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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 81 108
Rank change year-on-year -22 +27 -35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 546 464 634
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.29% 3.81% 3.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.87% 37.27% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 394 372 486
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,375 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,813 £80,938
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £93,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -1.93%

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 1,891 1,245 2,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.94% 10.22% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 887 1,373
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,355 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,918
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -1.51% -2.53%
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 13 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 13 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 -28 51 £90,000 +35.34% 25
West London -2 30 £70,809 +44.51% 4
South London +10 14 £31,000 -32.61% 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 52 (9.52%) 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 4 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 318 (58.24%) Azure
2 187 (34.25%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (22.89%) AWS
4 109 (19.96%) Entra ID
5 45 (8.24%) SaaS
6 38 (6.96%) GCP
7 33 (6.04%) Datadog
7 33 (6.04%) PaaS
8 31 (5.68%) IaaS
9 22 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 18 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 18 (3.30%) Mimecast
12 15 (2.75%) Google Workspace
12 15 (2.75%) Serverless
13 12 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.20%) GitHub
13 12 (2.20%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (2.01%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 211 (38.64%) 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 95 (17.40%) SD-WAN
10 86 (15.75%) TCP/IP
11 81 (14.84%) Wireless
12 66 (12.09%) 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 Firepower
19 21 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.62%) 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
6 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
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%) Bitbucket
3 8 (1.47%) Git
4 6 (1.10%) GitLab
5 5 (0.92%) Burp Suite
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 42 (7.69%) Banking
4 39 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.04%) Legal
5 33 (6.04%) Telecoms
6 23 (4.21%) Law
7 14 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (2.01%) Retail
11 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Back Office
14 6 (1.10%) Billing
14 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.10%) Marketing
14 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 120 (21.98%) Network Engineer
1 120 (21.98%) Senior
2 62 (11.36%) Architect
3 61 (11.17%) IT Engineer
4 60 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 44 (8.06%) Support Engineer
7 42 (7.69%) IT Support
8 41 (7.51%) Senior Network Engineer
9 39 (7.14%) Lead
9 39 (7.14%) Security Engineer
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 28 (5.13%) Cisco Engineer
14 28 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (4.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 26 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 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%) 802.1X
6 12 (2.20%) FIX Protocol
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 92 (16.85%) Data Centre
2 63 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.33%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.21%) 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 11 (2.01%) Blog
11 10 (1.83%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.65%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.10%) NHS
14 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 177 (32.42%) Windows
2 72 (13.19%) 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%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.92%) CentOS
9 5 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.73%) Rocky
11 3 (0.55%) Solaris
12 2 (0.37%) Android
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
13 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (20.51%) Incident Response
3 109 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (15.93%) Disaster Recovery
4 87 (15.93%) Roadmaps
5 86 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 86 (15.75%) SIEM
6 83 (15.20%) Cloud Security
7 77 (14.10%) Zero Trust
8 71 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (12.82%) Migration
10 69 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 67 (12.27%) ITIL
11 67 (12.27%) Project Delivery
12 57 (10.44%) Mentoring
13 55 (10.07%) High Availability
13 55 (10.07%) Information Security
13 55 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (9.71%) Business Continuity
14 53 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.55%) PowerShell
1 74 (13.55%) Python
2 34 (6.23%) Bash
3 15 (2.75%) Bicep
3 15 (2.75%) SQL
4 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.73%) C
6 4 (0.73%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.73%) Perl
6 4 (0.73%) Ruby
7 2 (0.37%) Java
7 2 (0.37%) Korn
7 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (23.99%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (20.70%) CCNP
3 68 (12.45%) Degree
4 64 (11.72%) CISSP
5 61 (11.17%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.79%) CCNA
7 33 (6.04%) CCIE
7 33 (6.04%) Security Cleared
8 31 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (4.76%) CISM
9 26 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (4.03%) AWS Certification
11 20 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (2.93%) CEH
12 16 (2.93%) DV Cleared
13 13 (2.38%) SC Cleared
14 12 (2.20%) GIAC
15 11 (2.01%) Master's Degree
16 9 (1.65%) JNCIP
16 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%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.10%) GRC
8 6 (1.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (1.10%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.10%) QA
9 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
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 24 (4.40%) 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%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (13.00%) Terraform
3 66 (12.09%) Ansible
4 52 (9.52%) FortiGate
5 42 (7.69%) Kubernetes
6 25 (4.58%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (4.21%) SCCM
8 19 (3.48%) Autotask
9 17 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (1.83%) Grafana
11 9 (1.65%) Nessus
11 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.47%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (1.28%) CASB
14 5 (0.92%) Check_MK
14 5 (0.92%) Nmap
15 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.55%) Argo
16 3 (0.55%) Istio
16 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 273 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 174 (31.87%) Cisco
3 120 (21.98%) Palo Alto
4 100 (18.32%) VMware
5 66 (12.09%) Meraki
6 63 (11.54%) Fortinet
7 54 (9.89%) Zscaler
8 38 (6.96%) SolarWinds
9 35 (6.41%) CheckPoint
10 28 (5.13%) Tenable
11 26 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (4.76%) F5
11 26 (4.76%) Splunk
12 25 (4.58%) Aruba
13 24 (4.40%) Arista
14 23 (4.21%) Google
15 21 (3.85%) Dynatrace
16 20 (3.66%) HP
17 18 (3.30%) SonicWALL
18 17 (3.11%) Juniper