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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 77 64
Rank change year-on-year -34 -13 +31
Contract jobs citing Firewall 389 445 629
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.66% 3.25% 3.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.63% 33.11% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 271 423
10th Percentile £389 £354 £338
25th Percentile £457 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -1.01% -1.27%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £681
90th Percentile £688 £695 £775
England median daily rate £508 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -0.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £15.35
25th Percentile £20.18 - £23.25
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% -41.67% +87.50%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +15.83% -46.95% +89.87%

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 1,270 1,344 1,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.67% 9.80% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 803 1,288
10th Percentile £283 £258 £210
25th Percentile £409 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.04% -6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 67
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +27.45% -0.82%
75th Percentile £35.82 £39.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £87.25 £43.75 £74.69
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.55% +138.56%

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 27 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 27 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 -29 52 £525 -8.70% 23
South London +4 16 £519 +10.33% 5
West London -15 7 £348 -26.84% 7
East London +1 4 £525 +35.48% 11
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 (8.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.40%) Confluence
3 16 (4.11%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.60%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 185 (47.56%) Azure
2 113 (29.05%) AWS
3 72 (18.51%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (15.17%) GCP
5 44 (11.31%) Entra ID
6 35 (9.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 34 (8.74%) GitHub
8 27 (6.94%) Amazon S3
9 26 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (4.88%) Route 53
14 18 (4.63%) Amazon ELB
14 18 (4.63%) SaaS
15 17 (4.37%) IaaS
16 16 (4.11%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (4.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (27.76%) VPN
2 106 (27.25%) Network Security
3 87 (22.37%) WAN
4 76 (19.54%) DNS
5 55 (14.14%) LAN
6 48 (12.34%) BGP
7 46 (11.83%) TCP/IP
8 45 (11.57%) SD-WAN
9 38 (9.77%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (9.51%) OSPF
11 27 (6.94%) DHCP
11 27 (6.94%) MPLS
11 27 (6.94%) SSL
12 22 (5.66%) VLAN
13 21 (5.40%) Wireless
14 16 (4.11%) NGFW
15 14 (3.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (3.60%) HTTP
16 12 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (3.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.77%) Redis
7 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.51%) DB2
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 44 (11.31%) Jenkins
2 32 (8.23%) Git
3 27 (6.94%) JIRA
4 18 (4.63%) GitLab
5 10 (2.57%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.06%) Vagrant
7 6 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 99 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.60%) Finance
3 29 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.68%) Banking
6 23 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.31%) Legal
8 9 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.80%) Spanish Language
10 5 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.29%) Local Government
10 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.29%) Military
10 5 (1.29%) Publishing
10 5 (1.29%) Retail
11 4 (1.03%) Front Office
12 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (20.31%) Network Engineer
2 67 (17.22%) Architect
3 45 (11.57%) Security Engineer
4 42 (10.80%) Senior
5 30 (7.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (6.68%) Security Architect
8 24 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (4.88%) Analyst
9 19 (4.88%) Consultant
9 19 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
10 18 (4.63%) Network Architect
11 17 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (3.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.83%) Lead
14 11 (2.83%) Site Engineer
15 10 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.86%) LDAP
2 10 (2.57%) OpenID
3 9 (2.31%) SAML
4 6 (1.54%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.54%) JSON
4 6 (1.54%) Middleware
4 6 (1.54%) XML
5 5 (1.29%) YAML
6 4 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.03%) Node.js
6 4 (1.03%) Regular Expression
6 4 (1.03%) VML
7 3 (0.77%) HTML
7 3 (0.77%) REST
8 2 (0.51%) CSS
8 2 (0.51%) Kafka
8 2 (0.51%) OAuth
8 2 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.65%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (4.63%) Security Posture
4 17 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.11%) Replication
6 15 (3.86%) PKI
7 14 (3.60%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.83%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.83%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.54%) Life Science
10 6 (1.54%) SCADA
11 5 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 85 (21.85%) Windows
2 52 (13.37%) Linux
3 38 (9.77%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.91%) VMS
5 11 (2.83%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.57%) Unix
7 8 (2.06%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.03%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.51%) CentOS
11 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.26%) Android
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (26.22%) DevOps
2 84 (21.59%) CI/CD
3 80 (20.57%) Cybersecurity
3 80 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (17.74%) Cloud Security
5 64 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (15.94%) Migration
7 52 (13.37%) SIEM
8 50 (12.85%) Agile
9 46 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (11.31%) ITIL
11 43 (11.05%) Incident Response
11 43 (11.05%) Load Balancing
12 41 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (10.28%) Change Management
14 31 (7.97%) High Availability
14 31 (7.97%) Information Security
14 31 (7.97%) Security Operations
15 30 (7.71%) Mentoring
15 30 (7.71%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.34%) Python
2 73 (18.77%) PowerShell
3 31 (7.97%) Bash
4 26 (6.68%) SQL
5 9 (2.31%) Bicep
5 9 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (2.06%) Groovy
7 5 (1.29%) Perl
8 4 (1.03%) Java
8 4 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Rust
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 94 (24.16%) Security Cleared
2 67 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 58 (14.91%) Cisco Certification
4 46 (11.83%) CCNP
5 42 (10.80%) Degree
6 32 (8.23%) Azure Certification
7 26 (6.68%) CISSP
8 24 (6.17%) CCNA
9 23 (5.91%) AWS Certification
9 23 (5.91%) DV Cleared
10 16 (4.11%) CISM
11 15 (3.86%) CCIE
12 13 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (2.31%) JNCIP
15 8 (2.06%) CEH
16 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.80%) FFIEC
16 7 (1.80%) GIAC
16 7 (1.80%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.23%) NIST
3 22 (5.66%) GDPR
4 11 (2.83%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.06%) GRC
6 7 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.80%) SLA
7 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.03%) NCSC
8 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.51%) GxP
9 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.51%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (18.77%) Active Directory
2 43 (11.05%) Docker
3 26 (6.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (4.63%) Squid
6 12 (3.08%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.06%) DFS Replication
8 8 (2.06%) Dovecot
8 8 (2.06%) Postfix
9 6 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.29%) Snort
11 4 (1.03%) Firmware
12 3 (0.77%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.77%) KVM
13 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
14 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 101 (25.96%) Terraform
2 59 (15.17%) Ansible
3 38 (9.77%) Kubernetes
4 34 (8.74%) FortiGate
5 33 (8.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (5.66%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.40%) Grafana
8 20 (5.14%) SCCM
9 12 (3.08%) Nessus
10 11 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (2.31%) CASB
12 8 (2.06%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.54%) SCOM
13 6 (1.54%) SCOrch
14 5 (1.29%) Consul
14 5 (1.29%) QRadar
15 4 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (1.03%) Nexpose
15 4 (1.03%) Suricata
15 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 93 (23.91%) Cisco
3 79 (20.31%) Palo Alto
4 47 (12.08%) Fortinet
5 44 (11.31%) CheckPoint
5 44 (11.31%) F5
6 30 (7.71%) Juniper
7 29 (7.46%) VMware
8 26 (6.68%) Aruba
8 26 (6.68%) Splunk
9 25 (6.43%) Google
9 25 (6.43%) Zscaler
10 20 (5.14%) ServiceNow
11 17 (4.37%) Citrix
12 15 (3.86%) Meraki
13 11 (2.83%) Oracle
14 10 (2.57%) NetApp
14 10 (2.57%) Tenable
15 9 (2.31%) Qualys
15 9 (2.31%) Red Hat