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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 65 76
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 447 515 541
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.32% 4.02% 3.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.56% 38.84% 32.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 309 341
10th Percentile £363 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.48% -12.24%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £638
90th Percentile £659 £708 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 13
10th Percentile £31.90 - £13.40
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £53.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +86.67% -50.00% -4.08%

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 1,512 1,326 1,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.34% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 854 1,100
10th Percentile £300 £263 £227
25th Percentile £408 £389 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £623
90th Percentile £712 £723 £738
England median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 25 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £19.07 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £17.09
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.56% -37.81%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £62.45 £60.00
England median hourly rate £27.88 £41.00 £46.69
% change year-on-year -32.00% -12.19% +125.50%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -34 55 £550 - 13
South London +8 22 £506 -7.95% 3
West London -36 5 £450 +12.50% 14
North London - 2 £438 -
East London -10 1 £719 +22.91% 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 25 (5.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.80%) Confluence
3 16 (3.58%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.01%) nginx
5 3 (0.67%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.22%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.22%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 180 (40.27%) Azure
2 112 (25.06%) AWS
3 59 (13.20%) Entra ID
4 57 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (9.62%) GCP
6 35 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 32 (7.16%) GitHub
8 29 (6.49%) IaaS
9 26 (5.82%) SaaS
10 25 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (5.59%) PaaS
10 25 (5.59%) Serverless
11 21 (4.70%) Amazon S3
12 19 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 19 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 145 (32.44%) VPN
2 144 (32.21%) Network Security
3 115 (25.73%) WAN
4 112 (25.06%) DNS
5 80 (17.90%) BGP
6 69 (15.44%) TCP/IP
7 64 (14.32%) LAN
8 55 (12.30%) OSPF
9 48 (10.74%) VLAN
10 44 (9.84%) DHCP
10 44 (9.84%) SD-WAN
11 32 (7.16%) Multicast
12 29 (6.49%) MPLS
12 29 (6.49%) Wireless
13 28 (6.26%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (5.37%) Cisco IOS
15 23 (5.15%) NGFW
16 21 (4.70%) Cisco ASA
17 20 (4.47%) SSL
18 19 (4.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.24%) Power BI
2 10 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.67%) Big Data
5 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.67%) Metadata
5 3 (0.67%) MySQL
6 2 (0.45%) Db2
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (6.26%) JIRA
2 22 (4.92%) Git
3 19 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.01%) Artifactory
4 9 (2.01%) GitLab
5 7 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.34%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (22.82%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.57%) Finance
3 42 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (9.40%) Banking
4 38 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.71%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.58%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.68%) Legal
7 12 (2.68%) Local Government
7 12 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.46%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.24%) Front Office
10 7 (1.57%) Law
10 7 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.12%) Retail
12 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.89%) Publishing
13 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 138 (30.87%) Network Engineer
2 72 (16.11%) Architect
3 52 (11.63%) Senior
4 47 (10.51%) Security Engineer
5 39 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
6 32 (7.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 32 (7.16%) Network Security Engineer
7 26 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (4.92%) Network Architect
10 21 (4.70%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (4.25%) Security Architect
12 15 (3.36%) Analyst
12 15 (3.36%) Consultant
13 14 (3.13%) Cisco Engineer
13 14 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 14 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.68%) Firewall Engineer
15 11 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (2.46%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.80%) OpenID
2 14 (3.13%) LDAP
3 11 (2.46%) SAML
4 6 (1.34%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.34%) Middleware
4 6 (1.34%) OAuth
5 5 (1.12%) .NET
5 5 (1.12%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.89%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.89%) Jinja
6 4 (0.89%) REST
7 3 (0.67%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.45%) CSS
8 2 (0.45%) eBPF
8 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.45%) HTML
8 2 (0.45%) LAMP
8 2 (0.45%) Loki
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.78%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.37%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.15%) Security Posture
4 21 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.80%) PKI
6 14 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 12 (2.68%) Clustering
9 8 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.57%) Replication
11 6 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.34%) IoT
11 6 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (23.04%) Windows
2 48 (10.74%) Linux
3 37 (8.28%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.24%) VMS
6 6 (1.34%) Unix
6 6 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.67%) SUSE
8 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.45%) Android
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (20.58%) DevOps
2 80 (17.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (17.67%) Migration
4 75 (16.78%) CI/CD
5 62 (13.87%) ITIL
6 56 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (12.30%) Agile
8 47 (10.51%) Load Balancing
9 43 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (9.40%) Validation
11 41 (9.17%) Zero Trust
12 40 (8.95%) Cloud Security
12 40 (8.95%) SIEM
13 38 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (8.50%) Runbook
14 36 (8.05%) Observability
14 36 (8.05%) Project Delivery
15 35 (7.83%) High Availability
16 34 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 84 (18.79%) Python
2 64 (14.32%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.38%) Bash
4 16 (3.58%) SQL
5 11 (2.46%) Bicep
6 7 (1.57%) Java
7 5 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.12%) Perl
8 4 (0.89%) Groovy
9 3 (0.67%) C++
10 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.45%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.23%) SC Cleared
3 75 (16.78%) Cisco Certification
4 65 (14.54%) CCNP
5 38 (8.50%) Degree
6 27 (6.04%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.70%) DV Cleared
8 20 (4.47%) CCIE
9 19 (4.25%) CCNA
10 17 (3.80%) CISSP
11 16 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.24%) AWS Certification
12 10 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (2.01%) CISM
14 8 (1.79%) CCSE
15 5 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.89%) MCSA
16 4 (0.89%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.80%) GDPR
2 16 (3.58%) NIST
3 15 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.13%) SLA
5 11 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.34%) NCSC
7 6 (1.34%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.34%) QA
8 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.67%) GRC
9 2 (0.45%) GMP
9 2 (0.45%) GxP
9 2 (0.45%) PMO
10 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 72 (16.11%) Active Directory
2 44 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.70%) Docker
5 17 (3.80%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.58%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (3.36%) VMware NSX
8 14 (3.13%) Squid
9 11 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (2.24%) BitLocker
11 9 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.79%) vSphere
13 6 (1.34%) Firmware
14 4 (0.89%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 3 (0.67%) NFS
16 2 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 102 (22.82%) Terraform
2 71 (15.88%) Ansible
3 53 (11.86%) Kubernetes
4 48 (10.74%) FortiGate
5 42 (9.40%) Grafana
6 39 (8.72%) Prometheus
7 29 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (5.37%) SCCM
9 17 (3.80%) Puppet
9 17 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (3.13%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.24%) Consul
12 9 (2.01%) vMotion
13 7 (1.57%) WSUS
14 5 (1.12%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.89%) QRadar
15 4 (0.89%) Suricata
15 4 (0.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.89%) VxRail
16 3 (0.67%) Avamar
Vendors
1 157 (35.12%) Cisco
2 123 (27.52%) Palo Alto
3 116 (25.95%) Microsoft
4 87 (19.46%) Fortinet
5 55 (12.30%) VMware
6 50 (11.19%) CheckPoint
7 49 (10.96%) F5
8 37 (8.28%) Juniper
9 33 (7.38%) Arista
10 31 (6.94%) Zscaler
11 30 (6.71%) Citrix
12 25 (5.59%) Dynatrace
13 23 (5.15%) Splunk
14 21 (4.70%) Google
15 18 (4.03%) ServiceNow
16 16 (3.58%) Aruba
17 15 (3.36%) AppDynamics
18 14 (3.13%) Infoblox
18 14 (3.13%) Red Hat
19 13 (2.91%) Bloomberg