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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +26
Contract jobs citing Firewall 455 490 624
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.15% 3.27% 3.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.35% 32.80% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 312 422
10th Percentile £385 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £688
90th Percentile £688 £675 £786
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £21.16 - £42.13
25th Percentile £22.63 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.18 £35.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -47.17% +120.83%
75th Percentile £27.63 - £77.19
90th Percentile £29.05 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +106.19%

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 1,287 1,494 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.91% 9.98% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 913 1,302
10th Percentile £311 £258 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 57
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £27.94 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.98 £76.91 £76.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +27.23%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -23 62 £519 -5.68% 44
West London +17 41 £425 -5.56% 10
South London +11 22 £563 +19.68% 9
East London -2 5 £363 +45.00% 6
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 27 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.18%) Confluence
2 19 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.42%) nginx
4 3 (0.66%) Apache
4 3 (0.66%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.44%) Traefik
5 2 (0.44%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
6 1 (0.22%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) ION MarketView
1 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 191 (41.98%) Azure
2 122 (26.81%) AWS
3 74 (16.26%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (14.07%) GCP
5 48 (10.55%) Entra ID
6 30 (6.59%) GitHub
6 30 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 26 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (5.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 22 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (4.84%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.40%) Amazon ELB
11 19 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.96%) IaaS
12 18 (3.96%) SaaS
13 15 (3.30%) PaaS
13 15 (3.30%) Route 53
14 13 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 121 (26.59%) VPN
2 111 (24.40%) Network Security
3 104 (22.86%) WAN
4 97 (21.32%) DNS
5 85 (18.68%) LAN
6 76 (16.70%) SD-WAN
7 64 (14.07%) Wi-Fi
8 61 (13.41%) BGP
9 49 (10.77%) OSPF
9 49 (10.77%) TCP/IP
10 44 (9.67%) Cisco Nexus
11 38 (8.35%) DHCP
12 36 (7.91%) SSL
13 31 (6.81%) MPLS
14 28 (6.15%) VLAN
14 28 (6.15%) Wireless
15 18 (3.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 18 (3.96%) HTTP
16 17 (3.74%) Cisco ISE
17 14 (3.08%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (1.76%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.44%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.44%) DB2
6 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.44%) MySQL
6 2 (0.44%) Redis
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.22%) Power BI
7 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 44 (9.67%) Jenkins
2 36 (7.91%) Git
3 25 (5.49%) JIRA
4 19 (4.18%) GitLab
5 10 (2.20%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.22%) Maven
10 1 (0.22%) Postman
General
1 112 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 59 (12.97%) Finance
3 42 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 40 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (7.03%) Banking
6 23 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.54%) Retail
10 6 (1.32%) Local Government
10 6 (1.32%) Publishing
10 6 (1.32%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Military
12 4 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.88%) Legal
13 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (21.10%) Network Engineer
2 88 (19.34%) Architect
3 57 (12.53%) Security Engineer
4 45 (9.89%) Senior
5 36 (7.91%) Network Architect
6 29 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (6.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
8 26 (5.71%) Security Architect
9 24 (5.27%) Consultant
10 23 (5.05%) Analyst
11 16 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.08%) Technical Architect
13 13 (2.86%) Lead
13 13 (2.86%) Project Manager
13 13 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (2.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.08%) LDAP
2 9 (1.98%) SAML
3 7 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.32%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.32%) JSON
4 6 (1.32%) Middleware
4 6 (1.32%) XML
4 6 (1.32%) YAML
5 5 (1.10%) OpenID
6 4 (0.88%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.88%) Node.js
6 4 (0.88%) VML
7 3 (0.66%) OAuth
7 3 (0.66%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.66%) REST
8 2 (0.44%) .NET
8 2 (0.44%) gRPC
