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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 76 62
Rank change year-on-year -35 -14 +30
Contract jobs citing Firewall 389 458 626
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.63% 3.29% 3.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.49% 33.36% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 279 420
10th Percentile £400 £355 £338
25th Percentile £458 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £677
90th Percentile £688 £700 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £15.35
25th Percentile £20.18 - £23.25
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% -41.67% +84.62%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +15.83% -46.95% +77.27%

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 1,276 1,373 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.63% 9.88% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 823 823 1,270
10th Percentile £283 £258 £209
25th Percentile £409 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 67
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.93
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.31 £32.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.12% +27.45% -0.82%
75th Percentile £39.28 £39.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £88.88 £43.75 £74.69
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.65
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.24% +140.24%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -30 51 £525 -8.70% 27
South London +4 16 £519 +10.33% 5
West London -14 6 £375 -21.05% 5
East London 0 4 £525 +9.38% 11
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 32 (8.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.40%) Confluence
3 16 (4.11%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.60%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 184 (47.30%) Azure
2 113 (29.05%) AWS
3 71 (18.25%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (14.91%) GCP
5 44 (11.31%) Entra ID
6 35 (9.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 34 (8.74%) GitHub
8 27 (6.94%) Amazon S3
9 26 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (6.43%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (6.17%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (4.88%) Route 53
14 18 (4.63%) Amazon ELB
15 17 (4.37%) SaaS
16 16 (4.11%) IaaS
17 15 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (3.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (28.02%) VPN
2 108 (27.76%) Network Security
3 87 (22.37%) WAN
4 76 (19.54%) DNS
5 54 (13.88%) LAN
6 48 (12.34%) BGP
7 46 (11.83%) TCP/IP
8 45 (11.57%) SD-WAN
9 37 (9.51%) OSPF
9 37 (9.51%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (6.94%) DHCP
10 27 (6.94%) MPLS
10 27 (6.94%) SSL
11 22 (5.66%) VLAN
12 21 (5.40%) Wireless
13 17 (4.37%) NGFW
14 14 (3.60%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (3.60%) HTTP
15 12 (3.08%) Internet
15 12 (3.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.77%) Redis
7 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.51%) DB2
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (11.05%) Jenkins
2 32 (8.23%) Git
3 27 (6.94%) JIRA
4 18 (4.63%) GitLab
5 9 (2.31%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.06%) Vagrant
7 5 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 100 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.85%) Finance
3 30 (7.71%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (6.68%) Banking
6 23 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.31%) Legal
9 8 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.80%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.29%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.29%) Local Government
11 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.29%) Military
11 5 (1.29%) Retail
12 4 (1.03%) Front Office
12 4 (1.03%) Publishing
13 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (20.31%) Network Engineer
2 68 (17.48%) Architect
3 45 (11.57%) Security Engineer
4 42 (10.80%) Senior
5 30 (7.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (6.68%) Security Architect
8 23 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (5.14%) Consultant
10 19 (4.88%) Analyst
10 19 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
11 18 (4.63%) Network Architect
12 17 (4.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.83%) Lead
14 11 (2.83%) Site Engineer
15 10 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.86%) LDAP
2 10 (2.57%) OpenID
3 9 (2.31%) SAML
4 6 (1.54%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.54%) JSON
4 6 (1.54%) Middleware
4 6 (1.54%) XML
5 5 (1.29%) YAML
