 (1.51%) QRadar
12 6 (1.51%) SCOrch
12 6 (1.51%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.26%) vMotion
14 4 (1.01%) SCOM
15 3 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
15 3 (0.75%) Fluentd
15 3 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 121 (30.40%) Microsoft
2 116 (29.15%) Cisco
3 84 (21.11%) Palo Alto
4 54 (13.57%) Fortinet
5 43 (10.80%) CheckPoint
5 43 (10.80%) F5
5 43 (10.80%) VMware
6 39 (9.80%) Juniper
7 28 (7.04%) Aruba
8 26 (6.53%) Zscaler
9 23 (5.78%) Citrix
10 21 (5.28%) Google
11 19 (4.77%) Splunk
12 17 (4.27%) Arista
13 16 (4.02%) ServiceNow
14 15 (3.77%) Meraki
15 13 (3.27%) Dynatrace
16 12 (3.02%) Red Hat
16 12 (3.02%) Tenable
17 11 (2.76%) Infoblox