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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 82 96
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 -33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 538 445 620
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.08% 3.78% 3.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.69% 36.33% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 400 331 390
10th Percentile £39,900 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,813 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £51,981 £46,500 £50,654
% change year-on-year +11.79% -8.20% -4.96%

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 1,812 1,225 2,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 10.40% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 826 1,191
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.33% -1.90%

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 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 5 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 -27 38 £87,500 +25.00% 76
West London +7 29 £66,250 -7.02% 10
South London +15 23 £38,500 -16.30% 11
North London +4 10 £55,000 -24.14% 1
East London -16 6 £105,000 +208.82% 11
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 58 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (10.41%) 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 10 (1.86%) 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
1 286 (53.16%) Azure
2 193 (35.87%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (26.02%) Entra ID
4 100 (18.59%) AWS
5 40 (7.43%) PaaS
6 38 (7.06%) SaaS
7 32 (5.95%) IaaS
8 27 (5.02%) GCP
9 24 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (4.46%) Datadog
10 22 (4.09%) Azure Sentinel
10 22 (4.09%) Mimecast
11 20 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (3.72%) OneDrive
12 19 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 17 (3.16%) Serverless
14 16 (2.97%) Power Platform
15 14 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (2.42%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 226 (42.01%) VPN
2 182 (33.83%) DNS
3 162 (30.11%) Network Security
4 135 (25.09%) WAN
5 129 (23.98%) DHCP
6 124 (23.05%) VLAN
7 109 (20.26%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (19.89%) LAN
9 103 (19.14%) TCP/IP
10 98 (18.22%) Wireless
11 69 (12.83%) SD-WAN
12 57 (10.59%) BGP
13 56 (10.41%) Cisco ISE
14 48 (8.92%) OSPF
15 41 (7.62%) SAN
16 24 (4.46%) MPLS
17 23 (4.28%) SSL
18 20 (3.72%) WLAN
19 17 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
19 17 (3.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.78%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.79%) Power BI
3 14 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
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
7 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (2.97%) JIRA
2 12 (2.23%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.23%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.04%) Chocolatey
4 5 (0.93%) Git
5 4 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.56%) Maven
6 3 (0.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 184 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 135 (25.09%) Finance
3 39 (7.25%) Law
4 38 (7.06%) Banking
5 33 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (5.39%) Legal
6 29 (5.39%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Mandarin Language
11 10 (1.86%) Back Office
12 9 (1.67%) Retail
13 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.30%) Marketing
14 6 (1.12%) Billing
14 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 107 (19.89%) Senior
2 100 (18.59%) Network Engineer
3 76 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 58 (10.78%) Architect
5 56 (10.41%) Azure Engineer
6 55 (10.22%) IT Engineer
7 47 (8.74%) Security Engineer
8 46 (8.55%) Support Engineer
9 45 (8.36%) Lead
10 43 (7.99%) IT Support
11 33 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 31 (5.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 31 (5.76%) IT Support Engineer
13 30 (5.58%) Senior Network Engineer
14 28 (5.20%) Analyst
15 25 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
15 25 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (4.09%) 3rd Line Support
17 21 (3.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 21 (3.90%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (13.75%) Terraform
2 16 (2.97%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (2.79%) OpenID
3 15 (2.79%) SAML
4 14 (2.60%) OAuth
4 14 (2.60%) REST
5 13 (2.42%) LDAP
6 10 (1.86%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.67%) 802.1X
8 7 (1.30%) ADO
9 5 (0.93%) Node.js
9 5 (0.93%) YAML
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) Web Services
11 1 (0.19%) Azure Blueprints
11 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.19%) Middleware
11 1 (0.19%) OAuth2
11 1 (0.19%) Rendezvous
11 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.17%) Data Centre
2 67 (12.45%) Security Posture
3 43 (7.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (7.43%) Onboarding
5 31 (5.76%) Cyber Threat
6 28 (5.20%) Management Information System
7 24 (4.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 23 (4.28%) PKI
9 22 (4.09%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.97%) Video Conferencing
11 13 (2.42%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.86%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.67%) Operational Technology
13 9 (1.67%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.67%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.49%) Blog
14 8 (1.49%) Eurex
15 7 (1.30%) IoT
15 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 198 (36.80%) Windows
2 80 (14.87%) Linux
3 75 (13.94%) Windows Server
4 32 (5.95%) Mac OS
5 15 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.42%) Unix
6 13 (2.42%) VMS
7 10 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.67%) CentOS
8 9 (1.67%) Rocky
9 6 (1.12%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.93%) Solaris
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%) Android
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (27.14%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (19.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 99 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (16.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 90 (16.73%) Incident Response
6 86 (15.99%) Cloud Security
6 86 (15.99%) Zero Trust
7 78 (14.50%) Roadmaps
8 75 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 75 (13.94%) Migration
9 72 (13.38%) SIEM
10 63 (11.71%) ITIL
11 62 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 61 (11.34%) Project Delivery
13 60 (11.15%) High Availability
13 60 (11.15%) Mentoring
14 59 (10.97%) Vulnerability Management
15 52 (9.67%) Change Management
16 51 (9.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.31%) PowerShell
2 68 (12.64%) Python
3 29 (5.39%) Bash
4 28 (5.20%) SQL
5 24 (4.46%) Bicep
6 8 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.49%) Perl
6 8 (1.49%) Ruby
7 5 (0.93%) C
8 4 (0.74%) Go
8 4 (0.74%) Java
9 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.19%) Korn
10 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (18.96%) Cisco Certification
2 80 (14.87%) CCNP
3 68 (12.64%) Degree
4 64 (11.90%) CISSP
5 53 (9.85%) Azure Certification
6 44 (8.18%) CCNA
7 37 (6.88%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (5.02%) CISM
11 22 (4.09%) AWS Certification
12 18 (3.35%) CCIE
13 12 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.86%) CCSP
15 10 (1.86%) DV Cleared
16 9 (1.67%) CHECK Team Member
16 9 (1.67%) GIAC
16 9 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (13.20%) NIST
3 37 (6.88%) SLA
4 36 (6.69%) GDPR
5 35 (6.51%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.86%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.67%) GRC
9 7 (1.30%) QA
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.37%) 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%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 151 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 55 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.83%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.35%) Docker
5 17 (3.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.60%) vSphere
7 6 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.19%) NFS
10 1 (0.19%) Samba
10 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (9.48%) Ansible
3 50 (9.29%) FortiGate
4 37 (6.88%) Kubernetes
5 32 (5.95%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (3.35%) SCCM
7 16 (2.97%) Autotask
8 15 (2.79%) Jamf Pro
8 15 (2.79%) Nessus
9 14 (2.60%) Grafana
10 12 (2.23%) CASB
10 12 (2.23%) Nmap
11 9 (1.67%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.12%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.74%) Argo
14 3 (0.56%) Cilium
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 (53.53%) Microsoft
2 157 (29.18%) Cisco
3 114 (21.19%) Palo Alto
4 100 (18.59%) VMware
5 57 (10.59%) Fortinet
6 53 (9.85%) Meraki
7 52 (9.67%) Zscaler
8 26 (4.83%) F5
9 24 (4.46%) Tenable
10 23 (4.28%) Aruba
10 23 (4.28%) CheckPoint
10 23 (4.28%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (4.28%) SolarWinds
11 22 (4.09%) Juniper
11 22 (4.09%) Splunk
12 20 (3.72%) Arista
13 18 (3.35%) Google
13 18 (3.35%) HP
14 17 (3.16%) Dynatrace
15 15 (2.79%) Ubiquiti