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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 70 65
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 444 618 881
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.88% 4.10% 4.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.74% 33.39% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 310 422 747
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £57,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +12.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +10.00% -4.76%

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 1,870 1,851 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.14% 12.29% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 960 1,056 2,114
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £40,792 £55,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year -25.83% +10.02% -3.87%

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 February 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 February 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 -11 78 £80,000 -3.03% 38
East London +10 24 £35,000 - 10
West London +1 14 £72,500 +28.89% 7
North London +14 11 £75,000 +20.00% 1
South London +24 8 £46,000 -23.33% 7
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 36 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (5.86%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.13%) Apache
4 4 (0.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.23%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 262 (59.01%) Azure
2 129 (29.05%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (21.40%) AWS
4 67 (15.09%) Entra ID
5 33 (7.43%) GCP
5 33 (7.43%) SaaS
6 27 (6.08%) Datadog
7 22 (4.95%) IaaS
7 22 (4.95%) PaaS
8 21 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (4.50%) GitHub
10 19 (4.28%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (4.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 18 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (2.93%) AWS Direct Connect
13 13 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (2.70%) Azure AKS
14 12 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 176 (39.64%) VPN
2 131 (29.50%) WAN
3 101 (22.75%) LAN
4 100 (22.52%) Wi-Fi
5 83 (18.69%) DNS
6 78 (17.57%) Network Security
7 74 (16.67%) VLAN
8 71 (15.99%) SD-WAN
9 63 (14.19%) Wireless
10 62 (13.96%) DHCP
11 49 (11.04%) TCP/IP
12 44 (9.91%) BGP
13 43 (9.68%) OSPF
14 35 (7.88%) Cisco ASA
15 30 (6.76%) Cisco Firepower
16 27 (6.08%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (5.63%) SAN
18 24 (5.41%) Cisco Wireless
18 24 (5.41%) MPLS
19 21 (4.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.25%) Power BI
3 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.45%) Metadata
4 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.45%) MySQL
4 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 10 (2.25%) Chocolatey
1 10 (2.25%) Git
2 7 (1.58%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.58%) JIRA
3 6 (1.35%) GitLab
4 4 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.90%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.45%) Jaeger
5 2 (0.45%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 137 (30.86%) Finance
2 117 (26.35%) Social Skills
3 50 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.66%) Banking
5 23 (5.18%) Telecoms
6 13 (2.93%) Legal
7 12 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.03%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.03%) Law
9 8 (1.80%) Retail
10 6 (1.35%) Advertising
10 6 (1.35%) Aviation
10 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.35%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.13%) Marketing
11 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.90%) Back Office
12 4 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (27.25%) Network Engineer
2 71 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 71 (15.99%) Senior
3 62 (13.96%) Analyst
4 48 (10.81%) IT Engineer
5 47 (10.59%) Azure Engineer
5 47 (10.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 47 (10.59%) Support Engineer
6 44 (9.91%) IT Support
7 35 (7.88%) Cisco Engineer
8 32 (7.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 29 (6.53%) Support Analyst
10 24 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.18%) IT Support Engineer
11 23 (5.18%) Security Analyst
11 23 (5.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (4.73%) IT Analyst
13 21 (4.73%) Security Engineer
14 20 (4.50%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.15%) OAuth
1 14 (3.15%) SAML
2 12 (2.70%) ADO
2 12 (2.70%) YAML
3 7 (1.58%) .NET
4 4 (0.90%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.90%) RESTful
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.68%) REST
6 2 (0.45%) AWS SAM
6 2 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.45%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.45%) Kafka
6 2 (0.45%) Keycloak
6 2 (0.45%) LDAP
6 2 (0.45%) OpenID
6 2 (0.45%) WebRTC
