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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 75 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 -11 +27
Contract jobs citing Firewall 463 491 642
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.22% 3.24% 3.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.81% 32.37% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 315 441
10th Percentile £386 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £681
90th Percentile £700 £675 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £21.16 - £23.05
25th Percentile £22.63 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £25.18 £35.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -41.67% +100.00%
75th Percentile £27.63 - £76.88
90th Percentile £29.05 - £77.50
England median hourly rate £39.72 £28.70 £65.98
% change year-on-year +38.40% -56.50% +77.27%

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 1,293 1,517 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.00% 10.02% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 933 1,345
10th Percentile £313 £256 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £620 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 13 57
10th Percentile £20.69 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +6.00%
75th Percentile £36.38 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.45 £76.91 £76.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -14.63% -27.36% +27.13%

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 16 December 2025.

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
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 16 December 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 -16 65 £525 -4.55% 33
West London +16 43 £425 -8.11% 6
South London +12 23 £550 +18.92% 4
East London +1 5 £363 +45.00% 7
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 26 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (4.54%) Confluence
3 18 (3.89%) SharePoint
4 10 (2.16%) nginx
5 3 (0.65%) Apache
5 3 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.43%) Traefik
6 2 (0.43%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Mattermost
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) ION MarketView
1 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 191 (41.25%) Azure
2 119 (25.70%) AWS
3 72 (15.55%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (14.04%) GCP
5 46 (9.94%) Entra ID
6 29 (6.26%) GitHub
7 28 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 27 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (4.75%) Amazon S3
10 22 (4.75%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (4.32%) Amazon ELB
11 20 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (3.89%) SaaS
13 16 (3.46%) IaaS
14 14 (3.02%) Akamai
14 14 (3.02%) PaaS
15 13 (2.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 120 (25.92%) VPN
2 112 (24.19%) Network Security
3 106 (22.89%) WAN
4 101 (21.81%) DNS
5 86 (18.57%) LAN
6 75 (16.20%) SD-WAN
7 64 (13.82%) BGP
8 63 (13.61%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (11.23%) OSPF
10 47 (10.15%) Cisco Nexus
11 46 (9.94%) TCP/IP
12 41 (8.86%) DHCP
13 35 (7.56%) SSL
14 31 (6.70%) MPLS
15 30 (6.48%) VLAN
16 25 (5.40%) Wireless
17 22 (4.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 20 (4.32%) Cisco ISE
19 18 (3.89%) HTTP
20 14 (3.02%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.86%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.43%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.43%) DB2
7 2 (0.43%) MySQL
7 2 (0.43%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.22%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 43 (9.29%) Jenkins
2 36 (7.78%) Git
3 27 (5.83%) JIRA
4 19 (4.10%) GitLab
5 10 (2.16%) Vagrant
6 9 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.65%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) Maven
General
1 115 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 60 (12.96%) Finance
3 40 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 31 (6.70%) Banking
5 24 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (4.54%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.51%) Retail
9 6 (1.30%) Local Government
9 6 (1.30%) Spanish Language
10 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.08%) Publishing
11 4 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.86%) Military
12 3 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.65%) Japanese Language
12 3 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 98 (21.17%) Network Engineer
2 90 (19.44%) Architect
3 56 (12.10%) Security Engineer
4 44 (9.50%) Senior
5 37 (7.99%) Network Architect
6 29 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 29 (6.26%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (5.62%) Consultant
8 26 (5.62%) Network Security Engineer
9 25 (5.40%) Security Architect
10 24 (5.18%) Analyst
11 16 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 15 (3.24%) Technical Architect
13 14 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (2.59%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.02%) LDAP
2 9 (1.94%) SAML
3 8 (1.73%) JSON
4 7 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (1.51%) XML
4 7 (1.51%) YAML
5 5 (1.08%) Middleware
