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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 64 75
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Firewall 433 489 542
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.29% 3.97% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 38.81% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 293 342
10th Percentile £379 £315 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £642
90th Percentile £672 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% -2.38%
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 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +103.64% -54.17% -3.23%

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 1,499 1,260 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.93% 10.22% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 819 1,105
10th Percentile £300 £263 £221
25th Percentile £406 £391 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £701 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.51 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.43 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £26.11 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +57.56% -34.87%
75th Percentile £64.06 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.63 £61.65 £59.75
England median hourly rate £30.77 £37.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -17.95% -9.64% +130.56%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -46 42 £550 - 23
South London +9 22 £516 +3.10% 6
West London -34 4 £375 -6.25% 7
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -13 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 25 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.93%) Confluence
3 15 (3.46%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.31%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) MTS
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 174 (40.18%) Azure
2 109 (25.17%) AWS
3 57 (13.16%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (12.93%) Entra ID
5 47 (10.85%) GCP
6 37 (8.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 35 (8.08%) GitHub
8 28 (6.47%) IaaS
9 24 (5.54%) PaaS
10 23 (5.31%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (5.31%) Serverless
11 22 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (5.08%) SaaS
12 20 (4.62%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (4.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (4.16%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 139 (32.10%) Network Security
2 136 (31.41%) VPN
3 107 (24.71%) WAN
4 101 (23.33%) DNS
5 78 (18.01%) BGP
6 62 (14.32%) LAN
6 62 (14.32%) TCP/IP
7 55 (12.70%) OSPF
8 48 (11.09%) VLAN
9 41 (9.47%) SD-WAN
10 37 (8.55%) DHCP
11 31 (7.16%) Multicast
12 29 (6.70%) MPLS
12 29 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (6.70%) Wireless
13 23 (5.31%) NGFW
14 22 (5.08%) Cisco IOS
14 22 (5.08%) SSL
15 19 (4.39%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (3.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.31%) Power BI
4 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.69%) Big Data
6 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.69%) Metadata
6 3 (0.69%) MySQL
7 2 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.23%) Redis
8 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (6.00%) JIRA
2 22 (5.08%) Git
3 21 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.08%) Artifactory
4 9 (2.08%) GitLab
5 7 (1.62%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.39%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 94 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.78%) Finance
3 42 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.31%) Banking
5 34 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.16%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.23%) Legal
9 11 (2.54%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.54%) Local Government
9 11 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.08%) Front Office
11 8 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.62%) Law
13 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.15%) Publishing
13 5 (1.15%) Retail
14 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.92%) Military
15 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (29.33%) Network Engineer
2 71 (16.40%) Architect
3 52 (12.01%) Senior
4 43 (9.93%) Security Engineer
5 36 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 28 (6.47%) Network Security Engineer
8 27 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.85%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (4.39%) Network Architect
12 17 (3.93%) Security Architect
13 14 (3.23%) Analyst
14 13 (3.00%) Integration Engineer
14 13 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.77%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (2.54%) Cisco Engineer
16 11 (2.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 11 (2.54%) Consultant
16 11 (2.54%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.93%) OpenID
2 12 (2.77%) LDAP
3 11 (2.54%) SAML
4 7 (1.62%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.39%) OAuth
6 5 (1.15%) Middleware
6 5 (1.15%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.92%) .NET
7 4 (0.92%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.92%) HTML
7 4 (0.92%) Jinja
8 3 (0.69%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.69%) CSS
8 3 (0.69%) REST
8 3 (0.69%) Web Services
9 2 (0.46%) eBPF
9 2 (0.46%) LAMP
9 2 (0.46%) Loki
10 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.70%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 23 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 18 (4.16%) PKI
5 18 (4.16%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.00%) Clustering
6 13 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 9 (2.08%) Replication
9 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.39%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.15%) IoT
12 5 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 93 (21.48%) Windows
2 47 (10.85%) Linux
3 37 (8.55%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.00%) VMS
5 12 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.62%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.69%) SUSE
8 3 (0.69%) Unix
9 2 (0.46%) Android
9 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (21.94%) DevOps
2 79 (18.24%) CI/CD
2 79 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
2 79 (18.24%) Migration
3 58 (13.39%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (13.39%) ITIL
4 56 (12.93%) Agile
4 56 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (11.09%) Load Balancing
6 44 (10.16%) Validation
7 40 (9.24%) Zero Trust
8 39 (9.01%) Cloud Security
8 39 (9.01%) Project Delivery
9 38 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (8.08%) Runbook
12 35 (8.08%) SIEM
13 33 (7.62%) High Availability
14 32 (7.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 76 (17.55%) Python
2 61 (14.09%) PowerShell
3 32 (7.39%) Bash
4 17 (3.93%) SQL
5 10 (2.31%) Bicep
6 8 (1.85%) Java
7 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.15%) Perl
8 4 (0.92%) Groovy
9 3 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.46%) C++
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
1 102 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 79 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 68 (15.70%) Cisco Certification
4 57 (13.16%) CCNP
5 35 (8.08%) Degree
6 30 (6.93%) Azure Certification
7 23 (5.31%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.70%) CCIE
8 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.46%) CCNA
9 15 (3.46%) CISSP
10 12 (2.77%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.08%) CCSE
11 9 (2.08%) CISM
11 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.92%) MCSA
12 4 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.39%) GDPR
2 17 (3.93%) NIST
3 16 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.23%) SLA
5 10 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.39%) NCSC
6 6 (1.39%) QA
7 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.15%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.69%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.46%) GxP
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.46%) PMO
10 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (16.86%) 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 12 (2.77%) 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
1 104 (24.02%) Terraform
2 76 (17.55%) Ansible
3 56 (12.93%) Kubernetes
4 42 (9.70%) FortiGate
5 40 (9.24%) Grafana
6 37 (8.55%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (4.85%) SCCM
9 17 (3.93%) Puppet
10 15 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (3.00%) 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
1 146 (33.72%) Cisco
2 121 (27.94%) Palo Alto
3 116 (26.79%) Microsoft
4 85 (19.63%) Fortinet
5 54 (12.47%) VMware
6 51 (11.78%) CheckPoint
7 45 (10.39%) F5
8 35 (8.08%) Juniper
9 34 (7.85%) Arista
10 26 (6.00%) Citrix
10 26 (6.00%) Zscaler
11 23 (5.31%) Dynatrace
11 23 (5.31%) Google
12 20 (4.62%) Aruba
13 19 (4.39%) Splunk
14 16 (3.70%) ServiceNow
15 14 (3.23%) AppDynamics
15 14 (3.23%) Infoblox
16 13 (3.00%) Red Hat
17 12 (2.77%) Bloomberg