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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 80 81
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 515 480 850
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.45% 3.99% 3.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.57% 38.46% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 370 378 696
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,025 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% -2.00%

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 1,938 1,248 3,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.20% 10.36% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 905 1,964
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,200 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,656
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +13 84 £80,000 +16.79% 48
North London +15 17 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South London +11 14 £31,000 -38.00% 7
East London 0 14 £105,000 +9.09% 4
West London -13 13 £77,500 +58.16% 5
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 41 (7.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (7.57%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.78%) Confluence
4 3 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (3.50%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.58%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 315 (61.17%) Azure
2 166 (32.23%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (24.85%) AWS
4 89 (17.28%) Entra ID
5 49 (9.51%) Datadog
6 48 (9.32%) SaaS
7 45 (8.74%) GCP
8 28 (5.44%) IaaS
9 27 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (4.66%) PaaS
11 21 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 21 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (3.88%) GitHub
13 17 (3.30%) Mimecast
14 16 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.91%) AWS Direct Connect
15 15 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (2.72%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 206 (40.00%) VPN
2 159 (30.87%) Network Security
3 155 (30.10%) WAN
4 126 (24.47%) DNS
5 110 (21.36%) LAN
6 108 (20.97%) Wi-Fi
7 105 (20.39%) SD-WAN
8 101 (19.61%) VLAN
9 80 (15.53%) DHCP
10 76 (14.76%) Wireless
11 71 (13.79%) BGP
11 71 (13.79%) Cisco ISE
12 66 (12.82%) OSPF
13 56 (10.87%) TCP/IP
14 45 (8.74%) SAN
15 40 (7.77%) WLAN
16 37 (7.18%) Cisco Firepower
17 34 (6.60%) Cisco Wireless
18 30 (5.83%) Cisco ASA
19 29 (5.63%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.94%) Power BI
3 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.19%) MySQL
6 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (3.88%) Chocolatey
2 11 (2.14%) JIRA
3 10 (1.94%) GitLab
4 9 (1.75%) Git
5 8 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.78%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 147 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 135 (26.21%) Finance
3 52 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (7.96%) Banking
5 29 (5.63%) Legal
6 17 (3.30%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.94%) Public Sector
8 10 (1.94%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.55%) Retail
10 7 (1.36%) Aviation
10 7 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.17%) Billing
11 6 (1.17%) Law
12 4 (0.78%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.58%) Back Office
13 3 (0.58%) German Language
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 135 (26.21%) Network Engineer
2 100 (19.42%) Senior
3 73 (14.17%) IT Engineer
4 65 (12.62%) Azure Engineer
5 58 (11.26%) Architect
6 49 (9.51%) Support Engineer
7 48 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (9.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (8.74%) IT Support
10 39 (7.57%) Cisco Engineer
11 36 (6.99%) IT Support Engineer
12 35 (6.80%) Analyst
13 34 (6.60%) Lead
13 34 (6.60%) Network Architect
14 32 (6.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 32 (6.21%) Security Engineer
15 31 (6.02%) Senior Network Engineer
16 28 (5.44%) 2nd Line Support
16 28 (5.44%) Senior IT Engineer
17 25 (4.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.88%) OAuth
2 19 (3.69%) SAML
3 17 (3.30%) ADO
4 14 (2.72%) 802.1X
5 13 (2.52%) OpenID
5 13 (2.52%) YAML
6 12 (2.33%) REST
7 10 (1.94%) LDAP
8 9 (1.75%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.97%) Node.js
10 4 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.39%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.39%) SailPoint
12 1 (0.19%) .NET
12 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (17.67%) Data Centre
2 57 (11.07%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.77%) Cyber Threat
4 25 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.66%) PKI
6 18 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.30%) Cloud Native
8 16 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.36%) Blog
15 6 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
15 6 (1.17%) IoT
15 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (0.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 171 (33.20%) Windows
2 59 (11.46%) Linux
3 53 (10.29%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.66%) Mac OS
5 17 (3.30%) VMS
6 16 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.94%) Unix
8 9 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.55%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.17%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.78%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.39%) tvOS
14 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.19%) CentOS
14 1 (0.19%) Solaris
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 100 (19.42%) Incident Response
3 98 (19.03%) Disaster Recovery
4 97 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (15.53%) SIEM
6 78 (15.15%) Cloud Security
7 77 (14.95%) Zero Trust
8 64 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (12.23%) Migration
10 62 (12.04%) Roadmaps
11 61 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (11.65%) High Availability
13 58 (11.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 57 (11.07%) Business Continuity
15 55 (10.68%) ITIL
16 51 (9.90%) DevOps
17 50 (9.71%) CI/CD
18 48 (9.32%) Security Architecture
18 48 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
18 48 (9.32%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.76%) PowerShell
2 73 (14.17%) Python
3 29 (5.63%) Bash
4 18 (3.50%) SQL
5 16 (3.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 13 (2.52%) Bicep
7 5 (0.97%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.39%) Java
8 2 (0.39%) Korn
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.19%) C
9 1 (0.19%) C#
9 1 (0.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 131 (25.44%) Cisco Certification
2 109 (21.17%) CCNP
3 62 (12.04%) Degree
4 56 (10.87%) CISSP
5 51 (9.90%) Azure Certification
6 46 (8.93%) CCNA
7 41 (7.96%) CCIE
8 31 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (5.63%) CISM
10 25 (4.85%) Security Cleared
11 24 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (3.88%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (3.50%) DV Cleared
14 17 (3.30%) CEH
15 16 (3.11%) CCSA
15 16 (3.11%) CCSE
16 13 (2.52%) SC Cleared
17 11 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 10 (1.94%) CISA
18 10 (1.94%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (14.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (12.62%) NIST
3 44 (8.54%) GDPR
4 37 (7.18%) PCI DSS
5 22 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (3.88%) SLA
7 15 (2.91%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 7 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.36%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.78%) GRC
11 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.58%) NCSC
12 3 (0.58%) QA
13 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 143 (27.77%) Active Directory
2 48 (9.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.52%) Docker
6 11 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.94%) Firmware
8 8 (1.55%) vSphere
9 4 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.58%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.39%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.19%) KVM
12 1 (0.19%) NLBS
12 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (15.53%) Ansible
2 76 (14.76%) Terraform
3 68 (13.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 52 (10.10%) FortiGate
5 36 (6.99%) Kubernetes
6 26 (5.05%) SCCM
7 18 (3.50%) Autotask
8 17 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (2.52%) Prometheus
11 12 (2.33%) Grafana
12 9 (1.75%) Check_MK
12 9 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (0.97%) CASB
13 5 (0.97%) Nagios
14 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.58%) linkerd
15 3 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 235 (45.63%) Microsoft
2 178 (34.56%) Cisco
3 102 (19.81%) Palo Alto
4 88 (17.09%) VMware
5 73 (14.17%) Fortinet
6 70 (13.59%) Meraki
7 57 (11.07%) SolarWinds
8 45 (8.74%) CheckPoint
9 35 (6.80%) Dynatrace
10 31 (6.02%) Splunk
10 31 (6.02%) Zscaler
11 28 (5.44%) CrowdStrike
12 27 (5.24%) Arista
12 27 (5.24%) Google
13 26 (5.05%) Tenable
14 24 (4.66%) Aruba
15 23 (4.47%) Juniper
16 20 (3.88%) AppDynamics
17 19 (3.69%) SonicWALL
18 16 (3.11%) F5