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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 60 71
Rank change year-on-year -57 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 425 493 567
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 3.92% 3.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.72% 37.49% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 286 344
10th Percentile £372 £325 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £694 £775
England median daily rate £500 £518 £513
% change year-on-year -3.40% +0.99% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £13.73
25th Percentile £36.25 - £17.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £23.99
75th Percentile £38.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £52.36 £14.73 £60.00
% change year-on-year +255.59% -75.46% -3.23%

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 1,430 1,315 1,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.06% 10.45% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 836 1,143
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.91%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 59
10th Percentile £19.78 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £28.41 £18.36
Median hourly rate £25.31 £45.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.76% +104.55% -52.17%
75th Percentile £28.92 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £89.75 £62.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.10 £30.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.89% -23.13% +114.36%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -46 41 £525 -4.55% 47
South London -4 18 £519 +3.71% 6
East London -7 3 £719 +22.91% 5
West London -41 2 £375 -6.25% 12
North London - 1 £225 - 1
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 28 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.76%) Confluence
3 12 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.35%) nginx
5 3 (0.71%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) MTS
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 191 (44.94%) Azure
2 96 (22.59%) AWS
3 65 (15.29%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (12.94%) Entra ID
5 47 (11.06%) GCP
6 36 (8.47%) GitHub
7 28 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.35%) IaaS
8 27 (6.35%) SaaS
9 26 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (5.88%) PaaS
11 24 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.71%) Serverless
13 19 (4.47%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (4.00%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 15 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 128 (30.12%) Network Security
2 127 (29.88%) VPN
3 106 (24.94%) WAN
4 92 (21.65%) DNS
5 71 (16.71%) BGP
6 62 (14.59%) LAN
7 58 (13.65%) OSPF
8 50 (11.76%) TCP/IP
9 47 (11.06%) SD-WAN
10 42 (9.88%) VLAN
11 36 (8.47%) DHCP
12 34 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (7.76%) MPLS
14 27 (6.35%) Multicast
15 22 (5.18%) Cisco ASA
16 21 (4.94%) Cisco IOS
17 19 (4.47%) Wireless
18 18 (4.24%) Cisco Nexus
18 18 (4.24%) NX-OS
19 17 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 6 (1.41%) Power BI
4 5 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.94%) MySQL
5 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.71%) Metadata
6 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) DB2
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (5.18%) JIRA
2 21 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.00%) Git
4 9 (2.12%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.65%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.41%) Chocolatey
6 6 (1.41%) GitLab
7 5 (1.18%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 99 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.94%) Finance
3 42 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
5 32 (7.53%) Banking
6 30 (7.06%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.76%) Financial Institution
8 13 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.82%) Legal
10 11 (2.59%) Local Government
11 9 (2.12%) Front Office
11 9 (2.12%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.65%) Law
12 7 (1.65%) Retail
13 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.94%) Police
13 4 (0.94%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 106 (24.94%) Network Engineer
2 68 (16.00%) Architect
3 54 (12.71%) Senior
4 48 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
5 41 (9.65%) Security Engineer
6 23 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 20 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (4.71%) Network Security Engineer
10 17 (4.00%) Network Architect
10 17 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
11 15 (3.53%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.29%) Analyst
12 14 (3.29%) Security Architect
12 14 (3.29%) Site Engineer
13 13 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.82%) Lead
15 11 (2.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 11 (2.59%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.71%) OpenID
2 13 (3.06%) LDAP
3 10 (2.35%) SAML
