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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 84 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 +28 -42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 547 466 617
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.29% 3.82% 3.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.97% 37.25% 24.43%
Number of salaries quoted 399 372 473
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,800 £38,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.27% +1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £93,650
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -0.50%

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 1,888 1,251 2,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.90% 10.25% 13.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 890 1,346
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
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 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.63%

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 17 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 17 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 51 £90,000 +35.34% 23
West London 0 30 £70,809 +44.51% 5
South London +6 13 £34,250 -25.54% 9
North London +9 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -12 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 53 (9.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (9.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 316 (57.77%) Azure
2 189 (34.55%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (22.67%) AWS
4 109 (19.93%) Entra ID
5 44 (8.04%) SaaS
6 37 (6.76%) GCP
7 33 (6.03%) PaaS
8 32 (5.85%) Datadog
9 30 (5.48%) IaaS
10 21 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (3.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
12 18 (3.29%) Mimecast
13 15 (2.74%) Google Workspace
13 15 (2.74%) Serverless
14 13 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (2.19%) GitHub
15 12 (2.19%) OneDrive
15 12 (2.19%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 209 (38.21%) VPN
2 185 (33.82%) Network Security
3 154 (28.15%) DNS
4 148 (27.06%) WAN
5 119 (21.76%) LAN
6 114 (20.84%) VLAN
7 105 (19.20%) Wi-Fi
8 101 (18.46%) DHCP
9 92 (16.82%) SD-WAN
10 87 (15.90%) TCP/IP
11 82 (14.99%) Wireless
12 65 (11.88%) BGP
13 63 (11.52%) Cisco ISE
14 61 (11.15%) OSPF
15 42 (7.68%) SAN
16 32 (5.85%) WLAN
17 27 (4.94%) MPLS
18 25 (4.57%) Cisco Wireless
19 21 (3.84%) Cisco ASA
19 21 (3.84%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (10.79%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.83%) Power BI
3 7 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.55%) Big Data
4 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
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 (2.93%) JIRA
2 15 (2.74%) Chocolatey
3 10 (1.83%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.46%) Git
5 7 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 6 (1.10%) GitLab
7 3 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 190 (34.73%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.22%) Finance
3 44 (8.04%) Banking
4 39 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.03%) Legal
6 32 (5.85%) Telecoms
7 24 (4.39%) Law
8 14 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
11 11 (2.01%) Retail
12 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Back Office
14 6 (1.10%) Billing
14 6 (1.10%) Digital Health
14 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 122 (22.30%) Senior
2 118 (21.57%) Network Engineer
3 64 (11.70%) IT Engineer
4 61 (11.15%) Architect
5 58 (10.60%) Azure Engineer
5 58 (10.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 45 (8.23%) Support Engineer
7 42 (7.68%) IT Support
8 41 (7.50%) Security Engineer
8 41 (7.50%) Senior Network Engineer
9 40 (7.31%) Lead
10 35 (6.40%) IT Support Engineer
11 33 (6.03%) Analyst
12 31 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
13 30 (5.48%) Cloud Engineer
14 29 (5.30%) Network Architect
15 27 (4.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 27 (4.94%) Cisco Engineer
16 26 (4.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 25 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.11%) OpenID
2 16 (2.93%) OAuth
3 15 (2.74%) REST
3 15 (2.74%) SAML
4 14 (2.56%) LDAP
5 13 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (2.19%) 802.1X
7 11 (2.01%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.65%) ADO
9 5 (0.91%) Node.js
9 5 (0.91%) YAML
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) Web Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 90 (16.45%) Data Centre
2 64 (11.70%) Security Posture
3 39 (7.13%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 24 (4.39%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.84%) PKI
7 18 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 18 (3.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 16 (2.93%) Video Conferencing
9 15 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.83%) Blog
10 10 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.65%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.28%) NHS
12 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (1.10%) Operational Technology
13 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 178 (32.54%) Windows
2 76 (13.89%) Linux
3 58 (10.60%) Windows Server
4 31 (5.67%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.56%) Unix
5 14 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.65%) VMS
7 8 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.10%) CentOS
8 6 (1.10%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.91%) Rocky
10 3 (0.55%) Solaris
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) tvOS
12 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (24.86%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (20.48%) Incident Response
3 107 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 89 (16.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 87 (15.90%) SIEM
6 85 (15.54%) Roadmaps
7 83 (15.17%) Cloud Security
8 76 (13.89%) Zero Trust
9 72 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 69 (12.61%) Migration
11 68 (12.43%) ITIL
12 67 (12.25%) Project Delivery
13 58 (10.60%) Mentoring
14 56 (10.24%) High Availability
14 56 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (10.05%) Information Security
15 55 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
16 54 (9.87%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.53%) Python
2 73 (13.35%) PowerShell
3 34 (6.22%) Bash
4 16 (2.93%) Bicep
4 16 (2.93%) SQL
5 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.91%) Perl
6 5 (0.91%) Ruby
6 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.73%) C
8 2 (0.37%) Java
8 2 (0.37%) Korn
8 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 130 (23.77%) Cisco Certification
2 112 (20.48%) CCNP
3 69 (12.61%) Degree
4 64 (11.70%) CISSP
5 60 (10.97%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.78%) CCNA
7 33 (6.03%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.85%) CCIE
9 31 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (4.57%) CISM
12 22 (4.02%) AWS Certification
13 20 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (2.93%) CEH
15 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
16 12 (2.19%) GIAC
16 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
16 12 (2.19%) SC Cleared
17 10 (1.83%) OSCP
18 9 (1.65%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.71%) NIST
2 72 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.50%) GDPR
4 29 (5.30%) PCI DSS
4 29 (5.30%) SLA
5 18 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.10%) GRC
7 6 (1.10%) QA
8 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
8 5 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.91%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.55%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 151 (27.61%) Active Directory
2 54 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.02%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.83%) Docker
5 10 (1.83%) vSphere
6 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.18%) KVM
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (13.16%) Terraform
2 71 (12.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 65 (11.88%) Ansible
4 54 (9.87%) FortiGate
5 41 (7.50%) Kubernetes
6 26 (4.75%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (4.02%) SCCM
8 19 (3.47%) Autotask
9 17 (3.11%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.19%) Nessus
11 10 (1.83%) Grafana
12 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
13 7 (1.28%) CASB
13 7 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (1.28%) Nmap
14 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.73%) Check_MK
15 3 (0.55%) Nagios
15 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
15 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 277 (50.64%) Microsoft
2 176 (32.18%) Cisco
3 121 (22.12%) Palo Alto
4 101 (18.46%) VMware
5 65 (11.88%) Fortinet
5 65 (11.88%) Meraki
6 53 (9.69%) Zscaler
7 36 (6.58%) SolarWinds
8 35 (6.40%) CheckPoint
9 29 (5.30%) Tenable
10 27 (4.94%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (4.94%) Splunk
11 26 (4.75%) F5
12 25 (4.57%) Aruba
13 24 (4.39%) Arista
14 22 (4.02%) Google
15 20 (3.66%) Dynatrace
15 20 (3.66%) HP
16 17 (3.11%) Juniper
16 17 (3.11%) SonicWALL