Firewall Job Trends in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 80 98
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -34
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 537 446 613
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.07% 3.79% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.62% 36.14% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 395 330 387
10th Percentile £39,400 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £51,500 £46,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.96% -10.68% -5.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,813 1,234 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 10.49% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 837 1,180
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £89,375 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in London

Firewall
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in London

Firewall
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -25 35 £87,500 +25.00% 79
West London 0 28 £72,500 +31.82% 10
South London +15 24 £38,500 -16.30% 9
North London +7 10 £55,000 -24.14% 2
East London -17 6 £105,000 +200.00% 10
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 56 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (10.24%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) Confluence
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Moodle
6 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Eikon
3 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 285 (53.07%) Azure
2 193 (35.94%) Microsoft 365
3 142 (26.44%) Entra ID
4 100 (18.62%) AWS
5 43 (8.01%) PaaS
6 40 (7.45%) SaaS
7 33 (6.15%) IaaS
8 30 (5.59%) GCP
9 25 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.28%) Datadog
11 22 (4.10%) Mimecast
11 22 (4.10%) OneDrive
12 20 (3.72%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (3.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 19 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (3.17%) Serverless
15 16 (2.98%) Power Platform
15 16 (2.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (2.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 228 (42.46%) VPN
2 180 (33.52%) DNS
3 158 (29.42%) Network Security
4 135 (25.14%) WAN
5 127 (23.65%) DHCP
6 122 (22.72%) VLAN
7 109 (20.30%) LAN
8 108 (20.11%) Wi-Fi
9 105 (19.55%) TCP/IP
10 97 (18.06%) Wireless
11 68 (12.66%) SD-WAN
12 58 (10.80%) BGP
13 56 (10.43%) Cisco ISE
14 47 (8.75%) OSPF
15 41 (7.64%) SAN
16 24 (4.47%) MPLS
17 23 (4.28%) SSL
18 19 (3.54%) WLAN
19 18 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
20 17 (3.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.79%) Power BI
3 14 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.56%) Big Data
5 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.37%) MySQL
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 16 (2.98%) JIRA
2 12 (2.23%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.23%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.05%) Chocolatey
4 6 (1.12%) Git
4 6 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 183 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 132 (24.58%) Finance
3 43 (8.01%) Law
4 38 (7.08%) Banking
5 30 (5.59%) Legal
5 30 (5.59%) Telecoms
6 28 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.54%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.23%) Back Office
13 11 (2.05%) Retail
14 10 (1.86%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.86%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (1.49%) Marketing
16 6 (1.12%) Billing
16 6 (1.12%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 104 (19.37%) Senior
2 95 (17.69%) Network Engineer
3 74 (13.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 63 (11.73%) Architect
5 55 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (9.87%) IT Engineer
7 49 (9.12%) Security Engineer
8 47 (8.75%) Lead
9 46 (8.57%) Support Engineer
10 45 (8.38%) IT Support
11 36 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (5.96%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 31 (5.77%) IT Support Engineer
14 29 (5.40%) Senior Network Engineer
15 27 (5.03%) Analyst
16 24 (4.47%) 2nd Line Support
17 23 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 22 (4.10%) 3rd Line Support
18 22 (4.10%) Senior Security Engineer
19 21 (3.91%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (14.15%) Terraform
2 16 (2.98%) SAML
3 15 (2.79%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (2.79%) LDAP
3 15 (2.79%) OAuth
3 15 (2.79%) OpenID
3 15 (2.79%) REST
4 9 (1.68%) 802.1X
4 9 (1.68%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.12%) ADO
6 5 (0.93%) Node.js
6 5 (0.93%) YAML
7 3 (0.56%) RESTful
8 2 (0.37%) Middleware
8 2 (0.37%) Web Services
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.19%) Rendezvous