4 6 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.41%) OAuth
5 5 (1.18%) JSON
5 5 (1.18%) Middleware
5 5 (1.18%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.18%) REST
5 5 (1.18%) XML
6 4 (0.94%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.94%) HTML
6 4 (0.94%) Jinja
6 4 (0.94%) VML
7 3 (0.71%) .NET
7 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.71%) CSS
7 3 (0.71%) LAMP
7 3 (0.71%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (13.88%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.24%) Security Posture
5 17 (4.00%) PKI
6 15 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.82%) Replication
9 11 (2.59%) Clustering
10 10 (2.35%) Public Cloud
11 9 (2.12%) Enterprise Storage
12 8 (1.88%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.65%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.65%) Operational Technology
14 6 (1.41%) AI Agents
14 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.41%) IoT
15 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 4 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 98 (23.06%) Windows
2 45 (10.59%) Windows Server
3 44 (10.35%) Linux
4 17 (4.00%) VMS
5 7 (1.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.41%) Unix
7 5 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.71%) SUSE
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.47%) Android
10 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (21.41%) DevOps
2 82 (19.29%) Migration
3 78 (18.35%) CI/CD
3 78 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (15.76%) Cybersecurity
5 61 (14.35%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (13.65%) ITIL
7 57 (13.41%) Load Balancing
8 51 (12.00%) Agile
9 40 (9.41%) Validation
10 38 (8.94%) Cloud Security
11 37 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 37 (8.71%) SIEM
12 36 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (8.47%) Project Delivery
13 33 (7.76%) Mentoring
13 33 (7.76%) Runbook
14 32 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 30 (7.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.71%) PowerShell
2 65 (15.29%) Python
3 25 (5.88%) Bash
4 17 (4.00%) SQL
5 13 (3.06%) Bicep
6 9 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.41%) Java
7 6 (1.41%) Perl
8 4 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.47%) Groovy
9 2 (0.47%) PHP
10 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.24%) C++
10 1 (0.24%) Go
10 1 (0.24%) Ruby
10 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 67 (15.76%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (12.94%) CCNP
5 33 (7.76%) Azure Certification
6 30 (7.06%) Degree
7 23 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 22 (5.18%) CCIE
9 19 (4.47%) CCNA
10 13 (3.06%) CISSP
10 13 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.82%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.88%) CISM
13 7 (1.65%) CCSE
13 7 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.65%) JNCIP
14 6 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (1.18%) JNCIS
16 4 (0.94%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.18%) GDPR
2 17 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.00%) SLA
3 15 (3.53%) NIST
4 9 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.65%) NCSC
6 6 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.41%) QA
7 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.47%) GMP
8 2 (0.47%) GxP
8 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.47%) PMO
9 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (19.06%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (4.47%) Docker
5 17 (4.00%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (3.53%) Hyper-V
8 14 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.35%) Squid
10 9 (2.12%) BitLocker
11 8 (1.88%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (1.65%) vSphere
13 6 (1.41%) Firmware
14 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.47%) NFS
14 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.24%) Ceph
15 1 (0.24%) iptables
15 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 99 (23.29%) Terraform
2 66 (15.53%) Ansible
3 52 (12.24%) Kubernetes
4 40 (9.41%) FortiGate
5 33 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (6.59%) Grafana
6 28 (6.59%) Prometheus
7 23 (5.41%) SCCM
8 14 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.82%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.35%) Puppet
11 9 (2.12%) Consul
12 8 (1.88%) QRadar
12 8 (1.88%) vMotion
13 6 (1.41%) WSUS
14 4 (0.94%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.94%) SCOM
14 4 (0.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 4 (0.94%) VxRail
15 3 (0.71%) CASB
Vendors
1 135 (31.76%) Cisco
2 131 (30.82%) Microsoft
3 102 (24.00%) Palo Alto
4 69 (16.24%) Fortinet
5 54 (12.71%) VMware
6 52 (12.24%) CheckPoint
7 48 (11.29%) F5
8 37 (8.71%) Juniper
9 27 (6.35%) Arista
10 25 (5.88%) Citrix
10 25 (5.88%) Zscaler
11 23 (5.41%) Aruba
12 21 (4.94%) Google
13 20 (4.71%) Dynatrace
14 17 (4.00%) Splunk
15 16 (3.76%) ServiceNow
16 15 (3.53%) NetApp
17 13 (3.06%) Meraki
18 12 (2.82%) Bloomberg
19 11 (2.59%) AppDynamics