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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 61 72
Rank change year-on-year -59 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 412 502 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.36% 3.95% 3.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.51% 37.80% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 303 342
10th Percentile £367 £350 £325
25th Percentile £447 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £694 £775
England median daily rate £500 £520 £511
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.71% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.08
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £24.34
75th Percentile £38.75 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £16.60 £68.25
% change year-on-year +237.35% -75.68% +10.08%

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 1,396 1,328 1,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.01% 10.45% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 861 1,151
10th Percentile £300 £265 £209
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -10.15%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 65
10th Percentile £20.23 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.84 £25.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £43.75 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% +98.86% -54.37%
75th Percentile £33.90 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £84.50 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £49.36 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.70% -8.39% +111.30%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -50 41 £550 - 37
South London -4 19 £519 +6.92% 2
East London -7 3 £719 +22.91%
West London -40 2 £375 -6.25% 10
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 29 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (3.64%) Confluence
3 13 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.43%) nginx
5 3 (0.73%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 180 (43.69%) Azure
2 98 (23.79%) AWS
3 66 (16.02%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (12.62%) Entra ID
5 49 (11.89%) GCP
6 30 (7.28%) GitHub
7 28 (6.80%) SaaS
7 28 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.55%) IaaS
9 26 (6.31%) PaaS
10 23 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (5.10%) Serverless
13 18 (4.37%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (4.13%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 127 (30.83%) Network Security
2 123 (29.85%) VPN
3 104 (25.24%) WAN
4 84 (20.39%) DNS
5 71 (17.23%) BGP
6 60 (14.56%) LAN
7 56 (13.59%) OSPF
8 50 (12.14%) TCP/IP
9 48 (11.65%) SD-WAN
10 36 (8.74%) VLAN
11 34 (8.25%) DHCP
11 34 (8.25%) MPLS
12 33 (8.01%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (6.55%) Multicast
14 23 (5.58%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (4.85%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (4.37%) Cisco Nexus
16 18 (4.37%) Wireless
17 17 (4.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 17 (4.13%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.97%) MySQL
4 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.73%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.73%) Power BI
6 2 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.49%) Metadata
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.24%) DB2
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (5.34%) Jenkins
1 22 (5.34%) JIRA
2 21 (5.10%) Git
3 10 (2.43%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.94%) GitLab
5 7 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.46%) Chocolatey
7 5 (1.21%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 99 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.23%) Finance
3 41 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.01%) Documentation Skills
5 31 (7.52%) Banking
6 29 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 16 (3.88%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.91%) Legal
8 12 (2.91%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.67%) Local Government
10 9 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.94%) Front Office
11 8 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.70%) Law
12 7 (1.70%) Retail
13 4 (0.97%) Military
13 4 (0.97%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.73%) Police
15 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (24.27%) Network Engineer
2 67 (16.26%) Architect
3 53 (12.86%) Senior
4 41 (9.95%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (9.71%) Security Engineer
6 22 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 18 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.37%) Network Security Engineer
9 17 (4.13%) Network Architect
10 16 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.64%) Analyst
11 15 (3.64%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (3.40%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.40%) Security Architect
12 14 (3.40%) Site Engineer
13 13 (3.16%) Consultant
14 12 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
