NGFW Job Trends in the City of London

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring NGFW skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 143 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.031% 0.048% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.40% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £61,495 -
% change year-on-year +30.09% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

NGFW falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 247 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.58% 11.76% 12.95%
Number of salaries quoted 168 199 354
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,800 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,938 £46,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,500 £92,125
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -12.00%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NGFW relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

NGFW job vacancy trend in the City of London

NGFW
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NGFW.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing NGFW

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco