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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 68 83
Rank change year-on-year -57 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing Firewall 487 508 488
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 3.77% 3.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.34% 37.46% 31.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 301 323
10th Percentile £363 £350 £339
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £660 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +158.33% +26.05% -66.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £102.50 - £45.67
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +124.90% -17.24% -45.06%

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 1,660 1,356 1,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.17% 10.05% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 859 981
10th Percentile £295 £289 £250
25th Percentile £404 £404 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £713 £713
England median daily rate £500 £492 £508
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.05% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.60 £20.40
25th Percentile £20.00 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -28.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £46.81 £55.88
90th Percentile £102.50 £61.95 £66.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -14 80 £525 -4.55% 47
South London -16 17 £506 +1.25% 10
West London -54 8 £550 +29.41% 6
East London -1 4 £500 -14.53% 9
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 23 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.46%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) Apache
4 3 (0.62%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.41%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 210 (43.12%) Azure
2 108 (22.18%) AWS
3 69 (14.17%) Entra ID
4 57 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.37%) GCP
5 31 (6.37%) GitHub
6 26 (5.34%) IaaS
7 25 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 23 (4.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 23 (4.72%) SaaS
9 21 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (4.11%) PaaS
11 18 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (3.70%) Serverless
12 17 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (3.08%) Amazon S3
15 13 (2.67%) Datadog
15 13 (2.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 150 (30.80%) VPN
2 149 (30.60%) Network Security
3 126 (25.87%) WAN
4 120 (24.64%) DNS
5 79 (16.22%) BGP
6 74 (15.20%) TCP/IP
7 69 (14.17%) LAN
7 69 (14.17%) VLAN
8 58 (11.91%) DHCP
9 50 (10.27%) Wireless
10 41 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (7.80%) OSPF
12 37 (7.60%) SD-WAN
13 29 (5.95%) Multicast
14 24 (4.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 24 (4.93%) MPLS
15 23 (4.72%) NGFW
16 22 (4.52%) Internet
17 21 (4.31%) Cisco ISE
18 20 (4.11%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.49%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.05%) Power BI
4 9 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.82%) Db2
8 3 (0.62%) Big Data
8 3 (0.62%) Metadata
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.41%) MySQL
9 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (5.13%) Git
2 22 (4.52%) JIRA
3 21 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.05%) GitLab
5 7 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.03%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.62%) MSI
7 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.66%) Finance
3 52 (10.68%) Banking
4 45 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.31%) Telecoms
6 20 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.29%) Local Government
8 13 (2.67%) Retail
9 11 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.85%) Front Office
11 9 (1.85%) Legal
12 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.03%) Law
13 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.82%) Automotive
14 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 170 (34.91%) Network Engineer
2 70 (14.37%) Senior
3 47 (9.65%) Architect
4 43 (8.83%) Security Engineer
5 37 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (6.78%) Senior Network Engineer
9 32 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 31 (6.37%) Network Security Engineer
11 29 (5.95%) Consultant
12 26 (5.34%) Cisco Engineer
13 25 (5.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 24 (4.93%) Network Architect
15 20 (4.11%) Security Architect
16 19 (3.90%) Firewall Engineer
17 17 (3.49%) Project Manager
18 16 (3.29%) Analyst
18 16 (3.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 15 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.56%) Terraform
2 14 (2.87%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.26%) OpenID
4 10 (2.05%) REST
4 10 (2.05%) SAML
5 8 (1.64%) Middleware
5 8 (1.64%) OAuth
6 7 (1.44%) LDAP
7 6 (1.23%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.03%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.82%) .NET
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
10 2 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.41%) RFC 2544
11 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.21%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.21%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.43%) Data Centre
2 34 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (3.90%) PKI
5 18 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.29%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (2.67%) Replication
9 11 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (2.26%) IoT
9 11 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 10 (2.05%) Clustering
10 10 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.85%) CMDB
11 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.64%) Digital Signage
12 8 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.64%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (24.02%) Windows
2 60 (12.32%) Linux
3 44 (9.03%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.26%) Unix
6 8 (1.64%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (1.44%) VMS
8 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.62%) SUSE
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.41%) Android
11 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (19.30%) Migration
2 85 (17.45%) DevOps
3 80 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (13.55%) CI/CD
4 66 (13.55%) ITIL
5 63 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 62 (12.73%) Cybersecurity
7 57 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 56 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (11.29%) Project Delivery
10 50 (10.27%) Zero Trust
11 49 (10.06%) Agile
12 47 (9.65%) Change Management
12 47 (9.65%) Cloud Security
12 47 (9.65%) Load Balancing
13 44 (9.03%) High Availability
13 44 (9.03%) Incident Response
14 40 (8.21%) SIEM
15 39 (8.01%) Validation
16 34 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 102 (20.94%) Python
2 80 (16.43%) PowerShell
3 46 (9.45%) Bash
4 14 (2.87%) SQL
5 13 (2.67%) Bicep
6 9 (1.85%) Groovy
6 9 (1.85%) Java
7 7 (1.44%) Perl
8 3 (0.62%) C++
8 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.21%) C
9 1 (0.21%) Go
9 1 (0.21%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.21%) VB
9 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 92 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (14.37%) SC Cleared
4 64 (13.14%) CCNP
5 44 (9.03%) Degree
6 34 (6.98%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.52%) CISSP
8 18 (3.70%) CCNA
9 17 (3.49%) DV Cleared
10 16 (3.29%) CISM
10 16 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.46%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.26%) CCIE
13 10 (2.05%) PMI Certification
13 10 (2.05%) PMP
14 6 (1.23%) CCSE
14 6 (1.23%) JNCIP
14 6 (1.23%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.03%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.70%) NIST
3 11 (2.26%) GDPR
3 11 (2.26%) SLA
4 9 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.44%) QA
7 6 (1.23%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.03%) NCSC
9 4 (0.82%) COBIT
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.62%) GRC
11 2 (0.41%) GMP
11 2 (0.41%) GxP
11 2 (0.41%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (15.81%) Active Directory
2 35 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (5.95%) Docker
4 21 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (2.67%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.64%) Squid
8 7 (1.44%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.44%) Firmware
8 7 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.23%) vSphere
10 5 (1.03%) NFS
11 4 (0.82%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.41%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.41%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.41%) Postfix
14 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (14.37%) Ansible
2 47 (9.65%) FortiGate
3 40 (8.21%) Kubernetes
4 36 (7.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (6.98%) Grafana
6 32 (6.57%) Prometheus
7 27 (5.54%) SCCM
8 13 (2.67%) Puppet
9 12 (2.46%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
12 7 (1.44%) systemd
12 7 (1.44%) WSUS
13 6 (1.23%) Nessus
13 6 (1.23%) vMotion
14 4 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.82%) Suricata
15 3 (0.62%) Avamar
15 3 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 191 (39.22%) Cisco
2 132 (27.10%) Palo Alto
3 123 (25.26%) Microsoft
4 97 (19.92%) Fortinet
5 50 (10.27%) F5
6 47 (9.65%) VMware
7 42 (8.62%) CheckPoint
8 38 (7.80%) Juniper
9 37 (7.60%) Zscaler
10 26 (5.34%) Arista
11 25 (5.13%) Splunk
12 21 (4.31%) Citrix
13 20 (4.11%) Google
13 20 (4.11%) Meraki
13 20 (4.11%) ServiceNow
14 19 (3.90%) Dynatrace
15 16 (3.29%) Aruba
16 15 (3.08%) AppDynamics
17 12 (2.46%) Infoblox
17 12 (2.46%) Tenable