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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 59 78
Rank change year-on-year -59 +19 -12
Contract jobs citing Firewall 475 562 523
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 4.12% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.35% 40.09% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 349 335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £275
25th Percentile £419 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £607
90th Percentile £651 £704 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.17% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £31.90 - £12.75
25th Percentile £36.25 - £19.90
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +26.05% -60.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £63.75 £30.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year +112.50% -44.19% -17.31%

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 1,565 1,402 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.90% 10.27% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 914 1,082
10th Percentile £300 £275 £231
25th Percentile £410 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £724 £725 £713
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 43
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.33 £14.68
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £17.32
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.05% -33.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.27% +10.00% -9.86%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -31 61 £525 -4.55% 19
South London -8 23 £506 -11.96% 3
West London -55 5 £450 +7.46% 7
East London -9 2 £435 -25.73% 2
North London - 2 £438 -
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 21 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.37%) Confluence
3 12 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.89%) nginx
5 4 (0.84%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.21%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 199 (41.89%) Azure
2 115 (24.21%) AWS
3 63 (13.26%) Entra ID
4 55 (11.58%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (8.63%) GCP
6 34 (7.16%) IaaS
7 33 (6.95%) GitHub
7 33 (6.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (5.68%) PaaS
8 27 (5.68%) SaaS
9 26 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (5.47%) Serverless
10 21 (4.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 20 (4.21%) Amazon S3
12 18 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (3.58%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (3.16%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 156 (32.84%) VPN
2 146 (30.74%) Network Security
3 122 (25.68%) DNS
4 114 (24.00%) WAN
5 87 (18.32%) BGP
6 74 (15.58%) TCP/IP
7 63 (13.26%) LAN
8 60 (12.63%) VLAN
9 55 (11.58%) OSPF
10 49 (10.32%) DHCP
11 38 (8.00%) Multicast
12 37 (7.79%) Wireless
13 36 (7.58%) SD-WAN
14 31 (6.53%) Wi-Fi
15 29 (6.11%) MPLS
16 27 (5.68%) NGFW
17 25 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
18 23 (4.84%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (4.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 19 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.32%) Power BI
4 8 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.84%) Db2
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.63%) Big Data
7 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.63%) Metadata
7 3 (0.63%) MySQL
8 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Redis
9 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (5.68%) JIRA
2 25 (5.26%) Git
3 17 (3.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.89%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.89%) GitLab
5 7 (1.47%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.47%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.21%) MSI
7 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 90 (18.95%) Finance
3 49 (10.32%) Banking
4 46 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.16%) Local Government
9 12 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.89%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.89%) Legal
11 8 (1.68%) Front Office
11 8 (1.68%) Retail
12 7 (1.47%) Law
13 6 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.84%) Publishing
16 3 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 160 (33.68%) Network Engineer
2 65 (13.68%) Architect
3 63 (13.26%) Senior
4 48 (10.11%) Security Engineer
5 40 (8.42%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (6.95%) Network Security Engineer
7 31 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (5.89%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
11 21 (4.42%) Consultant
12 19 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
12 19 (4.00%) Network Architect
13 18 (3.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 18 (3.79%) Security Architect
