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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 84 109
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 -36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 546 464 631
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.29% 3.82% 3.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.95% 37.27% 24.72%
Number of salaries quoted 397 371 484
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% +2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -0.50%

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 1,886 1,245 2,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.92% 10.26% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 886 1,371
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,338 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.91%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -23 51 £90,000 +35.34% 25
West London -1 30 £70,809 +44.51% 4
South London +9 13 £34,250 -25.54% 7
North London +9 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -14 7 £105,000 +208.82% 4
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 53 (9.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (9.16%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (2.75%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.55%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 316 (57.88%) Azure
2 187 (34.25%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (22.71%) AWS
4 109 (19.96%) Entra ID
5 44 (8.06%) SaaS
6 38 (6.96%) GCP
7 34 (6.23%) PaaS
8 33 (6.04%) Datadog
9 31 (5.68%) IaaS
10 22 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
12 18 (3.30%) Mimecast
13 15 (2.75%) Google Workspace
13 15 (2.75%) Serverless
14 13 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (2.20%) GitHub
15 12 (2.20%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.01%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 212 (38.83%) VPN
2 187 (34.25%) Network Security
3 154 (28.21%) DNS
4 148 (27.11%) WAN
5 118 (21.61%) LAN
6 116 (21.25%) VLAN
7 107 (19.60%) Wi-Fi
8 101 (18.50%) DHCP
9 94 (17.22%) SD-WAN
10 86 (15.75%) TCP/IP
11 81 (14.84%) Wireless
12 65 (11.90%) BGP
13 62 (11.36%) Cisco ISE
14 61 (11.17%) OSPF
15 43 (7.88%) SAN
16 33 (6.04%) WLAN
17 27 (4.95%) MPLS
18 25 (4.58%) Cisco Wireless
19 21 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
19 21 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.83%) Power BI
3 7 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.55%) Big Data
4 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.93%) Chocolatey
1 16 (2.93%) JIRA
2 9 (1.65%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.47%) Git
4 7 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.10%) Burp Suite
5 6 (1.10%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 188 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 125 (22.89%) Finance
3 44 (8.06%) Banking
4 39 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 32 (5.86%) Legal
7 23 (4.21%) Law
8 14 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
11 11 (2.01%) Retail
12 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Back Office
15 6 (1.10%) Billing
15 6 (1.10%) Digital Health
15 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 120 (21.98%) Senior
2 119 (21.79%) Network Engineer
3 62 (11.36%) Architect
3 62 (11.36%) IT Engineer
4 60 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
5 56 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 44 (8.06%) Support Engineer
7 41 (7.51%) IT Support
7 41 (7.51%) Senior Network Engineer
8 40 (7.33%) Security Engineer
9 39 (7.14%) Lead
10 34 (6.23%) IT Support Engineer
11 33 (6.04%) Analyst
12 31 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
13 30 (5.49%) Network Architect
14 29 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (5.13%) Cisco Engineer
16 27 (4.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 26 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 24 (4.40%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.11%) OpenID
2 16 (2.93%) OAuth
3 15 (2.75%) REST
3 15 (2.75%) SAML
4 14 (2.56%) LDAP
5 13 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (2.20%) 802.1X
7 11 (2.01%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.65%) ADO
9 5 (0.92%) Node.js
9 5 (0.92%) YAML
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) Web Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 64 (11.72%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.33%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 22 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.85%) PKI
7 18 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 18 (3.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 16 (2.93%) Video Conferencing
9 14 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.83%) Blog
10 10 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.65%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.10%) NHS
13 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 176 (32.23%) Windows
2 73 (13.37%) Linux
3 57 (10.44%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.49%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.56%) Unix
5 14 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.65%) VMS
7 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.10%) CentOS
8 6 (1.10%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.92%) Rocky
10 3 (0.55%) Solaris
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) tvOS
12 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (23.99%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (20.51%) Incident Response
3 108 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (16.12%) Disaster Recovery
5 86 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 86 (15.75%) Roadmaps
6 85 (15.57%) SIEM
7 83 (15.20%) Cloud Security
8 77 (14.10%) Zero Trust
9 72 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 70 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 70 (12.82%) Migration
11 67 (12.27%) ITIL
11 67 (12.27%) Project Delivery
12 58 (10.62%) Mentoring
13 56 (10.26%) High Availability
14 55 (10.07%) Information Security
14 55 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 53 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
16 52 (9.52%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.55%) Python
2 73 (13.37%) PowerShell
3 34 (6.23%) Bash
4 16 (2.93%) Bicep
4 16 (2.93%) SQL
5 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.92%) Perl
6 5 (0.92%) Ruby
6 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.73%) C
8 2 (0.37%) Java
8 2 (0.37%) Korn
8 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (23.99%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (20.70%) CCNP
3 68 (12.45%) Degree
4 63 (11.54%) CISSP
5 61 (11.17%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.79%) CCNA
7 33 (6.04%) CCIE
8 32 (5.86%) Security Cleared
9 31 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (4.58%) CISM
12 22 (4.03%) AWS Certification
13 20 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (2.93%) CEH
15 15 (2.75%) DV Cleared
16 12 (2.20%) GIAC
16 12 (2.20%) SC Cleared
17 11 (2.01%) Master's Degree
18 9 (1.65%) JNCIP
18 9 (1.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.74%) NIST
2 72 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (7.14%) GDPR
4 30 (5.49%) SLA
5 29 (5.31%) PCI DSS
6 18 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.10%) GRC
8 6 (1.10%) QA
9 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.92%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.92%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.55%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 150 (27.47%) Active Directory
2 54 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.83%) Docker
6 8 (1.47%) vSphere
7 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (13.19%) Terraform
2 71 (13.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (11.90%) Ansible
4 52 (9.52%) FortiGate
5 41 (7.51%) Kubernetes
6 26 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (4.21%) SCCM
8 19 (3.48%) Autotask
9 17 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (1.83%) Grafana
10 10 (1.83%) Nessus
11 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.47%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (1.28%) CASB
14 6 (1.10%) Nmap
15 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.73%) Check_MK
16 3 (0.55%) Argo
16 3 (0.55%) Istio
16 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 274 (50.18%) Microsoft
2 175 (32.05%) Cisco
3 121 (22.16%) Palo Alto
4 100 (18.32%) VMware
5 66 (12.09%) Meraki
6 63 (11.54%) Fortinet
7 54 (9.89%) Zscaler
8 37 (6.78%) SolarWinds
9 35 (6.41%) CheckPoint
10 29 (5.31%) Tenable
11 27 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (4.76%) F5
12 26 (4.76%) Splunk
13 25 (4.58%) Aruba
14 24 (4.40%) Arista
15 22 (4.03%) Google
16 21 (3.85%) Dynatrace
17 20 (3.66%) HP
18 17 (3.11%) Juniper
18 17 (3.11%) SonicWALL