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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 62 76
Rank change year-on-year -53 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Firewall 472 559 532
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 4.13% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.22% 40.01% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 339 337
10th Percentile £363 £325 £275
25th Percentile £419 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year - -3.38% -11.54%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £614
90th Percentile £652 £704 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £31.90 - £13.08
25th Percentile £36.25 - £21.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +26.05% -40.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £56.50
England median hourly rate £63.75 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +112.50% -50.00% -4.08%

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 1,562 1,397 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.91% 10.33% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 898 1,095
10th Percentile £300 £269 £226
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £616
90th Percentile £722 £721 £725
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 30 46
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.40 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.15 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.88 £33.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +41.81% -34.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -38.93% +1.74% +39.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -30 58 £525 -4.55% 18
South London -5 23 £506 -11.96% 1
West London -48 5 £450 +10.70% 6
East London -7 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 21 (4.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.60%) Confluence
3 13 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.91%) nginx
5 4 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.21%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 193 (40.89%) Azure
2 115 (24.36%) AWS
3 63 (13.35%) Entra ID
4 55 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (8.90%) GCP
6 35 (7.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 33 (6.99%) GitHub
8 31 (6.57%) IaaS
9 28 (5.93%) SaaS
10 26 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (5.51%) PaaS
10 26 (5.51%) Serverless
11 22 (4.66%) Amazon S3
12 21 (4.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 19 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 157 (33.26%) VPN
2 148 (31.36%) Network Security
3 121 (25.64%) DNS
4 115 (24.36%) WAN
5 86 (18.22%) BGP
6 74 (15.68%) TCP/IP
7 63 (13.35%) LAN
8 57 (12.08%) OSPF
9 56 (11.86%) VLAN
10 47 (9.96%) DHCP
11 40 (8.47%) SD-WAN
12 35 (7.42%) Multicast
13 34 (7.20%) Wireless
14 29 (6.14%) MPLS
15 28 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (5.51%) NGFW
17 25 (5.30%) Cisco IOS
18 24 (5.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 23 (4.87%) Cisco ASA
20 19 (4.03%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.33%) Power BI
4 8 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.64%) Big Data
7 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.64%) Db2
7 3 (0.64%) Metadata
7 3 (0.64%) MySQL
8 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.21%) Redis
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (5.72%) JIRA
2 24 (5.08%) Git
3 17 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.91%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.91%) GitLab
5 7 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.48%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.48%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.21%) MSI
7 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (23.09%) Social Skills
2 88 (18.64%) Finance
3 49 (10.38%) Banking
4 45 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.81%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.97%) Local Government
9 13 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.12%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.91%) Front Office
11 9 (1.91%) Legal
12 8 (1.69%) Retail
13 6 (1.27%) Law
13 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.85%) Publishing
16 3 (0.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 153 (32.42%) Network Engineer
2 69 (14.62%) Architect
3 62 (13.14%) Senior
4 49 (10.38%) Security Engineer
5 40 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (6.99%) Network Security Engineer
7 31 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.08%) Senior Network Engineer
11 21 (4.45%) Network Architect
12 20 (4.24%) Consultant
13 19 (4.03%) Security Architect
14 16 (3.39%) Firewall Engineer
15 15 (3.18%) Cisco Engineer
16 14 (2.97%) Analyst
16 14 (2.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 14 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (2.33%) Integration Engineer
17 11 (2.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.60%) OpenID
2 15 (3.18%) LDAP
3 12 (2.54%) SAML
4 7 (1.48%) 802.1X
4 7 (1.48%) Middleware
5 6 (1.27%) OAuth
6 5 (1.06%) .NET
6 5 (1.06%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.06%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.85%) Jinja
7 4 (0.85%) REST
8 3 (0.64%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.42%) eBPF
9 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.42%) LAMP
9 2 (0.42%) Loki
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.21%) JSON
10 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (16.10%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (4.66%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.81%) PKI
5 14 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 11 (2.33%) Clustering
7 11 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.69%) IoT
8 8 (1.69%) Replication
9 7 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.27%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (21.61%) Windows
2 51 (10.81%) Linux
3 37 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.69%) Unix
6 7 (1.48%) VMS
7 6 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.64%) SUSE
11 2 (0.42%) Android
11 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (19.28%) DevOps
2 82 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (17.16%) Migration
4 72 (15.25%) CI/CD
5 65 (13.77%) ITIL
6 58 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (11.02%) Agile
9 48 (10.17%) Zero Trust
10 47 (9.96%) Load Balancing
11 45 (9.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 45 (9.53%) Validation
12 44 (9.32%) Project Delivery
13 42 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 41 (8.69%) Cloud Security
14 41 (8.69%) Runbook
15 40 (8.47%) SIEM
16 38 (8.05%) Observability
17 36 (7.63%) Change Management
18 35 (7.42%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 92 (19.49%) Python
2 67 (14.19%) PowerShell
3 38 (8.05%) Bash
4 16 (3.39%) SQL
5 12 (2.54%) Bicep
6 8 (1.69%) Java
7 6 (1.27%) Perl
8 5 (1.06%) Groovy
8 5 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.64%) 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 95 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 77 (16.31%) Cisco Certification
3 74 (15.68%) SC Cleared
4 67 (14.19%) CCNP
5 38 (8.05%) Degree
6 28 (5.93%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.45%) DV Cleared
8 20 (4.24%) CCIE
8 20 (4.24%) CCNA
9 19 (4.03%) CISSP
10 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 11 (2.33%) CISM
13 6 (1.27%) CCSE
14 5 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (1.06%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.85%) JNCIS
15 4 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.39%) NIST
2 15 (3.18%) GDPR
2 15 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.75%) SLA
4 10 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.27%) NIST 800
6 6 (1.27%) QA
7 5 (1.06%) NCSC
8 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.42%) GMP
9 2 (0.42%) GRC
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 70 (14.83%) Active Directory
2 39 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.66%) Docker
3 22 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (3.18%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.18%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (2.97%) Squid
6 12 (2.54%) VMware NSX
7 9 (1.91%) BitLocker
7 9 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (1.69%) vSphere
9 6 (1.27%) Firmware
10 4 (0.85%) NFS
10 4 (0.85%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 106 (22.46%) Terraform
2 70 (14.83%) Ansible
3 51 (10.81%) FortiGate
3 51 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 44 (9.32%) Grafana
5 41 (8.69%) Prometheus
6 29 (6.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (4.87%) SCCM
8 17 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (3.39%) Puppet
10 13 (2.75%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.12%) Consul
12 8 (1.69%) vMotion
13 7 (1.48%) WSUS
14 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.85%) QRadar
15 4 (0.85%) Suricata
15 4 (0.85%) systemd
15 4 (0.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 170 (36.02%) Cisco
2 128 (27.12%) Palo Alto
3 117 (24.79%) Microsoft
4 94 (19.92%) Fortinet
5 57 (12.08%) F5
6 53 (11.23%) VMware
7 48 (10.17%) CheckPoint
8 43 (9.11%) Juniper
9 36 (7.63%) Arista
10 34 (7.20%) Zscaler
11 28 (5.93%) Citrix
12 27 (5.72%) Dynatrace
13 25 (5.30%) Splunk
14 19 (4.03%) Google
15 17 (3.60%) AppDynamics
16 16 (3.39%) Red Hat
16 16 (3.39%) ServiceNow
17 15 (3.18%) Infoblox
18 14 (2.97%) Aruba
18 14 (2.97%) Tenable