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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -57 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Firewall 421 487 541
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.29% 4.03% 3.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.82% 39.12% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 290 341
10th Percentile £390 £313 £338
25th Percentile £438 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.15% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £40.00 - £13.40
25th Percentile £45.63 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £71.88 - £25.00
90th Percentile £76.00 - £53.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £21.40 £60.00
% change year-on-year +161.74% -64.34% -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 1,461 1,245 1,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.95% 10.31% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 959 804 1,114
10th Percentile £300 £263 £215
25th Percentile £411 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £59.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +134.40%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -41 39 £550 -2.65% 43
South London +1 19 £519 +3.71% 7
West London -36 4 £375 -6.25% 5
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -15 1 £719 +22.91% 4
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 (5.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.04%) Confluence
3 15 (3.56%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.38%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) MTS
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 177 (42.04%) Azure
2 106 (25.18%) AWS
3 57 (13.54%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (12.83%) Entra ID
5 47 (11.16%) GCP
6 35 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 33 (7.84%) GitHub
8 26 (6.18%) IaaS
9 24 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (5.23%) PaaS
10 22 (5.23%) SaaS
11 21 (4.99%) Serverless
12 19 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.51%) Amazon S3
13 18 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (4.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 17 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (3.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 137 (32.54%) Network Security
2 129 (30.64%) VPN
3 106 (25.18%) WAN
4 93 (22.09%) DNS
5 77 (18.29%) BGP
6 62 (14.73%) LAN
7 58 (13.78%) TCP/IP
8 55 (13.06%) OSPF
9 44 (10.45%) VLAN
10 41 (9.74%) SD-WAN
11 33 (7.84%) DHCP
12 31 (7.36%) MPLS
13 30 (7.13%) Multicast
14 29 (6.89%) Wi-Fi
15 26 (6.18%) Wireless
16 23 (5.46%) NGFW
17 20 (4.75%) Cisco IOS
18 19 (4.51%) Cisco ASA
19 17 (4.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 17 (4.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.14%) Power BI
4 4 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.71%) Metadata
5 3 (0.71%) MySQL
6 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.94%) JIRA
2 23 (5.46%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.23%) Git
4 10 (2.38%) GitLab
5 8 (1.90%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.43%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 85 (20.19%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.10%) Finance
3 40 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.60%) Banking
5 31 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 30 (7.13%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.80%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.85%) Legal
8 12 (2.85%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.14%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.90%) Local Government
10 8 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.66%) Front Office
11 7 (1.66%) Law
12 5 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.95%) Military
13 4 (0.95%) Retail
14 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 121 (28.74%) Network Engineer
2 67 (15.91%) Architect
3 54 (12.83%) Senior
4 42 (9.98%) Security Engineer
5 40 (9.50%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (6.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 26 (6.18%) Network Security Engineer
8 24 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (4.99%) Senior Network Engineer
10 17 (4.04%) Network Architect
11 15 (3.56%) Security Architect
11 15 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
13 12 (2.85%) Analyst
13 12 (2.85%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (2.61%) Cisco Engineer
14 11 (2.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 11 (2.61%) Consultant
14 11 (2.61%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.04%) OpenID
2 12 (2.85%) LDAP
3 9 (2.14%) SAML
4 6 (1.43%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.43%) OAuth
5 5 (1.19%) Middleware
5 5 (1.19%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.95%) HTML
6 4 (0.95%) Jinja
7 3 (0.71%) .NET
7 3 (0.71%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.71%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.71%) CSS
7 3 (0.71%) REST
7 3 (0.71%) Web Services
8 2 (0.48%) eBPF
8 2 (0.48%) JSON
8 2 (0.48%) LAMP
8 2 (0.48%) XML
8 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.73%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.23%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.04%) PKI
5 17 (4.04%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.61%) Clustering
8 9 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.14%) Replication
9 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.43%) IoT
11 6 (1.43%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.85%) Windows
2 42 (9.98%) Linux
3 38 (9.03%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.04%) VMS
5 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.66%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.71%) SUSE
8 3 (0.71%) Unix
9 2 (0.48%) Android
9 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (21.38%) DevOps
2 77 (18.29%) CI/CD
2 77 (18.29%) Migration
3 74 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (14.25%) Cybersecurity
5 53 (12.59%) ITIL
6 52 (12.35%) Load Balancing
6 52 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (12.11%) Agile
8 42 (9.98%) Validation
9 41 (9.74%) Cloud Security
10 39 (9.26%) Project Delivery
11 37 (8.79%) Zero Trust
12 35 (8.31%) SIEM
12 35 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (8.08%) Runbook
14 33 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 33 (7.84%) Mentoring
15 32 (7.60%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.39%) Python
2 60 (14.25%) PowerShell
3 29 (6.89%) Bash
4 15 (3.56%) SQL
5 9 (2.14%) Bicep
6 7 (1.66%) Java
7 6 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.19%) Perl
9 4 (0.95%) Groovy
10 3 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Go
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 102 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 81 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 68 (16.15%) Cisco Certification
4 56 (13.30%) CCNP
5 35 (8.31%) Azure Certification
6 29 (6.89%) Degree
7 21 (4.99%) DV Cleared
8 17 (4.04%) CCIE
9 16 (3.80%) CISSP
10 15 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (3.33%) AWS Certification
11 14 (3.33%) CCNA
12 9 (2.14%) CISM
13 8 (1.90%) CCSE
14 7 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.95%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.75%) GDPR
2 17 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.04%) NIST
3 14 (3.33%) SLA
4 10 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.43%) NCSC
5 6 (1.43%) QA
6 5 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.95%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.71%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) GMP
9 2 (0.48%) GxP
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (17.34%) Active Directory
2 41 (9.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.51%) Docker
4 18 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.80%) Hyper-V
6 15 (3.56%) VMware NSX
7 14 (3.33%) Squid
7 14 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (2.14%) BitLocker
10 8 (1.90%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.66%) vSphere
12 6 (1.43%) Firmware
13 2 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.24%) NFS
14 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (23.75%) Terraform
2 70 (16.63%) Ansible
3 55 (13.06%) Kubernetes
4 39 (9.26%) FortiGate
5 37 (8.79%) Grafana
6 34 (8.08%) Prometheus
7 30 (7.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (4.28%) SCCM
9 15 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.61%) Puppet
10 11 (2.61%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.38%) Consul
12 8 (1.90%) vMotion
13 6 (1.43%) QRadar
14 5 (1.19%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.95%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.95%) Suricata
15 4 (0.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.95%) VxRail
15 4 (0.95%) WSUS
Vendors
1 139 (33.02%) Cisco
2 114 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 113 (26.84%) Palo Alto
4 80 (19.00%) Fortinet
5 51 (12.11%) VMware
6 50 (11.88%) CheckPoint
7 45 (10.69%) F5
8 34 (8.08%) Arista
9 32 (7.60%) Juniper
10 24 (5.70%) Zscaler
11 23 (5.46%) Dynatrace
12 22 (5.23%) Google
13 21 (4.99%) Citrix
14 19 (4.51%) Aruba
15 16 (3.80%) ServiceNow
15 16 (3.80%) Splunk
16 14 (3.33%) AppDynamics
17 13 (3.09%) NetApp
18 12 (2.85%) Infoblox
18 12 (2.85%) Red Hat