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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 66 87
Rank change year-on-year -58 +21 -19
Contract jobs citing Firewall 485 525 483
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.42% 3.93% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.57% 38.02% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 314 319
10th Percentile £363 £325 £319
25th Percentile £425 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £689 £675
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £34.08 - -
25th Percentile £50.31 - -
Median hourly rate £66.25 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% +26.05% -66.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile - - £45.67
England median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% +9.09% -58.33%

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 1,640 1,381 1,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.17% 10.33% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 891 996
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £730 £713 £708
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 27
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.32 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +4.01% -31.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £62.05 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £43.00 £55.75
% change year-on-year -37.86% -22.86% -1.32%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -25 74 £528 -4.09% 18
South London -18 15 £525 -4.55% 5
West London -49 8 £550 +31.34% 7
East London -4 3 £500 -14.53% 7
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 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.68%) Confluence
4 4 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.41%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 213 (43.92%) Azure
2 107 (22.06%) AWS
3 70 (14.43%) Entra ID
4 61 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (7.84%) GCP
6 33 (6.80%) GitHub
7 29 (5.98%) IaaS
8 27 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (5.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (5.15%) SaaS
10 22 (4.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 22 (4.54%) PaaS
11 21 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (3.71%) Serverless
13 17 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (3.09%) Amazon S3
14 15 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (2.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 149 (30.72%) Network Security
2 147 (30.31%) VPN
3 129 (26.60%) WAN
4 122 (25.15%) DNS
5 84 (17.32%) BGP
6 72 (14.85%) TCP/IP
7 70 (14.43%) LAN
8 63 (12.99%) VLAN
9 57 (11.75%) DHCP
10 44 (9.07%) OSPF
11 43 (8.87%) Wireless
12 37 (7.63%) Wi-Fi
13 36 (7.42%) SD-WAN
14 32 (6.60%) Multicast
15 25 (5.15%) MPLS
16 24 (4.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 23 (4.74%) NGFW
18 22 (4.54%) Cisco IOS
19 21 (4.33%) Cisco ISE
20 20 (4.12%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.06%) Power BI
4 9 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.82%) Db2
7 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.62%) Big Data
7 3 (0.62%) Metadata
7 3 (0.62%) MySQL
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (5.57%) Git
2 25 (5.15%) JIRA
3 22 (4.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.06%) GitLab
5 7 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.24%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.62%) MSI
7 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 87 (17.94%) Finance
3 51 (10.52%) Banking
4 49 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.51%) Local Government
9 13 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.47%) Retail
11 11 (2.27%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.27%) Legal
12 9 (1.86%) Front Office
13 8 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.03%) Law
14 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.82%) Automotive
15 4 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 160 (32.99%) Network Engineer
2 74 (15.26%) Senior
3 49 (10.10%) Architect
4 41 (8.45%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (8.25%) Security Engineer
6 37 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 31 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
8 31 (6.39%) Senior Network Engineer
9 28 (5.77%) Consultant
10 27 (5.57%) Network Security Engineer
11 25 (5.15%) Cisco Engineer
12 24 (4.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 22 (4.54%) Network Architect
14 19 (3.92%) Analyst
14 19 (3.92%) Security Architect
15 18 (3.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.09%) Lead
17 14 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
18 13 (2.68%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (21.03%) Terraform
2 15 (3.09%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.06%) OpenID
3 10 (2.06%) SAML
4 9 (1.86%) Middleware
5 8 (1.65%) LDAP
5 8 (1.65%) REST
6 7 (1.44%) OAuth
7 6 (1.24%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.03%) .NET
8 5 (1.03%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
10 3 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.62%) Jinja
11 2 (0.41%) LAMP
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.41%) RFC 2544
12 1 (0.21%) Web Services
12 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.49%) Data Centre
2 32 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 30 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.92%) PKI
6 17 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (2.68%) Replication
8 12 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.27%) Clustering
10 10 (2.06%) IoT
10 10 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.65%) CMDB
12 8 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.65%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 121 (24.95%) Windows
2 64 (13.20%) Linux
3 45 (9.28%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.06%) Unix
7 8 (1.65%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (1.44%) VMS
9 5 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.62%) SUSE
11 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.41%) Android
12 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (18.56%) DevOps
2 86 (17.73%) Migration
3 80 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (14.43%) CI/CD
5 66 (13.61%) ITIL
6 64 (13.20%) Cybersecurity
7 59 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 57 (11.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (11.55%) Project Delivery
10 54 (11.13%) Agile
11 52 (10.72%) Zero Trust
12 50 (10.31%) Load Balancing
13 48 (9.90%) Cloud Security
14 44 (9.07%) Change Management
15 43 (8.87%) High Availability
15 43 (8.87%) Incident Response
15 43 (8.87%) SIEM
16 41 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (7.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.41%) Python
2 78 (16.08%) PowerShell
3 42 (8.66%) Bash
4 15 (3.09%) SQL
5 14 (2.89%) Bicep
6 9 (1.86%) Groovy
6 9 (1.86%) Java
7 8 (1.65%) Perl
8 5 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 76 (15.67%) Cisco Certification
3 68 (14.02%) CCNP
4 67 (13.81%) SC Cleared
5 45 (9.28%) Degree
6 36 (7.42%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.74%) CISSP
8 19 (3.92%) CCNA
9 18 (3.71%) DV Cleared
10 17 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (3.30%) CCIE
12 15 (3.09%) CISM
12 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (2.47%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.24%) JNCIP
14 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.03%) CCSE
15 5 (1.03%) CEH
15 5 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (3.51%) NIST
3 14 (2.89%) SLA
4 13 (2.68%) GDPR
5 9 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.44%) QA
7 5 (1.03%) NIST 800
8 4 (0.82%) COBIT
8 4 (0.82%) NCSC
9 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.62%) GRC
10 2 (0.41%) GMP
10 2 (0.41%) GxP
10 2 (0.41%) PMO
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 77 (15.88%) Active Directory
2 39 (8.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.57%) Docker
4 21 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (2.89%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.65%) BitLocker
7 8 (1.65%) Squid
7 8 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.44%) Firmware
8 7 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (1.44%) vSphere
9 5 (1.03%) NFS
10 4 (0.82%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.82%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.41%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.41%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.41%) Postfix
13 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 70 (14.43%) Ansible
2 47 (9.69%) FortiGate
3 42 (8.66%) Kubernetes
4 37 (7.63%) Grafana
5 35 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (7.22%) Prometheus
6 27 (5.57%) SCCM
7 14 (2.89%) Puppet
8 13 (2.68%) vCenter Server
9 11 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (1.44%) systemd
10 7 (1.44%) vMotion
10 7 (1.44%) WSUS
11 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.82%) Nessus
12 4 (0.82%) Suricata
12 4 (0.82%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 186 (38.35%) Cisco
2 131 (27.01%) Microsoft
3 120 (24.74%) Palo Alto
4 95 (19.59%) Fortinet
5 54 (11.13%) F5
6 52 (10.72%) VMware
7 42 (8.66%) CheckPoint
8 40 (8.25%) Juniper
9 34 (7.01%) Zscaler
10 32 (6.60%) Arista
11 26 (5.36%) Splunk
12 24 (4.95%) Citrix
13 23 (4.74%) ServiceNow
14 22 (4.54%) Google
15 20 (4.12%) Dynatrace
16 17 (3.51%) Meraki
17 16 (3.30%) AppDynamics
18 15 (3.09%) Aruba
19 14 (2.89%) Infoblox
20 13 (2.68%) Tenable