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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 63 80
Rank change year-on-year -57 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Firewall 479 552 487
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 4.05% 2.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.26% 39.29% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 343 324
10th Percentile £363 £327 £322
25th Percentile £420 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £597 £614 £625
90th Percentile £660 £700 £675
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £32.63 - -
25th Percentile £40.94 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +24.07% -59.70%
75th Percentile £75.31 - £25.00
90th Percentile £78.75 - £39.00
England median hourly rate £65.45 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +118.17% +9.09% -57.36%

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 1,583 1,405 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.86% 10.31% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 915 1,026
10th Percentile £305 £283 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -0.50% -8.64%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £718 £713
England median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 31 31
10th Percentile £19.34 £19.46 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.05% -34.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.88 £50.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £51.50
% change year-on-year -37.91% -12.62% -0.75%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -29 66 £550 - 38
South London -16 18 £450 -21.74% 5
West London -52 6 £688 +66.67% 7
East London -4 2 £435 -25.73% 2
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 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.30%) Confluence
4 4 (0.84%) Apache
4 4 (0.84%) nginx
5 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
5 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.21%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 212 (44.26%) Azure
2 112 (23.38%) AWS
3 70 (14.61%) Entra ID
4 61 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (8.98%) GCP
6 36 (7.52%) GitHub
7 33 (6.89%) IaaS
8 27 (5.64%) SaaS
8 27 (5.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (5.01%) PaaS
10 23 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (4.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 21 (4.38%) Serverless
12 20 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.34%) Datadog
15 15 (3.13%) Amazon S3
15 15 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
16 13 (2.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 159 (33.19%) VPN
2 148 (30.90%) Network Security
3 131 (27.35%) DNS
4 125 (26.10%) WAN
5 83 (17.33%) BGP
6 79 (16.49%) TCP/IP
7 71 (14.82%) LAN
8 63 (13.15%) VLAN
9 59 (12.32%) DHCP
10 51 (10.65%) OSPF
11 38 (7.93%) Wireless
12 36 (7.52%) Multicast
12 36 (7.52%) SD-WAN
13 34 (7.10%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (6.05%) MPLS
15 26 (5.43%) NGFW
16 25 (5.22%) Cisco IOS
17 22 (4.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 21 (4.38%) Cisco ASA
19 19 (3.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.76%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (2.30%) Power BI
4 8 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.84%) Db2
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.63%) Big Data
7 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.63%) Metadata
7 3 (0.63%) MySQL
8 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.21%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (5.85%) Git
2 22 (4.59%) JIRA
3 20 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.30%) GitLab
5 8 (1.67%) Artifactory
5 8 (1.67%) Chocolatey
6 4 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.42%) MSI
9 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 105 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.37%) Finance
3 50 (10.44%) Banking
4 48 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (9.19%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.76%) Financial Institution
7 18 (3.76%) Local Government
8 16 (3.34%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.67%) Front Office
11 8 (1.67%) Legal
11 8 (1.67%) Retail
12 7 (1.46%) Law
13 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.84%) Automotive
14 4 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 167 (34.86%) Network Engineer
2 74 (15.45%) Senior
3 56 (11.69%) Architect
4 45 (9.39%) Security Engineer
5 42 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (6.47%) Senior Network Engineer
8 30 (6.26%) Network Security Engineer
9 28 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (4.80%) Consultant
11 22 (4.59%) Cisco Engineer
