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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 73 63
Rank change year-on-year -39 -10 +31
Contract jobs citing Firewall 381 458 641
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.59% 3.32% 3.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.02% 33.83% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 279 425
10th Percentile £395 £355 £338
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £681
90th Percentile £700 £696 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.18 - £17.81
Median hourly rate £20.36 £35.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.84% -17.16% +30.00%
75th Percentile £20.53 - £72.19
90th Percentile - - £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +15.83% -46.95% +70.89%

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 1,269 1,354 1,938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.62% 9.81% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 806 1,292
10th Percentile £280 £258 £209
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £625
90th Percentile £694 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 15 71
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.02 £18.00
25th Percentile - £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% +27.45% -0.82%
75th Percentile £28.88 £39.75 £58.38
90th Percentile £90.50 £43.75 £73.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +140.18%

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 1 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 1 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 -32 48 £525 -8.70% 30
South London +4 15 £519 +10.33% 4
West London -20 6 £375 -21.05% 4
East London -2 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 32 (8.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.25%) Confluence
3 16 (4.20%) SharePoint
4 13 (3.41%) nginx
5 3 (0.79%) Apache
5 3 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.52%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) JBoss
7 1 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (1.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 184 (48.29%) Azure
2 104 (27.30%) AWS
3 70 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (14.70%) GCP
5 46 (12.07%) Entra ID
6 34 (8.92%) GitHub
7 29 (7.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.51%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (4.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 18 (4.72%) Route 53
12 18 (4.72%) SaaS
13 16 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (4.20%) IaaS
14 15 (3.94%) PaaS
15 14 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (3.15%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 106 (27.82%) Network Security
2 104 (27.30%) VPN
3 88 (23.10%) WAN
4 72 (18.90%) DNS
5 55 (14.44%) LAN
6 48 (12.60%) BGP
7 45 (11.81%) SD-WAN
8 42 (11.02%) TCP/IP
9 37 (9.71%) OSPF
9 37 (9.71%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (7.35%) MPLS
11 27 (7.09%) DHCP
12 22 (5.77%) SSL
12 22 (5.77%) VLAN
13 21 (5.51%) Wireless
14 16 (4.20%) NGFW
15 14 (3.67%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (3.41%) HTTP
17 12 (3.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.52%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.52%) DB2
8 2 (0.52%) 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 34 (8.92%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.82%) JIRA
3 25 (6.56%) Git
4 16 (4.20%) GitLab
5 8 (2.10%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.10%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.84%) Vagrant
7 4 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 98 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.12%) Finance
3 28 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.30%) Banking
6 22 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.36%) Legal
9 8 (2.10%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.84%) Spanish Language
11 6 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.31%) Local Government
12 5 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.31%) Retail
13 4 (1.05%) Front Office
13 4 (1.05%) Military
14 3 (0.79%) Law
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
15 2 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (20.21%) Network Engineer
2 67 (17.59%) Architect
3 45 (11.81%) Security Engineer
4 38 (9.97%) Senior
5 28 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (6.30%) Security Architect
8 22 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.25%) Consultant
11 19 (4.99%) Analyst
11 19 (4.99%) Network Security Engineer
12 18 (4.72%) Network Architect
12 18 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.15%) Site Engineer
13 12 (3.15%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.89%) Lead
15 9 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.94%) LDAP
2 10 (2.62%) OpenID
3 9 (2.36%) SAML
4 6 (1.57%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.57%) JSON
