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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 80 69
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +26
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 501 501 884
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.80% 3.90% 3.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.99% 34.91% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 337 414 746
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £47,000 £51,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% +6.56%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.16% -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 2,088 1,435 2,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.65% 11.17% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 979 2,115
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £43,114
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,250 £96,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -5.00%

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 March 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 March 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 +27 85 £80,000 +20.75% 31
East London +5 25 £35,000 -60.00% 2
West London -14 16 £69,119 +25.67% 10
North London +13 11 £55,000 -16.98% 2
South London +14 6 £31,000 -48.33% 2
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 32 (6.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.00%) Apache
3 5 (1.00%) Confluence
4 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.60%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.60%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 301 (60.08%) Azure
2 149 (29.74%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (24.95%) AWS
4 63 (12.57%) Entra ID
5 46 (9.18%) GCP
6 43 (8.58%) SaaS
7 37 (7.39%) Datadog
8 27 (5.39%) GitHub
9 26 (5.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 25 (4.99%) IaaS
11 23 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (4.39%) PaaS
13 21 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.59%) Azure Sentinel
15 17 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (2.99%) Mimecast
17 14 (2.79%) AWS Direct Connect
18 13 (2.59%) Azure AKS
18 13 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 208 (41.52%) VPN
2 147 (29.34%) WAN
3 114 (22.75%) Wi-Fi
4 109 (21.76%) DNS
5 108 (21.56%) Network Security
6 107 (21.36%) LAN
7 87 (17.37%) SD-WAN
7 87 (17.37%) VLAN
8 79 (15.77%) DHCP
9 61 (12.18%) TCP/IP
9 61 (12.18%) Wireless
10 52 (10.38%) BGP
11 47 (9.38%) OSPF
12 43 (8.58%) Cisco ISE
13 39 (7.78%) Cisco ASA
14 38 (7.58%) Cisco Firepower
15 36 (7.19%) SAN
16 30 (5.99%) WLAN
17 28 (5.59%) Intrusion Detection
18 25 (4.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.80%) Power BI
3 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (3.59%) Chocolatey
2 12 (2.40%) Git
3 10 (2.00%) JIRA
4 8 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.00%) GitLab
7 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.80%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (26.95%) Finance
2 130 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.58%) Banking
5 24 (4.79%) Legal
6 17 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.00%) Retail
7 10 (2.00%) Retail Banking
8 9 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.40%) Aviation
10 7 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.20%) Law
11 6 (1.20%) Marketing
11 6 (1.20%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.80%) Advertising
13 4 (0.80%) Back Office
13 4 (0.80%) Billing
13 4 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (26.55%) Network Engineer
2 79 (15.77%) Senior
3 67 (13.37%) Azure Engineer
3 67 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 59 (11.78%) Analyst
4 59 (11.78%) IT Engineer
5 49 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 49 (9.78%) Support Engineer
6 48 (9.58%) IT Support
7 46 (9.18%) Cisco Engineer
8 44 (8.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 34 (6.79%) Architect
10 29 (5.79%) IT Support Engineer
10 29 (5.79%) Lead
11 25 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
11 25 (4.99%) Security Engineer
12 24 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (4.59%) Security Analyst
13 23 (4.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 23 (4.59%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.19%) OAuth
2 15 (2.99%) SAML
3 13 (2.59%) ADO
4 12 (2.40%) YAML
5 9 (1.80%) 802.1X
6 7 (1.40%) .NET
7 4 (0.80%) OpenID
7 4 (0.80%) REST
8 3 (0.60%) LDAP
9 2 (0.40%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.40%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.40%) RESTful
9 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.20%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.20%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.97%) Data Centre
