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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 60 74
Rank change year-on-year -64 +14 -8
Contract jobs citing Firewall 463 562 533
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 4.13% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.89% 40.00% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 343 338
10th Percentile £363 £325 £275
25th Percentile £414 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £519
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.20% -11.13%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £614
90th Percentile £650 £706 £679
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 £61.25 £30.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +104.17% -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 1,549 1,405 1,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.83% 10.32% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 906 1,096
10th Percentile £300 £273 £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 £619
90th Percentile £725 £717 £725
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 46
10th Percentile £18.02 £19.33 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.15 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.88 £30.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +26.05% -34.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% -1.16% +56.36%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -33 57 £525 -4.55% 39
South London -7 23 £506 -7.95% 1
West London -47 5 £450 +10.70% 19
East London -8 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 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.67%) Confluence
3 13 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.94%) nginx
5 4 (0.86%) Apache
6 1 (0.22%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.22%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.22%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 187 (40.39%) Azure
2 113 (24.41%) AWS
3 63 (13.61%) Entra ID
4 55 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (8.64%) GCP
6 35 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 31 (6.70%) IaaS
8 30 (6.48%) GitHub
9 28 (6.05%) SaaS
10 26 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (5.62%) PaaS
11 25 (5.40%) Serverless
12 22 (4.75%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 18 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 152 (32.83%) VPN
2 147 (31.75%) Network Security
3 118 (25.49%) DNS
4 115 (24.84%) WAN
5 83 (17.93%) BGP
6 71 (15.33%) TCP/IP
7 62 (13.39%) LAN
8 54 (11.66%) OSPF
9 52 (11.23%) VLAN
10 46 (9.94%) DHCP
11 41 (8.86%) SD-WAN
12 34 (7.34%) Multicast
13 32 (6.91%) Wireless
14 29 (6.26%) MPLS
15 28 (6.05%) Wi-Fi
16 27 (5.83%) NGFW
17 25 (5.40%) Cisco IOS
18 23 (4.97%) Cisco ASA
19 19 (4.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 19 (4.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.38%) Power BI
4 8 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.65%) Big Data
7 3 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.65%) Db2
7 3 (0.65%) Metadata
7 3 (0.65%) MySQL
8 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.22%) Redis
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (5.83%) JIRA
2 23 (4.97%) Git
3 17 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.94%) Artifactory
4 9 (1.94%) GitLab
5 7 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.51%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.51%) SonarQube
6 4 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 108 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 87 (18.79%) Finance
3 48 (10.37%) Banking
4 45 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.91%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (3.89%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.02%) Local Government
9 12 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.16%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.16%) Legal
11 9 (1.94%) Front Office
12 6 (1.30%) Law
12 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.08%) Retail
14 4 (0.86%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.86%) Publishing
15 3 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 148 (31.97%) Network Engineer
2 70 (15.12%) Architect
3 57 (12.31%) Senior
4 49 (10.58%) Security Engineer
5 39 (8.42%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (7.13%) Network Security Engineer
7 30 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (5.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.54%) Network Architect
10 21 (4.54%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (4.10%) Consultant
11 19 (4.10%) Security Architect
12 15 (3.24%) Cisco Engineer
12 15 (3.24%) Firewall Engineer
13 14 (3.02%) Analyst
13 14 (3.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 14 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (2.38%) Integration Engineer
