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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 77 67
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 +26
Contract jobs citing Firewall 427 474 599
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.96% 3.24% 3.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.57% 32.73% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 299 406
10th Percentile £400 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £434 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £675
90th Percentile £689 £679 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £21.16 - £42.13
25th Percentile £22.63 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.18 £35.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -47.17% +120.83%
75th Percentile £27.63 - £77.19
90th Percentile £29.05 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +19.83% -46.95% +112.84%

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 1,272 1,448 1,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.82% 9.91% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 884 1,259
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -0.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 59
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%
75th Percentile £29.31 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.55 £75.31 £76.50
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -1.43% -38.04% +50.64%

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 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 1 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 -23 61 £525 -4.55% 63
West London +4 27 £438 -2.78% 13
South London +4 18 £563 +19.68% 4
East London +2 5 £363 +88.45% 5
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 28 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.45%) Confluence
2 19 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.58%) nginx
4 3 (0.70%) Apache
4 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.47%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.47%) Traefik
5 2 (0.47%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 189 (44.26%) Azure
2 111 (26.00%) AWS
3 73 (17.10%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (14.29%) GCP
5 45 (10.54%) Entra ID
6 32 (7.49%) GitHub
7 30 (7.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (5.15%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (4.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 20 (4.68%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (4.45%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (3.98%) IaaS
14 17 (3.98%) SaaS
15 14 (3.28%) PaaS
15 14 (3.28%) Route 53
16 12 (2.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 113 (26.46%) VPN
2 106 (24.82%) Network Security
3 93 (21.78%) WAN
4 82 (19.20%) DNS
5 73 (17.10%) LAN
6 62 (14.52%) SD-WAN
7 57 (13.35%) Wi-Fi
8 55 (12.88%) BGP
9 48 (11.24%) TCP/IP
10 43 (10.07%) OSPF
11 35 (8.20%) Cisco Nexus
12 30 (7.03%) DHCP
12 30 (7.03%) SSL
13 29 (6.79%) MPLS
14 23 (5.39%) Wireless
15 22 (5.15%) VLAN
16 17 (3.98%) HTTP
17 14 (3.28%) NGFW
18 13 (3.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 13 (3.04%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (1.64%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.94%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.47%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.47%) DB2
8 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.47%) Redis
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.23%) MySQL
9 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.23%) Power BI
9 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 47 (11.01%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.43%) Git
3 25 (5.85%) JIRA
4 18 (4.22%) GitLab
5 10 (2.34%) Vagrant
6 9 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.41%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.23%) Maven
10 1 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 108 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.65%) Finance
3 39 (9.13%) Public Sector
4 33 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.56%) Banking
6 23 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (4.22%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.64%) Retail
9 7 (1.64%) Spanish Language
10 6 (1.41%) Local Government
10 6 (1.41%) Publishing
11 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.17%) Legal
11 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.17%) Military
12 4 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.70%) Front Office
13 3 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (21.31%) Network Engineer
2 77 (18.03%) Architect
3 49 (11.48%) Security Engineer
4 43 (10.07%) Senior
5 31 (7.26%) Network Architect
6 30 (7.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (6.09%) Security Architect
9 23 (5.39%) Consultant
10 21 (4.92%) Analyst
10 21 (4.92%) Network Security Engineer
11 16 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.28%) Lead
12 14 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (2.81%) Project Manager
13 12 (2.81%) Technical Architect
14 11 (2.58%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.28%) LDAP
2 9 (2.11%) SAML
3 6 (1.41%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.41%) JSON
