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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 74 77
Rank change year-on-year -50 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 478 481 497
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.35% 3.60% 3.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.66% 36.52% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 288 329
10th Percentile £363 £362 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% -5.21% -0.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £660 £700 £700
England median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.25% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £52.40 - -
25th Percentile £59.06 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +158.33% +26.05% -63.38%
75th Percentile £78.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £102.50 - £45.67
England median hourly rate £67.47 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +124.90% +9.09% -58.33%

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 1,668 1,317 1,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.19% 9.85% 9.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 838 967
10th Percentile £294 £289 £254
25th Percentile £404 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £626
90th Percentile £715 £713 £725
England median daily rate £500 £490 £505
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 33 18
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.56 £22.66
25th Percentile £22.50 - £23.90
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -35.10% +35.37%
75th Percentile £95.00 £44.75 £57.94
90th Percentile £155.03 £61.30 £67.06
England median hourly rate £45.00 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +9.76% -28.51% +1.52%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -7 83 £525 -4.55% 65
South London -12 18 £525 -4.55% 11
West London -49 11 £538 +26.47% 13
East London -1 4 £500 -14.53% 9
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.63%) nginx
5 2 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 10 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (0.42%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 209 (43.72%) Azure
2 107 (22.38%) AWS
3 72 (15.06%) Entra ID
4 53 (11.09%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (6.49%) GitHub
6 29 (6.07%) GCP
7 25 (5.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 25 (5.23%) IaaS
7 25 (5.23%) SaaS
8 24 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (5.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 20 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (3.97%) PaaS
11 17 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.35%) Serverless
13 14 (2.93%) Amazon S3
14 13 (2.72%) Datadog
15 12 (2.51%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 151 (31.59%) Network Security
2 145 (30.33%) VPN
3 120 (25.10%) WAN
4 117 (24.48%) DNS
5 74 (15.48%) BGP
6 73 (15.27%) TCP/IP
7 67 (14.02%) LAN
8 63 (13.18%) VLAN
9 55 (11.51%) DHCP
10 49 (10.25%) Wireless
11 41 (8.58%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (7.95%) SD-WAN
13 33 (6.90%) OSPF
14 27 (5.65%) Multicast
15 24 (5.02%) NGFW
16 23 (4.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 23 (4.81%) MPLS
17 22 (4.60%) Internet
18 20 (4.18%) Cisco ISE
19 18 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.56%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.09%) Power BI
4 9 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.84%) Db2
7 4 (0.84%) Metadata
8 3 (0.63%) Big Data
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.42%) MySQL
9 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.21%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.21%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (5.44%) Git
2 22 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.18%) JIRA
4 11 (2.30%) GitLab
5 8 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 5 (1.05%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.63%) MSI
9 2 (0.42%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.21%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (23.22%) Social Skills
2 84 (17.57%) Finance
3 55 (11.51%) Banking
4 48 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.18%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.56%) Local Government
8 13 (2.72%) Retail
9 10 (2.09%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.88%) Legal
11 7 (1.46%) Front Office
11 7 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Law
12 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.84%) Automotive
13 4 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 167 (34.94%) Network Engineer
2 66 (13.81%) Senior
3 46 (9.62%) Architect
4 45 (9.41%) Security Engineer
5 37 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (6.69%) Consultant
8 32 (6.69%) Network Security Engineer
9 31 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 30 (6.28%) Senior Network Engineer
11 24 (5.02%) Cisco Engineer
12 23 (4.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 23 (4.81%) Network Architect
13 21 (4.39%) Security Architect
14 19 (3.97%) Firewall Engineer
15 17 (3.56%) Lead
15 17 (3.56%) Project Manager
16 16 (3.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (21.97%) Terraform