7 1 (0.23%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.32%) Data Centre
2 31 (6.98%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 24 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 22 (4.95%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.05%) Driving Licence
6 18 (4.05%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (3.15%) PKI
9 12 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.03%) IoT
10 9 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.58%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.58%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
13 6 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 144 (32.43%) Windows
2 62 (13.96%) Windows Server
3 60 (13.51%) Linux
4 23 (5.18%) VMS
5 18 (4.05%) Windows 10
6 16 (3.60%) Mac OS
7 13 (2.93%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.93%) Unix
7 13 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (1.80%) CentOS
10 6 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.90%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.68%) Android
12 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.45%) Debian
13 2 (0.45%) Solaris
13 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (21.40%) Cybersecurity
2 92 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
3 87 (19.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 82 (18.47%) Incident Response
5 79 (17.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 63 (14.19%) Zero Trust
7 61 (13.74%) SIEM
8 60 (13.51%) Computer Science
9 59 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 55 (12.39%) Migration
11 51 (11.49%) ITIL
12 50 (11.26%) Cloud Security
13 48 (10.81%) DevOps
13 48 (10.81%) High Availability
14 45 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (9.23%) Customer Service
16 40 (9.01%) Vulnerability Management
17 39 (8.78%) CI/CD
17 39 (8.78%) Information Security
18 38 (8.56%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 81 (18.24%) PowerShell
2 67 (15.09%) Python
3 26 (5.86%) Bash
4 20 (4.50%) SQL
5 14 (3.15%) Bicep
5 14 (3.15%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.35%) Go
7 5 (1.13%) Java
8 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.23%) C#
10 1 (0.23%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 100 (22.52%) Cisco Certification
2 86 (19.37%) Degree
3 78 (17.57%) CCNP
4 54 (12.16%) CISSP
5 44 (9.91%) CCNA
6 38 (8.56%) CCIE
7 37 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (6.53%) CISM
9 27 (6.08%) Azure Certification
10 23 (5.18%) Security Cleared
11 22 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (4.28%) Network+ Certification
13 18 (4.05%) CCSA
13 18 (4.05%) CCSE
14 17 (3.83%) AWS Certification
14 17 (3.83%) DBS Check
15 15 (3.38%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (3.15%) CISA
17 12 (2.70%) HND
17 12 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (18.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (9.91%) GDPR
3 42 (9.46%) NIST
4 25 (5.63%) PCI DSS
5 24 (5.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (4.50%) SOC 2
7 13 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (2.25%) SLA
9 7 (1.58%) GRC
10 5 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.68%) ITGC
12 2 (0.45%) Basel III
12 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.45%) MiFID
12 2 (0.45%) PMO
13 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.23%) QA
System Software
1 148 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 45 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.18%) Firmware
4 21 (4.73%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (4.28%) Docker
6 18 (4.05%) Hyper-V
7 12 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.80%) vSphere
9 5 (1.13%) KVM
10 4 (0.90%) NFS
11 2 (0.45%) XenApp
11 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.23%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.23%) NLBS
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 76 (17.12%) Terraform
2 65 (14.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 56 (12.61%) Ansible
4 36 (8.11%) Kubernetes
5 30 (6.76%) FortiGate
6 28 (6.31%) SCCM
7 11 (2.48%) CASB
7 11 (2.48%) Grafana
8 10 (2.25%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.58%) Argo
11 5 (1.13%) Autotask
11 5 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.13%) Istio
11 5 (1.13%) linkerd
11 5 (1.13%) Mesos
11 5 (1.13%) Nessus
11 5 (1.13%) SCOM
11 5 (1.13%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.90%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 165 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 154 (34.68%) Cisco
3 80 (18.02%) Palo Alto
4 79 (17.79%) VMware
5 67 (15.09%) Fortinet
6 60 (13.51%) CheckPoint
7 55 (12.39%) Meraki
8 41 (9.23%) SolarWinds
9 32 (7.21%) Juniper
10 23 (5.18%) Dynatrace
10 23 (5.18%) Zscaler
11 17 (3.83%) Arista
11 17 (3.83%) Google
12 16 (3.60%) Splunk
13 14 (3.15%) ServiceNow
14 13 (2.93%) AppDynamics
14 13 (2.93%) Tenable
15 11 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (2.48%) F5
16 8 (1.80%) Aruba