Firewall Contract Job Trends in South London

Firewall
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Firewall skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 32 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Firewall 15 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.46% 3.52% 1.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.47% 38.10% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 3
10th Percentile £391 £313 £262
25th Percentile £475 £431 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% -14.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £631
90th Percentile £623 £503 £680
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 21 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 18.91% 9.25% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 39
10th Percentile £382 £190 £282
25th Percentile £413 £365 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £534 £506 £638
90th Percentile £600 £538 £675
London median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +23.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Firewall job vacancy trend in South London

Firewall
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Firewall.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Firewall

Firewall
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firewall in South London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firewall in South London

Firewall
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Firewall.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Firewall

Firewall
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Croydon +7 12 £600 +27.66%
Bromley - 2 £575 - 1
Kingston Upon Thames -2 1 £335 +91.43%
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 10 (66.67%) Confluence
1 10 (66.67%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
1 10 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (66.67%) Route 53
1 10 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DNS
1 10 (66.67%) FTP
1 10 (66.67%) HTTP
1 10 (66.67%) IMAP
1 10 (66.67%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (66.67%) SMTP
1 10 (66.67%) SSH
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
3 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (6.67%) MPLS
4 1 (6.67%) VPN
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Git
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 10 (66.67%) JIRA
1 10 (66.67%) Vagrant
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 10 (66.67%) VMS
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Change Management
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 10 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
1 10 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 10 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
2 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) BCP
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (6.67%) ITSM
3 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (6.67%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Groovy
1 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 10 (66.67%) Python
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) CCNP
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) DFS Replication
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
1 10 (66.67%) Dovecot
1 10 (66.67%) Postfix
1 10 (66.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Grafana
1 10 (66.67%) Nessus
1 10 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 10 (66.67%) Proxmox
1 10 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) ServiceNow
2 10 (66.67%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.67%) F5
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (6.67%) NetScout
5 1 (6.67%) Remedy
5 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds