Firewall Contracts in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +44
Contract jobs citing Firewall 490 567 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.91% 3.18% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.26% 32.98% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 344 619
10th Percentile £325 £338 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +12.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £663
90th Percentile £696 £775 £738
England median daily rate £518 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.30% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 10
10th Percentile - £13.73 £30.40
25th Percentile - £17.81 £32.31
Median hourly rate - £23.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -49.49% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £25.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £60.00 £82.38
England median hourly rate £14.20 £60.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -76.33% -3.23% +117.54%

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 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +2 79 £550 +25.71% 42
West London +19 18 £400 -23.81% 18
East London +8 7 £585 - 4
South London +12 6 £500 -25.93% 10
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.33%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.06%) Confluence
4 6 (1.22%) nginx
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.61%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) IIS
7 2 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 19 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Alphatax
1 2 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 210 (42.86%) Azure
2 131 (26.73%) AWS
3 53 (10.82%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (8.98%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 35 (7.14%) GCP
6 32 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (6.12%) Serverless
8 26 (5.31%) IaaS
9 24 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (3.27%) OneDrive
12 13 (2.65%) GitHub
12 13 (2.65%) SaaS
13 11 (2.24%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.24%) PaaS
13 11 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 152 (31.02%) VPN
2 142 (28.98%) Network Security
3 109 (22.24%) DNS
4 97 (19.80%) WAN
5 73 (14.90%) BGP
6 69 (14.08%) OSPF
7 58 (11.84%) LAN
8 53 (10.82%) SD-WAN
9 49 (10.00%) Wireless
10 41 (8.37%) MPLS
10 41 (8.37%) TCP/IP
11 39 (7.96%) DHCP
11 39 (7.96%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (5.92%) IPsec
13 27 (5.51%) NGFW
13 27 (5.51%) VLAN
14 26 (5.31%) EIGRP
15 24 (4.90%) SSL
16 22 (4.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 21 (4.29%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (1.63%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.22%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Hive
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (1.02%) Parquet
5 5 (1.02%) Presto
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.61%) Power BI
7 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.41%) MySQL
7 2 (0.41%) Redis
8 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.20%) Big Data
8 1 (0.20%) IDOL
8 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (3.67%) JIRA
2 17 (3.47%) Git
3 15 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.86%) GitLab
5 8 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.02%) Poetry
7 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.41%) MSI
9 1 (0.20%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.20%) Maven
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 117 (23.88%) Finance
3 49 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (9.59%) Banking
5 35 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.45%) Marketing
9 9 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.43%) Legal
11 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.02%) Law
12 5 (1.02%) Spanish Language
13 4 (0.82%) Electronics
13 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.61%) Advertising
14 3 (0.61%) Local Government
14 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (29.59%) Network Engineer
2 69 (14.08%) Architect
3 49 (10.00%) Senior
4 46 (9.39%) Security Engineer
5 42 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 39 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
7 36 (7.35%) Security Architect
8 26 (5.31%) Network Architect
8 26 (5.31%) Network Security Engineer
8 26 (5.31%) Support Engineer
9 24 (4.90%) Analyst
10 23 (4.69%) Consultant
11 19 (3.88%) Lead
12 18 (3.67%) Firewall Engineer
12 18 (3.67%) Senior Network Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Cisco Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 17 (3.47%) Network Support
13 17 (3.47%) Network Support Engineer
14 16 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.27%) ADO
