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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -53 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Firewall 430 493 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.27% 3.97% 3.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.69% 38.37% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 294 347
10th Percentile £376 £316 £338
25th Percentile £425 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £638
90th Percentile £668 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.86% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 13
10th Percentile £31.18 - £13.40
25th Percentile £34.44 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 - £23.80
75th Percentile £68.44 - £25.00
90th Percentile £74.63 - £53.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +103.64% -54.17% -3.65%

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 1,499 1,285 1,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.34% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 831 1,116
10th Percentile £300 £263 £225
25th Percentile £406 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £624 £619
90th Percentile £701 £713 £738
England median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.11% -1.10% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 51
10th Percentile £16.04 £18.88 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +57.56% -34.87%
75th Percentile £64.38 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £91.25 £63.05 £60.00
England median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -21.28% -6.25% +117.75%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -47 46 £550 - 23
South London +9 22 £506 +1.25% 6
West London -37 4 £375 -6.25% 7
North London - 2 £438 - 1
East London -12 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 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.95%) Confluence
3 15 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.09%) nginx
5 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) MTS
6 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 173 (40.23%) Azure
2 106 (24.65%) AWS
3 58 (13.49%) Entra ID
4 57 (13.26%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (10.47%) GCP
6 37 (8.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 35 (8.14%) GitHub
8 28 (6.51%) IaaS
9 24 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (5.58%) PaaS
9 24 (5.58%) Serverless
10 23 (5.35%) SaaS
11 22 (5.12%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (4.65%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 14 (3.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 141 (32.79%) Network Security
2 135 (31.40%) VPN
3 106 (24.65%) WAN
4 103 (23.95%) DNS
5 78 (18.14%) BGP
6 63 (14.65%) TCP/IP
7 59 (13.72%) LAN
8 55 (12.79%) OSPF
9 48 (11.16%) VLAN
10 42 (9.77%) SD-WAN
11 39 (9.07%) DHCP
12 31 (7.21%) Multicast
13 30 (6.98%) MPLS
14 29 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
14 29 (6.74%) Wireless
15 23 (5.35%) NGFW
16 22 (5.12%) Cisco IOS
17 20 (4.65%) SSL
18 19 (4.42%) Cisco ASA
19 17 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.33%) Power BI
4 7 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.70%) Big Data
6 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.70%) Metadata
6 3 (0.70%) MySQL
7 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.47%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.23%) Redis
8 1 (0.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (5.81%) JIRA
2 22 (5.12%) Git
3 21 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.09%) Artifactory
4 9 (2.09%) GitLab
5 7 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.40%) Chocolatey
7 4 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
General
1 95 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.91%) Finance
3 41 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.60%) Banking
5 35 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.44%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.72%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.26%) Legal
9 12 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.56%) Local Government
11 9 (2.09%) Front Office
12 8 (1.86%) Law
13 7 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.16%) Publishing
14 5 (1.16%) Retail
15 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.93%) Military
16 3 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 130 (30.23%) Network Engineer
2 67 (15.58%) Architect
3 52 (12.09%) Senior
4 45 (10.47%) Security Engineer
5 37 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
6 31 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 30 (6.98%) Network Security Engineer
8 27 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (4.42%) Network Architect
12 17 (3.95%) Security Architect
13 14 (3.26%) Analyst
14 13 (3.02%) Integration Engineer
14 13 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.79%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (2.79%) Consultant
