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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 85 102
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 -29
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 537 470 652
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.32% 3.83% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.19% 37.72% 24.95%
Number of salaries quoted 380 378 513
10th Percentile £39,750 £35,525 £39,050
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £66,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +6.40% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -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 1,905 1,246 2,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.21% 10.16% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 894 1,462
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,563 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -3.89%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -17 53 £90,000 +35.34% 30
West London -7 27 £72,500 +39.42% 7
North London +11 13 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South London +6 13 £30,500 -39.00% 4
East London -10 8 £105,000 +72.84% 1
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 50 (9.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (9.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Confluence
3 3 (0.56%) SAS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (2.98%) MS Visio
2 11 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.19%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 314 (58.47%) Azure
2 181 (33.71%) Microsoft 365
3 126 (23.46%) AWS
4 109 (20.30%) Entra ID
5 43 (8.01%) SaaS
6 39 (7.26%) GCP
7 35 (6.52%) Datadog
8 28 (5.21%) IaaS
9 27 (5.03%) PaaS
10 21 (3.91%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 17 (3.17%) Mimecast
13 15 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (2.61%) GitHub
14 14 (2.61%) Google Workspace
14 14 (2.61%) Serverless
15 12 (2.23%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.05%) Power Platform
16 11 (2.05%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 207 (38.55%) VPN
2 190 (35.38%) Network Security
3 147 (27.37%) DNS
4 145 (27.00%) WAN
5 118 (21.97%) LAN
6 114 (21.23%) VLAN
7 108 (20.11%) Wi-Fi
8 95 (17.69%) DHCP
8 95 (17.69%) SD-WAN
9 78 (14.53%) TCP/IP
10 76 (14.15%) Wireless
11 67 (12.48%) BGP
12 63 (11.73%) Cisco ISE
13 62 (11.55%) OSPF
14 42 (7.82%) SAN
15 33 (6.15%) WLAN
16 28 (5.21%) MPLS
17 27 (5.03%) Cisco Wireless
18 24 (4.47%) Cisco Firepower
19 23 (4.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.87%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.05%) Power BI
3 6 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.56%) Big Data
4 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.98%) Chocolatey
1 16 (2.98%) JIRA
2 8 (1.49%) Bitbucket
2 8 (1.49%) Git
3 7 (1.30%) GitLab
3 7 (1.30%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (0.56%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.56%) Maven
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 184 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 122 (22.72%) Finance
3 38 (7.08%) Banking
4 37 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.77%) Telecoms
6 29 (5.40%) Legal
7 18 (3.35%) Law
8 13 (2.42%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.05%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (2.05%) Retail
11 10 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Back Office
13 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.12%) Billing
14 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.12%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 116 (21.60%) Network Engineer
2 115 (21.42%) Senior
3 67 (12.48%) Architect
4 57 (10.61%) IT Engineer
5 55 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 43 (8.01%) Support Engineer
8 42 (7.82%) IT Support
9 39 (7.26%) Security Engineer
10 38 (7.08%) Senior Network Engineer
11 33 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
11 33 (6.15%) Lead
11 33 (6.15%) Network Architect
12 32 (5.96%) Analyst
13 30 (5.59%) 2nd Line Support
14 29 (5.40%) Cisco Engineer
15 26 (4.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 26 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
15 26 (4.84%) Security Specialist
16 25 (4.66%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.54%) OpenID
2 18 (3.35%) OAuth
3 17 (3.17%) REST
3 17 (3.17%) SAML
4 16 (2.98%) LDAP
5 11 (2.05%) 802.1X
6 10 (1.86%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.68%) ADO
7 9 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.93%) Node.js
8 5 (0.93%) YAML
9 3 (0.56%) Web Services
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.95%) Data Centre
2 66 (12.29%) Security Posture
3 39 (7.26%) Cyber Threat
4 25 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (4.66%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.66%) PKI
5 23 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.35%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 16 (2.98%) Video Conferencing
8 15 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.05%) Blog
10 10 (1.86%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 176 (32.77%) Windows
2 66 (12.29%) Linux
3 58 (10.80%) Windows Server
4 28 (5.21%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (2.05%) Unix
7 8 (1.49%) VMS
8 7 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.74%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.56%) CentOS
12 2 (0.37%) Android
12 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
13 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.19%) Solaris
13 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (24.21%) Cybersecurity
2 110 (20.48%) Incident Response
3 100 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (16.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 89 (16.57%) SIEM
5 87 (16.20%) Roadmaps
6 85 (15.83%) Cloud Security
7 84 (15.64%) Zero Trust
8 80 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (13.22%) Migration
10 65 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (12.10%) Project Delivery
11 64 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 61 (11.36%) ITIL
13 56 (10.43%) Mentoring
14 54 (10.06%) Business Continuity
14 54 (10.06%) High Availability
15 52 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 51 (9.50%) Information Security
17 50 (9.31%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.34%) PowerShell
2 73 (13.59%) Python
3 32 (5.96%) Bash
4 12 (2.23%) SQL
5 10 (1.86%) Bicep
6 9 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.12%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.56%) Java
8 3 (0.56%) Korn
8 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.37%) C
9 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.37%) Perl
9 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (24.95%) Cisco Certification
2 115 (21.42%) CCNP
3 68 (12.66%) CISSP
4 64 (11.92%) Degree
5 55 (10.24%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.94%) CCNA
7 34 (6.33%) CCIE
8 31 (5.77%) Security Cleared
9 30 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (5.40%) CISM
11 25 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (4.10%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (3.72%) AWS Certification
14 17 (3.17%) CEH
15 15 (2.79%) DV Cleared
16 14 (2.61%) SC Cleared
17 13 (2.42%) GIAC
18 11 (2.05%) Master's Degree
19 10 (1.86%) OSCP
20 9 (1.68%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (13.59%) NIST
3 35 (6.52%) GDPR
4 31 (5.77%) PCI DSS
5 28 (5.21%) SLA
6 19 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.05%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (1.12%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.12%) QA
9 5 (0.93%) GRC
9 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.56%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 154 (28.68%) Active Directory
2 55 (10.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.10%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.49%) Docker
6 7 (1.30%) vSphere
7 4 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.19%) Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.19%) NLBS
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (13.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (12.85%) Ansible
3 67 (12.48%) Terraform
4 52 (9.68%) FortiGate
5 40 (7.45%) Kubernetes
6 25 (4.66%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (4.10%) SCCM
8 19 (3.54%) Autotask
9 16 (2.98%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (2.05%) Grafana
11 9 (1.68%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (1.12%) Check_MK
14 5 (0.93%) CASB
14 5 (0.93%) Nessus
15 4 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.74%) VxRail
16 3 (0.56%) Nmap
16 3 (0.56%) Oracle Flashback
16 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 265 (49.35%) Microsoft
2 173 (32.22%) Cisco
3 114 (21.23%) Palo Alto
4 98 (18.25%) VMware
5 69 (12.85%) Meraki
6 65 (12.10%) Fortinet
7 52 (9.68%) Zscaler
8 42 (7.82%) SolarWinds
9 39 (7.26%) CheckPoint
10 30 (5.59%) Splunk
11 26 (4.84%) Arista
11 26 (4.84%) Aruba
11 26 (4.84%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (4.84%) Tenable
12 25 (4.66%) F5
13 23 (4.28%) Dynatrace
13 23 (4.28%) Google
14 19 (3.54%) Juniper
14 19 (3.54%) SonicWALL
15 18 (3.35%) Sophos