15 11 (2.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 11 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.37%) OpenID
2 13 (3.16%) LDAP
3 11 (2.67%) SAML
4 6 (1.46%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.46%) XML
5 5 (1.21%) JSON
5 5 (1.21%) Middleware
5 5 (1.21%) REST
6 4 (0.97%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.97%) HTML
6 4 (0.97%) Jinja
6 4 (0.97%) VML
7 3 (0.73%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.73%) CSS
7 3 (0.73%) LAMP
7 3 (0.73%) Node.js
7 3 (0.73%) OAuth
7 3 (0.73%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.73%) Web Services
8 2 (0.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.56%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.61%) PKI
5 18 (4.37%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.91%) Replication
8 11 (2.67%) Clustering
9 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.18%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.94%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.46%) IoT
13 5 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.97%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.97%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.97%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 96 (23.30%) Windows
2 44 (10.68%) Linux
2 44 (10.68%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.37%) VMS
4 7 (1.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.46%) Unix
6 3 (0.73%) SUSE
6 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.49%) Android
7 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (21.84%) DevOps
2 80 (19.42%) Migration
3 72 (17.48%) CI/CD
4 71 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (16.50%) Cybersecurity
6 62 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (13.11%) Load Balancing
8 53 (12.86%) ITIL
9 48 (11.65%) Agile
10 38 (9.22%) Cloud Security
11 37 (8.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 37 (8.98%) SIEM
12 36 (8.74%) Validation
13 34 (8.25%) Project Delivery
14 33 (8.01%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (7.52%) Change Management
16 31 (7.52%) Incident Response
16 31 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (7.04%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 67 (16.26%) PowerShell
2 66 (16.02%) Python
3 24 (5.83%) Bash
4 17 (4.13%) SQL
5 11 (2.67%) Bicep
6 8 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.70%) Perl
8 6 (1.46%) Java
9 4 (0.97%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.49%) Groovy
10 2 (0.49%) PHP
10 2 (0.49%) Ruby
11 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.24%) Go
11 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 69 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 63 (15.29%) Cisco Certification
4 51 (12.38%) CCNP
5 32 (7.77%) Azure Certification
5 32 (7.77%) Degree
6 25 (6.07%) DV Cleared
7 22 (5.34%) CCIE
8 21 (5.10%) CCNA
9 15 (3.64%) CISSP
10 13 (3.16%) AWS Certification
11 11 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.43%) CISM
13 9 (2.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (1.70%) CCSE
15 7 (1.70%) JNCIP
16 6 (1.46%) CEH
16 6 (1.46%) GIAC
16 6 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.34%) GDPR
2 18 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.13%) SLA
4 16 (3.88%) NIST
5 9 (2.18%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.70%) NCSC
7 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.21%) QA
9 3 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.49%) PMO
11 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (18.45%) Active Directory
2 42 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (4.85%) Docker
5 17 (4.13%) VMware NSX
6 16 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (3.64%) Hyper-V
8 12 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (2.43%) Squid
10 9 (2.18%) BitLocker
11 8 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (1.70%) vSphere
13 6 (1.46%) Firmware
14 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.49%) NFS
15 2 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
16 1 (0.24%) Samba
16 1 (0.24%) Snort
16 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 88 (21.36%) Terraform
2 63 (15.29%) Ansible
3 49 (11.89%) Kubernetes
4 41 (9.95%) FortiGate
5 31 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (5.83%) SCCM
7 23 (5.58%) Prometheus
8 22 (5.34%) Grafana
9 14 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.91%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.43%) Puppet
12 9 (2.18%) Consul
13 8 (1.94%) vMotion
14 6 (1.46%) QRadar
14 6 (1.46%) WSUS
15 4 (0.97%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.97%) SCOM
15 4 (0.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.97%) VxRail
16 3 (0.73%) CASB
Vendors
1 128 (31.07%) Cisco
2 125 (30.34%) Microsoft
3 95 (23.06%) Palo Alto
4 65 (15.78%) Fortinet
5 53 (12.86%) VMware
6 48 (11.65%) CheckPoint
6 48 (11.65%) F5
7 36 (8.74%) Juniper
8 25 (6.07%) Arista
8 25 (6.07%) Citrix
9 24 (5.83%) Zscaler
10 22 (5.34%) Aruba
11 21 (5.10%) Google
12 16 (3.88%) ServiceNow
13 15 (3.64%) Dynatrace
13 15 (3.64%) NetApp
14 14 (3.40%) Splunk
15 12 (2.91%) Meraki
16 11 (2.67%) Red Hat
16 11 (2.67%) Tenable