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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 85 108
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 -38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 548 460 626
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.28% 3.79% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.18% 37.22% 24.31%
Number of salaries quoted 404 364 467
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,225 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £95,000 £92,800
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -

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 1,878 1,236 2,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.82% 10.20% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 876 1,346
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £44,136
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 £42,085 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.87% -15.83% -1.96%

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 24 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 24 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 -14 52 £90,000 +31.39% 18
West London +1 30 £70,809 +36.17% 8
South London +6 15 £34,250 -25.54% 10
North London +11 13 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -11 7 £105,000 +208.82% 6
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 54 (9.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (9.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (2.37%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) SmartSuite
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 312 (56.93%) Azure
2 194 (35.40%) Microsoft 365
3 120 (21.90%) AWS
4 115 (20.99%) Entra ID
5 42 (7.66%) SaaS
6 36 (6.57%) GCP
7 34 (6.20%) PaaS
8 32 (5.84%) Datadog
9 30 (5.47%) IaaS
10 22 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (3.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 19 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (3.28%) Mimecast
14 16 (2.92%) Serverless
15 15 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.74%) Google Workspace
16 12 (2.19%) OneDrive
16 12 (2.19%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.01%) GitHub
17 11 (2.01%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 209 (38.14%) VPN
2 181 (33.03%) Network Security
3 160 (29.20%) DNS
4 142 (25.91%) WAN
5 115 (20.99%) VLAN
6 113 (20.62%) LAN
7 107 (19.53%) DHCP
8 102 (18.61%) Wi-Fi
9 89 (16.24%) SD-WAN
10 88 (16.06%) TCP/IP
11 85 (15.51%) Wireless
12 62 (11.31%) Cisco ISE
13 61 (11.13%) BGP
14 57 (10.40%) OSPF
15 43 (7.85%) SAN
16 30 (5.47%) WLAN
17 26 (4.74%) MPLS
18 24 (4.38%) Cisco Wireless
19 21 (3.83%) SSL
20 20 (3.65%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.82%) Power BI
3 7 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.55%) Big Data
4 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
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 (2.92%) JIRA
2 15 (2.74%) Chocolatey
3 10 (1.82%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.46%) Burp Suite
5 7 (1.28%) Git
6 6 (1.09%) GitLab
7 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) Maven
9 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 193 (35.22%) Social Skills
2 126 (22.99%) Finance
3 44 (8.03%) Banking
4 37 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.20%) Legal
6 32 (5.84%) Telecoms
7 27 (4.93%) Law
8 15 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.37%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
12 10 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.82%) Retail
13 7 (1.28%) Back Office
14 6 (1.09%) Billing
14 6 (1.09%) Digital Health
14 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 118 (21.53%) Senior
2 115 (20.99%) Network Engineer
3 63 (11.50%) IT Engineer
4 61 (11.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 60 (10.95%) Architect
5 60 (10.95%) Azure Engineer
6 45 (8.21%) Support Engineer
7 44 (8.03%) Security Engineer
8 42 (7.66%) IT Support
9 41 (7.48%) Lead
10 39 (7.12%) Senior Network Engineer
11 34 (6.20%) IT Support Engineer
12 33 (6.02%) Analyst
13 32 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (5.66%) 2nd Line Support
15 27 (4.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 27 (4.93%) Network Architect
16 26 (4.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 25 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 24 (4.38%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.69%) Terraform
2 17 (3.10%) OpenID
3 16 (2.92%) OAuth
4 15 (2.74%) REST
4 15 (2.74%) SAML
5 14 (2.55%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (2.55%) LDAP
6 12 (2.19%) 802.1X
7 11 (2.01%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.64%) ADO
9 5 (0.91%) Node.js
9 5 (0.91%) YAML
10 2 (0.36%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.36%) RESTful
10 2 (0.36%) Web Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.79%) Data Centre
2 64 (11.68%) Security Posture
3 38 (6.93%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 22 (4.01%) PKI
8 20 (3.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 18 (3.28%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.01%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.82%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.46%) Blog
14 8 (1.46%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.28%) NHS
15 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 181 (33.03%) Windows
2 78 (14.23%) Linux
3 61 (11.13%) Windows Server
4 33 (6.02%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.37%) Unix
7 9 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.64%) VMS
8 7 (1.28%) CentOS
8 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.09%) Rocky
10 5 (0.91%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.55%) Solaris
13 2 (0.36%) Android
13 2 (0.36%) tvOS
14 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (25.36%) Cybersecurity
2 109 (19.89%) Incident Response
3 108 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (16.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 86 (15.69%) Roadmaps
6 86 (15.69%) SIEM
7 83 (15.15%) Cloud Security
8 79 (14.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 76 (13.87%) Zero Trust
10 74 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (12.59%) ITIL
12 67 (12.23%) Migration
13 66 (12.04%) Project Delivery
14 62 (11.31%) Mentoring
15 60 (10.95%) High Availability
16 56 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
17 55 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (9.67%) Information Security
19 52 (9.49%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.50%) Python
2 72 (13.14%) PowerShell
3 34 (6.20%) Bash
4 19 (3.47%) Bicep
5 17 (3.10%) SQL
6 10 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.09%) Perl
7 6 (1.09%) Ruby
8 5 (0.91%) C
8 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) Java
9 2 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 124 (22.63%) Cisco Certification
2 107 (19.53%) CCNP
3 71 (12.96%) Degree
4 64 (11.68%) CISSP
5 62 (11.31%) Azure Certification
6 45 (8.21%) CCNA
7 35 (6.39%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.84%) CCIE
8 32 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (4.20%) AWS Certification
10 23 (4.20%) CISM
11 19 (3.47%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (2.92%) CEH
13 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.19%) GIAC
14 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.82%) OSCP
15 10 (1.82%) SC Cleared
16 9 (1.64%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (13.32%) NIST
2 71 (12.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (7.30%) GDPR
4 29 (5.29%) PCI DSS
4 29 (5.29%) SLA
5 18 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.64%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.28%) GRC
8 6 (1.09%) QA
9 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.55%) NCSC
11 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 154 (28.10%) Active Directory
2 56 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.01%) Docker
6 9 (1.64%) vSphere
7 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.18%) NFS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.18%) Samba
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 62 (11.31%) Ansible
3 54 (9.85%) FortiGate
4 38 (6.93%) Kubernetes
5 28 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (3.83%) SCCM
7 19 (3.47%) Autotask
8 18 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.37%) Nessus
10 10 (1.82%) Grafana
11 9 (1.64%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.46%) Nmap
13 7 (1.28%) CASB
14 6 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
15 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.55%) Argo
16 3 (0.55%) Istio
16 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
16 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 286 (52.19%) Microsoft
2 172 (31.39%) Cisco
3 122 (22.26%) Palo Alto
4 102 (18.61%) VMware
5 64 (11.68%) Meraki
6 62 (11.31%) Fortinet
7 53 (9.67%) Zscaler
8 33 (6.02%) CheckPoint
9 32 (5.84%) SolarWinds
10 30 (5.47%) Tenable
11 28 (5.11%) Splunk
12 27 (4.93%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (4.74%) F5
14 25 (4.56%) Aruba
15 23 (4.20%) Arista
16 20 (3.65%) Google
16 20 (3.65%) HP
17 19 (3.47%) Dynatrace
18 17 (3.10%) Juniper
18 17 (3.10%) SonicWALL