Firewall Contracts in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 73 69
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +34
Contract jobs citing Firewall 542 553 919
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.08% 3.14% 3.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.53% 32.70% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 351 650
10th Percentile £325 £275 £358
25th Percentile £406 £400 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -11.86% +8.26%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £663
90th Percentile £706 £700 £746
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 10
10th Percentile - £13.40 £22.60
25th Percentile - £16.00 £31.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -37.37% -15.56%
75th Percentile - £25.00 £66.88
90th Percentile - £53.00 £71.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £62.55
% change year-on-year -50.00% -4.08% +40.72%

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 1,371 1,691 2,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 9.61% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 1,113 1,889
10th Percentile £263 £228 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £669
90th Percentile £717 £738 £775
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 49 49
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £24.91 £16.86 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.05% -34.87% +32.87%
75th Percentile £49.38 £41.25 £69.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £60.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firewall in London.

Daily rate trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firewall in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 -5 84 £550 +22.22% 149
West London +26 36 £401 -23.71% 41
South London - 14 £550 - 13
East London +11 11 £585 +8.33% 11
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.32%) Confluence
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
5 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) Camunda
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Alphatax
1 2 (0.37%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 226 (41.70%) Azure
2 148 (27.31%) AWS
3 53 (9.78%) Entra ID
4 51 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (9.04%) GCP
6 34 (6.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 32 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (5.72%) IaaS
9 29 (5.35%) Serverless
10 24 (4.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 22 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (3.87%) SaaS
13 19 (3.51%) PaaS
14 16 (2.95%) GitHub
15 14 (2.58%) Akamai
15 14 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (2.40%) Amazon S3
16 13 (2.40%) Azure AKS
17 9 (1.66%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 170 (31.37%) VPN
2 133 (24.54%) DNS
3 126 (23.25%) Network Security
4 113 (20.85%) WAN
5 91 (16.79%) BGP
6 86 (15.87%) OSPF
7 83 (15.31%) LAN
8 75 (13.84%) SD-WAN
9 51 (9.41%) DHCP
10 49 (9.04%) Wireless
11 46 (8.49%) Cisco Nexus
12 43 (7.93%) TCP/IP
12 43 (7.93%) Wi-Fi
13 39 (7.20%) MPLS
14 34 (6.27%) VLAN
15 32 (5.90%) SSL
16 31 (5.72%) IPsec
17 28 (5.17%) EIGRP
17 28 (5.17%) Multicast
18 27 (4.98%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.66%) NoSQL
3 7 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.37%) Power BI
7 1 (0.18%) Big Data
7 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (4.24%) JIRA
2 14 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.03%) Git
4 10 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (1.66%) GitLab
6 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.37%) MSI
9 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 107 (19.74%) Finance
3 56 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.67%) Banking
5 39 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.32%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.58%) Marketing
9 9 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.29%) Law
11 7 (1.29%) Legal
12 5 (0.92%) Local Government
13 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.74%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.55%) Electronics
14 3 (0.55%) Japanese Language
14 3 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 161 (29.70%) Network Engineer
2 93 (17.16%) Architect
3 51 (9.41%) Security Engineer
4 48 (8.86%) Senior
5 37 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (6.83%) Security Architect
6 33 (6.09%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (6.09%) Network Architect
7 31 (5.72%) Network Security Engineer
8 29 (5.35%) Support Engineer
9 26 (4.80%) Cisco Engineer
9 26 (4.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 26 (4.80%) Consultant
10 25 (4.61%) Analyst
11 21 (3.87%) Azure Architect
12 20 (3.69%) Lead
13 19 (3.51%) Project Manager
14 18 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.14%) Network Support
15 17 (3.14%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.95%) ADO
2 15 (2.77%) 802.1X
