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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 66 73
Rank change year-on-year -57 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 433 496 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 3.97% 3.09%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.71% 38.42% 32.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 299 346
10th Percentile £368 £323 £331
25th Percentile £424 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £665 £714 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 13
10th Percentile £31.90 - £13.40
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £53.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +86.67% -50.00% -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 1,508 1,291 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.32% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 838 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.88 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.40
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +58.56% -35.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.63 £63.05 £60.00
England median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
% change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -45 48 £550 +0.05% 17
South London +10 22 £506 +1.25% 5
West London -40 4 £375 -6.25% 9
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -11 1 £719 +22.91% 2
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 26 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.93%) Confluence
2 17 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.08%) nginx
4 2 (0.46%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 171 (39.49%) Azure
2 107 (24.71%) AWS
3 58 (13.39%) Entra ID
4 56 (12.93%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (10.39%) GCP
6 37 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 36 (8.31%) GitHub
8 26 (6.00%) IaaS
9 25 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (5.77%) Serverless
10 24 (5.54%) PaaS
10 24 (5.54%) SaaS
11 23 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (4.85%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (4.16%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (3.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 14 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 140 (32.33%) Network Security
2 137 (31.64%) VPN
3 108 (24.94%) WAN
4 104 (24.02%) DNS
5 77 (17.78%) BGP
6 65 (15.01%) TCP/IP
7 60 (13.86%) LAN
8 53 (12.24%) OSPF
9 48 (11.09%) VLAN
10 41 (9.47%) SD-WAN
11 40 (9.24%) DHCP
12 31 (7.16%) Multicast
13 28 (6.47%) MPLS
13 28 (6.47%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (6.24%) Wireless
15 23 (5.31%) Cisco IOS
15 23 (5.31%) NGFW
16 20 (4.62%) SSL
17 19 (4.39%) Cisco ASA
18 18 (4.16%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.31%) Power BI
2 10 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.69%) Big Data
5 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.69%) Metadata
5 3 (0.69%) MySQL
6 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.23%) Redis
6 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (6.24%) JIRA
2 22 (5.08%) Git
2 22 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.08%) Artifactory
3 9 (2.08%) GitLab
4 7 (1.62%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.62%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.39%) Chocolatey
6 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.78%) Finance
3 41 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.31%) Banking
4 36 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.16%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 13 (3.00%) Legal
8 12 (2.77%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.54%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.54%) Local Government
10 9 (2.08%) Front Office
11 8 (1.85%) Law
12 7 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.15%) Retail
14 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Publishing
15 3 (0.69%) Military
15 3 (0.69%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 130 (30.02%) Network Engineer
2 69 (15.94%) Architect
3 51 (11.78%) Senior
4 44 (10.16%) Security Engineer
5 38 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
6 32 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (6.93%) Network Security Engineer
8 28 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.85%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (4.62%) Network Architect
12 17 (3.93%) Security Architect
13 14 (3.23%) Analyst
14 13 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (2.54%) Consultant
16 11 (2.54%) Integration Engineer
16 11 (2.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 10 (2.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 10 (2.31%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.93%) OpenID
2 12 (2.77%) LDAP
3 11 (2.54%) SAML
4 6 (1.39%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.39%) OAuth
5 5 (1.15%) .NET
5 5 (1.15%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.92%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.92%) Jinja
6 4 (0.92%) Middleware
6 4 (0.92%) REST
7 3 (0.69%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.69%) Web Services
8 2 (0.46%) CSS
8 2 (0.46%) eBPF
8 2 (0.46%) HTML
8 2 (0.46%) LAMP
8 2 (0.46%) Loki
9 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.70%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 23 (5.31%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (4.85%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.70%) PKI
7 14 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (3.00%) Clustering
9 12 (2.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.62%) Replication
12 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.39%) IoT
12 6 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.39%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 94 (21.71%) Windows
2 48 (11.09%) Linux
3 34 (7.85%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (3.00%) VMS
5 7 (1.62%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.69%) SUSE
7 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.46%) Android
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (22.17%) DevOps
2 83 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (18.24%) CI/CD
3 79 (18.24%) Migration
4 58 (13.39%) ITIL
5 56 (12.93%) Agile
5 56 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
6 54 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (11.55%) Load Balancing
8 43 (9.93%) Validation
9 41 (9.47%) Zero Trust
10 39 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (8.78%) Cloud Security
12 37 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (8.31%) Runbook
13 36 (8.31%) SIEM
14 35 (8.08%) Project Delivery
15 33 (7.62%) High Availability
15 33 (7.62%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 81 (18.71%) Python
2 65 (15.01%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.62%) Bash
4 16 (3.70%) SQL
5 11 (2.54%) Bicep
6 7 (1.62%) Java
7 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.15%) Perl
8 4 (0.92%) Groovy
9 3 (0.69%) C++
10 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 69 (15.94%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (13.63%) CCNP
5 35 (8.08%) Degree
6 28 (6.47%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.85%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.16%) CCIE
9 17 (3.93%) CCNA
10 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (3.46%) CISSP
12 10 (2.31%) AWS Certification
13 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.85%) CCSE
14 8 (1.85%) CISM
15 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.92%) MCSA
15 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.16%) GDPR
2 16 (3.70%) NIST
3 14 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.23%) SLA
4 10 (2.31%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.39%) NCSC
5 6 (1.39%) QA
6 5 (1.15%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.69%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) GMP
8 2 (0.46%) GxP
8 2 (0.46%) PMO
9 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 71 (16.40%) Active Directory
2 44 (10.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.08%) Docker
4 21 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (4.16%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (3.70%) VMware NSX
7 14 (3.23%) Squid
8 13 (3.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (2.54%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.31%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.62%) vSphere
12 6 (1.39%) Firmware
13 4 (0.92%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.46%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.23%) NFS
15 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 106 (24.48%) Terraform
2 76 (17.55%) Ansible
3 57 (13.16%) Kubernetes
4 44 (10.16%) FortiGate
5 41 (9.47%) Grafana
6 38 (8.78%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (5.08%) SCCM
9 18 (4.16%) Puppet
10 16 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (3.23%) vCenter Server
12 10 (2.31%) Consul
12 10 (2.31%) vMotion
13 7 (1.62%) WSUS
14 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.92%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.92%) QRadar
15 4 (0.92%) Suricata
15 4 (0.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 148 (34.18%) Cisco
2 121 (27.94%) Palo Alto
3 115 (26.56%) Microsoft
4 86 (19.86%) Fortinet
5 54 (12.47%) VMware
6 50 (11.55%) CheckPoint
7 48 (11.09%) F5
8 35 (8.08%) Juniper
9 33 (7.62%) Arista
10 27 (6.24%) Citrix
10 27 (6.24%) Zscaler
11 24 (5.54%) Dynatrace
12 23 (5.31%) Google
13 20 (4.62%) Splunk
14 18 (4.16%) Aruba
15 16 (3.70%) ServiceNow
16 15 (3.46%) AppDynamics
17 14 (3.23%) Infoblox
17 14 (3.23%) Red Hat
18 12 (2.77%) Bloomberg