8 2 (0.44%) HTML
8 2 (0.44%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.16%) Data Centre
2 22 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.40%) Replication
4 18 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.74%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.86%) PKI
8 12 (2.64%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.64%) Operational Technology
9 11 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
11 7 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.32%) Life Science
12 6 (1.32%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.32%) SCADA
12 6 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.10%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.10%) YARA
14 4 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 105 (23.08%) Windows
2 64 (14.07%) Linux
3 41 (9.01%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.62%) VMS
5 15 (3.30%) Ubuntu
6 14 (3.08%) Unix
7 10 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.66%) CentOS
8 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Android
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (21.10%) DevOps
2 85 (18.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 84 (18.46%) CI/CD
4 80 (17.58%) Cybersecurity
5 74 (16.26%) Cloud Security
6 66 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (12.97%) SIEM
8 58 (12.75%) Migration
9 53 (11.65%) Incident Response
10 48 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 47 (10.33%) Agile
12 44 (9.67%) Change Management
12 44 (9.67%) ITIL
13 43 (9.45%) Load Balancing
14 40 (8.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (8.13%) Information Security
15 37 (8.13%) Network Design
16 34 (7.47%) Security Operations
17 33 (7.25%) Data Loss Prevention
17 33 (7.25%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 106 (23.30%) Python
2 76 (16.70%) PowerShell
3 40 (8.79%) Bash
4 32 (7.03%) SQL
5 11 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (2.20%) Bicep
6 10 (2.20%) Groovy
7 5 (1.10%) Java
7 5 (1.10%) Perl
8 4 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.66%) Go
10 2 (0.44%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.44%) C
10 2 (0.44%) Ruby
10 2 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) Rust
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (23.30%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.70%) SC Cleared
3 75 (16.48%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (12.75%) CCNP
5 46 (10.11%) Degree
6 33 (7.25%) CISSP
7 32 (7.03%) Azure Certification
8 26 (5.71%) CCNA
9 25 (5.49%) AWS Certification
10 20 (4.40%) CCIE
11 19 (4.18%) DV Cleared
12 18 (3.96%) CISM
13 15 (3.30%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (2.64%) CEH
15 12 (2.64%) JNCIP
16 9 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (1.76%) JNCIE
18 7 (1.54%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.57%) NIST
2 37 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.40%) GDPR
4 16 (3.52%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.98%) GRC
6 7 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.54%) SLA
7 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.10%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.66%) NCSC
8 3 (0.66%) QA
9 2 (0.44%) GxP
9 2 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.44%) ITGC
10 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.22%) COBIT
10 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 82 (18.02%) Active Directory
2 51 (11.21%) Docker
3 27 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.30%) Squid
6 10 (2.20%) DFS Replication
6 10 (2.20%) Dovecot
6 10 (2.20%) Postfix
7 9 (1.98%) Firmware
8 7 (1.54%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.32%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.10%) Snort
10 5 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.88%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.66%) KVM
13 2 (0.44%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.22%) etcd
14 1 (0.22%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 100 (21.98%) Terraform
2 67 (14.73%) Ansible
3 33 (7.25%) FortiGate
3 33 (7.25%) Kubernetes
4 32 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (5.05%) Grafana
5 23 (5.05%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.96%) SCCM
7 16 (3.52%) Nessus
8 11 (2.42%) CASB
9 10 (2.20%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.54%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (1.54%) QRadar
10 7 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.32%) SCOM
11 6 (1.32%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.88%) Argo
12 4 (0.88%) CA Spectrum
12 4 (0.88%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.88%) Suricata
Vendors
1 133 (29.23%) Cisco
2 114 (25.05%) Microsoft
3 76 (16.70%) Palo Alto
4 73 (16.04%) Fortinet
5 52 (11.43%) F5
6 49 (10.77%) CheckPoint
7 47 (10.33%) Juniper
8 30 (6.59%) Splunk
8 30 (6.59%) VMware
9 27 (5.93%) Google
9 27 (5.93%) Zscaler
10 25 (5.49%) ServiceNow
11 21 (4.62%) Aruba
12 20 (4.40%) Meraki
13 18 (3.96%) Citrix
13 18 (3.96%) Oracle
14 14 (3.08%) Tenable
15 12 (2.64%) Qualys
15 12 (2.64%) SolarWinds
16 10 (2.20%) Red Hat