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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 74 63
Rank change year-on-year -33 -11 +33
Contract jobs citing Firewall 388 461 612
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.69% 3.29% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.11% 33.24% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 287 420
10th Percentile £388 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £683
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £20.13
25th Percentile £20.18 - £33.19
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% -47.17% +120.83%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £77.19
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +15.83% -46.95% +106.19%

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 1,247 1,387 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.64% 9.89% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 844 1,278
10th Percentile £283 £265 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £632 £634
90th Percentile £700 £736 £745
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 62
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.91 £18.93
25th Percentile - £24.75 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +17.90% +14.50%
75th Percentile £26.40 £40.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £43.75 £75.99
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +132.95%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -25 52 £525 -6.67% 25
South London +4 12 £525 +11.70% 7
West London -13 11 £405 -10.00% 4
East London +1 4 £525 +30.43% 3
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 31 (7.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.90%) Confluence
2 19 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.58%) nginx
4 3 (0.77%) Apache
4 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.52%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.26%) Traefik
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 185 (47.68%) Azure
2 107 (27.58%) AWS
3 73 (18.81%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (15.72%) GCP
5 42 (10.82%) Entra ID
6 33 (8.51%) GitHub
7 29 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 25 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (5.93%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (5.41%) Amazon S3
12 19 (4.90%) Amazon ELB
12 19 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (4.12%) IaaS
14 16 (4.12%) SaaS
15 15 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (3.35%) PaaS
16 13 (3.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 102 (26.29%) VPN
2 101 (26.03%) Network Security
3 89 (22.94%) WAN
4 71 (18.30%) DNS
5 59 (15.21%) LAN
6 48 (12.37%) BGP
6 48 (12.37%) SD-WAN
7 42 (10.82%) TCP/IP
8 40 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
9 37 (9.54%) OSPF
10 29 (7.47%) SSL
11 28 (7.22%) DHCP
12 26 (6.70%) MPLS
13 23 (5.93%) Wireless
14 21 (5.41%) VLAN
15 16 (4.12%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (3.87%) HTTP
17 14 (3.61%) NGFW
18 13 (3.35%) SMTP
19 12 (3.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.52%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.52%) DB2
7 2 (0.52%) Redis
8 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.26%) MySQL
8 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.26%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.26%) Power BI
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 35 (9.02%) Git
3 24 (6.19%) JIRA
4 18 (4.64%) GitLab
5 9 (2.32%) Vagrant
6 7 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.77%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
9 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 95 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.89%) Finance
3 32 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (6.96%) Banking
6 22 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.06%) Legal
10 7 (1.80%) Spanish Language
11 6 (1.55%) Publishing
12 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.29%) Local Government
12 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.29%) Military
12 5 (1.29%) Retail
13 4 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.03%) Front Office
14 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 82 (21.13%) Network Engineer
2 63 (16.24%) Architect
3 45 (11.60%) Security Engineer
4 42 (10.82%) Senior
5 31 (7.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 26 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (6.70%) Security Architect
7 25 (6.44%) Azure Engineer
7 25 (6.44%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (5.15%) Analyst
9 19 (4.90%) Network Architect
10 18 (4.64%) Network Security Engineer
11 17 (4.38%) Consultant
12 16 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.84%) Lead
15 10 (2.58%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.09%) LDAP
2 9 (2.32%) SAML
