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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -62 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 415 489 549
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 4.04% 3.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.76% 38.81% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 289 347
10th Percentile £389 £313 £318
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £641
90th Percentile £675 £700 £740
England median daily rate £500 £508 £508
% change year-on-year -1.48% - -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £40.00 - £13.08
25th Percentile £45.63 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £71.88 - £25.00
90th Percentile £76.00 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £56.00 £16.52 £60.00
% change year-on-year +238.98% -72.47% -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 1,443 1,260 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.85% 10.40% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 811 1,128
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £412 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £709 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 52
10th Percentile £16.04 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.28 £24.66 £16.71
Median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.87%
75th Percentile £38.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +134.40%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 29 May 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 29 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 -51 36 £550 -2.65% 27
South London +1 19 £519 +3.71% 7
West London -39 4 £375 -6.25% 8
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -16 1 £719 +22.91% 4
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 21 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.34%) Confluence
3 14 (3.37%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.41%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) MTS
6 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 174 (41.93%) Azure
2 106 (25.54%) AWS
3 56 (13.49%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (12.05%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.08%) GCP
6 35 (8.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 32 (7.71%) GitHub
8 25 (6.02%) IaaS
9 23 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (5.06%) PaaS
11 21 (5.06%) SaaS
12 20 (4.82%) Serverless
13 19 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.58%) Amazon S3
14 18 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (4.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 17 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (3.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 133 (32.05%) Network Security
2 126 (30.36%) VPN
3 106 (25.54%) WAN
4 90 (21.69%) DNS
5 77 (18.55%) BGP
6 62 (14.94%) LAN
7 57 (13.73%) OSPF
8 56 (13.49%) TCP/IP
9 43 (10.36%) VLAN
10 41 (9.88%) SD-WAN
11 31 (7.47%) DHCP
12 30 (7.23%) MPLS
12 30 (7.23%) Multicast
12 30 (7.23%) Wi-Fi
13 25 (6.02%) Wireless
14 23 (5.54%) NGFW
15 19 (4.58%) Cisco ASA
16 18 (4.34%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (4.34%) SSL
17 17 (4.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.41%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.93%) Power BI
4 4 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.72%) Metadata
5 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.72%) MySQL
6 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.24%) DB2
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (6.02%) JIRA
2 23 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.30%) Git
4 10 (2.41%) GitLab
5 8 (1.93%) Artifactory
6 7 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.45%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.24%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 85 (20.48%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.87%) Finance
3 40 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.47%) Banking
6 30 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.89%) Legal
8 12 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.93%) Local Government
9 8 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.69%) Front Office
10 7 (1.69%) Law
11 5 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.20%) Retail
12 4 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.96%) Military
13 3 (0.72%) Police
13 3 (0.72%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 118 (28.43%) Network Engineer
2 68 (16.39%) Architect
3 53 (12.77%) Senior
4 40 (9.64%) Security Engineer
5 39 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (5.78%) Network Security Engineer
8 23 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (5.06%) Senior Network Engineer
10 20 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (4.34%) Network Architect
12 16 (3.86%) Security Architect
13 15 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.37%) Integration Engineer
15 12 (2.89%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (2.89%) Lead
16 11 (2.65%) Analyst
16 11 (2.65%) Cisco Engineer
16 11 (2.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 11 (2.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.10%) OpenID
2 12 (2.89%) LDAP
3 9 (2.17%) SAML
4 6 (1.45%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.45%) OAuth
5 5 (1.20%) Middleware
5 5 (1.20%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.96%) HTML
6 4 (0.96%) Jinja
7 3 (0.72%) .NET
7 3 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.72%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.72%) CSS
7 3 (0.72%) Web Services
8 2 (0.48%) JSON
8 2 (0.48%) LAMP
8 2 (0.48%) REST
8 2 (0.48%) VML
8 2 (0.48%) XML
8 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.94%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.78%) Cloud Native
3 22 (5.30%) Onboarding
4 19 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (4.10%) PKI
5 17 (4.10%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.65%) Clustering
8 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.17%) Replication
9 8 (1.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 7 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.45%) IoT
11 6 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.96%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 92 (22.17%) Windows
2 43 (10.36%) Linux
3 37 (8.92%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.10%) VMS
5 8 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.96%) Unix
7 4 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.72%) SUSE
9 2 (0.48%) Android
9 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (21.69%) DevOps
2 77 (18.55%) CI/CD
2 77 (18.55%) Migration
3 72 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (13.98%) Cybersecurity
5 54 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (12.53%) Load Balancing
7 51 (12.29%) Agile
7 51 (12.29%) ITIL
8 41 (9.88%) Cloud Security
8 41 (9.88%) Validation
9 39 (9.40%) Project Delivery
10 36 (8.67%) Runbook
11 35 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (8.43%) Zero Trust
12 34 (8.19%) SIEM
13 33 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (7.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 32 (7.71%) Mentoring
15 31 (7.47%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.87%) Python
2 58 (13.98%) PowerShell
3 29 (6.99%) Bash
4 15 (3.61%) SQL
5 10 (2.41%) Bicep
6 7 (1.69%) Java
7 6 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.20%) Perl
9 4 (0.96%) Groovy
10 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.24%) C
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Go
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 80 (19.28%) SC Cleared
3 69 (16.63%) Cisco Certification
4 57 (13.73%) CCNP
5 35 (8.43%) Azure Certification
6 29 (6.99%) Degree
7 20 (4.82%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.34%) CCIE
9 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (3.61%) CISSP
11 14 (3.37%) AWS Certification
11 14 (3.37%) CCNA
12 9 (2.17%) CCSE
13 8 (1.93%) CISM
14 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 4 (0.96%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.82%) GDPR
2 17 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.10%) NIST
3 14 (3.37%) SLA
4 10 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.45%) NCSC
5 6 (1.45%) QA
6 5 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.96%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.72%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) GMP
9 2 (0.48%) GxP
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.48%) PMO
10 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (17.11%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.58%) Docker
4 18 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.61%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.61%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.37%) Squid
6 14 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (2.17%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.93%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (1.69%) vSphere
11 6 (1.45%) Firmware
12 2 (0.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.24%) NFS
13 1 (0.24%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 98 (23.61%) Terraform
2 68 (16.39%) Ansible
3 54 (13.01%) Kubernetes
4 37 (8.92%) FortiGate
5 36 (8.67%) Grafana
6 33 (7.95%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (4.10%) SCCM
9 15 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.65%) Puppet
10 11 (2.65%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.41%) Consul
12 8 (1.93%) vMotion
13 6 (1.45%) QRadar
14 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.96%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.96%) Suricata
15 4 (0.96%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.96%) VxRail
15 4 (0.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 138 (33.25%) Cisco
2 112 (26.99%) Palo Alto
3 111 (26.75%) Microsoft
4 76 (18.31%) Fortinet
5 51 (12.29%) CheckPoint
5 51 (12.29%) VMware
6 46 (11.08%) F5
7 33 (7.95%) Juniper
8 32 (7.71%) Arista
9 25 (6.02%) Zscaler
10 22 (5.30%) Dynatrace
10 22 (5.30%) Google
11 21 (5.06%) Aruba
11 21 (5.06%) Citrix
12 17 (4.10%) ServiceNow
13 14 (3.37%) Splunk
14 13 (3.13%) AppDynamics
14 13 (3.13%) NetApp
15 12 (2.89%) Red Hat
16 11 (2.65%) Infoblox