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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 67 90
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 +83
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 514 920 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.92% 3.91% 3.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.33% 27.40% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 418 749 979
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,700 £38,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -

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 1,590 3,358 4,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.12% 14.27% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 987 2,063 2,868
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +3.64%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -35 57 £70,000 +16.67% 35
South London +4 21 £60,000 +36.36% 5
West London +33 12 £52,000 -2.80% 14
East London 0 8 £96,250 +109.24% 2
North London +2 2 £66,250 +47.22% 1
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 65 (12.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (11.09%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.97%) IIS
4 3 (0.58%) Confluence
4 3 (0.58%) WordPress
5 2 (0.39%) Moodle
5 2 (0.39%) nginx
5 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
Applications
1 25 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 286 (55.64%) Azure
2 148 (28.79%) Microsoft 365
3 120 (23.35%) AWS
4 65 (12.65%) Entra ID
5 58 (11.28%) GCP
6 40 (7.78%) OneDrive
7 22 (4.28%) Azure Sentinel
7 22 (4.28%) SaaS
8 20 (3.89%) IaaS
9 18 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
10 15 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (2.92%) PaaS
11 13 (2.53%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.33%) Azure AKS
13 10 (1.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.95%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (1.75%) AWS Direct Connect
14 9 (1.75%) Serverless
15 8 (1.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 7 (1.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 143 (27.82%) VPN
2 134 (26.07%) Network Security
3 114 (22.18%) WAN
4 91 (17.70%) DNS
5 86 (16.73%) LAN
6 79 (15.37%) BGP
7 74 (14.40%) TCP/IP
8 68 (13.23%) DHCP
8 68 (13.23%) OSPF
9 64 (12.45%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (11.48%) SD-WAN
11 49 (9.53%) MPLS
12 47 (9.14%) VLAN
12 47 (9.14%) Wireless
13 31 (6.03%) Cisco Nexus
14 30 (5.84%) Intrusion Detection
15 29 (5.64%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (5.06%) WLAN
17 22 (4.28%) Cisco ASA
17 22 (4.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (0.78%) Power BI
3 3 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.58%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.39%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.19%) JasperReports
5 1 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.19%) Redis
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (1.56%) Git
2 8 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (0.78%) GitLab
4 3 (0.58%) JIRA
5 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.19%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.19%) Maven
5 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 153 (29.77%) Finance
2 144 (28.02%) Social Skills
3 51 (9.92%) Banking
4 47 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (8.56%) Legal
6 31 (6.03%) Law
7 23 (4.47%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.50%) Retail
9 16 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.56%) Mandarin Language
13 6 (1.17%) Front Office
13 6 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.97%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.78%) Back Office
15 4 (0.78%) Marketing
16 3 (0.58%) Local Government
16 3 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 106 (20.62%) Network Engineer
2 95 (18.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 82 (15.95%) Senior
4 81 (15.76%) Analyst
5 51 (9.92%) Security Analyst
6 47 (9.14%) Architect
7 39 (7.59%) Support Engineer
8 36 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 35 (6.81%) Lead
10 29 (5.64%) IT Engineer
11 28 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 25 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (4.47%) Junior
14 22 (4.28%) Security Engineer
15 21 (4.09%) Network Architect
15 21 (4.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.89%) IT Manager
16 20 (3.89%) Senior Network Engineer
17 19 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 19 (3.70%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.53%) 802.1X
2 9 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (1.17%) JSON
3 6 (1.17%) RESTful
4 5 (0.97%) ARM Templates
4 5 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (0.78%) SAML
6 3 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (0.39%) LDAP
7 2 (0.39%) REST
7 2 (0.39%) YAML
8 1 (0.19%) AWS SAM
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.19%) cloud-init
8 1 (0.19%) Kafka
8 1 (0.19%) Middleware
8 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Identity Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 81 (15.76%) Data Centre
2 78 (15.18%) Management Information System
3 42 (8.17%) Security Posture
