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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -63 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Firewall 420 484 579
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 3.83% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.35% 37.58% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 301 361
10th Percentile £400 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £775
England median daily rate £515 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £12.75
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £24.00
75th Percentile £38.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £27.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year +80.44% -56.97% +13.43%

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 1,384 1,288 1,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.19% 10.20% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 835 1,172
10th Percentile £288 £263 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 65
10th Percentile £20.38 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.02 £27.47 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.79 £41.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +86.36% -37.14%
75th Percentile £39.75 £52.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.13 £66.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% - +84.21%

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 1 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 1 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 -51 39 £563 +2.27% 31
South London -3 18 £519 +10.33% 2
East London -3 3 £719 +26.70% 2
West London -34 2 £425 +6.25% 10
North London - 1 £225 - 2
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 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.57%) Confluence
3 14 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.38%) nginx
5 3 (0.71%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 193 (45.95%) Azure
2 99 (23.57%) AWS
3 72 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (13.81%) GCP
5 49 (11.67%) Entra ID
6 37 (8.81%) GitHub
7 29 (6.90%) IaaS
8 28 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (6.67%) PaaS
8 28 (6.67%) SaaS
9 25 (5.95%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (4.52%) Azure Sentinel
12 19 (4.52%) Serverless
13 17 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 16 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (3.57%) Route 53
16 14 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 134 (31.90%) Network Security
2 133 (31.67%) VPN
3 115 (27.38%) WAN
4 90 (21.43%) DNS
5 74 (17.62%) BGP
6 68 (16.19%) LAN
7 59 (14.05%) OSPF
8 54 (12.86%) SD-WAN
8 54 (12.86%) TCP/IP
9 39 (9.29%) DHCP
9 39 (9.29%) VLAN
9 39 (9.29%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (8.81%) MPLS
11 25 (5.95%) Multicast
12 24 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (5.24%) Wireless
14 20 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
15 18 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (4.29%) NGFW
16 17 (4.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.95%) MySQL
4 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.71%) Power BI
6 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.48%) Metadata
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) DB2
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.71%) JIRA
2 23 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 18 (4.29%) Git
4 11 (2.62%) GitLab
5 10 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.43%) Chocolatey
8 5 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 101 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 71 (16.90%) Finance
3 44 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.14%) Banking
5 28 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.81%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.62%) Legal
9 11 (2.62%) Local Government
10 10 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.67%) Front Office
11 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.43%) Retail
13 5 (1.19%) Law
13 5 (1.19%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (24.52%) Network Engineer
2 68 (16.19%) Architect
3 52 (12.38%) Senior
4 40 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 40 (9.52%) Security Engineer
5 25 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (4.76%) Network Architect
6 20 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.81%) Analyst
8 16 (3.81%) Network Security Engineer
9 14 (3.33%) Consultant
9 14 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
9 14 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (3.33%) Security Architect
9 14 (3.33%) Site Engineer
10 13 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.10%) Senior Network Engineer
11 12 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.62%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.57%) OpenID
2 13 (3.10%) LDAP
3 8 (1.90%) SAML
4 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.43%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.43%) XML
6 5 (1.19%) JSON
6 5 (1.19%) Middleware
6 5 (1.19%) REST
7 4 (0.95%) HTML
7 4 (0.95%) Jinja
7 4 (0.95%) VML
8 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.71%) CSS
8 3 (0.71%) LAMP
8 3 (0.71%) Node.js
8 3 (0.71%) OAuth
8 3 (0.71%) Regular Expression
8 3 (0.71%) Web Services
9 2 (0.48%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.19%) Data Centre
2 27 (6.43%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.76%) PKI
4 19 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.52%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.52%) Security Posture
5 14 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.62%) Clustering
6 11 (2.62%) Replication
7 9 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.90%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.67%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.95%) IoT
11 4 (0.95%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.95%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 95 (22.62%) Windows
2 42 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 38 (9.05%) Linux
4 19 (4.52%) VMS
5 7 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.43%) Unix
7 5 (1.19%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.71%) SUSE
9 2 (0.48%) Android
9 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.14%) DevOps
2 79 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 78 (18.57%) Migration
4 76 (18.10%) CI/CD
5 69 (16.43%) Cybersecurity
6 65 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (13.33%) Load Balancing
8 55 (13.10%) ITIL
9 53 (12.62%) Agile
10 44 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (10.24%) Cloud Security
12 42 (10.00%) SIEM
13 36 (8.57%) Incident Response
14 35 (8.33%) Project Delivery
14 35 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (7.86%) Change Management
15 33 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (7.86%) Validation
16 32 (7.62%) Mentoring
17 31 (7.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 72 (17.14%) PowerShell
2 66 (15.71%) Python
3 22 (5.24%) Bash
4 20 (4.76%) SQL
5 12 (2.86%) Bicep
6 9 (2.14%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.19%) Perl
8 4 (0.95%) Java
8 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.48%) PHP
9 2 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 96 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 67 (15.95%) Cisco Certification
3 65 (15.48%) SC Cleared
4 55 (13.10%) CCNP
5 34 (8.10%) Degree
6 32 (7.62%) Azure Certification
7 27 (6.43%) DV Cleared
8 23 (5.48%) CCIE
9 22 (5.24%) CCNA
10 20 (4.76%) CISSP
11 12 (2.86%) AWS Certification
11 12 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (2.62%) CISM
12 11 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.38%) JNCIP
14 8 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.90%) JNCIS
15 7 (1.67%) CCSE
15 7 (1.67%) CEH
15 7 (1.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.71%) GDPR
2 20 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.05%) NIST
4 16 (3.81%) SLA
5 10 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.67%) NCSC
7 6 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.95%) QA
9 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.48%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) GxP
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (18.33%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (4.29%) Docker
5 17 (4.05%) VMware NSX
6 15 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.33%) Hyper-V
8 11 (2.62%) Squid
8 11 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.90%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.90%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.43%) Firmware
11 5 (1.19%) vSphere
12 3 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.48%) NFS
13 2 (0.48%) Snort
13 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.24%) Samba
14 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 93 (22.14%) Terraform
2 65 (15.48%) Ansible
3 47 (11.19%) Kubernetes
4 40 (9.52%) FortiGate
5 33 (7.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (5.71%) SCCM
7 21 (5.00%) Grafana
8 20 (4.76%) Prometheus
9 14 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.86%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.90%) Puppet
11 8 (1.90%) vMotion
12 7 (1.67%) Consul
13 6 (1.43%) QRadar
14 5 (1.19%) CASB
14 5 (1.19%) WSUS
15 4 (0.95%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.95%) SCOM
15 4 (0.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.95%) VxRail
Vendors
1 132 (31.43%) Cisco
2 121 (28.81%) Microsoft
3 90 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 58 (13.81%) Fortinet
5 51 (12.14%) VMware
6 48 (11.43%) F5
7 44 (10.48%) CheckPoint
8 40 (9.52%) Juniper
9 29 (6.90%) Aruba
10 27 (6.43%) Zscaler
11 26 (6.19%) Citrix
12 24 (5.71%) Arista
13 23 (5.48%) Google
14 16 (3.81%) Splunk
15 15 (3.57%) Dynatrace
15 15 (3.57%) NetApp
16 14 (3.33%) ServiceNow
17 13 (3.10%) Meraki
17 13 (3.10%) Tenable
18 11 (2.62%) Red Hat