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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 66 86
Rank change year-on-year -54 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing Firewall 485 520 481
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 3.86% 2.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.39% 37.55% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 311 320
10th Percentile £363 £325 £336
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £628
90th Percentile £675 £690 £688
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% -58.32%

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 1,650 1,385 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.20% 10.28% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 888 996
10th Percentile £300 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year - -3.15% -6.14%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £625
90th Percentile £730 £711 £718
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 25
10th Percentile £19.39 £19.01 £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% -21.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £49.38 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £61.95 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.11 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -36.21% -25.89% +1.52%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -22 75 £525 -4.55% 25
South London -20 17 £506 -7.95% 10
West London -52 8 £550 +31.34% 7
East London -2 4 £500 -14.53% 6
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 22 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.33%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.68%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) Apache
4 3 (0.62%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.62%) 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
1 215 (44.33%) Azure
2 110 (22.68%) AWS
3 70 (14.43%) Entra ID
4 61 (12.58%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (7.42%) GCP
6 35 (7.22%) GitHub
7 29 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (5.77%) IaaS
9 26 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (4.95%) SaaS
11 23 (4.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 22 (4.54%) PaaS
13 21 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (3.71%) Serverless
16 17 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (3.09%) Amazon S3
17 15 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
18 13 (2.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 149 (30.72%) VPN
2 147 (30.31%) Network Security
3 130 (26.80%) WAN
4 121 (24.95%) DNS
5 82 (16.91%) BGP
6 71 (14.64%) TCP/IP
7 70 (14.43%) LAN
8 63 (12.99%) VLAN
9 58 (11.96%) DHCP
10 45 (9.28%) Wireless
11 41 (8.45%) OSPF
12 38 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
13 37 (7.63%) SD-WAN
14 30 (6.19%) Multicast
15 24 (4.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 24 (4.95%) MPLS
16 22 (4.54%) NGFW
17 21 (4.33%) Cisco ISE
18 20 (4.12%) Cisco IOS
18 20 (4.12%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (2.27%) 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%) Big Data
7 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.62%) Metadata
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.41%) MySQL
8 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (5.36%) Git
2 24 (4.95%) JIRA
3 22 (4.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.06%) GitLab
5 7 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.03%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.62%) MSI
7 3 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.41%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.73%) Finance
3 49 (10.10%) Banking
4 47 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.07%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.51%) Local Government
8 13 (2.68%) Retail
9 11 (2.27%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.27%) Legal
10 10 (2.06%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.86%) Front Office
12 8 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.03%) Law
13 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.82%) Automotive
14 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (33.40%) Network Engineer
2 76 (15.67%) Senior
3 47 (9.69%) Architect
4 40 (8.25%) Azure Engineer
4 40 (8.25%) Security Engineer
5 38 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.01%) Senior Network Engineer
7 32 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 28 (5.77%) Consultant
9 27 (5.57%) Network Security Engineer
10 26 (5.36%) Cisco Engineer
11 25 (5.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 22 (4.54%) Network Architect
13 19 (3.92%) Security Architect
14 18 (3.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.51%) Analyst
15 17 (3.51%) Project Manager
16 16 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
17 13 (2.68%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (22.06%) 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%) REST
6 7 (1.44%) LDAP
6 7 (1.44%) OAuth
7 6 (1.24%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.03%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.82%) .NET
9 4 (0.82%) JSON
10 3 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.41%) Jinja
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.41%) RFC 2544
12 1 (0.21%) Kafka
12 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
12 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.29%) Data Centre
2 34 (7.01%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.92%) PKI
6 17 (3.51%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (2.68%) Replication
9 12 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (2.27%) Clustering
10 11 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 10 (2.06%) IoT
11 10 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.65%) CMDB
13 8 (1.65%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
14 7 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (1.44%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 121 (24.95%) Windows
2 63 (12.99%) Linux
3 45 (9.28%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.47%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.86%) 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 92 (18.97%) DevOps
2 89 (18.35%) Migration
3 84 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (14.43%) CI/CD
5 67 (13.81%) ITIL
6 65 (13.40%) Cybersecurity
7 60 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 59 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 57 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (11.55%) Agile
10 56 (11.55%) Project Delivery
11 52 (10.72%) Zero Trust
12 48 (9.90%) Cloud Security
12 48 (9.90%) Load Balancing
13 47 (9.69%) Change Management
14 45 (9.28%) High Availability
14 45 (9.28%) Incident Response
15 43 (8.87%) SIEM
16 38 (7.84%) Validation
17 37 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.82%) Python
2 80 (16.49%) PowerShell
3 44 (9.07%) Bash
4 15 (3.09%) Bicep
5 14 (2.89%) SQL
6 9 (1.86%) Groovy
6 9 (1.86%) Java
7 7 (1.44%) Perl
8 6 (1.24%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) Go
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 75 (15.46%) Cisco Certification
3 71 (14.64%) SC Cleared
4 67 (13.81%) CCNP
5 45 (9.28%) Degree
6 36 (7.42%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.74%) CISSP
8 20 (4.12%) CCNA
9 18 (3.71%) DV Cleared
10 17 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (3.09%) CISM
11 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (2.89%) CCIE
13 12 (2.47%) AWS Certification
14 10 (2.06%) PMI Certification
14 10 (2.06%) PMP
15 6 (1.24%) JNCIP
15 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
16 5 (1.03%) CCSE
16 5 (1.03%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.71%) NIST
3 13 (2.68%) GDPR
4 11 (2.27%) SLA
5 10 (2.06%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.44%) QA
8 5 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.82%) COBIT
9 4 (0.82%) NCSC
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.62%) GRC
11 2 (0.41%) GMP
11 2 (0.41%) GxP
11 2 (0.41%) PMO
12 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (15.88%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.19%) Docker
4 21 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (3.09%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.65%) BitLocker
7 8 (1.65%) Squid
8 7 (1.44%) Firmware
8 7 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
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 72 (14.85%) Ansible
2 46 (9.48%) FortiGate
3 42 (8.66%) Kubernetes
4 37 (7.63%) Grafana
5 35 (7.22%) Prometheus
6 34 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (5.36%) SCCM
8 14 (2.89%) Puppet
9 13 (2.68%) vCenter Server
10 11 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.44%) Cisco Prime
11 7 (1.44%) systemd
11 7 (1.44%) vMotion
11 7 (1.44%) WSUS
12 6 (1.24%) Nessus
13 5 (1.03%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.82%) Suricata
14 4 (0.82%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 3 (0.62%) Avamar
Vendors
1 190 (39.18%) Cisco
2 130 (26.80%) Microsoft
3 124 (25.57%) Palo Alto
4 96 (19.79%) Fortinet
5 52 (10.72%) F5
6 51 (10.52%) VMware
7 41 (8.45%) CheckPoint
8 40 (8.25%) Juniper
9 33 (6.80%) Zscaler
10 30 (6.19%) Arista
11 25 (5.15%) Splunk
12 22 (4.54%) Citrix
13 21 (4.33%) Google
13 21 (4.33%) ServiceNow
14 19 (3.92%) Dynatrace
14 19 (3.92%) Meraki
15 15 (3.09%) AppDynamics
15 15 (3.09%) Aruba
16 13 (2.68%) Infoblox
17 12 (2.47%) Tenable