14 11 (2.38%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.67%) OpenID
2 15 (3.24%) LDAP
3 12 (2.59%) SAML
4 7 (1.51%) Middleware
5 6 (1.30%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.30%) OAuth
6 5 (1.08%) .NET
6 5 (1.08%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.86%) Jinja
7 4 (0.86%) REST
8 3 (0.65%) AWS CDK
9 2 (0.43%) eBPF
9 2 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.43%) LAMP
9 2 (0.43%) Loki
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.22%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.22%) JSON
10 1 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (16.20%) Data Centre
2 24 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.97%) Security Posture
4 22 (4.75%) Cloud Native
5 20 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (3.67%) PKI
7 14 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 11 (2.38%) Clustering
9 11 (2.38%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.73%) IoT
10 8 (1.73%) Replication
11 7 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.30%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 101 (21.81%) Windows
2 50 (10.80%) Linux
3 36 (7.78%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.51%) Unix
5 7 (1.51%) VMS
6 5 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.65%) SUSE
9 2 (0.43%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (19.22%) DevOps
2 79 (17.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 78 (16.85%) Migration
4 71 (15.33%) CI/CD
5 66 (14.25%) ITIL
6 58 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (11.23%) Agile
9 46 (9.94%) Load Balancing
10 45 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 45 (9.72%) Zero Trust
11 43 (9.29%) Validation
12 40 (8.64%) Cloud Security
12 40 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (8.64%) Project Delivery
13 39 (8.42%) Runbook
13 39 (8.42%) SIEM
14 38 (8.21%) Observability
15 35 (7.56%) Change Management
15 35 (7.56%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 86 (18.57%) Python
2 63 (13.61%) PowerShell
3 36 (7.78%) Bash
4 15 (3.24%) SQL
5 11 (2.38%) Bicep
6 8 (1.73%) Java
7 6 (1.30%) Perl
8 5 (1.08%) Groovy
8 5 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.65%) C++
10 2 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 77 (16.63%) Cisco Certification
3 75 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 67 (14.47%) CCNP
5 38 (8.21%) Degree
6 27 (5.83%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.32%) CCIE
7 20 (4.32%) CCNA
8 19 (4.10%) DV Cleared
9 18 (3.89%) CISSP
10 14 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.16%) AWS Certification
12 10 (2.16%) CISM
13 6 (1.30%) CCSE
14 5 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.86%) JNCIP
15 4 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.86%) PMP
16 3 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.46%) GDPR
1 16 (3.46%) NIST
2 15 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.02%) SLA
4 11 (2.38%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.30%) NIST 800
6 6 (1.30%) QA
7 5 (1.08%) NCSC
8 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.65%) GRC
9 2 (0.43%) GMP
9 2 (0.43%) GxP
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
10 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 71 (15.33%) Active Directory
2 41 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (4.54%) Docker
5 16 (3.46%) Hyper-V
6 15 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (3.02%) Squid
8 13 (2.81%) VMware NSX
9 9 (1.94%) BitLocker
9 9 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (1.73%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (1.73%) vSphere
11 6 (1.30%) Firmware
12 4 (0.86%) NFS
12 4 (0.86%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 100 (21.60%) Terraform
2 67 (14.47%) Ansible
3 50 (10.80%) Kubernetes
4 49 (10.58%) FortiGate
5 44 (9.50%) Grafana
6 41 (8.86%) Prometheus
7 29 (6.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (5.18%) SCCM
9 17 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (3.46%) Puppet
11 13 (2.81%) vCenter Server
12 10 (2.16%) Consul
13 8 (1.73%) vMotion
14 7 (1.51%) WSUS
15 5 (1.08%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.86%) QRadar
16 4 (0.86%) Suricata
16 4 (0.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
16 4 (0.86%) VxRail
17 3 (0.65%) Avamar
Vendors
1 167 (36.07%) Cisco
2 127 (27.43%) Palo Alto
3 115 (24.84%) Microsoft
4 92 (19.87%) Fortinet
5 55 (11.88%) VMware
6 52 (11.23%) F5
7 48 (10.37%) CheckPoint
8 40 (8.64%) Juniper
9 34 (7.34%) Arista
10 31 (6.70%) Zscaler
11 28 (6.05%) Citrix
12 27 (5.83%) Dynatrace
13 24 (5.18%) Splunk
14 18 (3.89%) Google
15 17 (3.67%) AppDynamics
16 16 (3.46%) Red Hat
16 16 (3.46%) ServiceNow
17 15 (3.24%) Infoblox
18 14 (3.02%) Aruba
18 14 (3.02%) Tenable