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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 67 86
Rank change year-on-year -52 +19 -20
Contract jobs citing Firewall 483 525 482
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 3.92% 2.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.33% 37.96% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 313 320
10th Percentile £363 £325 £321
25th Percentile £425 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £690 £675
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £34.08 - -
25th Percentile £50.31 - -
Median hourly rate £66.25 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% +26.05% -66.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile - - £45.67
England median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% +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 1,647 1,383 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.19% 10.33% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 888 999
10th Percentile £303 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £623
90th Percentile £727 £713 £705
England median daily rate £500 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.48% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 33 28
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.32 £18.88
25th Percentile £19.50 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.15 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +17.38% +4.84% -31.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £62.05 £65.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -22.73% -2.64%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -27 74 £528 -4.09% 19
South London -20 15 £525 -4.55% 4
West London -52 8 £550 +31.34% 7
East London -3 3 £500 -14.53% 5
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 23 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.69%) Confluence
4 4 (0.83%) Apache
5 3 (0.62%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.41%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 211 (43.69%) Azure
2 106 (21.95%) AWS
3 70 (14.49%) Entra ID
4 60 (12.42%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (7.45%) GCP
6 33 (6.83%) GitHub
7 28 (5.80%) IaaS
8 27 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (4.97%) SaaS
11 22 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 21 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (4.35%) PaaS
13 18 (3.73%) Serverless
14 17 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (3.11%) Amazon S3
15 15 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (2.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 149 (30.85%) Network Security
2 145 (30.02%) VPN
3 131 (27.12%) WAN
4 120 (24.84%) DNS
5 83 (17.18%) BGP
6 72 (14.91%) LAN
7 71 (14.70%) TCP/IP
8 61 (12.63%) VLAN
9 56 (11.59%) DHCP
10 43 (8.90%) Wireless
11 42 (8.70%) OSPF
12 37 (7.66%) SD-WAN
12 37 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
13 31 (6.42%) Multicast
14 25 (5.18%) MPLS
15 24 (4.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 23 (4.76%) NGFW
17 22 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
18 21 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
19 20 (4.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.07%) Power BI
4 9 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.83%) Db2
7 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.62%) Big Data
7 3 (0.62%) Metadata
7 3 (0.62%) MySQL
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (5.59%) Git
2 25 (5.18%) JIRA
3 22 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.07%) GitLab
5 7 (1.45%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.04%) 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
1 110 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.22%) Finance
3 50 (10.35%) Banking
4 48 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.32%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.52%) Local Government
9 13 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.69%) Retail
10 11 (2.28%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.28%) Legal
11 9 (1.86%) Front Office
12 8 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.04%) Law
13 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (32.92%) Network Engineer
2 75 (15.53%) Senior
3 49 (10.14%) Architect
4 40 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
4 40 (8.28%) Security Engineer
5 37 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (6.63%) Senior Network Engineer
8 31 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 28 (5.80%) Consultant
10 27 (5.59%) Network Security Engineer
11 25 (5.18%) Cisco Engineer
12 24 (4.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 22 (4.55%) Network Architect
14 19 (3.93%) Analyst
14 19 (3.93%) Security Architect
15 18 (3.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (2.90%) Lead
16 14 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
16 14 (2.90%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (21.12%) Terraform
2 15 (3.11%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.07%) OpenID
3 10 (2.07%) SAML
4 9 (1.86%) Middleware
5 8 (1.66%) LDAP
5 8 (1.66%) REST
6 7 (1.45%) OAuth
7 6 (1.24%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.04%) .NET
8 5 (1.04%) OAuth2
9 4 (0.83%) JSON
10 3 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.62%) Jinja
11 2 (0.41%) LAMP
11 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.41%) RFC 2544
12 1 (0.21%) Web Services
12 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (16.56%) Data Centre
2 32 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 30 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.93%) PKI
6 17 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 13 (2.69%) Replication
8 12 (2.48%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.28%) Clustering
10 10 (2.07%) IoT
10 10 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.66%) CMDB
12 8 (1.66%) Operational Technology
12 8 (1.66%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.45%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 121 (25.05%) Windows
2 64 (13.25%) Linux
3 45 (9.32%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.07%) Unix
7 8 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (1.45%) VMS
9 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.62%) SUSE
11 3 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.41%) Android
12 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (18.63%) DevOps
2 87 (18.01%) Migration
3 80 (16.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (14.49%) CI/CD
5 67 (13.87%) ITIL
6 63 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
7 59 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 59 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 56 (11.59%) Project Delivery
9 55 (11.39%) Agile
9 55 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (10.77%) Zero Trust
11 50 (10.35%) Load Balancing
12 48 (9.94%) Cloud Security
13 46 (9.52%) Change Management
14 44 (9.11%) High Availability
15 43 (8.90%) SIEM
16 42 (8.70%) Incident Response
17 40 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 38 (7.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.29%) Python
2 78 (16.15%) PowerShell
3 41 (8.49%) Bash
4 15 (3.11%) SQL
5 14 (2.90%) Bicep
6 9 (1.86%) Groovy
6 9 (1.86%) Java
7 8 (1.66%) Perl
8 5 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.62%) C++
10 2 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 75 (15.53%) Cisco Certification
3 67 (13.87%) CCNP
3 67 (13.87%) SC Cleared
4 45 (9.32%) Degree
5 36 (7.45%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.76%) CISSP
7 19 (3.93%) CCNA
8 18 (3.73%) DV Cleared
9 17 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (3.11%) CCIE
10 15 (3.11%) CISM
10 15 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.48%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.45%) PMP
13 6 (1.24%) JNCIP
13 6 (1.24%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.04%) CEH
14 5 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (3.52%) NIST
3 13 (2.69%) GDPR
3 13 (2.69%) SLA
4 10 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.45%) QA
6 5 (1.04%) NIST 800
7 4 (0.83%) COBIT
7 4 (0.83%) NCSC
8 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.62%) GRC
9 2 (0.41%) GMP
9 2 (0.41%) GxP
9 2 (0.41%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 76 (15.73%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.59%) Docker
4 21 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (2.90%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.66%) BitLocker
7 8 (1.66%) Squid
8 7 (1.45%) Firmware
8 7 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.45%) vSphere
9 5 (1.04%) NFS
10 4 (0.83%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.83%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.41%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.41%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.41%) Postfix
13 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 70 (14.49%) Ansible
2 47 (9.73%) FortiGate
3 42 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 37 (7.66%) Grafana
5 35 (7.25%) Prometheus
6 34 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (5.38%) SCCM
8 14 (2.90%) Puppet
9 13 (2.69%) vCenter Server
10 11 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
11 7 (1.45%) systemd
11 7 (1.45%) vMotion
11 7 (1.45%) WSUS
12 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.83%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.83%) Nessus
13 4 (0.83%) Suricata
13 4 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.62%) Nagios
Vendors
1 188 (38.92%) Cisco
2 130 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 120 (24.84%) Palo Alto
4 95 (19.67%) Fortinet
5 54 (11.18%) F5
6 51 (10.56%) VMware
7 42 (8.70%) CheckPoint
8 40 (8.28%) Juniper
9 34 (7.04%) Zscaler
10 31 (6.42%) Arista
11 26 (5.38%) Splunk
12 24 (4.97%) Citrix
13 23 (4.76%) ServiceNow
14 21 (4.35%) Google
15 19 (3.93%) Dynatrace
16 18 (3.73%) Meraki
17 15 (3.11%) AppDynamics
17 15 (3.11%) Aruba
18 14 (2.90%) Infoblox
19 12 (2.48%) Tenable