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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -58 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 438 496 541
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.29% 3.93% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.03% 38.27% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 295 341
10th Percentile £370 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £671 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 13
10th Percentile £31.90 - £13.40
25th Percentile £36.25 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £65.00 - £25.00
90th Percentile £73.25 - £53.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +86.67% -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 1,509 1,296 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.89% 10.26% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 837 1,112
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £406 £395 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £715 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 50
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.95 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £16.40
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +58.56% -34.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £62.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £28.96 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -27.60% -12.82% +141.47%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 50 £550 +0.05% 12
South London -2 22 £506 -7.95% 4
West London -42 4 £375 -6.25% 11
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -10 1 £719 +22.91% 2
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 25 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.88%) Confluence
3 15 (3.42%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.23%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 174 (39.73%) Azure
2 108 (24.66%) AWS
3 57 (13.01%) Entra ID
4 54 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (10.27%) GCP
6 36 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 35 (7.99%) GitHub
8 27 (6.16%) IaaS
9 25 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (5.71%) SaaS
9 25 (5.71%) Serverless
10 24 (5.48%) PaaS
11 22 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (4.79%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (4.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (4.11%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 143 (32.65%) Network Security
2 140 (31.96%) VPN
3 112 (25.57%) WAN
4 107 (24.43%) DNS
5 77 (17.58%) BGP
6 67 (15.30%) TCP/IP
7 63 (14.38%) LAN
8 53 (12.10%) OSPF
9 48 (10.96%) VLAN
10 43 (9.82%) SD-WAN
11 42 (9.59%) DHCP
12 31 (7.08%) Multicast
13 28 (6.39%) MPLS
13 28 (6.39%) Wi-Fi
14 27 (6.16%) Wireless
15 23 (5.25%) Cisco IOS
16 22 (5.02%) NGFW
17 20 (4.57%) SSL
18 19 (4.34%) Cisco ASA
18 19 (4.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.28%) Power BI
3 9 (2.05%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.68%) Big Data
6 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.68%) Metadata
6 3 (0.68%) MySQL
6 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.23%) Db2
7 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (6.16%) JIRA
2 22 (5.02%) Git
3 21 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.05%) Artifactory
4 9 (2.05%) GitLab
5 7 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.37%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.23%) MSI
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 99 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.26%) Finance
3 41 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.68%) Banking
5 36 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 31 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.65%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.97%) Legal
9 12 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.51%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.51%) Local Government
11 10 (2.28%) Front Office
12 8 (1.83%) Law
13 7 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.14%) Retail
15 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.91%) Publishing
16 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 132 (30.14%) Network Engineer
2 70 (15.98%) Architect
3 50 (11.42%) Senior
4 47 (10.73%) Security Engineer
5 39 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
6 34 (7.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 32 (7.31%) Network Security Engineer
8 28 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (5.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (4.57%) Network Architect
10 20 (4.57%) Senior Network Engineer
11 17 (3.88%) Security Architect
12 15 (3.42%) Analyst
13 14 (3.20%) Consultant
13 14 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
15 11 (2.51%) Cisco Engineer
15 11 (2.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 11 (2.51%) Integration Engineer
16 10 (2.28%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.88%) OpenID
2 13 (2.97%) LDAP
3 11 (2.51%) SAML
4 6 (1.37%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.37%) OAuth
5 5 (1.14%) .NET
5 5 (1.14%) Middleware
5 5 (1.14%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.91%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.91%) Jinja
6 4 (0.91%) REST
7 3 (0.68%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.46%) CSS
8 2 (0.46%) eBPF
8 2 (0.46%) HTML
8 2 (0.46%) LAMP
8 2 (0.46%) Loki
8 2 (0.46%) Web Services
9 1 (0.23%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 71 (16.21%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.02%) Security Posture
5 21 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.65%) PKI
7 15 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.74%) Clustering
8 12 (2.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.60%) Replication
11 6 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.37%) IoT
11 6 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.37%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.15%) Windows
2 47 (10.73%) Linux
3 36 (8.22%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.74%) VMS
6 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.14%) Unix
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.68%) SUSE
8 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.46%) Android
9 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (21.69%) DevOps
2 83 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (18.04%) CI/CD
3 79 (18.04%) Migration
4 59 (13.47%) ITIL
5 56 (12.79%) Agile
5 56 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
6 53 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (11.42%) Load Balancing
8 43 (9.82%) Validation
9 42 (9.59%) Zero Trust
10 41 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (8.90%) Cloud Security
11 39 (8.90%) SIEM
12 37 (8.45%) Project Delivery
12 37 (8.45%) Runbook
13 36 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 34 (7.76%) High Availability
14 34 (7.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 82 (18.72%) Python
2 63 (14.38%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.53%) Bash
4 16 (3.65%) SQL
5 11 (2.51%) Bicep
6 7 (1.60%) Java
7 5 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.14%) Perl
8 4 (0.91%) Groovy
9 3 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 70 (15.98%) Cisco Certification
4 60 (13.70%) CCNP
5 35 (7.99%) Degree
6 27 (6.16%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.79%) DV Cleared
8 19 (4.34%) CCIE
9 17 (3.88%) CCNA
10 16 (3.65%) CISSP
10 16 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
11 9 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.83%) CCSE
12 8 (1.83%) CISM
13 4 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.91%) MCSA
13 4 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.11%) GDPR
2 16 (3.65%) NIST
3 14 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.20%) SLA
4 10 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.37%) NCSC
6 6 (1.37%) QA
7 5 (1.14%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.68%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) GMP
9 2 (0.46%) GxP
9 2 (0.46%) PMO
10 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 70 (15.98%) Active Directory
2 43 (9.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.79%) Docker
5 17 (3.88%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (3.42%) VMware NSX
8 14 (3.20%) Squid
9 12 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (2.28%) BitLocker
11 9 (2.05%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (1.60%) vSphere
13 6 (1.37%) Firmware
14 4 (0.91%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 2 (0.46%) NFS
16 2 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
17 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 106 (24.20%) Terraform
2 75 (17.12%) Ansible
3 55 (12.56%) Kubernetes
4 46 (10.50%) FortiGate
5 41 (9.36%) Grafana
6 38 (8.68%) Prometheus
7 27 (6.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (5.48%) SCCM
9 17 (3.88%) Puppet
9 17 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (3.20%) vCenter Server
11 10 (2.28%) Consul
12 9 (2.05%) vMotion
13 7 (1.60%) WSUS
14 5 (1.14%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.91%) QRadar
15 4 (0.91%) Suricata
15 4 (0.91%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.91%) VxRail
Vendors
1 151 (34.47%) Cisco
2 120 (27.40%) Palo Alto
3 112 (25.57%) Microsoft
4 86 (19.63%) Fortinet
5 53 (12.10%) VMware
6 50 (11.42%) CheckPoint
7 49 (11.19%) F5
8 35 (7.99%) Juniper
9 33 (7.53%) Arista
10 31 (7.08%) Zscaler
11 28 (6.39%) Citrix
12 24 (5.48%) Dynatrace
13 23 (5.25%) Google
14 22 (5.02%) Splunk
15 18 (4.11%) Aruba
16 16 (3.65%) ServiceNow
17 15 (3.42%) AppDynamics
18 14 (3.20%) Infoblox
18 14 (3.20%) Red Hat
19 13 (2.97%) Bloomberg