6 4 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.03%) Node.js
6 4 (1.03%) Regular Expression
6 4 (1.03%) VML
7 3 (0.77%) HTML
7 3 (0.77%) REST
8 2 (0.51%) CSS
8 2 (0.51%) gRPC
8 2 (0.51%) Kafka
8 2 (0.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.40%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.11%) Replication
7 15 (3.86%) PKI
8 14 (3.60%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.83%) Operational Technology
10 9 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.54%) Life Science
11 6 (1.54%) SCADA
12 5 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.03%) Clustering
13 4 (1.03%) IoT
13 4 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 84 (21.59%) Windows
2 51 (13.11%) Linux
3 37 (9.51%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.91%) VMS
5 11 (2.83%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.57%) Unix
7 8 (2.06%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.03%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.51%) CentOS
11 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.26%) Android
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (25.96%) DevOps
2 83 (21.34%) CI/CD
3 82 (21.08%) Cybersecurity
4 80 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (17.74%) Cloud Security
6 64 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (15.94%) Migration
8 52 (13.37%) SIEM
9 49 (12.60%) Agile
10 46 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (11.05%) Incident Response
11 43 (11.05%) ITIL
11 43 (11.05%) Load Balancing
12 41 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (10.03%) Change Management
14 31 (7.97%) High Availability
14 31 (7.97%) Information Security
14 31 (7.97%) Security Operations
15 30 (7.71%) Mentoring
15 30 (7.71%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.34%) Python
2 73 (18.77%) PowerShell
3 31 (7.97%) Bash
4 26 (6.68%) SQL
5 9 (2.31%) Bicep
5 9 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (2.06%) Groovy
7 5 (1.29%) Perl
8 4 (1.03%) Java
8 4 (1.03%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.51%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Rust
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (24.42%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 58 (14.91%) Cisco Certification
4 46 (11.83%) CCNP
5 42 (10.80%) Degree
6 32 (8.23%) Azure Certification
7 26 (6.68%) CISSP
8 24 (6.17%) CCNA
9 23 (5.91%) AWS Certification
9 23 (5.91%) DV Cleared
10 16 (4.11%) CISM
11 15 (3.86%) CCIE
12 12 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (2.31%) JNCIP
15 8 (2.06%) CEH
16 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.80%) FFIEC
16 7 (1.80%) GIAC
16 7 (1.80%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.23%) NIST
3 22 (5.66%) GDPR
4 11 (2.83%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.06%) GRC
6 7 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.54%) SLA
8 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.03%) NCSC
9 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.51%) GxP
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.51%) QA
11 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 72 (18.51%) Active Directory
2 42 (10.80%) Docker
3 27 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (4.63%) Squid
6 13 (3.34%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (2.06%) DFS Replication
8 8 (2.06%) Dovecot
8 8 (2.06%) Postfix
9 6 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.29%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.29%) Snort
11 4 (1.03%) Firmware
12 3 (0.77%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.77%) KVM
13 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
14 1 (0.26%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 100 (25.71%) Terraform
2 59 (15.17%) Ansible
3 38 (9.77%) Kubernetes
4 34 (8.74%) FortiGate
5 32 (8.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (5.66%) Prometheus
7 21 (5.40%) Grafana
8 20 (5.14%) SCCM
9 12 (3.08%) Nessus
10 11 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (2.31%) CASB
12 8 (2.06%) Proxmox
13 6 (1.54%) SCOrch
14 5 (1.29%) Consul
14 5 (1.29%) QRadar
14 5 (1.29%) SCOM
15 4 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (1.03%) Nexpose
15 4 (1.03%) Suricata
15 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (28.02%) Microsoft
2 94 (24.16%) Cisco
3 81 (20.82%) Palo Alto
4 48 (12.34%) Fortinet
5 45 (11.57%) CheckPoint
6 44 (11.31%) F5
7 30 (7.71%) Juniper
7 30 (7.71%) VMware
8 26 (6.68%) Aruba
8 26 (6.68%) Splunk
9 25 (6.43%) Zscaler
10 24 (6.17%) Google
11 20 (5.14%) ServiceNow
12 17 (4.37%) Citrix
13 15 (3.86%) Meraki
14 10 (2.57%) NetApp
14 10 (2.57%) Oracle
14 10 (2.57%) Tenable
15 9 (2.31%) Qualys
15 9 (2.31%) Red Hat