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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 64 65
Rank change year-on-year -48 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Firewall 416 461 606
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.50% 3.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.86% 34.98% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 283 380
10th Percentile £400 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.40% -4.44%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £700 £776
England median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.18 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% +45.83% -26.15%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +26.57%

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 1,348 1,318 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.39% 10.02% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 814 1,186
10th Percentile £259 £258 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +0.05% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £625
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 72
10th Percentile £20.76 - £14.63
25th Percentile £22.95 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +48.94% -8.60%
75th Percentile £29.00 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.88 £60.35 £61.75
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +107.25%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -37 42 £525 -8.70% 30
South London -6 17 £513 +9.04% 11
West London -20 6 £375 -16.67% 7
East London -2 5 £622 +13.09% 2
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 33 (7.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.09%) Confluence
3 15 (3.61%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.40%) nginx
5 4 (0.96%) Apache
6 3 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) Traefik
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 193 (46.39%) Azure
2 110 (26.44%) AWS
3 70 (16.83%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (14.18%) GCP
5 52 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 35 (8.41%) GitHub
7 29 (6.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 24 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (5.77%) SaaS
9 23 (5.53%) IaaS
10 22 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.29%) PaaS
11 19 (4.57%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (4.33%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (3.61%) Route 53
14 15 (3.61%) Serverless
15 12 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 126 (30.29%) Network Security
2 125 (30.05%) VPN
3 102 (24.52%) WAN
4 84 (20.19%) DNS
5 65 (15.63%) BGP
6 64 (15.38%) LAN
7 52 (12.50%) OSPF
7 52 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 52 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 44 (10.58%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (8.89%) MPLS
10 34 (8.17%) DHCP
11 30 (7.21%) VLAN
12 23 (5.53%) Wireless
13 22 (5.29%) SSL
14 21 (5.05%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (4.81%) NGFW
16 16 (3.85%) Multicast
17 14 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (3.37%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.96%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.48%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.48%) DB2
5 2 (0.48%) MySQL
5 2 (0.48%) Power BI
5 2 (0.48%) Redis
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.24%) Metadata
6 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (6.97%) Jenkins
2 24 (5.77%) JIRA
3 22 (5.29%) Git
4 18 (4.33%) GitLab
5 10 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.68%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.20%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.24%) Maven
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
9 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 105 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.63%) Finance
3 36 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.45%) Banking
5 28 (6.73%) Documentation Skills
6 27 (6.49%) Public Sector
7 18 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.37%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.64%) Legal
10 10 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.68%) Local Government
11 7 (1.68%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.20%) Retail
13 4 (0.96%) Front Office
13 4 (0.96%) Law
13 4 (0.96%) Military
14 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.48%) Billing
Job Titles
1 96 (23.08%) Network Engineer
2 80 (19.23%) Architect
3 47 (11.30%) Security Engineer
4 46 (11.06%) Senior
5 34 (8.17%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (6.01%) Security Architect
7 22 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.05%) Network Security Engineer
9 19 (4.57%) Network Architect
9 19 (4.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (3.85%) Consultant
11 15 (3.61%) Analyst
12 13 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.13%) Site Engineer