5 5 (1.08%) OpenID
5 5 (1.08%) REST
6 4 (0.86%) ARM Templates
6 4 (0.86%) Node.js
6 4 (0.86%) VML
7 3 (0.65%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (0.65%) OAuth
7 3 (0.65%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.43%) .NET
8 2 (0.43%) Jinja
8 2 (0.43%) React
8 2 (0.43%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 77 (16.63%) Data Centre
2 23 (4.97%) Replication
3 21 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 19 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.67%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.59%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.59%) Operational Technology
7 12 (2.59%) PKI
8 11 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.30%) Life Science
11 6 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.30%) SCADA
11 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.08%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.08%) YARA
13 4 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (23.11%) Windows
2 69 (14.90%) Linux
3 42 (9.07%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.32%) VMS
5 16 (3.46%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.81%) Unix
7 12 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.86%) CentOS
10 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.22%) Android
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (20.52%) DevOps
2 86 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (17.71%) CI/CD
4 79 (17.06%) Cybersecurity
5 72 (15.55%) Cloud Security
6 62 (13.39%) Migration
6 62 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (12.74%) SIEM
8 52 (11.23%) Incident Response
9 49 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 48 (10.37%) Agile
11 47 (10.15%) Change Management
12 43 (9.29%) ITIL
12 43 (9.29%) Load Balancing
13 40 (8.64%) High Availability
14 38 (8.21%) Network Design
15 37 (7.99%) Information Security
16 36 (7.78%) Security Operations
16 36 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (6.91%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 109 (23.54%) Python
2 76 (16.41%) PowerShell
3 42 (9.07%) Bash
4 31 (6.70%) SQL
5 12 (2.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (2.16%) Bicep
6 10 (2.16%) Groovy
7 5 (1.08%) Perl
8 4 (0.86%) Java
8 4 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.65%) Go
10 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.43%) C
10 2 (0.43%) Ruby
10 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) C++
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) Rust
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 76 (16.41%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 60 (12.96%) CCNP
4 46 (9.94%) Degree
5 32 (6.91%) CISSP
6 30 (6.48%) Azure Certification
7 26 (5.62%) CCNA
8 22 (4.75%) AWS Certification
9 21 (4.54%) CCIE
10 18 (3.89%) DV Cleared
11 17 (3.67%) CISM
12 15 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (2.59%) CEH
14 12 (2.59%) JNCIP
15 10 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.73%) JNCIE
17 7 (1.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.21%) NIST
2 35 (7.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (4.10%) GDPR
4 16 (3.46%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.94%) GRC
6 7 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.51%) SLA
7 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.65%) NCSC
9 3 (0.65%) QA
10 2 (0.43%) GxP
10 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.43%) ITGC
11 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.22%) COBIT
11 1 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 83 (17.93%) Active Directory
2 51 (11.02%) Docker
3 29 (6.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (4.54%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (3.46%) Squid
6 10 (2.16%) DFS Replication
6 10 (2.16%) Dovecot
6 10 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.16%) Postfix
7 9 (1.94%) Firmware
8 6 (1.30%) Snort
8 6 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (1.30%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.65%) KVM
10 3 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.43%) vSphere
12 1 (0.22%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.22%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 100 (21.60%) Terraform
2 67 (14.47%) Ansible
3 35 (7.56%) FortiGate
4 32 (6.91%) Kubernetes
5 30 (6.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 23 (4.97%) Grafana
6 23 (4.97%) Prometheus
7 19 (4.10%) SCCM
8 17 (3.67%) Nessus
9 12 (2.59%) CASB
10 10 (2.16%) Proxmox
11 8 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (1.51%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (1.51%) QRadar
12 7 (1.51%) SCOrch
13 6 (1.30%) SCOM
14 5 (1.08%) Nexpose
14 5 (1.08%) Suricata
15 4 (0.86%) Argo
15 4 (0.86%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 139 (30.02%) Cisco
2 116 (25.05%) Microsoft
3 76 (16.41%) Fortinet
4 75 (16.20%) Palo Alto
5 56 (12.10%) F5
6 52 (11.23%) Juniper
7 50 (10.80%) CheckPoint
8 33 (7.13%) VMware
9 30 (6.48%) Splunk
10 28 (6.05%) Zscaler
11 27 (5.83%) Google
12 25 (5.40%) ServiceNow
13 21 (4.54%) Aruba
14 20 (4.32%) Meraki
15 19 (4.10%) Citrix
16 17 (3.67%) Oracle
17 15 (3.24%) SolarWinds
18 14 (3.02%) Tenable
19 13 (2.81%) Qualys
20 11 (2.38%) Red Hat