9 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (16.01%) Data Centre
2 70 (13.04%) Security Posture
3 43 (8.01%) Onboarding
4 42 (7.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (5.59%) Management Information System
6 29 (5.40%) Cyber Threat
7 26 (4.84%) Cloud Native
8 24 (4.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 21 (3.91%) PKI
10 17 (3.17%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (2.61%) Driving Licence
13 11 (2.05%) Blog
14 9 (1.68%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.68%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.49%) Eurex
15 8 (1.49%) Operational Technology
16 7 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
16 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 200 (37.24%) Windows
2 80 (14.90%) Linux
3 76 (14.15%) Windows Server
4 32 (5.96%) Mac OS
5 16 (2.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.42%) Unix
6 13 (2.42%) VMS
7 10 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.68%) CentOS
8 9 (1.68%) Rocky
9 8 (1.49%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.93%) Solaris
11 3 (0.56%) Android
11 3 (0.56%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
13 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (27.75%) Cybersecurity
2 115 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (19.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 102 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (16.95%) Zero Trust
6 90 (16.76%) Cloud Security
7 88 (16.39%) Incident Response
8 85 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 82 (15.27%) Roadmaps
10 76 (14.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (14.15%) Migration
11 70 (13.04%) SIEM
12 64 (11.92%) ITIL
13 62 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 62 (11.55%) Vulnerability Management
14 59 (10.99%) High Availability
15 57 (10.61%) Project Delivery
16 56 (10.43%) Information Security
16 56 (10.43%) Mentoring
17 51 (9.50%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 79 (14.71%) PowerShell
2 69 (12.85%) Python
3 32 (5.96%) SQL
4 30 (5.59%) Bash
5 24 (4.47%) Bicep
6 8 (1.49%) Java
6 8 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.49%) Perl
6 8 (1.49%) Ruby
7 7 (1.30%) Go
7 7 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.93%) C
9 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (19.18%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (14.15%) CCNP
3 70 (13.04%) CISSP
4 66 (12.29%) Degree
5 51 (9.50%) Azure Certification
6 42 (7.82%) CCNA
7 38 (7.08%) Security Cleared
8 33 (6.15%) CISM
9 31 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (4.10%) AWS Certification
12 18 (3.35%) CCIE
13 14 (2.61%) CCSP
14 12 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (2.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (1.86%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.68%) GIAC
17 9 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (1.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (15.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (13.97%) NIST
3 40 (7.45%) SLA
4 38 (7.08%) PCI DSS
5 35 (6.52%) GDPR
6 12 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.68%) GRC
8 7 (1.30%) QA
9 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.56%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.37%) NCSC
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 150 (27.93%) Active Directory
2 57 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.03%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.35%) Docker
4 18 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (2.98%) vSphere
6 15 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.19%) NFS
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.19%) Samba
10 1 (0.19%) Xen
10 1 (0.19%) XenApp
10 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (9.68%) Ansible
3 49 (9.12%) FortiGate
4 39 (7.26%) Kubernetes
5 33 (6.15%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (3.54%) SCCM
7 18 (3.35%) Grafana
8 15 (2.79%) Autotask
8 15 (2.79%) CASB
8 15 (2.79%) Nessus
9 14 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.23%) Nmap
11 9 (1.68%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.12%) Cilium
12 6 (1.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.74%) Argo
14 3 (0.56%) Istio
14 3 (0.56%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
14 3 (0.56%) VxRail
15 2 (0.37%) Mesos
Vendors
1 288 (53.63%) Microsoft
2 155 (28.86%) Cisco
3 115 (21.42%) Palo Alto
4 102 (18.99%) VMware
5 56 (10.43%) Fortinet
6 53 (9.87%) Zscaler
7 49 (9.12%) Meraki
8 25 (4.66%) F5
9 24 (4.47%) Tenable
10 23 (4.28%) CheckPoint
10 23 (4.28%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (4.10%) Juniper
11 22 (4.10%) Splunk
12 21 (3.91%) Aruba
12 21 (3.91%) Google
13 20 (3.72%) SolarWinds
14 19 (3.54%) Arista
15 18 (3.35%) Dynatrace
15 18 (3.35%) HP
16 15 (2.79%) Sophos