12 13 (3.13%) Technical Architect
13 12 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.64%) Firewall Engineer
15 10 (2.40%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.13%) LDAP
1 13 (3.13%) OpenID
2 10 (2.40%) SAML
3 7 (1.68%) 802.1X
3 7 (1.68%) Middleware
4 6 (1.44%) XML
5 5 (1.20%) JSON
6 4 (0.96%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.96%) HTML
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (0.96%) VML
7 3 (0.72%) CSS
7 3 (0.72%) Node.js
7 3 (0.72%) OAuth
7 3 (0.72%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.72%) REST
8 2 (0.48%) Kafka
8 2 (0.48%) LAMP
8 2 (0.48%) Web Services
8 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.90%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 21 (5.05%) Security Posture
4 20 (4.81%) PKI
5 18 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.16%) Replication
10 8 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.92%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.92%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.44%) Clustering
12 6 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.20%) Private Cloud
14 4 (0.96%) AI Agents
14 4 (0.96%) Life Science
14 4 (0.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 86 (20.67%) Windows
2 43 (10.34%) Linux
3 40 (9.62%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.09%) VMS
5 11 (2.64%) Unix
6 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) CentOS
8 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (22.12%) DevOps
2 81 (19.47%) CI/CD
3 79 (18.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 72 (17.31%) Migration
5 72 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (13.94%) Cloud Security
7 51 (12.26%) SIEM
8 50 (12.02%) Load Balancing
9 49 (11.78%) ITIL
10 48 (11.54%) Agile
11 46 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 38 (9.13%) Change Management
14 36 (8.65%) Incident Response
15 33 (7.93%) Mentoring
16 32 (7.69%) Project Delivery
16 32 (7.69%) Zero Trust
17 29 (6.97%) High Availability
17 29 (6.97%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.83%) Python
2 66 (15.87%) PowerShell
3 26 (6.25%) Bash
4 23 (5.53%) SQL
5 8 (1.92%) Bicep
5 8 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (1.20%) Perl
7 4 (0.96%) Java
7 4 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.48%) Ruby
9 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.24%) Go
9 1 (0.24%) Groovy
9 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 91 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
3 63 (15.14%) SC Cleared
4 52 (12.50%) CCNP
5 34 (8.17%) Degree
6 26 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 24 (5.77%) CCNA
7 24 (5.77%) CISSP
7 24 (5.77%) DV Cleared
8 20 (4.81%) CCIE
9 16 (3.85%) AWS Certification
10 14 (3.37%) CISM
11 10 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (2.40%) JNCIP
11 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.92%) JNCIS
13 7 (1.68%) CCSE
13 7 (1.68%) FFIEC
14 6 (1.44%) CEH
14 6 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (6.97%) NIST
3 23 (5.53%) GDPR
4 15 (3.61%) SLA
5 13 (3.13%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.92%) GRC
7 7 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.20%) NCSC
9 3 (0.72%) QA
9 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.48%) GxP
10 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 84 (20.19%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (6.49%) Docker
4 20 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (4.09%) VMware NSX
6 12 (2.88%) Squid
7 10 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (1.68%) Hyper-V
10 6 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.20%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.96%) Firmware
13 3 (0.72%) Snort
13 3 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.24%) Dovecot
15 1 (0.24%) NFS
15 1 (0.24%) Postfix
15 1 (0.24%) ProxySG
15 1 (0.24%) Samba
Systems Management
1 90 (21.63%) Terraform
2 62 (14.90%) Ansible
3 45 (10.82%) Kubernetes
4 41 (9.86%) FortiGate
5 39 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (5.77%) SCCM
7 19 (4.57%) Grafana
7 19 (4.57%) Prometheus
8 15 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.92%) CASB
10 7 (1.68%) Consul
11 6 (1.44%) Puppet
11 6 (1.44%) QRadar
11 6 (1.44%) SCOrch
11 6 (1.44%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.20%) vMotion
13 4 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (0.96%) Nessus
13 4 (0.96%) SCOM
14 3 (0.72%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 118 (28.37%) Microsoft
2 115 (27.64%) Cisco
3 89 (21.39%) Palo Alto
4 55 (13.22%) Fortinet
5 48 (11.54%) F5
6 47 (11.30%) CheckPoint
7 44 (10.58%) VMware
8 38 (9.13%) Juniper
9 32 (7.69%) Zscaler
10 28 (6.73%) Aruba
11 27 (6.49%) Splunk
12 24 (5.77%) Citrix
13 21 (5.05%) Google
14 18 (4.33%) ServiceNow
15 15 (3.61%) Meraki
16 13 (3.13%) Arista
16 13 (3.13%) Dynatrace
16 13 (3.13%) Tenable
17 12 (2.88%) Red Hat
18 11 (2.64%) NetApp