Firewall Job Trends in East London

Firewall
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 25 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 27 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 11.16% 3.80% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.09% 24.00% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 3
10th Percentile £31,550 - £41,400
25th Percentile £32,000 - £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.93%
75th Percentile £62,375 - -
90th Percentile £88,750 - -
London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East London

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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 128 25 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 52.89% 15.82% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 41 5 33
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,100 £32,050
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -37.50%
75th Percentile £88,750 £47,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £58,100 £68,250
London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in East London

Firewall
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in East London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in East London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in East London

Firewall
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Docklands, London - 14 £87,500 -
Hackney 0 7 £34,000 -
Bexley - 6 £35,000 -
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
2 5 (18.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) LAN
1 19 (70.37%) WAN
2 16 (59.26%) Wi-Fi
3 14 (51.85%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (44.44%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (40.74%) DHCP
5 11 (40.74%) DNS
5 11 (40.74%) VPN
6 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
7 5 (18.52%) VLAN
7 5 (18.52%) VoIP
8 4 (14.81%) NX-OS
8 4 (14.81%) WLAN
9 2 (7.41%) BGP
9 2 (7.41%) IPsec
9 2 (7.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MySQL
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Network Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) AWS Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) LAN Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) LAN/WAN Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) WAN Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) IT Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) IT Support
3 6 (22.22%) IT Support Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) Support Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (37.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (22.22%) Onboarding
4 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (18.52%) Social Media
5 2 (7.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
1 5 (18.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) High Availability
2 10 (37.04%) Computer Science
2 10 (37.04%) Process Improvement
3 6 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 4 (14.81%) Change Management
5 4 (14.81%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (14.81%) Network Architecture
5 4 (14.81%) Runbook
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) ITIL
7 2 (7.41%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Degree
2 12 (44.44%) CCNP
2 12 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (37.04%) CCIE
3 10 (37.04%) CCNA
3 10 (37.04%) CCSA
3 10 (37.04%) CCSE
3 10 (37.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
4 5 (18.52%) Azure Certification
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Active Directory
1 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.81%) Firmware
4 2 (7.41%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) FortiGate
2 5 (18.52%) Autotask
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Cisco
2 14 (51.85%) CheckPoint
2 14 (51.85%) Fortinet
3 11 (40.74%) VMware
4 6 (22.22%) Genesys
5 5 (18.52%) Datto
5 5 (18.52%) Microsoft