3 6 (1.55%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.55%) JSON
3 6 (1.55%) Middleware
3 6 (1.55%) XML
4 5 (1.29%) OpenID
4 5 (1.29%) YAML
5 4 (1.03%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.03%) Node.js
5 4 (1.03%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.03%) VML
6 3 (0.77%) HTML
6 3 (0.77%) REST
7 2 (0.52%) CSS
7 2 (0.52%) Kafka
7 2 (0.52%) OAuth
7 2 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (15.21%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.64%) Security Posture
5 17 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.38%) Replication
6 15 (3.87%) PKI
7 13 (3.35%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.09%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.84%) Operational Technology
10 10 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.55%) Life Science
11 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Clustering
12 4 (1.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.03%) SCADA
12 4 (1.03%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 92 (23.71%) Windows
2 55 (14.18%) Linux
3 39 (10.05%) Windows Server
4 25 (6.44%) VMS
5 12 (3.09%) Ubuntu
5 12 (3.09%) Unix
6 9 (2.32%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.03%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.26%) Android
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (25.00%) DevOps
2 84 (21.65%) CI/CD
3 82 (21.13%) Cybersecurity
4 81 (20.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (17.78%) Cloud Security
6 60 (15.46%) Migration
6 60 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (13.66%) SIEM
8 51 (13.14%) Agile
9 46 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (11.34%) Incident Response
11 43 (11.08%) Change Management
11 43 (11.08%) ITIL
12 42 (10.82%) Load Balancing
13 40 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (8.76%) Mentoring
15 32 (8.25%) Information Security
15 32 (8.25%) Security Operations
16 30 (7.73%) High Availability
16 30 (7.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 91 (23.45%) Python
2 75 (19.33%) PowerShell
3 31 (7.99%) Bash
4 28 (7.22%) SQL
5 10 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.32%) Groovy
7 8 (2.06%) Bicep
8 5 (1.29%) Perl
9 4 (1.03%) Java
9 4 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.52%) Ruby
11 1 (0.26%) C
11 1 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.26%) Go
11 1 (0.26%) Rust
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.49%) Cisco Certification
3 61 (15.72%) SC Cleared
4 52 (13.40%) CCNP
5 42 (10.82%) Degree
6 31 (7.99%) Azure Certification
7 26 (6.70%) CISSP
8 24 (6.19%) CCNA
9 22 (5.67%) AWS Certification
10 21 (5.41%) DV Cleared
11 18 (4.64%) CCIE
12 16 (4.12%) CISM
13 13 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (2.84%) JNCIP
15 8 (2.06%) CCSE
15 8 (2.06%) CEH
16 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.80%) GIAC
16 7 (1.80%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.25%) NIST
3 22 (5.67%) GDPR
4 11 (2.84%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.06%) GRC
6 7 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.80%) SLA
7 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.03%) NCSC
8 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.52%) GxP
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.52%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (19.59%) Active Directory
2 45 (11.60%) Docker
3 25 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.61%) Squid
6 10 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (2.32%) DFS Replication
7 9 (2.32%) Dovecot
7 9 (2.32%) Postfix
8 8 (2.06%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.29%) Snort
11 3 (0.77%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.77%) Firmware
11 3 (0.77%) KVM
12 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.26%) etcd
13 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 98 (25.26%) Terraform
2 65 (16.75%) Ansible
3 33 (8.51%) Kubernetes
4 32 (8.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (7.99%) FortiGate
6 20 (5.15%) SCCM
7 18 (4.64%) Prometheus
8 17 (4.38%) Grafana
9 14 (3.61%) Nessus
10 9 (2.32%) CASB
10 9 (2.32%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.55%) SCOM
11 6 (1.55%) SCOrch
11 6 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (1.29%) QRadar
13 4 (1.03%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.03%) Suricata
13 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.77%) vMotion
Vendors
1 108 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 98 (25.26%) Cisco
3 75 (19.33%) Palo Alto
4 48 (12.37%) Fortinet
5 44 (11.34%) CheckPoint
6 43 (11.08%) F5
7 33 (8.51%) Juniper
8 27 (6.96%) Splunk
8 27 (6.96%) VMware
8 27 (6.96%) Zscaler
9 26 (6.70%) Aruba
9 26 (6.70%) Google
10 24 (6.19%) ServiceNow
11 19 (4.90%) Citrix
12 15 (3.87%) Meraki
13 12 (3.09%) Oracle
14 11 (2.84%) Tenable
15 10 (2.58%) NetApp
15 10 (2.58%) Qualys
16 9 (2.32%) Jaspersoft