3 13 (2.40%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.21%) REST
5 7 (1.29%) .NET
5 7 (1.29%) JSON
6 6 (1.11%) LDAP
7 5 (0.92%) OAuth
7 5 (0.92%) SAML
7 5 (0.92%) XML
8 4 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.74%) OpenID
8 4 (0.74%) React
8 4 (0.74%) Web Services
9 3 (0.55%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.55%) Spring
9 3 (0.55%) YAML
10 2 (0.37%) Rendezvous
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.81%) Data Centre
2 27 (4.98%) Security Posture
3 20 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.14%) Anti-Spyware
4 17 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.21%) PKI
6 12 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
7 11 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.48%) Operational Technology
10 8 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.29%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 104 (19.19%) Windows
2 64 (11.81%) Linux
3 39 (7.20%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 11 (2.03%) Unix
6 5 (0.92%) CatOS
6 5 (0.92%) CentOS
6 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.55%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.55%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.37%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.37%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (16.24%) Migration
2 71 (13.10%) Agile
2 71 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 71 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (12.18%) DevOps
4 61 (11.25%) Cloud Security
5 59 (10.89%) Network Monitoring
6 53 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 48 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
7 48 (8.86%) SIEM
8 47 (8.67%) Incident Response
9 42 (7.75%) ITIL
9 42 (7.75%) Security Operations
10 38 (7.01%) CI/CD
11 37 (6.83%) High Availability
12 35 (6.46%) Project Management
13 33 (6.09%) Computer Science
13 33 (6.09%) Information Security
13 33 (6.09%) Project Delivery
13 33 (6.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 93 (17.16%) Python
2 75 (13.84%) PowerShell
3 36 (6.64%) Bash
4 26 (4.80%) Bicep
5 19 (3.51%) SQL
6 13 (2.40%) Java
7 6 (1.11%) Perl
7 6 (1.11%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.92%) C#
8 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.55%) Go
10 3 (0.55%) PHP
11 2 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.18%) Groovy
12 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.18%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 113 (20.85%) Cisco Certification
2 101 (18.63%) Security Cleared
3 84 (15.50%) CCNP
4 80 (14.76%) SC Cleared
5 52 (9.59%) Degree
6 31 (5.72%) CCNA
7 28 (5.17%) CISSP
8 26 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (4.43%) Azure Certification
10 21 (3.87%) CCIE
11 16 (2.95%) AWS Certification
12 13 (2.40%) CCSA
12 13 (2.40%) DV Cleared
13 12 (2.21%) CEH
13 12 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (2.03%) JNCIA
15 10 (1.85%) CISM
16 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.48%) CISA
17 8 (1.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.09%) NIST
2 27 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.14%) GDPR
4 15 (2.77%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.85%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.48%) GRC
7 7 (1.29%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.11%) SLA
9 4 (0.74%) NCSC
10 3 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.37%) QA
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (14.76%) Active Directory
2 31 (5.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.24%) Docker
4 17 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.21%) Firmware
6 9 (1.66%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.92%) vSphere
10 4 (0.74%) iptables
11 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.37%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.37%) XenApp
12 1 (0.18%) FreeRADIUS
12 1 (0.18%) Snort
12 1 (0.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 86 (15.87%) Terraform
2 79 (14.58%) Ansible
3 50 (9.23%) Kubernetes
4 30 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (4.80%) FortiGate
6 18 (3.32%) SCCM
7 16 (2.95%) Puppet
7 16 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 11 (2.03%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.29%) CA Spectrum
11 6 (1.11%) Grafana
11 6 (1.11%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.11%) SELinux
12 5 (0.92%) CASB
12 5 (0.92%) Nagios
12 5 (0.92%) QRadar
13 4 (0.74%) Cisco Prime
14 3 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.55%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 198 (36.53%) Cisco
2 130 (23.99%) Microsoft
3 97 (17.90%) Palo Alto
4 90 (16.61%) Fortinet
5 82 (15.13%) CheckPoint
6 64 (11.81%) F5
7 61 (11.25%) Juniper
8 48 (8.86%) VMware
9 41 (7.56%) SolarWinds
10 33 (6.09%) Arista
11 31 (5.72%) Meraki
12 29 (5.35%) Google
13 27 (4.98%) Infoblox
14 21 (3.87%) Oracle
15 20 (3.69%) Splunk
16 16 (2.95%) Citrix
17 15 (2.77%) Zscaler
18 14 (2.58%) Aruba
19 13 (2.40%) ServiceNow
20 10 (1.85%) SAP