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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 76 61
Rank change year-on-year -37 -15 +29
Contract jobs citing Firewall 392 447 619
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.31% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.27% 33.26% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 275 399
10th Percentile £394 £355 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +1.39% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £688
90th Percentile £688 £692 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £13.08
25th Percentile £20.18 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% +41.41% -20.80%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £64.06
90th Percentile - - £77.38
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +52.12%

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 1,295 1,344 1,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.56% 9.95% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 803 1,233
10th Percentile £263 £255 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £725 £750
England median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 70
10th Percentile £20.24 £24.13 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.75 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% +33.66% -1.79%
75th Percentile £27.66 £41.50 £56.06
90th Percentile £92.13 £53.50 £72.62
England median hourly rate £29.44 £35.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.89% -26.32% +137.50%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -34 45 £525 -8.70% 33
South London +1 16 £519 +10.33% 8
West London -14 6 £375 -16.67% 7
East London 0 4 £525 +9.38% 9
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 (7.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.10%) Confluence
3 17 (4.34%) SharePoint
4 14 (3.57%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (1.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 185 (47.19%) Azure
2 106 (27.04%) AWS
3 70 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (14.29%) GCP
5 48 (12.24%) Entra ID
6 34 (8.67%) GitHub
7 31 (7.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (6.89%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (5.61%) Amazon S3
11 20 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (4.85%) IaaS
12 19 (4.85%) Route 53
12 19 (4.85%) SaaS
13 18 (4.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (4.59%) PaaS
14 15 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (3.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 111 (28.32%) Network Security
2 110 (28.06%) VPN
3 90 (22.96%) WAN
4 79 (20.15%) DNS
5 57 (14.54%) LAN
6 52 (13.27%) BGP
7 46 (11.73%) SD-WAN
7 46 (11.73%) TCP/IP
8 41 (10.46%) OSPF
9 39 (9.95%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (7.91%) DHCP
11 29 (7.40%) MPLS
12 26 (6.63%) VLAN
13 22 (5.61%) SSL
14 21 (5.36%) Wireless
15 15 (3.83%) NGFW
16 14 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
16 14 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (3.32%) Internet
18 12 (3.06%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.51%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.51%) DB2
8 2 (0.51%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.26%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.26%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.26%) Power BI
9 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (8.42%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.63%) JIRA
3 24 (6.12%) Git
4 17 (4.34%) GitLab
5 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.53%) Vagrant
8 3 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.51%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.26%) Maven
10 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 102 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 54 (13.78%) Finance
3 31 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.89%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.63%) Banking
6 23 (5.87%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.55%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.30%) Legal
10 7 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.79%) Local Government
10 7 (1.79%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.28%) Retail
12 4 (1.02%) Front Office
12 4 (1.02%) Military
13 3 (0.77%) Law
14 2 (0.51%) Billing
14 2 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (20.41%) Network Engineer
2 73 (18.62%) Architect
3 46 (11.73%) Security Engineer
4 40 (10.20%) Senior
5 30 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
6 26 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.12%) Security Architect
8 21 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (5.10%) Consultant
9 20 (5.10%) Network Security Engineer
10 19 (4.85%) Analyst
10 19 (4.85%) Network Architect
10 19 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) Site Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) Technical Architect