3 6 (1.41%) Middleware
3 6 (1.41%) XML
3 6 (1.41%) YAML
4 5 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.17%) OpenID
5 4 (0.94%) ARM Templates
5 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (0.94%) Node.js
5 4 (0.94%) VML
6 3 (0.70%) Regular Expression
6 3 (0.70%) REST
7 2 (0.47%) gRPC
7 2 (0.47%) HTML
7 2 (0.47%) Jinja
7 2 (0.47%) OAuth
7 2 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.46%) Data Centre
2 23 (5.39%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.68%) Replication
4 19 (4.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.98%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.04%) PKI
7 12 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.81%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.81%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.41%) Life Science
10 6 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) SCADA
10 6 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.17%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.17%) YARA
12 4 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 101 (23.65%) Windows
2 60 (14.05%) Linux
3 39 (9.13%) Windows Server
4 24 (5.62%) VMS
5 14 (3.28%) Ubuntu
6 13 (3.04%) Unix
7 10 (2.34%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.47%) CentOS
11 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.23%) Android
12 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (22.72%) DevOps
2 86 (20.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (19.91%) CI/CD
4 82 (19.20%) Cybersecurity
5 73 (17.10%) Cloud Security
6 64 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (14.29%) Migration
8 56 (13.11%) SIEM
9 48 (11.24%) Agile
9 48 (11.24%) Incident Response
10 47 (11.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 45 (10.54%) Change Management
11 45 (10.54%) ITIL
12 43 (10.07%) Load Balancing
13 40 (9.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (8.20%) Network Design
15 33 (7.73%) High Availability
15 33 (7.73%) Information Security
16 32 (7.49%) Mentoring
17 31 (7.26%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 98 (22.95%) Python
2 74 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 32 (7.49%) Bash
3 32 (7.49%) SQL
4 11 (2.58%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (2.34%) Bicep
5 10 (2.34%) Groovy
6 5 (1.17%) Perl
7 4 (0.94%) Java
7 4 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.47%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.47%) C
8 2 (0.47%) Go
8 2 (0.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Rust
9 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 71 (16.63%) SC Cleared
3 67 (15.69%) Cisco Certification
4 51 (11.94%) CCNP
5 46 (10.77%) Degree
6 32 (7.49%) CISSP
7 31 (7.26%) Azure Certification
8 25 (5.85%) CCNA
9 24 (5.62%) AWS Certification
10 20 (4.68%) CCIE
11 19 (4.45%) DV Cleared
12 18 (4.22%) CISM
13 14 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (2.81%) JNCIP
16 10 (2.34%) CEH
17 9 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
18 8 (1.87%) JNCIE
19 7 (1.64%) GIAC
19 7 (1.64%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.67%) NIST
2 36 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.68%) GDPR
4 12 (2.81%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.87%) GRC
6 7 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (1.41%) SLA
8 5 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.94%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.70%) NCSC
10 3 (0.70%) QA
11 2 (0.47%) GxP
11 2 (0.47%) ITGC
12 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.23%) COBIT
12 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 81 (18.97%) Active Directory
2 47 (11.01%) Docker
3 25 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.51%) Squid
6 10 (2.34%) DFS Replication
6 10 (2.34%) Dovecot
6 10 (2.34%) Postfix
7 9 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.64%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.41%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.17%) Snort
10 5 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.94%) Firmware
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.70%) KVM
13 2 (0.47%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.23%) Ceph
14 1 (0.23%) etcd
Systems Management
1 103 (24.12%) Terraform
2 69 (16.16%) Ansible
3 33 (7.73%) Kubernetes
3 33 (7.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (7.49%) FortiGate
5 21 (4.92%) Grafana
5 21 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 18 (4.22%) SCCM
7 16 (3.75%) Nessus
8 11 (2.58%) CASB
9 10 (2.34%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 6 (1.41%) SCOM
10 6 (1.41%) SCOrch
10 6 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.17%) QRadar
12 4 (0.94%) Nexpose
12 4 (0.94%) Suricata
13 3 (0.70%) Argo
13 3 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 117 (27.40%) Cisco
2 112 (26.23%) Microsoft
3 78 (18.27%) Palo Alto
4 66 (15.46%) Fortinet
5 45 (10.54%) F5
6 43 (10.07%) CheckPoint
7 39 (9.13%) Juniper
8 28 (6.56%) Splunk
8 28 (6.56%) VMware
9 26 (6.09%) Google
10 25 (5.85%) Zscaler
11 24 (5.62%) ServiceNow
12 23 (5.39%) Aruba
13 19 (4.45%) Citrix
14 15 (3.51%) Meraki
15 14 (3.28%) Oracle
16 13 (3.04%) Tenable
17 11 (2.58%) Qualys
18 10 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
18 10 (2.34%) NetApp