4 31 (6.03%) Cyber Threat
5 23 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (3.89%) Public Cloud
7 15 (2.92%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.33%) PKI
9 11 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
10 9 (1.75%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.75%) Clustering
10 9 (1.75%) Eurex
10 9 (1.75%) Podcast
11 7 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 7 (1.36%) Replication
12 6 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.17%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 205 (39.88%) Windows
2 109 (21.21%) Windows Server
3 95 (18.48%) Linux
4 43 (8.37%) Windows 10
5 15 (2.92%) CentOS
5 15 (2.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.53%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.53%) Mac OS
6 13 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 11 (2.14%) Unix
7 11 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (1.56%) Android
10 6 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.97%) Debian
11 5 (0.97%) VMS
12 4 (0.78%) Rocky
13 3 (0.58%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.58%) Solaris
14 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (26.26%) Cybersecurity
2 134 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (21.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 93 (18.09%) SIEM
5 83 (16.15%) Information Security
6 80 (15.56%) Incident Response
7 65 (12.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 61 (11.87%) Network Monitoring
9 58 (11.28%) ITIL
10 55 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
11 53 (10.31%) DevOps
12 51 (9.92%) Computer Science
13 48 (9.34%) Network Management
14 47 (9.14%) Risk Management
15 42 (8.17%) Business Continuity
15 42 (8.17%) Cloud Security
16 40 (7.78%) Incident Management
16 40 (7.78%) Security Operations
17 37 (7.20%) High Availability
17 37 (7.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (17.12%) PowerShell
1 88 (17.12%) Python
2 43 (8.37%) SQL
3 40 (7.78%) Bash
4 9 (1.75%) JavaScript
4 9 (1.75%) Perl
5 5 (0.97%) Shell Script
6 4 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (0.78%) R
6 4 (0.78%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.58%) Go
7 3 (0.58%) Ruby
8 2 (0.39%) Bicep
8 2 (0.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 123 (23.93%) Cisco Certification
2 94 (18.29%) Degree
3 86 (16.73%) CCNP
4 68 (13.23%) CCNA
5 46 (8.95%) CISSP
6 45 (8.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (5.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 24 (4.67%) Security Cleared
9 21 (4.09%) CEH
10 20 (3.89%) SC Cleared
11 19 (3.70%) CCIE
11 19 (3.70%) OSCP
12 18 (3.50%) GCIH
13 17 (3.31%) CISM
14 14 (2.72%) GCIA
15 13 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (2.33%) SANS
17 11 (2.14%) CISA
17 11 (2.14%) Master's Degree
18 10 (1.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (13.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (11.28%) NIST
3 47 (9.14%) GDPR
4 24 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (4.67%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (2.14%) QA
7 10 (1.95%) SLA
8 9 (1.75%) NCSC
9 7 (1.36%) HIPAA
10 6 (1.17%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.97%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.78%) COBIT
12 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.58%) GRC
13 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 125 (24.32%) Active Directory
2 57 (11.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (8.75%) Hyper-V
4 25 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (3.70%) Docker
6 17 (3.31%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.72%) Firmware
8 12 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.17%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.97%) vSphere
11 4 (0.78%) pfSense
11 4 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
12 3 (0.58%) XenApp
12 3 (0.58%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.39%) Postfix
13 2 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.19%) GPFS
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 74 (14.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 57 (11.09%) Terraform
3 47 (9.14%) SCCM
4 40 (7.78%) Ansible
5 30 (5.84%) FortiGate
5 30 (5.84%) Kubernetes
6 26 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (2.92%) Nagios
8 9 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
8 9 (1.75%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.56%) Grafana
9 8 (1.56%) Nessus
10 7 (1.36%) CASB
10 7 (1.36%) Puppet
11 6 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.17%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.17%) SCOM
11 6 (1.17%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.97%) Graylog
12 5 (0.97%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 179 (34.82%) Cisco
2 172 (33.46%) Microsoft
3 91 (17.70%) VMware
4 75 (14.59%) Palo Alto
5 61 (11.87%) Meraki
6 56 (10.89%) CheckPoint
7 55 (10.70%) Fortinet
8 53 (10.31%) SolarWinds
9 34 (6.61%) Juniper
10 26 (5.06%) F5
11 24 (4.67%) Citrix
12 23 (4.47%) Dell
13 20 (3.89%) Google
14 19 (3.70%) Red Hat
15 17 (3.31%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (3.11%) Arista
16 16 (3.11%) Veeam
17 15 (2.92%) Bloomberg
17 15 (2.92%) Infoblox
18 14 (2.72%) Oracle