12 11 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
13 10 (2.55%) Lead
13 10 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.08%) LDAP
2 12 (3.06%) OpenID
3 9 (2.30%) SAML
4 6 (1.53%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.53%) JSON
4 6 (1.53%) Middleware
4 6 (1.53%) XML
5 4 (1.02%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.02%) Regular Expression
5 4 (1.02%) VML
6 3 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.77%) HTML
6 3 (0.77%) Node.js
6 3 (0.77%) OAuth
6 3 (0.77%) REST
6 3 (0.77%) YAML
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
7 2 (0.51%) Loki
7 2 (0.51%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.10%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (4.59%) PKI
5 16 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.57%) Replication
7 11 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.53%) Life Science
9 6 (1.53%) SCADA
10 5 (1.28%) Clustering
10 5 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.28%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 86 (21.94%) Windows
2 47 (11.99%) Linux
3 37 (9.44%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.61%) VMS
5 10 (2.55%) Unix
6 9 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.53%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.28%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.51%) Android
10 2 (0.51%) CentOS
10 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (23.72%) DevOps
2 81 (20.66%) Cybersecurity
3 79 (20.15%) CI/CD
4 77 (19.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (17.09%) Migration
7 66 (16.84%) Cloud Security
8 51 (13.01%) SIEM
9 47 (11.99%) Agile
10 45 (11.48%) Load Balancing
11 44 (11.22%) ITIL
12 42 (10.71%) Incident Response
12 42 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 40 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 37 (9.44%) Change Management
15 31 (7.91%) Project Delivery
16 30 (7.65%) Mentoring
16 30 (7.65%) Security Operations
17 29 (7.40%) High Availability
17 29 (7.40%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.37%) PowerShell
2 71 (18.11%) Python
3 24 (6.12%) Bash
4 23 (5.87%) SQL
5 9 (2.30%) Bicep
6 8 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.53%) Groovy
8 5 (1.28%) Java
8 5 (1.28%) Perl
9 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.51%) 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 92 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 59 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (12.24%) CCNP
5 39 (9.95%) Degree
6 30 (7.65%) Azure Certification
7 25 (6.38%) CCNA
7 25 (6.38%) CISSP
8 23 (5.87%) DV Cleared
9 20 (5.10%) AWS Certification
10 16 (4.08%) CCIE
10 16 (4.08%) CISM
11 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.55%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.55%) JNCIP
13 8 (2.04%) CEH
13 8 (2.04%) JNCIS
14 7 (1.79%) FFIEC
14 7 (1.79%) GIAC
15 6 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (7.65%) NIST
3 23 (5.87%) GDPR
4 11 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.04%) GRC
6 7 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.79%) SLA
7 5 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.02%) NCSC
8 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.51%) GxP
9 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.51%) QA
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%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 32 (8.16%) Docker
3 31 (7.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (4.59%) Squid
6 16 (4.08%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.53%) DFS Replication
9 6 (1.53%) Dovecot
9 6 (1.53%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.53%) Postfix
10 5 (1.28%) Snort
11 4 (1.02%) BitLocker
11 4 (1.02%) Firmware
12 3 (0.77%) KVM
13 2 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.26%) Ceph
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
Systems Management
1 93 (23.72%) Terraform
2 56 (14.29%) Ansible
3 41 (10.46%) Kubernetes
4 37 (9.44%) FortiGate
5 34 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (5.87%) Prometheus
6 23 (5.87%) SCCM
7 22 (5.61%) Grafana
8 13 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (2.55%) Nessus
10 9 (2.30%) CASB
11 6 (1.53%) Consul
11 6 (1.53%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.53%) SCOrch
12 5 (1.28%) QRadar
12 5 (1.28%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.02%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.02%) Suricata
13 4 (1.02%) vMotion
Vendors
1 110 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 100 (25.51%) Cisco
3 77 (19.64%) Palo Alto
4 50 (12.76%) Fortinet
5 42 (10.71%) CheckPoint
6 41 (10.46%) F5
7 36 (9.18%) VMware
8 32 (8.16%) Juniper
9 26 (6.63%) Aruba
9 26 (6.63%) Splunk
10 24 (6.12%) Zscaler
11 22 (5.61%) Google
12 20 (5.10%) ServiceNow
13 19 (4.85%) Citrix
14 15 (3.83%) Meraki
15 12 (3.06%) Tenable
16 11 (2.81%) NetApp
16 11 (2.81%) Red Hat
17 9 (2.30%) Oracle
17 9 (2.30%) Qualys