Firewall Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Firewall
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 49 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of Westminster 3.23% 0.79% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 2.78% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £47,500 -
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% +14.81% +3.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of Westminster

Firewall 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 Westminster.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 16 72 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 25.81% 28.35% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 45 6
10th Percentile - - £34,875
25th Percentile - £50,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% +25.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £63,125
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Firewall
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Information Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Malware Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GCIH
1 2 (100.00%) GIAC
1 2 (100.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ITGC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) ArcSight ESM
1 2 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 2 (100.00%) LogLogic
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk