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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -59 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Firewall 406 490 554
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 4.00% 3.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.90% 38.37% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 285 345
10th Percentile £386 £325 £305
25th Percentile £450 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £743
England median daily rate £500 £511 £505
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.24% -4.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £13.08
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £23.80
75th Percentile £38.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £56.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £15.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +219.48% -74.58% -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 1,405 1,277 1,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.77% 10.44% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 810 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £256 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -11.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £493
% change year-on-year - +1.52% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 51
10th Percentile £19.34 £21.03 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 £38.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +64.89% -34.72%
75th Percentile £37.25 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £61.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.25 £37.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -7.32% +122.22%

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 22 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
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 22 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 -42 35 £550 - 22
South London -5 19 £519 +3.71% 4
West London -39 3 £375 -6.25% 10
East London -13 1 £719 +22.91% 4
North London - 1 £225 -
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 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.43%) Confluence
3 13 (3.20%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.46%) nginx
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) MTS
6 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 173 (42.61%) Azure
2 100 (24.63%) AWS
3 55 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (12.81%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.33%) GCP
6 33 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 31 (7.64%) GitHub
8 26 (6.40%) IaaS
9 21 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (5.17%) PaaS
10 20 (4.93%) SaaS
11 18 (4.43%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.43%) Amazon S3
11 18 (4.43%) Serverless
12 17 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (3.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 15 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
14 15 (3.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 133 (32.76%) Network Security
2 122 (30.05%) VPN
3 104 (25.62%) WAN
4 87 (21.43%) DNS
5 73 (17.98%) BGP
6 60 (14.78%) LAN
7 57 (14.04%) OSPF
8 55 (13.55%) TCP/IP
9 44 (10.84%) VLAN
10 42 (10.34%) SD-WAN
11 32 (7.88%) DHCP
12 31 (7.64%) MPLS
13 29 (7.14%) Multicast
13 29 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
14 23 (5.67%) Wireless
15 20 (4.93%) NGFW
16 19 (4.68%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (4.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 16 (3.94%) Cisco IOS
18 16 (3.94%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.72%) Power BI
4 5 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.99%) MySQL
5 4 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.74%) Metadata
6 3 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.49%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.25%) DB2
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.25%) Redis
8 1 (0.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (6.16%) JIRA
2 21 (5.17%) Git
2 21 (5.17%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.22%) GitLab
4 8 (1.97%) Artifactory
5 7 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.48%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.25%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
General
1 85 (20.94%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.26%) Finance
3 40 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.39%) Banking
4 30 (7.39%) Documentation Skills
5 29 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.69%) Financial Institution
7 12 (2.96%) Legal
7 12 (2.96%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.72%) Front Office
9 7 (1.72%) Law
9 7 (1.72%) Local Government
10 6 (1.48%) Retail
11 5 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.99%) Military
12 4 (0.99%) Spanish Language
13 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (27.34%) Network Engineer
2 63 (15.52%) Architect
3 52 (12.81%) Senior
4 41 (10.10%) Security Engineer
5 40 (9.85%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (5.91%) Network Security Engineer
7 22 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (4.93%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 15 (3.69%) Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.45%) Network Architect
12 14 (3.45%) Security Architect
13 12 (2.96%) Analyst
13 12 (2.96%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (2.71%) Cisco Engineer
14 11 (2.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 11 (2.71%) Consultant
14 11 (2.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.19%) OpenID
2 13 (3.20%) LDAP
3 9 (2.22%) SAML
4 6 (1.48%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.48%) OAuth
5 5 (1.23%) Middleware
5 5 (1.23%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.99%) HTML
6 4 (0.99%) Jinja
7 3 (0.74%) .NET
7 3 (0.74%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.74%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.74%) CSS
7 3 (0.74%) LAMP
7 3 (0.74%) VML
7 3 (0.74%) Web Services
8 2 (0.49%) eBPF
8 2 (0.49%) JSON
8 2 (0.49%) XML
8 2 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.19%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.94%) PKI
6 12 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.71%) Clustering
8 9 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.22%) Replication
9 7 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.48%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.48%) IoT
10 6 (1.48%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.99%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 90 (22.17%) Windows
2 41 (10.10%) Linux
3 38 (9.36%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.19%) VMS
5 7 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.23%) Unix
7 4 (0.99%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.74%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.74%) SUSE
9 2 (0.49%) Android
9 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (21.43%) DevOps
2 76 (18.72%) Migration
3 73 (17.98%) CI/CD
4 71 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 55 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (12.56%) ITIL
7 51 (12.56%) Load Balancing
8 48 (11.82%) Agile
9 42 (10.34%) Validation
10 40 (9.85%) Cloud Security
11 39 (9.61%) Project Delivery
12 35 (8.62%) Runbook
13 34 (8.37%) SIEM
13 34 (8.37%) Zero Trust
14 33 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 31 (7.64%) High Availability
16 30 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.00%) Python
2 61 (15.02%) PowerShell
3 30 (7.39%) Bash
4 14 (3.45%) SQL
5 9 (2.22%) Bicep
6 7 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.48%) Java
7 6 (1.48%) Perl
8 4 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.74%) Groovy
10 2 (0.49%) PHP
11 1 (0.25%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 78 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 65 (16.01%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (12.81%) CCNP
5 34 (8.37%) Azure Certification
6 24 (5.91%) Degree
7 21 (5.17%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.43%) CCIE
9 16 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (3.69%) CCNA
11 14 (3.45%) CISSP
12 13 (3.20%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.97%) CCSE
13 8 (1.97%) CISM
14 7 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.99%) JNCIP
16 4 (0.99%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.68%) GDPR
2 16 (3.94%) NIST
3 15 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.45%) SLA
5 9 (2.22%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.48%) QA
7 5 (1.23%) NCSC
8 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.74%) GRC
8 3 (0.74%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.49%) GMP
9 2 (0.49%) GxP
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.49%) PMO
10 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 40 (9.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.68%) Docker
4 18 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.69%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.69%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.45%) Squid
6 14 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (2.22%) BitLocker
9 8 (1.97%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (1.72%) vSphere
11 6 (1.48%) Firmware
12 2 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.49%) NFS
12 2 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.25%) KVM
13 1 (0.25%) Samba
13 1 (0.25%) Snort
13 1 (0.25%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 96 (23.65%) Terraform
2 66 (16.26%) Ansible
3 53 (13.05%) Kubernetes
4 38 (9.36%) FortiGate
5 35 (8.62%) Grafana
6 32 (7.88%) Prometheus
7 29 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (4.43%) SCCM
9 14 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (2.71%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.46%) Consul
11 10 (2.46%) Puppet
12 8 (1.97%) vMotion
13 6 (1.48%) QRadar
14 5 (1.23%) Suricata
15 4 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.99%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.99%) VxRail
15 4 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 134 (33.00%) Cisco
2 111 (27.34%) Microsoft
3 110 (27.09%) Palo Alto
4 70 (17.24%) Fortinet
5 51 (12.56%) CheckPoint
5 51 (12.56%) VMware
6 47 (11.58%) F5
7 31 (7.64%) Juniper
8 30 (7.39%) Arista
9 26 (6.40%) Zscaler
10 22 (5.42%) Dynatrace
11 21 (5.17%) Aruba
11 21 (5.17%) Citrix
11 21 (5.17%) Google
12 17 (4.19%) ServiceNow
13 16 (3.94%) Splunk
14 13 (3.20%) AppDynamics
14 13 (3.20%) NetApp
15 11 (2.71%) Infoblox
15 11 (2.71%) Meraki