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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 58 79
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 -13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 483 561 517
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.44% 4.14% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.73% 40.04% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 349 333
10th Percentile £363 £325 £275
25th Percentile £419 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -9.96%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £613
90th Percentile £660 £701 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile £31.90 - £15.68
25th Percentile £36.25 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +25.05% -60.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £63.75 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +112.50% -50.00% -8.38%

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 1,572 1,401 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.93% 10.33% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 912 1,078
10th Percentile £300 £275 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £724 £716
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 40
10th Percentile £17.36 £19.33 £15.40
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.55
Median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +31.00% -37.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £43.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.25 £60.50
England median hourly rate £26.69 £44.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.34% -2.22% -1.10%

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 22 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Firewall in London

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 22 July 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 -32 62 £528 -4.09% 30
South London -9 23 £506 -11.96% 3
West London -46 6 £450 +7.46% 5
East London -9 2 £435 -25.73% 1
North London - 2 £438 -
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 24 (4.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.31%) Confluence
3 15 (3.11%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.86%) nginx
5 4 (0.83%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.21%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 205 (42.44%) Azure
2 115 (23.81%) AWS
3 69 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 60 (12.42%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (8.90%) GCP
6 35 (7.25%) IaaS
7 34 (7.04%) GitHub
8 33 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 28 (5.80%) SaaS
10 27 (5.59%) PaaS
11 26 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (5.38%) Serverless
12 20 (4.14%) Amazon S3
12 20 (4.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 18 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (3.31%) Datadog
15 16 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 161 (33.33%) VPN
2 148 (30.64%) Network Security
3 129 (26.71%) DNS
4 119 (24.64%) WAN
5 87 (18.01%) BGP
6 80 (16.56%) TCP/IP
7 67 (13.87%) LAN
8 62 (12.84%) VLAN
9 55 (11.39%) DHCP
9 55 (11.39%) OSPF
10 38 (7.87%) Multicast
11 37 (7.66%) SD-WAN
11 37 (7.66%) Wireless
12 35 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (6.21%) MPLS
14 25 (5.18%) Cisco IOS
14 25 (5.18%) NGFW
15 23 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 19 (3.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
1 17 (3.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.28%) Power BI
3 8 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.83%) Db2
6 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.62%) Big Data
6 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.62%) Metadata
6 3 (0.62%) MySQL
7 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (5.59%) JIRA
2 26 (5.38%) Git
3 18 (3.73%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.07%) GitLab
5 9 (1.86%) Artifactory
6 8 (1.66%) Chocolatey
7 7 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.21%) MSI
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 92 (19.05%) Finance
3 51 (10.56%) Banking
4 47 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.93%) Financial Institution
8 17 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.31%) Local Government
10 9 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.86%) Legal
11 8 (1.66%) Front Office
11 8 (1.66%) Retail
12 7 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.45%) Law
12 7 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.83%) Publishing
15 3 (0.62%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 164 (33.95%) Network Engineer
2 72 (14.91%) Senior
3 65 (13.46%) Architect
4 48 (9.94%) Security Engineer
5 41 (8.49%) Azure Engineer
6 32 (6.63%) Network Security Engineer
7 31 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
9 27 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
10 21 (4.35%) Consultant
11 20 (4.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 20 (4.14%) Network Architect
12 19 (3.93%) Security Architect
13 16 (3.31%) Firewall Engineer
14 14 (2.90%) Analyst
15 13 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (2.48%) Network Security Architect
16 12 (2.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.52%) OpenID
2 16 (3.31%) LDAP
3 12 (2.48%) SAML
4 10 (2.07%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.66%) Middleware
6 6 (1.24%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.24%) OAuth
7 5 (1.04%) .NET
7 5 (1.04%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.83%) Jinja
8 4 (0.83%) REST
9 2 (0.41%) eBPF
9 2 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.41%) LAMP
9 2 (0.41%) Loki
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.21%) CSS
10 1 (0.21%) HTML
10 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.36%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.97%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 21 (4.35%) PKI
6 14 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (2.69%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.28%) Clustering
9 9 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.66%) IoT
10 8 (1.66%) Replication
11 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.24%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.24%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (22.57%) Windows
2 55 (11.39%) Linux
3 42 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.86%) Unix
6 7 (1.45%) VMS
7 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.62%) SUSE
10 2 (0.41%) Android
10 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (19.05%) DevOps
2 88 (18.22%) Migration
3 81 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (14.49%) CI/CD
5 68 (14.08%) ITIL
6 61 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (11.18%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (10.56%) Project Delivery
9 50 (10.35%) Agile
9 50 (10.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (10.35%) Load Balancing
9 50 (10.35%) Zero Trust
10 46 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (9.32%) Validation
12 41 (8.49%) Runbook
13 40 (8.28%) Change Management
13 40 (8.28%) Cloud Security
14 39 (8.07%) SIEM
15 37 (7.66%) Incident Response
15 37 (7.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 95 (19.67%) Python
2 69 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 42 (8.70%) Bash
4 17 (3.52%) SQL
5 12 (2.48%) Bicep
6 8 (1.66%) Java
7 6 (1.24%) Perl
8 5 (1.04%) Groovy
8 5 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 93 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 78 (16.15%) Cisco Certification
3 71 (14.70%) SC Cleared
4 68 (14.08%) CCNP
5 41 (8.49%) Degree
6 28 (5.80%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 20 (4.14%) CCNA
8 20 (4.14%) CISSP
9 19 (3.93%) CCIE
10 14 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (2.48%) CISM
13 9 (1.86%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.24%) JNCIP
14 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.04%) CCSE
15 5 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.52%) SLA
2 16 (3.31%) NIST
3 15 (3.11%) GDPR
3 15 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.24%) NIST 800
6 6 (1.24%) QA
7 5 (1.04%) NCSC
8 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.62%) GRC
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) GMP
9 2 (0.41%) GxP
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 78 (16.15%) Active Directory
2 39 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.76%) Docker
4 21 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (2.90%) Squid
7 10 (2.07%) VMware NSX
8 9 (1.86%) BitLocker
8 9 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.66%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (1.66%) vSphere
10 6 (1.24%) Firmware
11 5 (1.04%) NFS
12 4 (0.83%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 106 (21.95%) Terraform
2 72 (14.91%) Ansible
3 52 (10.77%) Kubernetes
4 51 (10.56%) FortiGate
5 44 (9.11%) Grafana
6 41 (8.49%) Prometheus
7 34 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (5.18%) SCCM
9 17 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (3.31%) Puppet
11 13 (2.69%) vCenter Server
12 10 (2.07%) Consul
13 8 (1.66%) vMotion
14 6 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
14 6 (1.24%) systemd
14 6 (1.24%) WSUS
15 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.83%) QRadar
16 4 (0.83%) Suricata
Vendors
1 182 (37.68%) Cisco
2 129 (26.71%) Palo Alto
3 125 (25.88%) Microsoft
4 94 (19.46%) Fortinet
5 57 (11.80%) VMware
6 56 (11.59%) F5
7 46 (9.52%) CheckPoint
8 45 (9.32%) Juniper
9 37 (7.66%) Zscaler
10 36 (7.45%) Arista
11 28 (5.80%) Citrix
11 28 (5.80%) Dynatrace
12 25 (5.18%) Splunk
13 20 (4.14%) Google
14 18 (3.73%) AppDynamics
15 17 (3.52%) Red Hat
16 16 (3.31%) ServiceNow
17 15 (3.11%) Infoblox
17 15 (3.11%) Tenable
18 14 (2.90%) Meraki