11 22 (4.59%) Network Architect
12 21 (4.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 20 (4.18%) Security Architect
14 16 (3.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.13%) Analyst
15 15 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
16 14 (2.92%) Network Security Architect
17 11 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.51%) OpenID
1 12 (2.51%) SAML
2 11 (2.30%) 802.1X
3 10 (2.09%) LDAP
4 9 (1.88%) Middleware
5 6 (1.25%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.04%) .NET
6 5 (1.04%) OAuth
6 5 (1.04%) REST
7 4 (0.84%) Jinja
7 4 (0.84%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.42%) JSON
9 2 (0.42%) LAMP
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.21%) CSS
10 1 (0.21%) HTML
10 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.49%) Data Centre
2 29 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 28 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (5.22%) Cloud Native
5 21 (4.38%) PKI
6 20 (4.18%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.51%) Clustering
10 10 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.67%) IoT
12 8 (1.67%) Replication
13 7 (1.46%) Operational Technology
14 6 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 113 (23.59%) Windows
2 60 (12.53%) Linux
3 46 (9.60%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.09%) Unix
6 6 (1.25%) VMS
7 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.63%) SUSE
9 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Android
11 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (19.00%) DevOps
2 83 (17.33%) Migration
3 82 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (15.03%) CI/CD
5 67 (13.99%) ITIL
6 58 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
8 54 (11.27%) Zero Trust
9 51 (10.65%) Project Delivery
10 49 (10.23%) Agile
10 49 (10.23%) Load Balancing
11 46 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (8.77%) Cloud Security
13 41 (8.56%) Change Management
13 41 (8.56%) SIEM
14 40 (8.35%) Validation
15 39 (8.14%) Observability
16 38 (7.93%) Runbook
17 37 (7.72%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.46%) Python
2 71 (14.82%) PowerShell
3 45 (9.39%) Bash
4 17 (3.55%) SQL
5 13 (2.71%) Bicep
6 7 (1.46%) Java
7 6 (1.25%) Perl
8 5 (1.04%) Groovy
8 5 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.63%) C++
10 2 (0.42%) 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 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 80 (16.70%) Cisco Certification
3 71 (14.82%) CCNP
4 66 (13.78%) SC Cleared
5 43 (8.98%) Degree
6 30 (6.26%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.18%) CCNA
7 20 (4.18%) CISSP
7 20 (4.18%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.76%) CCIE
9 15 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.51%) CISM
12 9 (1.88%) AWS Certification
13 6 (1.25%) CCSE
13 6 (1.25%) JNCIP
13 6 (1.25%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.76%) SLA
2 17 (3.55%) NIST
3 15 (3.13%) GDPR
3 15 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.25%) NIST 800
6 6 (1.25%) QA
7 5 (1.04%) NCSC
8 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.42%) GMP
9 2 (0.42%) GxP
9 2 (0.42%) PMO
10 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 77 (16.08%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.64%) Docker
4 21 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.34%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (3.13%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.88%) BitLocker
7 9 (1.88%) Squid
8 8 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.67%) vSphere
9 6 (1.25%) Firmware
10 5 (1.04%) NFS
10 5 (1.04%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.84%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 106 (22.13%) Terraform
2 75 (15.66%) Ansible
3 51 (10.65%) Kubernetes
4 49 (10.23%) FortiGate
5 39 (8.14%) Grafana
6 36 (7.52%) Prometheus
7 34 (7.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (5.22%) SCCM
9 16 (3.34%) Puppet
10 13 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (2.71%) vCenter Server
11 8 (1.67%) vMotion
12 7 (1.46%) systemd
13 6 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (1.25%) WSUS
14 5 (1.04%) Consul
14 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.84%) QRadar
15 4 (0.84%) Suricata
15 4 (0.84%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 181 (37.79%) Cisco
2 130 (27.14%) Microsoft
3 128 (26.72%) Palo Alto
4 94 (19.62%) Fortinet
5 56 (11.69%) F5
6 55 (11.48%) VMware
7 45 (9.39%) CheckPoint
7 45 (9.39%) Juniper
8 40 (8.35%) Zscaler
9 35 (7.31%) Arista
10 27 (5.64%) Citrix
10 27 (5.64%) Splunk
11 25 (5.22%) Dynatrace
12 22 (4.59%) Google
13 18 (3.76%) AppDynamics
13 18 (3.76%) ServiceNow
14 15 (3.13%) Aruba
14 15 (3.13%) Meraki
14 15 (3.13%) Tenable
15 14 (2.92%) Infoblox