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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 58 71
Rank change year-on-year -67 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 405 497 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.25% 4.00% 3.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.97% 38.03% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 287 340
10th Percentile £384 £325 £300
25th Percentile £444 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.48% -12.92%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £748
England median daily rate £500 £513 £508
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.99% -4.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.08
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £38.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £56.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £14.73 £60.00
% change year-on-year +230.87% -75.46% -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 1,398 1,307 1,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.77% 10.52% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 831 1,116
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% - -11.89%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £704 £719 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 50
10th Percentile £19.34 £24.21 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.40
Median hourly rate £26.11 £38.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +70.33% -37.28%
75th Percentile £37.25 £50.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.54 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +36.68% -25.85% +122.22%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -48 36 £550 - 31
South London +4 19 £519 +3.71% 1
West London -37 3 £375 -6.25% 10
East London -12 1 £719 +22.91% 3
North London - 1 £225 - 1
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 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.20%) Confluence
3 12 (2.96%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.47%) nginx
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) MTS
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 173 (42.72%) Azure
2 99 (24.44%) AWS
3 53 (13.09%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (12.10%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.36%) GCP
6 33 (8.15%) GitHub
7 32 (7.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (6.42%) IaaS
9 24 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (5.19%) PaaS
11 20 (4.94%) SaaS
12 18 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (4.44%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (4.44%) Serverless
13 15 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
13 15 (3.70%) Route 53
14 14 (3.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 132 (32.59%) Network Security
2 122 (30.12%) VPN
3 103 (25.43%) WAN
4 86 (21.23%) DNS
5 74 (18.27%) BGP
6 58 (14.32%) OSPF
7 57 (14.07%) LAN
8 53 (13.09%) TCP/IP
9 44 (10.86%) VLAN
10 43 (10.62%) SD-WAN
11 31 (7.65%) DHCP
11 31 (7.65%) MPLS
12 30 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (7.16%) Multicast
14 22 (5.43%) Wireless
15 20 (4.94%) NGFW
16 19 (4.69%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (4.20%) Cisco Nexus
17 17 (4.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 16 (3.95%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.73%) Power BI
4 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.99%) MySQL
5 4 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.74%) Metadata
6 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.25%) DB2
8 1 (0.25%) Redis
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.93%) JIRA
2 21 (5.19%) Git
3 20 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.22%) GitLab
5 8 (1.98%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.73%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.73%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.48%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 85 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.30%) Finance
3 40 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.41%) Banking
4 30 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 28 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.46%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.96%) Legal
7 12 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.98%) Local Government
8 8 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.73%) Front Office
9 7 (1.73%) Law
9 7 (1.73%) Retail
10 5 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.99%) Military
11 4 (0.99%) Spanish Language
12 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (27.41%) Network Engineer
2 62 (15.31%) Architect
3 53 (13.09%) Senior
4 41 (10.12%) Azure Engineer
5 40 (9.88%) Security Engineer
6 24 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (5.68%) Network Security Engineer
8 20 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (4.94%) Senior Network Engineer
9 19 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 15 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
11 14 (3.46%) Security Architect
12 13 (3.21%) Network Architect
13 12 (2.96%) Analyst
13 12 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (2.96%) Site Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Cisco Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 11 (2.72%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.20%) OpenID
2 13 (3.21%) LDAP
3 8 (1.98%) SAML
4 6 (1.48%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.48%) OAuth
5 5 (1.23%) Middleware
5 5 (1.23%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.99%) HTML
6 4 (0.99%) Jinja
6 4 (0.99%) VML
7 3 (0.74%) .NET
7 3 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.74%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.74%) CSS
7 3 (0.74%) LAMP
7 3 (0.74%) Web Services
8 2 (0.49%) JSON
8 2 (0.49%) REST
8 2 (0.49%) XML
8 2 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.07%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.20%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.95%) PKI
6 15 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.72%) Clustering
9 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (2.22%) Replication
10 8 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.73%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.73%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.73%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.48%) IoT
13 5 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.99%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 89 (21.98%) Windows
2 41 (10.12%) Linux
3 38 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.20%) VMS
5 7 (1.73%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.23%) Unix
7 4 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.74%) SUSE
9 2 (0.49%) Android
9 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (21.73%) DevOps
2 79 (19.51%) Migration
3 74 (18.27%) CI/CD
4 73 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 56 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (13.58%) Load Balancing
8 50 (12.35%) Agile
8 50 (12.35%) ITIL
9 42 (10.37%) Validation
10 40 (9.88%) Cloud Security
11 38 (9.38%) Project Delivery
12 35 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (8.64%) Runbook
13 34 (8.40%) SIEM
14 33 (8.15%) Zero Trust
15 32 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 29 (7.16%) High Availability
17 29 (7.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.04%) Python
2 60 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 29 (7.16%) Bash
4 16 (3.95%) SQL
5 9 (2.22%) Bicep
6 7 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.48%) Java
7 6 (1.48%) Perl
8 4 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.74%) Groovy
10 2 (0.49%) PHP
11 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 66 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
4 53 (13.09%) CCNP
5 33 (8.15%) Azure Certification
6 23 (5.68%) Degree
7 20 (4.94%) DV Cleared
8 19 (4.69%) CCIE
9 16 (3.95%) CCNA
10 15 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (3.21%) AWS Certification
11 13 (3.21%) CISSP
12 8 (1.98%) CCSE
12 8 (1.98%) CISM
13 7 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (1.23%) JNCIP
16 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.99%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.44%) GDPR
2 16 (3.95%) NIST
3 15 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.46%) SLA
5 9 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.73%) QA
7 5 (1.23%) NCSC
8 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.74%) GRC
8 3 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.49%) GMP
9 2 (0.49%) GxP
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.49%) PMO
10 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (17.53%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (4.69%) Docker
5 15 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.70%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.46%) Squid
6 14 (3.46%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (2.22%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.98%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (1.73%) vSphere
11 6 (1.48%) Firmware
12 2 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.49%) NFS
12 2 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.25%) KVM
13 1 (0.25%) Samba
13 1 (0.25%) Snort
13 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 98 (24.20%) Terraform
2 64 (15.80%) Ansible
3 52 (12.84%) Kubernetes
4 37 (9.14%) FortiGate
5 35 (8.64%) Grafana
6 31 (7.65%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (4.20%) SCCM
9 14 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.72%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.47%) Puppet
12 9 (2.22%) Consul
13 8 (1.98%) vMotion
14 6 (1.48%) QRadar
15 5 (1.23%) Suricata
16 4 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
16 4 (0.99%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 4 (0.99%) VxRail
16 4 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 134 (33.09%) Cisco
2 110 (27.16%) Microsoft
3 109 (26.91%) Palo Alto
4 71 (17.53%) Fortinet
5 53 (13.09%) CheckPoint
6 51 (12.59%) VMware
7 48 (11.85%) F5
8 33 (8.15%) Juniper
9 29 (7.16%) Arista
10 27 (6.67%) Zscaler
11 22 (5.43%) Aruba
11 22 (5.43%) Dynatrace
12 21 (5.19%) Citrix
12 21 (5.19%) Google
13 17 (4.20%) ServiceNow
14 16 (3.95%) Splunk
15 13 (3.21%) AppDynamics
15 13 (3.21%) Meraki
15 13 (3.21%) NetApp
16 11 (2.72%) Infoblox