2 14 (2.93%) 802.1X
3 12 (2.51%) OpenID
4 11 (2.30%) REST
4 11 (2.30%) SAML
5 10 (2.09%) OAuth
6 8 (1.67%) Middleware
7 7 (1.46%) LDAP
7 7 (1.46%) OAuth2
8 5 (1.05%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.84%) JSON
10 3 (0.63%) .NET
10 3 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.42%) Kafka
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
11 2 (0.42%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.42%) RFC 2544
11 2 (0.42%) SailPoint
11 2 (0.42%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.53%) Data Centre
2 32 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 32 (6.69%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.97%) PKI
3 19 (3.97%) Security Posture
4 18 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 13 (2.72%) Replication
6 12 (2.51%) IoT
7 11 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.09%) CMDB
8 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.67%) Clustering
10 8 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.67%) Digital Signage
10 8 (1.67%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
11 7 (1.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (23.85%) Windows
2 60 (12.55%) Linux
3 42 (8.79%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.51%) Unix
5 11 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (1.46%) VMS
8 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.63%) SUSE
9 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.42%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (20.50%) Migration
2 82 (17.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (16.95%) DevOps
4 67 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 65 (13.60%) CI/CD
5 65 (13.60%) Cybersecurity
6 64 (13.39%) ITIL
7 56 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 56 (11.72%) Project Delivery
7 56 (11.72%) Zero Trust
8 53 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (10.46%) Change Management
10 48 (10.04%) Load Balancing
11 47 (9.83%) Cloud Security
11 47 (9.83%) Incident Response
12 45 (9.41%) Agile
13 40 (8.37%) High Availability
13 40 (8.37%) SIEM
14 39 (8.16%) Validation
15 36 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 101 (21.13%) Python
2 79 (16.53%) PowerShell
3 44 (9.21%) Bash
4 15 (3.14%) Bicep
5 13 (2.72%) SQL
6 10 (2.09%) Java
7 9 (1.88%) Groovy
8 6 (1.26%) Perl
9 4 (0.84%) C++
10 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.21%) C
11 1 (0.21%) C#
11 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.21%) Korn
11 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.21%) VB
11 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 71 (14.85%) Cisco Certification
3 69 (14.44%) SC Cleared
4 62 (12.97%) CCNP
5 41 (8.58%) Degree
6 34 (7.11%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.81%) CISSP
8 18 (3.77%) CCNA
9 17 (3.56%) CISM
10 16 (3.35%) DV Cleared
11 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (2.51%) AWS Certification
14 11 (2.30%) CCIE
15 10 (2.09%) PMI Certification
15 10 (2.09%) PMP
16 6 (1.26%) CCSE
16 6 (1.26%) JNCIP
16 6 (1.26%) JNCIS
16 6 (1.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (4.18%) NIST
3 12 (2.51%) SLA
4 11 (2.30%) GDPR
5 10 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.67%) NIST 800
8 7 (1.46%) NCSC
8 7 (1.46%) QA
9 5 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.84%) COBIT
11 3 (0.63%) GRC
12 2 (0.42%) GMP
12 2 (0.42%) GxP
12 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.42%) PMO
13 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (16.74%) Active Directory
2 34 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (5.44%) Docker
4 21 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.09%) Hyper-V
7 9 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.46%) Squid
9 6 (1.26%) Firmware
9 6 (1.26%) vSphere
10 5 (1.05%) BitLocker
10 5 (1.05%) NFS
11 4 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.84%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 3 (0.63%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.42%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.42%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.42%) Postfix
14 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (14.64%) Ansible
2 47 (9.83%) FortiGate
3 40 (8.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (7.74%) Kubernetes
5 33 (6.90%) Grafana
6 31 (6.49%) Prometheus
7 24 (5.02%) SCCM
8 13 (2.72%) Puppet
9 10 (2.09%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.88%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.46%) systemd
13 6 (1.26%) Nessus
14 5 (1.05%) WSUS
15 4 (0.84%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.84%) Suricata
15 4 (0.84%) vMotion
16 3 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
16 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
16 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 183 (38.28%) Cisco
2 130 (27.20%) Palo Alto
3 121 (25.31%) Microsoft
4 95 (19.87%) Fortinet
5 50 (10.46%) F5
6 48 (10.04%) VMware
7 41 (8.58%) Zscaler
8 40 (8.37%) CheckPoint
9 38 (7.95%) Juniper
10 27 (5.65%) Splunk
11 24 (5.02%) Arista
12 20 (4.18%) Meraki
13 19 (3.97%) ServiceNow
14 18 (3.77%) Dynatrace
15 17 (3.56%) Citrix
15 17 (3.56%) Google
16 15 (3.14%) AppDynamics
16 15 (3.14%) Aruba
17 12 (2.51%) Infoblox
17 12 (2.51%) Tenable