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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 61 78
Rank change year-on-year -63 +17 -10
Contract jobs citing Firewall 482 550 490
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 4.02% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.96% 39.29% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 339 329
10th Percentile £363 £347 £320
25th Percentile £425 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £32.63 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +25.05% -60.02%
75th Percentile £75.31 - £24.80
90th Percentile £78.75 - £42.50
England median hourly rate £65.57 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +118.57% +9.09% -58.33%

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 1,609 1,400 1,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.99% 10.24% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 914 1,017
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £723 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 30
10th Percentile £19.34 £19.89 £16.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.58 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +20.41% -35.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.15 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.36% -19.91% +5.25%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -32 69 £540 -1.82% 36
South London -17 17 £475 -17.39% 5
West London -51 7 £550 +31.34% 4
East London -5 2 £435 -25.73% 4
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 24 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.28%) Confluence
4 4 (0.83%) Apache
5 3 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.21%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 214 (44.40%) Azure
2 111 (23.03%) AWS
3 74 (15.35%) Entra ID
4 61 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (8.92%) GCP
6 36 (7.47%) GitHub
7 32 (6.64%) IaaS
8 27 (5.60%) SaaS
9 26 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.77%) PaaS
11 21 (4.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 21 (4.36%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (4.15%) Serverless
13 17 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
14 15 (3.11%) Datadog
15 14 (2.90%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 159 (32.99%) VPN
2 150 (31.12%) Network Security
3 127 (26.35%) DNS
4 126 (26.14%) WAN
5 83 (17.22%) BGP
6 77 (15.98%) TCP/IP
7 70 (14.52%) LAN
8 62 (12.86%) VLAN
9 56 (11.62%) DHCP
10 51 (10.58%) OSPF
11 39 (8.09%) Wireless
12 38 (7.88%) SD-WAN
13 35 (7.26%) Multicast
14 34 (7.05%) Wi-Fi
15 28 (5.81%) MPLS
16 27 (5.60%) NGFW
17 25 (5.19%) Cisco IOS
18 22 (4.56%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (4.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 20 (4.15%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.28%) Power BI
3 10 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.83%) Db2
7 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.62%) Big Data
7 3 (0.62%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.62%) Metadata
7 3 (0.62%) MySQL
8 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (5.81%) Git
2 22 (4.56%) JIRA
3 20 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.28%) GitLab
5 8 (1.66%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.45%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.62%) MSI
8 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 107 (22.20%) Social Skills
2 87 (18.05%) Finance
3 49 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (10.17%) Banking
4 46 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.53%) Financial Institution
6 17 (3.53%) Local Government
7 16 (3.32%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.28%) Retail
9 10 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.66%) Front Office
11 8 (1.66%) Legal
12 7 (1.45%) Law
13 6 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.83%) Automotive
15 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 167 (34.65%) Network Engineer
2 73 (15.15%) Senior
3 55 (11.41%) Architect
4 45 (9.34%) Security Engineer
5 41 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
6 35 (7.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (6.64%) Senior Network Engineer
8 30 (6.22%) Network Security Engineer
9 28 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (4.98%) Consultant
11 23 (4.77%) Cisco Engineer
12 22 (4.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 22 (4.56%) Network Architect
13 21 (4.36%) Security Architect
14 17 (3.53%) Analyst
15 16 (3.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (3.11%) Firewall Engineer
17 14 (2.90%) Network Security Architect
18 11 (2.28%) Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.49%) OpenID
1 12 (2.49%) SAML
2 11 (2.28%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.07%) Middleware
4 9 (1.87%) LDAP
5 6 (1.24%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.24%) OAuth
5 6 (1.24%) REST
6 5 (1.04%) .NET
6 5 (1.04%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.83%) Jinja
8 3 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.62%) JSON
9 2 (0.41%) LAMP
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.21%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.21%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.39%) Data Centre
2 30 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 20 (4.15%) PKI
5 20 (4.15%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 11 (2.28%) Clustering
10 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.87%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.66%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.66%) CMDB
12 8 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.66%) IoT
12 8 (1.66%) Replication
13 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (23.44%) Windows
2 60 (12.45%) Linux
3 45 (9.34%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.07%) Unix
6 6 (1.24%) VMS
7 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.62%) SUSE
9 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (18.88%) DevOps
2 84 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (17.01%) Migration
4 73 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 67 (13.90%) ITIL
6 62 (12.86%) Cybersecurity
7 59 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 54 (11.20%) Zero Trust
10 53 (11.00%) Project Delivery
11 49 (10.17%) Agile
11 49 (10.17%) Load Balancing
11 49 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (9.54%) Cloud Security
13 43 (8.92%) Change Management
13 43 (8.92%) SIEM
14 40 (8.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (8.09%) Incident Response
15 39 (8.09%) Validation
16 38 (7.88%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 100 (20.75%) Python
2 74 (15.35%) PowerShell
3 47 (9.75%) Bash
4 17 (3.53%) SQL
5 14 (2.90%) Bicep
6 7 (1.45%) Java
7 6 (1.24%) Perl
8 5 (1.04%) Groovy
8 5 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 79 (16.39%) Cisco Certification
3 70 (14.52%) CCNP
4 67 (13.90%) SC Cleared
5 43 (8.92%) Degree
6 31 (6.43%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.36%) CISSP
8 19 (3.94%) CCNA
8 19 (3.94%) DV Cleared
9 18 (3.73%) CCIE
10 15 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 14 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (2.49%) CISM
13 9 (1.87%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.24%) CCSE
14 6 (1.24%) JNCIP
14 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.73%) NIST
2 17 (3.53%) SLA
3 16 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.90%) GDPR
5 10 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.24%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.24%) QA
8 5 (1.04%) NCSC
9 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.62%) GRC
10 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.41%) GMP
10 2 (0.41%) GxP
10 2 (0.41%) PMO
11 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 77 (15.98%) Active Directory
2 37 (7.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (5.39%) Docker
4 21 (4.36%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (2.90%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.66%) BitLocker
8 8 (1.66%) Squid
8 8 (1.66%) vSphere
9 7 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.24%) Firmware
11 5 (1.04%) NFS
12 4 (0.83%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.83%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.41%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 106 (21.99%) Terraform
2 73 (15.15%) Ansible
3 48 (9.96%) FortiGate
3 48 (9.96%) Kubernetes
4 37 (7.68%) Grafana
4 37 (7.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (7.05%) Prometheus
6 25 (5.19%) SCCM
7 15 (3.11%) Puppet
8 14 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.49%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.45%) systemd
10 7 (1.45%) vMotion
11 6 (1.24%) Cisco Prime
11 6 (1.24%) WSUS
12 5 (1.04%) Consul
12 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.83%) QRadar
13 4 (0.83%) Suricata
13 4 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 182 (37.76%) Cisco
2 132 (27.39%) Microsoft
3 126 (26.14%) Palo Alto
4 94 (19.50%) Fortinet
5 55 (11.41%) F5
6 53 (11.00%) VMware
7 46 (9.54%) CheckPoint
8 45 (9.34%) Juniper
9 40 (8.30%) Zscaler
10 35 (7.26%) Arista
11 27 (5.60%) Splunk
12 26 (5.39%) Citrix
13 24 (4.98%) Google
14 23 (4.77%) Dynatrace
15 18 (3.73%) ServiceNow
16 17 (3.53%) AppDynamics
16 17 (3.53%) Meraki
17 15 (3.11%) Aruba
17 15 (3.11%) Infoblox
18 14 (2.90%) Tenable