Firewall Engineer Jobs in London

Firewall Engineer
England > London

The median Firewall Engineer salary in London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 504 618
Rank change year-on-year +126 +114 +245
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 7 1 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.055% 0.004% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.005% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £47,250 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £77,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +41.59% +10.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £82,500 £75,125
90th Percentile - - £89,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +36.36%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,521 22,183 33,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 94.12% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,470 16,676 24,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in London

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Firewall Engineer in London

Firewall Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall Engineer in London

Firewall Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
South London - 1 £47,500 -
Firewall Engineer
England

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Firewall Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) Firmware
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (28.57%) CCNP
4 2 (28.57%) CCNA
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (28.57%) Meraki
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (28.57%) Straight-Through Processing
4 2 (28.57%) AWS

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
4 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 2 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Straight-Through Processing
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) Meraki
3 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) Rapid7
4 1 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (14.29%) Zerto