Firewall Jobs in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 73 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +112
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 474 882 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.79% 3.71% 3.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.31% 27.20% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 368 708 948
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,625 £50,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -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 1,873 3,243 3,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.97% 13.63% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 895 1,987 2,681
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in London.

Salary trend for Firewall in London

Firewall
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -33 52 £68,500 +24.55% 43
South London -8 14 £50,000 +13.64% 4
West London +20 9 £49,000 -10.91% 22
East London -12 8 £96,250 +126.47% 6
North London -16 3 £70,000 +55.56%
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (11.81%) SharePoint
2 52 (10.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.27%) IIS
3 6 (1.27%) Moodle
4 3 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.42%) nginx
5 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.69%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 246 (51.90%) Azure
2 121 (25.53%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (23.84%) AWS
4 57 (12.03%) GCP
5 56 (11.81%) Entra ID
6 41 (8.65%) OneDrive
7 18 (3.80%) SaaS
8 16 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (3.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 16 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
8 16 (3.38%) PaaS
9 15 (3.16%) IaaS
10 14 (2.95%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.74%) AWS Direct Connect
11 13 (2.74%) Azure AKS
11 13 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.53%) Power Platform
13 10 (2.11%) GitHub
14 8 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 145 (30.59%) VPN
2 117 (24.68%) Network Security
3 104 (21.94%) WAN
4 81 (17.09%) DNS
5 79 (16.67%) BGP
6 73 (15.40%) OSPF
7 71 (14.98%) LAN
8 69 (14.56%) Wi-Fi
9 63 (13.29%) TCP/IP
10 58 (12.24%) SD-WAN
11 55 (11.60%) DHCP
12 50 (10.55%) MPLS
13 46 (9.70%) VLAN
14 35 (7.38%) Wireless
15 32 (6.75%) IPsec
16 27 (5.70%) Intrusion Detection
17 25 (5.27%) Cisco ASA
18 23 (4.85%) WLAN
19 21 (4.43%) Cisco Firepower
20 20 (4.22%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.90%) Power BI
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.42%) MySQL
6 1 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.21%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.21%) JasperReports
6 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.21%) Redis
6 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (2.53%) Git
2 6 (1.27%) GitLab
2 6 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (0.63%) JIRA
5 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.21%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.21%) Maven
6 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 144 (30.38%) Finance
2 135 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 48 (10.13%) Banking
4 46 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.81%) Legal
6 21 (4.43%) Law
7 19 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.01%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (3.38%) Retail
10 11 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.69%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (1.27%) Front Office
12 6 (1.27%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.05%) Games
13 5 (1.05%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.84%) Marketing
15 3 (0.63%) Back Office
15 3 (0.63%) Local Government
15 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 88 (18.57%) Network Engineer
2 76 (16.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 75 (15.82%) Analyst
4 72 (15.19%) Senior
5 48 (10.13%) Security Analyst
6 38 (8.02%) Architect
7 37 (7.81%) Support Engineer
8 33 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 30 (6.33%) Lead
10 25 (5.27%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.85%) IT Engineer
11 23 (4.85%) IT Support
12 21 (4.43%) IT Manager
13 20 (4.22%) Security Engineer
13 20 (4.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (4.01%) Junior
15 18 (3.80%) Cisco Engineer
15 18 (3.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (3.80%) Technical Support
16 17 (3.59%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.53%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (1.27%) RESTful
4 5 (1.05%) ARM Templates
4 5 (1.05%) LDAP
4 5 (1.05%) YAML
5 4 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (0.84%) REST
6 3 (0.63%) JSON
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.21%) EDI
7 1 (0.21%) Kafka
7 1 (0.21%) Middleware
7 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.21%) Web Services
7 1 (0.21%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 77 (16.24%) Management Information System
2 71 (14.98%) Data Centre
3 40 (8.44%) Security Posture
4 31 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