2 15 (3.06%) 802.1X
3 12 (2.45%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.84%) React
5 8 (1.63%) .NET
6 6 (1.22%) RESTful
7 5 (1.02%) Dask
7 5 (1.02%) LAPP Stack
7 5 (1.02%) Web Services
8 4 (0.82%) JSON
8 4 (0.82%) LDAP
8 4 (0.82%) OAuth
8 4 (0.82%) OpenID
8 4 (0.82%) REST
9 3 (0.61%) Node.js
9 3 (0.61%) SAML
9 3 (0.61%) Spring
9 3 (0.61%) XML
9 3 (0.61%) YAML
10 2 (0.41%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.41%) Data Centre
2 21 (4.29%) Security Posture
3 18 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.47%) Anti-Spyware
4 17 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
6 11 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.04%) PKI
8 9 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.02%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.82%) Clustering
12 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 102 (20.82%) Windows
2 57 (11.63%) Linux
3 42 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 28 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.86%) Unix
6 5 (1.02%) CatOS
6 5 (1.02%) CentOS
7 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.82%) Mac OS X
7 4 (0.82%) VMS
7 4 (0.82%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.41%) Rocky
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (17.35%) Migration
2 83 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (13.88%) DevOps
4 66 (13.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (12.24%) Agile
6 56 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 49 (10.00%) Cloud Security
8 46 (9.39%) Network Monitoring
9 45 (9.18%) SIEM
10 42 (8.57%) CI/CD
10 42 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
11 40 (8.16%) Incident Response
12 39 (7.96%) ITIL
13 37 (7.55%) Project Delivery
14 33 (6.73%) Security Operations
15 32 (6.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (5.92%) Computer Science
16 29 (5.92%) Project Management
17 27 (5.51%) High Availability
18 26 (5.31%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.57%) Python
2 60 (12.24%) PowerShell
3 30 (6.12%) Bicep
4 25 (5.10%) Bash
4 25 (5.10%) SQL
5 11 (2.24%) Java
6 9 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.43%) Perl
8 6 (1.22%) C#
8 6 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.61%) Go
11 2 (0.41%) PHP
12 1 (0.20%) Groovy
12 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 92 (18.78%) Cisco Certification
2 83 (16.94%) Security Cleared
3 69 (14.08%) CCNP
4 62 (12.65%) SC Cleared
5 48 (9.80%) Degree
6 28 (5.71%) CCNA
7 27 (5.51%) CISSP
8 20 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.67%) CCIE
10 16 (3.27%) Azure Certification
10 16 (3.27%) DV Cleared
11 13 (2.65%) CISM
12 12 (2.45%) AWS Certification
13 11 (2.24%) CCSA
13 11 (2.24%) CEH
13 11 (2.24%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (1.63%) CCSE
14 8 (1.63%) CISA
14 8 (1.63%) JNCIA
14 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.71%) NIST
2 21 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.86%) GDPR
4 12 (2.45%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.04%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.63%) GRC
7 5 (1.02%) SLA
8 4 (0.82%) NCSC
8 4 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) DICOM
10 2 (0.41%) HL7
10 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.41%) QA
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (15.10%) Active Directory
2 33 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.29%) Docker
5 8 (1.63%) Firmware
5 8 (1.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.61%) iptables
9 2 (0.41%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.41%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.41%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.20%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (17.55%) Terraform
2 64 (13.06%) Ansible
3 47 (9.59%) Kubernetes
4 36 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (4.69%) FortiGate
6 19 (3.88%) SCCM
7 16 (3.27%) Puppet
8 13 (2.65%) ZABBIX
9 11 (2.24%) Progress Chef
10 10 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.22%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (1.02%) Nagios
13 4 (0.82%) CASB
13 4 (0.82%) SELinux
14 3 (0.61%) CA Spectrum
14 3 (0.61%) Grafana
14 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.61%) QRadar
14 3 (0.61%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 176 (35.92%) Cisco
2 121 (24.69%) Microsoft
3 98 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 76 (15.51%) CheckPoint
4 76 (15.51%) Fortinet
5 50 (10.20%) F5
6 45 (9.18%) VMware
7 39 (7.96%) Juniper
8 36 (7.35%) SolarWinds
9 35 (7.14%) Meraki
10 30 (6.12%) Infoblox
11 25 (5.10%) Google
12 24 (4.90%) Arista
13 18 (3.67%) Oracle
14 16 (3.27%) Splunk
15 15 (3.06%) Citrix
16 14 (2.86%) Aruba
17 13 (2.65%) Zscaler
18 8 (1.63%) SAP
19 7 (1.43%) Red Hat