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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 65 83
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing Firewall 484 506 491
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 3.76% 3.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.32% 37.51% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 300 325
10th Percentile £363 £349 £340
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £626 £638
90th Percentile £658 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 5
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +158.33% +26.05% -66.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £102.50 - £45.67
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +124.90% -25.00% -39.39%

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 1,651 1,349 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.16% 10.03% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 856 983
10th Percentile £294 £289 £250
25th Percentile £404 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £713 £721
England median daily rate £500 £490 £510
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 33 19
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.56 £20.40
25th Percentile £20.00 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -28.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £44.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £102.50 £62.05 £66.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -18 80 £525 -4.55% 47
South London -18 17 £506 +1.25% 7
West London -52 8 £550 +29.41% 6
East London -1 4 £500 -14.53% 11
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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.34%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.48%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) Apache
4 3 (0.62%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.41%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 208 (42.98%) Azure
2 108 (22.31%) AWS
3 69 (14.26%) Entra ID
4 57 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.40%) GitHub
6 30 (6.20%) GCP
7 26 (5.37%) IaaS
8 25 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (4.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 23 (4.75%) SaaS
10 21 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (4.13%) PaaS
12 18 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (3.72%) Serverless
13 17 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (3.10%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.69%) Datadog
16 13 (2.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 148 (30.58%) Network Security
1 148 (30.58%) VPN
2 125 (25.83%) WAN
3 118 (24.38%) DNS
4 79 (16.32%) BGP
5 73 (15.08%) TCP/IP
6 69 (14.26%) LAN
6 69 (14.26%) VLAN
7 56 (11.57%) DHCP
8 50 (10.33%) Wireless
9 41 (8.47%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (7.85%) OSPF
11 37 (7.64%) SD-WAN
12 29 (5.99%) Multicast
13 24 (4.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 24 (4.96%) MPLS
14 23 (4.75%) NGFW
15 22 (4.55%) Internet
16 21 (4.34%) Cisco ISE
17 20 (4.13%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.07%) Power BI
4 9 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.83%) Db2
8 3 (0.62%) Big Data
8 3 (0.62%) Metadata
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.41%) MySQL
9 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (5.17%) Git
2 22 (4.55%) JIRA
3 21 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.07%) GitLab
5 7 (1.45%) 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 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.77%) Finance
3 52 (10.74%) Banking
4 45 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.34%) Telecoms
6 20 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.31%) Local Government
8 13 (2.69%) Retail
9 11 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.07%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.86%) Front Office
11 9 (1.86%) Legal
12 7 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.03%) Law
13 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 170 (35.12%) Network Engineer
2 70 (14.46%) Senior
3 46 (9.50%) Architect
4 43 (8.88%) Security Engineer
5 37 (7.64%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (6.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 32 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (6.40%) Network Security Engineer
10 29 (5.99%) Consultant
11 26 (5.37%) Cisco Engineer
12 25 (5.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 23 (4.75%) Network Architect
14 20 (4.13%) Security Architect
15 19 (3.93%) Firewall Engineer
16 17 (3.51%) Project Manager
17 16 (3.31%) Analyst
17 16 (3.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 15 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.69%) Terraform
2 14 (2.89%) 802.1X
3 11 (2.27%) OpenID
4 10 (2.07%) REST
4 10 (2.07%) SAML
5 8 (1.65%) Middleware
5 8 (1.65%) OAuth
6 7 (1.45%) LDAP
7 6 (1.24%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.03%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.83%) .NET
9 4 (0.83%) JSON
10 2 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (0.41%) RFC 2544
11 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.21%) Apache NiFi
11 1 (0.21%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.21%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.32%) Data Centre
2 34 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.72%) PKI
5 16 (3.31%) Security Posture
6 14 (2.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (2.69%) Replication
8 11 (2.27%) IoT
8 11 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.86%) Clustering
10 9 (1.86%) CMDB
10 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.65%) Digital Signage
11 8 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.65%) Operational Technology
11 8 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (23.76%) Windows
2 60 (12.40%) Linux
3 43 (8.88%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 11 (2.27%) Unix
6 8 (1.65%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (1.45%) VMS
8 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (0.62%) SUSE
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.41%) Android
11 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (19.42%) Migration
2 85 (17.56%) DevOps
3 80 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (13.64%) CI/CD
4 66 (13.64%) ITIL
5 63 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 61 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
7 56 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (11.16%) Project Delivery
10 50 (10.33%) Zero Trust
11 49 (10.12%) Agile
12 47 (9.71%) Change Management
12 47 (9.71%) Cloud Security
12 47 (9.71%) Load Balancing
13 44 (9.09%) Incident Response
14 43 (8.88%) High Availability
15 39 (8.06%) SIEM
16 38 (7.85%) Validation
17 34 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 102 (21.07%) Python
2 79 (16.32%) PowerShell
3 46 (9.50%) Bash
4 14 (2.89%) SQL
5 13 (2.69%) Bicep
6 9 (1.86%) Groovy
6 9 (1.86%) Java
7 7 (1.45%) Perl
8 3 (0.62%) C++
9 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) Go
10 1 (0.21%) Korn
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.21%) VB
10 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.67%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (14.46%) SC Cleared
4 64 (13.22%) CCNP
5 43 (8.88%) Degree
6 34 (7.02%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.55%) CISSP
8 18 (3.72%) CCNA
9 16 (3.31%) CISM
9 16 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 16 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.48%) AWS Certification
11 11 (2.27%) CCIE
12 10 (2.07%) PMI Certification
12 10 (2.07%) PMP
13 6 (1.24%) CCSE
13 6 (1.24%) JNCIP
13 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.03%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.72%) NIST
3 11 (2.27%) GDPR
3 11 (2.27%) SLA
4 9 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.45%) QA
7 6 (1.24%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.03%) NCSC
9 4 (0.83%) COBIT
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%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (15.70%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (5.99%) Docker
4 21 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (2.48%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.65%) Squid
8 7 (1.45%) Firmware
8 7 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.24%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.24%) vSphere
10 5 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.03%) NFS
11 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.62%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.41%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.41%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.41%) Postfix
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (14.46%) Ansible
2 47 (9.71%) FortiGate
3 40 (8.26%) Kubernetes
4 36 (7.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (7.02%) Grafana
6 32 (6.61%) Prometheus
7 27 (5.58%) SCCM
8 13 (2.69%) Puppet
9 11 (2.27%) vCenter Server
10 10 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.86%) Cisco Prime
12 7 (1.45%) systemd
12 7 (1.45%) WSUS
13 6 (1.24%) Nessus
14 5 (1.03%) vMotion
15 4 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.83%) Suricata
16 3 (0.62%) Avamar
16 3 (0.62%) Nagios
16 3 (0.62%) yum
Vendors
1 191 (39.46%) Cisco
2 132 (27.27%) Palo Alto
3 122 (25.21%) Microsoft
4 97 (20.04%) Fortinet
5 50 (10.33%) F5
6 46 (9.50%) VMware
7 42 (8.68%) CheckPoint
8 38 (7.85%) Juniper
9 37 (7.64%) Zscaler
10 26 (5.37%) Arista
11 25 (5.17%) Splunk
12 20 (4.13%) Citrix
12 20 (4.13%) Meraki
12 20 (4.13%) ServiceNow
13 19 (3.93%) Dynatrace
13 19 (3.93%) Google
14 16 (3.31%) Aruba
15 15 (3.10%) AppDynamics
16 12 (2.48%) Infoblox
16 12 (2.48%) Tenable