5 21 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (3.80%) Public Cloud
7 15 (3.16%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.53%) PKI
9 10 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.90%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.90%) Podcast
10 9 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
11 8 (1.69%) Clustering
12 7 (1.48%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.27%) IPTV
13 6 (1.27%) Learning Management System
13 6 (1.27%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.27%) Replication
14 5 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 184 (38.82%) Windows
2 90 (18.99%) Windows Server
3 83 (17.51%) Linux
4 29 (6.12%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.74%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.53%) Android
7 11 (2.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (1.90%) Unix
10 8 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 7 (1.48%) Mac OS
12 6 (1.27%) CentOS
13 5 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.84%) Rocky
15 1 (0.21%) Debian
15 1 (0.21%) VMS
15 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
2 121 (25.53%) Cybersecurity
3 97 (20.46%) SIEM
4 91 (19.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 77 (16.24%) Incident Response
6 71 (14.98%) Information Security
7 56 (11.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 55 (11.60%) DevOps
9 51 (10.76%) Network Monitoring
10 50 (10.55%) Computer Science
10 50 (10.55%) ITIL
11 47 (9.92%) Vulnerability Management
12 43 (9.07%) Cloud Security
12 43 (9.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (9.07%) Risk Management
13 42 (8.86%) Network Management
14 39 (8.23%) Incident Management
14 39 (8.23%) Security Operations
15 38 (8.02%) Data Security
16 37 (7.81%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (18.14%) Python
2 81 (17.09%) PowerShell
3 38 (8.02%) SQL
4 36 (7.59%) Bash
5 9 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.27%) Perl
7 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.84%) Go
8 4 (0.84%) R
8 4 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.42%) Bicep
9 2 (0.42%) Java
10 1 (0.21%) C++
10 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.21%) Rust
10 1 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 100 (21.10%) Cisco Certification
2 93 (19.62%) Degree
3 72 (15.19%) CCNP
4 66 (13.92%) CCNA
5 42 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (8.02%) CISSP
7 27 (5.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 20 (4.22%) CEH
8 20 (4.22%) OSCP
9 18 (3.80%) CCIE
10 17 (3.59%) CISM
10 17 (3.59%) GCIH
10 17 (3.59%) Security Cleared
11 16 (3.38%) Azure Certification
12 14 (2.95%) GCIA
12 14 (2.95%) SC Cleared
13 12 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (2.53%) SANS
14 11 (2.32%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (14.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (11.60%) NIST
3 49 (10.34%) GDPR
4 24 (5.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (5.06%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.74%) SLA
6 11 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (2.11%) QA
8 9 (1.90%) NCSC
9 7 (1.48%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.27%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.84%) COBIT
11 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.84%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.63%) GRC
12 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 105 (22.15%) Active Directory
2 57 (12.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (7.17%) Hyper-V
4 27 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (4.01%) Docker
6 16 (3.38%) Firmware
7 15 (3.16%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.90%) vSphere
9 6 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.84%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.63%) NFS
11 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.42%) Postfix
12 2 (0.42%) ProxySG
12 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.42%) XenApp
12 2 (0.42%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.21%) Forefront TMG
13 1 (0.21%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 60 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 58 (12.24%) Terraform
3 44 (9.28%) SCCM
4 38 (8.02%) Kubernetes
5 37 (7.81%) Ansible
6 26 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (4.01%) FortiGate
8 17 (3.59%) Nagios
9 13 (2.74%) Grafana
10 12 (2.53%) Prometheus
11 8 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
11 8 (1.69%) Nessus
12 6 (1.27%) Proxmox
12 6 (1.27%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.05%) CASB
13 5 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (1.05%) Opsgenie
13 5 (1.05%) Puppet
14 4 (0.84%) Graylog
Vendors
1 157 (33.12%) Cisco
2 147 (31.01%) Microsoft
3 89 (18.78%) VMware
4 57 (12.03%) Fortinet
4 57 (12.03%) Meraki
5 54 (11.39%) Palo Alto
6 53 (11.18%) SolarWinds
7 47 (9.92%) CheckPoint
8 30 (6.33%) Juniper
9 22 (4.64%) Dell
9 22 (4.64%) F5
10 17 (3.59%) Google
11 16 (3.38%) Citrix
11 16 (3.38%) CrowdStrike
11 16 (3.38%) Infoblox
11 16 (3.38%) Red Hat
12 14 (2.95%) Arista
12 14 (2.95%) Bloomberg
12 14 (2.95%) Zscaler
13 13 (2.74%) Veeam