4 6 (1.57%) Middleware
4 6 (1.57%) XML
5 5 (1.31%) YAML
6 4 (1.05%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.05%) Regular Expression
6 4 (1.05%) VML
7 3 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.79%) HTML
7 3 (0.79%) Node.js
7 3 (0.79%) REST
8 2 (0.52%) CSS
8 2 (0.52%) Kafka
8 2 (0.52%) OAuth
8 2 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.17%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.99%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.20%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.20%) PKI
6 15 (3.94%) Replication
7 14 (3.67%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.89%) Operational Technology
9 9 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.57%) Life Science
10 6 (1.57%) SCADA
11 5 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (1.05%) IoT
12 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.05%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 84 (22.05%) Windows
2 49 (12.86%) Linux
3 36 (9.45%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.77%) VMS
5 10 (2.62%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.62%) Unix
6 7 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.05%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.79%) 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 92 (24.15%) DevOps
2 81 (21.26%) Cybersecurity
3 79 (20.73%) CI/CD
4 77 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (17.59%) Cloud Security
6 64 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (15.75%) Migration
8 52 (13.65%) SIEM
9 47 (12.34%) Agile
10 43 (11.29%) Incident Response
10 43 (11.29%) ITIL
10 43 (11.29%) Load Balancing
11 41 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 40 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (10.24%) Change Management
14 31 (8.14%) Security Operations
15 30 (7.87%) Information Security
15 30 (7.87%) Mentoring
15 30 (7.87%) Project Delivery
16 29 (7.61%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 74 (19.42%) Python
2 73 (19.16%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.30%) Bash
3 24 (6.30%) SQL
4 9 (2.36%) Bicep
4 9 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
5 7 (1.84%) Groovy
6 5 (1.31%) Perl
7 4 (1.05%) Java
8 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Rust
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 62 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 57 (14.96%) Cisco Certification
4 46 (12.07%) CCNP
5 40 (10.50%) Degree
6 31 (8.14%) Azure Certification
7 26 (6.82%) CISSP
8 24 (6.30%) CCNA
9 22 (5.77%) DV Cleared
10 21 (5.51%) AWS Certification
11 16 (4.20%) CISM
12 14 (3.67%) CCIE
13 12 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (2.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (2.36%) JNCIP
16 8 (2.10%) CEH
17 7 (1.84%) FFIEC
17 7 (1.84%) GIAC
17 7 (1.84%) JNCIS
18 6 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.40%) NIST
3 22 (5.77%) GDPR
4 11 (2.89%) PCI DSS
5 8 (2.10%) GRC
6 7 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.57%) SLA
8 5 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.05%) NCSC
9 4 (1.05%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.52%) GxP
10 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.52%) QA
11 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (19.42%) Active Directory
2 33 (8.66%) Docker
3 28 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (4.46%) Squid
6 14 (3.67%) VMware NSX
7 11 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.84%) DFS Replication
8 7 (1.84%) Dovecot
8 7 (1.84%) Postfix
9 6 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.31%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.31%) Snort
11 4 (1.05%) Firmware
12 3 (0.79%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.79%) KVM
13 2 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.26%) etcd
14 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 92 (24.15%) Terraform
2 53 (13.91%) Ansible
3 37 (9.71%) Kubernetes
4 34 (8.92%) FortiGate
5 33 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (5.51%) Prometheus
7 20 (5.25%) Grafana
7 20 (5.25%) SCCM
8 11 (2.89%) Nessus
8 11 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.36%) CASB
10 7 (1.84%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.57%) SCOrch
12 5 (1.31%) Consul
12 5 (1.31%) QRadar
12 5 (1.31%) SCOM
13 4 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
13 4 (1.05%) Nexpose
13 4 (1.05%) Suricata
13 4 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (28.35%) Microsoft
2 95 (24.93%) Cisco
3 76 (19.95%) Palo Alto
4 48 (12.60%) Fortinet
5 40 (10.50%) CheckPoint
6 39 (10.24%) F5
7 31 (8.14%) VMware
8 30 (7.87%) Juniper
9 26 (6.82%) Aruba
9 26 (6.82%) Splunk
10 23 (6.04%) Google
10 23 (6.04%) Zscaler
11 19 (4.99%) ServiceNow
12 17 (4.46%) Citrix
13 15 (3.94%) Meraki
14 10 (2.62%) NetApp
14 10 (2.62%) Oracle
14 10 (2.62%) Tenable
15 9 (2.36%) Qualys
15 9 (2.36%) Red Hat