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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -57 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Firewall 424 486 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.30% 4.02% 3.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.75% 38.91% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 288 342
10th Percentile £385 £313 £338
25th Percentile £431 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £648
90th Percentile £673 £700 £742
England median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £40.00 - £13.40
25th Percentile £45.63 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £71.88 - £25.00
90th Percentile £76.00 - £53.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £21.40 £60.00
% change year-on-year +161.74% -64.34% -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 1,475 1,249 1,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.99% 10.32% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 806 1,118
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.38%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +135.29%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -38 41 £550 -2.61% 44
South London +2 20 £519 +3.71% 8
West London -34 4 £375 -6.25% 6
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -15 1 £719 +22.91% 4
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 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.01%) Confluence
3 15 (3.54%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.36%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) MTS
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 176 (41.51%) Azure
2 108 (25.47%) AWS
3 60 (14.15%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (12.74%) Entra ID
5 49 (11.56%) GCP
6 35 (8.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 33 (7.78%) GitHub
8 28 (6.60%) IaaS
9 24 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.66%) PaaS
10 22 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (5.19%) SaaS
11 21 (4.95%) Serverless
12 19 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.48%) Amazon S3
13 18 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (4.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 16 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (3.54%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 134 (31.60%) Network Security
2 133 (31.37%) VPN
3 106 (25.00%) WAN
4 97 (22.88%) DNS
5 76 (17.92%) BGP
6 62 (14.62%) LAN
6 62 (14.62%) TCP/IP
7 55 (12.97%) OSPF
8 44 (10.38%) VLAN
9 41 (9.67%) SD-WAN
10 36 (8.49%) DHCP
11 30 (7.08%) Multicast
11 30 (7.08%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (6.84%) MPLS
13 26 (6.13%) Wireless
14 22 (5.19%) NGFW
15 21 (4.95%) Cisco IOS
16 19 (4.48%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (4.01%) SSL
18 16 (3.77%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.36%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.12%) Power BI
4 6 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.71%) Metadata
6 3 (0.71%) MySQL
7 2 (0.47%) Big Data
7 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) Redis
8 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.90%) JIRA
2 23 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.72%) Git
4 9 (2.12%) GitLab
5 8 (1.89%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.42%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 88 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.45%) Finance
3 40 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.02%) Banking
5 32 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.83%) Legal
8 12 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.12%) Front Office
10 9 (2.12%) Local Government
11 8 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.65%) Law
13 5 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.94%) Military
14 4 (0.94%) Retail
15 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 121 (28.54%) Network Engineer
2 67 (15.80%) Architect
3 53 (12.50%) Senior
4 41 (9.67%) Security Engineer
5 39 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.13%) Network Security Engineer
8 24 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.95%) Senior Network Engineer
11 17 (4.01%) Network Architect
12 15 (3.54%) Security Architect
12 15 (3.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.30%) Analyst
13 14 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
14 12 (2.83%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (2.59%) Cisco Engineer
15 11 (2.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 11 (2.59%) Consultant
15 11 (2.59%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.01%) OpenID
2 12 (2.83%) LDAP
3 9 (2.12%) SAML
4 6 (1.42%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.42%) OAuth
5 5 (1.18%) Middleware
5 5 (1.18%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.94%) HTML
6 4 (0.94%) Jinja
7 3 (0.71%) .NET
7 3 (0.71%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.71%) CSS
7 3 (0.71%) REST
7 3 (0.71%) Web Services
8 2 (0.47%) eBPF
8 2 (0.47%) LAMP
8 2 (0.47%) Loki
8 2 (0.47%) YAML
9 1 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 65 (15.33%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.48%) PKI
5 17 (4.01%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.07%) Clustering
7 12 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (2.12%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.12%) Replication
9 8 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.18%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.18%) IoT
12 5 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.64%) Windows
2 43 (10.14%) Linux
3 40 (9.43%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.01%) VMS
5 8 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.89%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.71%) SUSE
7 3 (0.71%) Unix
8 2 (0.47%) Android
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (21.23%) DevOps
2 78 (18.40%) Migration
3 77 (18.16%) CI/CD
4 73 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (14.15%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (13.21%) ITIL
7 54 (12.74%) Agile
7 54 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (11.79%) Load Balancing
9 41 (9.67%) Validation
10 40 (9.43%) Cloud Security
10 40 (9.43%) Project Delivery
11 37 (8.73%) Zero Trust
12 35 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (8.25%) SIEM
12 35 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (8.02%) Runbook
14 33 (7.78%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.55%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.04%) Python
2 64 (15.09%) PowerShell
3 29 (6.84%) Bash
4 15 (3.54%) SQL
5 9 (2.12%) Bicep
6 7 (1.65%) Java
7 6 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.18%) Perl
9 4 (0.94%) Groovy
10 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.47%) PHP
12 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Go
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 104 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 81 (19.10%) SC Cleared
3 68 (16.04%) Cisco Certification
4 56 (13.21%) CCNP
5 35 (8.25%) Azure Certification
6 31 (7.31%) Degree
7 23 (5.42%) DV Cleared
8 17 (4.01%) CCIE
9 16 (3.77%) CISSP
10 15 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (3.30%) AWS Certification
11 14 (3.30%) CCNA
12 9 (2.12%) CISM
13 8 (1.89%) CCSE
14 7 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.72%) GDPR
2 17 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (3.77%) NIST
4 14 (3.30%) SLA
5 10 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.42%) NCSC
6 6 (1.42%) QA
7 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.94%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.71%) GRC
10 2 (0.47%) GMP
10 2 (0.47%) GxP
10 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.47%) PMO
11 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.95%) Docker
4 18 (4.25%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (3.54%) VMware NSX
7 14 (3.30%) Squid
8 12 (2.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (2.59%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.65%) vSphere
12 6 (1.42%) Firmware
13 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.24%) NFS
15 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 99 (23.35%) Terraform
2 72 (16.98%) Ansible
3 57 (13.44%) Kubernetes
4 37 (8.73%) FortiGate
4 37 (8.73%) Grafana
5 34 (8.02%) Prometheus
6 30 (7.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (4.95%) SCCM
8 15 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (3.07%) Puppet
9 13 (3.07%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.36%) Consul
10 10 (2.36%) vMotion
11 7 (1.65%) WSUS
12 6 (1.42%) QRadar
13 5 (1.18%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.94%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.94%) Suricata
14 4 (0.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 4 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 140 (33.02%) Cisco
2 119 (28.07%) Microsoft
3 113 (26.65%) Palo Alto
4 80 (18.87%) Fortinet
5 53 (12.50%) VMware
6 50 (11.79%) CheckPoint
7 43 (10.14%) F5
8 34 (8.02%) Arista
8 34 (8.02%) Juniper
9 26 (6.13%) Citrix
9 26 (6.13%) Google
10 24 (5.66%) Zscaler
11 23 (5.42%) Dynatrace
12 19 (4.48%) Aruba
13 16 (3.77%) ServiceNow
13 16 (3.77%) Splunk
14 14 (3.30%) AppDynamics
15 13 (3.07%) Infoblox
16 12 (2.83%) NetApp
16 12 (2.83%) Red Hat