2 33 (6.59%) Security Posture
3 32 (6.39%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.79%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.59%) Cloud Native
6 22 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.99%) Driving Licence
8 15 (2.99%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.20%) Blog
10 11 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (2.20%) PKI
10 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.40%) Cyber Security Posture
12 7 (1.40%) IoT
13 6 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 166 (33.13%) Windows
2 67 (13.37%) Windows Server
3 65 (12.97%) Linux
4 21 (4.19%) VMS
5 20 (3.99%) Unix
6 17 (3.39%) Mac OS
6 17 (3.39%) Windows 10
7 16 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (2.20%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.80%) CentOS
11 4 (0.80%) Kali Linux
11 4 (0.80%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.40%) Solaris
14 1 (0.20%) Android
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (20.76%) Incident Response
1 104 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (19.56%) Cybersecurity
3 86 (17.17%) Disaster Recovery
4 85 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 79 (15.77%) SIEM
6 69 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (13.77%) Migration
7 66 (13.17%) Cloud Security
8 64 (12.77%) Zero Trust
9 63 (12.57%) ITIL
10 62 (12.38%) Computer Science
11 56 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (10.58%) DevOps
12 53 (10.58%) High Availability
13 52 (10.38%) CI/CD
14 50 (9.98%) Vulnerability Management
15 47 (9.38%) Information Security
16 43 (8.58%) ITSM
17 42 (8.38%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 81 (16.17%) PowerShell
2 70 (13.97%) Python
3 32 (6.39%) Bash
4 18 (3.59%) SQL
5 17 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (2.79%) Bicep
7 6 (1.20%) Go
8 5 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.60%) Java
10 2 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.40%) Korn
10 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.20%) C#
11 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 128 (25.55%) Cisco Certification
2 98 (19.56%) CCNP
3 80 (15.97%) Degree
4 57 (11.38%) CISSP
5 54 (10.78%) CCNA
6 44 (8.78%) CCIE
7 38 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (7.39%) Azure Certification
9 29 (5.79%) CISM
9 29 (5.79%) Security Cleared
10 20 (3.99%) CCSA
10 20 (3.99%) CCSE
10 20 (3.99%) CompTIA Security+
11 19 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (3.59%) DBS Check
12 18 (3.59%) DV Cleared
12 18 (3.59%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (3.39%) SC Cleared
14 15 (2.99%) CEH
15 14 (2.79%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (16.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (10.58%) NIST
3 49 (9.78%) GDPR
4 28 (5.59%) PCI DSS
5 22 (4.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (4.39%) SOC 2
6 18 (3.59%) SLA
7 13 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.40%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (1.40%) GRC
8 7 (1.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (1.40%) JSP 440
9 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.60%) ITGC
12 2 (0.40%) NCSC
12 2 (0.40%) PMO
13 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 154 (30.74%) Active Directory
2 48 (9.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 21 (4.19%) Firmware
5 19 (3.79%) Docker
5 19 (3.79%) Hyper-V
6 17 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (2.20%) vSphere
8 6 (1.20%) KVM
9 5 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.20%) NLBS
11 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.20%) XenApp
11 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 80 (15.97%) Terraform
2 72 (14.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 68 (13.57%) Ansible
4 44 (8.78%) Kubernetes
5 37 (7.39%) FortiGate
6 34 (6.79%) SCCM
7 11 (2.20%) Grafana
8 9 (1.80%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.60%) Check_MK
9 8 (1.60%) Cisco Prime
10 7 (1.40%) CASB
10 7 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.20%) Autotask
11 6 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.00%) Argo
12 5 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.00%) Istio
12 5 (1.00%) linkerd
12 5 (1.00%) Mesos
12 5 (1.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 192 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 167 (33.33%) Cisco
3 90 (17.96%) VMware
4 88 (17.56%) Palo Alto
5 75 (14.97%) Fortinet
6 59 (11.78%) Meraki
7 57 (11.38%) CheckPoint
8 45 (8.98%) SolarWinds
9 32 (6.39%) Dynatrace
10 29 (5.79%) Zscaler
11 28 (5.59%) Juniper
12 23 (4.59%) Google
13 22 (4.39%) Tenable
14 21 (4.19%) AppDynamics
14 21 (4.19%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (4.19%) Splunk
15 19 (3.79%) Arista
16 13 (2.59%) ServiceNow
17 11 (2.20%) iManage
18 10 (2.00%) CyberArk