14 16 (3.37%) Firewall Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) Analyst
16 13 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (2.32%) Integration Engineer
17 11 (2.32%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.58%) OpenID
2 16 (3.37%) LDAP
3 12 (2.53%) SAML
4 9 (1.89%) 802.1X
5 8 (1.68%) Middleware
6 6 (1.26%) OAuth
7 5 (1.05%) .NET
7 5 (1.05%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.05%) OAuth2
8 4 (0.84%) Jinja
8 4 (0.84%) REST
9 2 (0.42%) eBPF
9 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.42%) LAMP
9 2 (0.42%) Loki
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.21%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.21%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.21%) JWT
10 1 (0.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 78 (16.42%) Data Centre
2 23 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 23 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.63%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.63%) Security Posture
4 20 (4.21%) PKI
5 14 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (2.32%) Clustering
7 11 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.68%) IoT
8 8 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.68%) Replication
9 7 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.26%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 103 (21.68%) Windows
2 52 (10.95%) Linux
3 37 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.89%) Unix
6 7 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.47%) VMS
7 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.63%) SUSE
10 2 (0.42%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (19.16%) DevOps
2 82 (17.26%) Migration
3 80 (16.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (14.53%) CI/CD
5 65 (13.68%) ITIL
6 58 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (10.74%) Agile
9 49 (10.32%) Load Balancing
10 48 (10.11%) Zero Trust
11 47 (9.89%) Project Delivery
11 47 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (9.47%) Validation
13 44 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 40 (8.42%) Runbook
15 39 (8.21%) Cloud Security
15 39 (8.21%) SIEM
16 38 (8.00%) Observability
17 37 (7.79%) Change Management
18 34 (7.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 92 (19.37%) Python
2 65 (13.68%) PowerShell
3 38 (8.00%) Bash
4 16 (3.37%) SQL
5 12 (2.53%) Bicep
6 8 (1.68%) Java
7 6 (1.26%) Perl
8 5 (1.05%) Groovy
8 5 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.63%) C++
10 2 (0.42%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 77 (16.21%) Cisco Certification
3 73 (15.37%) SC Cleared
4 67 (14.11%) CCNP
5 38 (8.00%) Degree
6 28 (5.89%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.21%) CCNA
7 20 (4.21%) DV Cleared
8 19 (4.00%) CCIE
8 19 (4.00%) CISSP
9 14 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (2.32%) CISM
12 9 (1.89%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.05%) CCSE
13 5 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.05%) JNCIP
13 5 (1.05%) JNCIS
14 4 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.37%) NIST
2 15 (3.16%) GDPR
2 15 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.74%) SLA
4 10 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.26%) NIST 800
6 6 (1.26%) QA
7 5 (1.05%) NCSC
8 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.42%) GMP
9 2 (0.42%) GRC
9 2 (0.42%) GxP
9 2 (0.42%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 71 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 40 (8.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.63%) Docker
4 21 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (2.95%) Squid
7 11 (2.32%) VMware NSX
8 9 (1.89%) BitLocker
8 9 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.68%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (1.68%) vSphere
10 6 (1.26%) Firmware
11 5 (1.05%) NFS
12 4 (0.84%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 103 (21.68%) Terraform
2 70 (14.74%) Ansible
3 52 (10.95%) FortiGate
4 51 (10.74%) Kubernetes
5 44 (9.26%) Grafana
6 41 (8.63%) Prometheus
7 29 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (4.63%) SCCM
9 17 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (3.37%) Puppet
11 13 (2.74%) vCenter Server
12 10 (2.11%) Consul
13 8 (1.68%) vMotion
14 6 (1.26%) Cisco Prime
14 6 (1.26%) WSUS
15 5 (1.05%) Progress Chef
15 5 (1.05%) systemd
16 4 (0.84%) QRadar
16 4 (0.84%) Suricata
16 4 (0.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 175 (36.84%) Cisco
2 129 (27.16%) Palo Alto
3 118 (24.84%) Microsoft
4 95 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 57 (12.00%) F5
6 53 (11.16%) VMware
7 46 (9.68%) CheckPoint
8 43 (9.05%) Juniper
9 36 (7.58%) Arista
10 33 (6.95%) Zscaler
11 28 (5.89%) Citrix
12 27 (5.68%) Dynatrace
13 25 (5.26%) Splunk
14 19 (4.00%) Google
15 17 (3.58%) AppDynamics
16 16 (3.37%) Red Hat
17 15 (3.16%) Infoblox
17 15 (3.16%) ServiceNow
18 14 (2.95%) Aruba
18 14 (2.95%) Tenable