16 11 (2.56%) Cisco Engineer
16 11 (2.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 11 (2.56%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.95%) OpenID
2 12 (2.79%) LDAP
3 11 (2.56%) SAML
4 8 (1.86%) 802.1X
5 6 (1.40%) OAuth
6 5 (1.16%) Middleware
6 5 (1.16%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.93%) .NET
7 4 (0.93%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.93%) Jinja
8 3 (0.70%) AWS CDK
8 3 (0.70%) HTML
8 3 (0.70%) REST
8 3 (0.70%) Web Services
9 2 (0.47%) CSS
9 2 (0.47%) eBPF
9 2 (0.47%) LAMP
9 2 (0.47%) Loki
10 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 66 (15.35%) Data Centre
2 26 (6.05%) Onboarding
3 24 (5.58%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.72%) PKI
7 13 (3.02%) Clustering
7 13 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.86%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (1.86%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.63%) Replication
11 6 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.40%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 92 (21.40%) Windows
2 47 (10.93%) Linux
3 35 (8.14%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.02%) VMS
5 12 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.63%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.70%) SUSE
8 3 (0.70%) Unix
9 2 (0.47%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (22.09%) DevOps
2 80 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
2 80 (18.60%) Migration
3 78 (18.14%) CI/CD
4 57 (13.26%) ITIL
5 56 (13.02%) Cybersecurity
6 55 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (12.56%) Agile
8 49 (11.40%) Load Balancing
9 43 (10.00%) Validation
10 42 (9.77%) Zero Trust
11 40 (9.30%) Cloud Security
12 38 (8.84%) Project Delivery
13 37 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 37 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (8.37%) SIEM
15 35 (8.14%) Runbook
16 34 (7.91%) High Availability
17 32 (7.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.14%) Python
2 63 (14.65%) PowerShell
3 33 (7.67%) Bash
4 17 (3.95%) SQL
5 10 (2.33%) Bicep
6 7 (1.63%) Java
7 5 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.16%) Perl
8 4 (0.93%) Groovy
9 2 (0.47%) C++
9 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.47%) PHP
10 1 (0.23%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.23%) C
10 1 (0.23%) Go
10 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 76 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 69 (16.05%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (13.49%) CCNP
5 34 (7.91%) Degree
6 30 (6.98%) Azure Certification
7 21 (4.88%) DV Cleared
8 18 (4.19%) CCIE
9 17 (3.95%) CCNA
10 16 (3.72%) CISSP
10 16 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.09%) CISM
12 9 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.86%) CCSE
14 4 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.93%) MCSA
14 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.42%) GDPR
2 16 (3.72%) NIST
3 15 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.26%) SLA
5 10 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.40%) NCSC
6 6 (1.40%) QA
7 5 (1.16%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.70%) GRC
9 2 (0.47%) GMP
9 2 (0.47%) GxP
9 2 (0.47%) 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
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (16.74%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.12%) Docker
4 21 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (4.19%) Hyper-V
6 16 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (3.72%) VMware NSX
7 14 (3.26%) Squid
8 12 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (2.56%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.63%) vSphere
12 6 (1.40%) Firmware
13 4 (0.93%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.47%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.23%) NFS
15 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (24.19%) Terraform
2 76 (17.67%) Ansible
3 56 (13.02%) Kubernetes
4 45 (10.47%) FortiGate
5 40 (9.30%) Grafana
6 37 (8.60%) Prometheus
7 28 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (5.12%) SCCM
9 17 (3.95%) Puppet
10 15 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (3.26%) vCenter Server
12 10 (2.33%) Consul
12 10 (2.33%) vMotion
13 7 (1.63%) WSUS
14 5 (1.16%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.93%) QRadar
15 4 (0.93%) Suricata
15 4 (0.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 147 (34.19%) Cisco
2 121 (28.14%) Palo Alto
3 114 (26.51%) Microsoft
4 86 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 53 (12.33%) VMware
6 49 (11.40%) CheckPoint
7 47 (10.93%) F5
8 34 (7.91%) Juniper
9 33 (7.67%) Arista
10 27 (6.28%) Citrix
10 27 (6.28%) Zscaler
11 23 (5.35%) Dynatrace
11 23 (5.35%) Google
12 20 (4.65%) Splunk
13 18 (4.19%) Aruba
14 16 (3.72%) ServiceNow
15 14 (3.26%) AppDynamics
15 14 (3.26%) Infoblox
16 13 (3.02%) Red Hat
17 12 (2.79%) Bloomberg