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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 84 107
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 -39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 551 457 642
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.29% 3.79% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.66% 36.91% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 408 359 465
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,600 £38,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £95,000 £93,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 1,858 1,238 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.71% 10.26% 13.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 871 1,324
10th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £40,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,125 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.66% -17.00% -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 29 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 29 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 -22 52 £90,000 +28.57% 21
West London 0 31 £69,119 +25.67% 7
South London +4 16 £38,500 -16.30% 9
North London +9 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -6 7 £105,000 +208.82% 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 56 (10.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (9.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.54%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.54%) 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 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 311 (56.44%) Azure
2 198 (35.93%) Microsoft 365
3 123 (22.32%) Entra ID
4 118 (21.42%) AWS
5 42 (7.62%) SaaS
6 37 (6.72%) PaaS
7 35 (6.35%) GCP
8 33 (5.99%) Datadog
8 33 (5.99%) IaaS
9 22 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 20 (3.63%) Mimecast
12 18 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.09%) Serverless
14 15 (2.72%) Google Workspace
14 15 (2.72%) OneDrive
15 12 (2.18%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 11 (2.00%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 214 (38.84%) VPN
2 179 (32.49%) Network Security
3 161 (29.22%) DNS
4 138 (25.05%) WAN
5 119 (21.60%) VLAN
6 109 (19.78%) LAN
7 108 (19.60%) DHCP
8 104 (18.87%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (15.97%) Wireless
10 87 (15.79%) SD-WAN
11 83 (15.06%) TCP/IP
12 64 (11.62%) Cisco ISE
13 61 (11.07%) BGP
14 56 (10.16%) OSPF
15 43 (7.80%) SAN
16 29 (5.26%) WLAN
17 26 (4.72%) MPLS
18 24 (4.36%) Cisco Wireless
19 21 (3.81%) SSL
20 20 (3.63%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.07%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.81%) Power BI
3 7 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.54%) Big Data
4 3 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.54%) 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 17 (3.09%) JIRA
2 16 (2.90%) Chocolatey
3 10 (1.81%) Metasploit
4 9 (1.63%) Burp Suite
5 6 (1.09%) Git
5 6 (1.09%) GitLab
6 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.54%) Maven
7 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 191 (34.66%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.05%) Finance
3 44 (7.99%) Banking
4 38 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.17%) Legal
6 31 (5.63%) Law
6 31 (5.63%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.36%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
11 10 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.81%) Retail
12 7 (1.27%) Back Office
13 6 (1.09%) Billing
13 6 (1.09%) Digital Health
13 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 117 (21.23%) Senior
2 114 (20.69%) Network Engineer
3 66 (11.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 62 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
4 62 (11.25%) IT Engineer
5 59 (10.71%) Architect
6 45 (8.17%) Support Engineer
7 44 (7.99%) Security Engineer
8 41 (7.44%) IT Support
9 39 (7.08%) Lead
9 39 (7.08%) Senior Network Engineer
10 34 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (5.99%) Analyst
11 33 (5.99%) IT Support Engineer
12 31 (5.63%) 2nd Line Support
13 27 (4.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 26 (4.72%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 25 (4.54%) Network Architect
15 25 (4.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (4.36%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (13.43%) Terraform
2 17 (3.09%) OpenID
3 16 (2.90%) OAuth
4 15 (2.72%) REST
4 15 (2.72%) SAML
5 14 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (2.54%) LDAP
6 11 (2.00%) 802.1X
6 11 (2.00%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.63%) ADO
8 5 (0.91%) Node.js
8 5 (0.91%) YAML
9 2 (0.36%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.36%) RESTful
9 2 (0.36%) Web Services
10 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.70%) Data Centre
2 66 (11.98%) Security Posture
3 37 (6.72%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (5.08%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 22 (3.99%) PKI
8 18 (3.27%) Cloud Native
9 17 (3.09%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.18%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.81%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.45%) Blog
13 8 (1.45%) Operational Technology
13 8 (1.45%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.27%) NHS
15 6 (1.09%) Eurex
15 6 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (33.39%) Windows
2 75 (13.61%) Linux
3 62 (11.25%) Windows Server
4 33 (5.99%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.18%) Unix
7 11 (2.00%) VMS
8 8 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.09%) CentOS
9 6 (1.09%) Rocky
9 6 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.54%) Solaris
12 2 (0.36%) Android
12 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.36%) tvOS
12 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (26.13%) Cybersecurity
2 110 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (19.42%) Incident Response
4 94 (17.06%) Disaster Recovery
5 92 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 84 (15.25%) Cloud Security
7 84 (15.25%) SIEM
8 83 (15.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 79 (14.34%) Zero Trust
10 74 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (12.70%) ITIL
12 69 (12.52%) Migration
13 67 (12.16%) Project Delivery
14 62 (11.25%) Mentoring
15 61 (11.07%) High Availability
16 57 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
17 54 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (9.62%) Business Continuity
19 51 (9.26%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.89%) PowerShell
1 71 (12.89%) Python
2 31 (5.63%) Bash
3 19 (3.45%) Bicep
4 17 (3.09%) SQL
5 10 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.09%) Perl
6 6 (1.09%) Ruby
7 5 (0.91%) C
8 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) Java
9 2 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 121 (21.96%) Cisco Certification
2 105 (19.06%) CCNP
3 71 (12.89%) Degree
4 63 (11.43%) CISSP
5 62 (11.25%) Azure Certification
6 44 (7.99%) CCNA
7 35 (6.35%) Security Cleared
8 33 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (5.44%) CCIE
10 28 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (4.36%) CISM
12 23 (4.17%) AWS Certification
13 18 (3.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (2.54%) CEH
14 14 (2.54%) DV Cleared
15 12 (2.18%) GIAC
15 12 (2.18%) Master's Degree
16 11 (2.00%) SC Cleared
17 9 (1.63%) JNCIP
17 9 (1.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (13.79%) NIST
3 42 (7.62%) GDPR
4 32 (5.81%) PCI DSS
5 30 (5.44%) SLA
6 19 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.27%) GRC
9 6 (1.09%) QA
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.54%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.54%) NCSC
13 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 157 (28.49%) Active Directory
2 57 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.54%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.81%) Docker
6 8 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.45%) vSphere
7 5 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Samba
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 58 (10.53%) Ansible
3 55 (9.98%) FortiGate
4 34 (6.17%) Kubernetes
5 32 (5.81%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (4.36%) SCCM
7 19 (3.45%) Autotask
8 18 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.36%) Nessus
10 10 (1.81%) Grafana
11 9 (1.63%) Nmap
12 8 (1.45%) CASB
12 8 (1.45%) Prometheus
13 6 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.73%) VxRail
15 3 (0.54%) Argo
15 3 (0.54%) Istio
15 3 (0.54%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
15 3 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 290 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 175 (31.76%) Cisco
3 122 (22.14%) Palo Alto
4 102 (18.51%) VMware
5 66 (11.98%) Meraki
6 62 (11.25%) Fortinet
7 54 (9.80%) Zscaler
8 33 (5.99%) CheckPoint
9 32 (5.81%) SolarWinds
10 31 (5.63%) Tenable
11 28 (5.08%) Splunk
12 27 (4.90%) CrowdStrike
13 26 (4.72%) F5
14 25 (4.54%) Aruba
15 23 (4.17%) Arista
16 20 (3.63%) Dynatrace
16 20 (3.63%) Google
16 20 (3.63%) HP
17 17 (3.09%) Juniper
17 17 (3.09%) Sophos