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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 87 97
Rank change year-on-year -24 +10 -36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 534 445 618
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.07% 3.77% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.60% 36.12% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 395 329 390
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,125 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £51,500 £46,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.96% -10.68% -6.36%

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 1,804 1,232 2,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.98% 10.42% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 835 1,185
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,500 £99,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -23 35 £87,500 +25.00% 81
West London +4 28 £72,500 +1.75% 11
South London +15 23 £38,500 -16.30% 9
North London +4 10 £55,000 -24.14% 1
East London -15 6 £105,000 +208.82% 9
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 56 (10.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (10.30%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) Confluence
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Moodle
6 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Eikon
3 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 284 (53.18%) Azure
2 191 (35.77%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (26.40%) Entra ID
4 101 (18.91%) AWS
5 42 (7.87%) PaaS
6 40 (7.49%) SaaS
7 33 (6.18%) IaaS
8 30 (5.62%) GCP
9 25 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.31%) Datadog
11 22 (4.12%) Mimecast
12 21 (3.93%) OneDrive
13 20 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (3.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 17 (3.18%) Serverless
16 16 (3.00%) Power Platform
16 16 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (2.62%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (2.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 228 (42.70%) VPN
2 181 (33.90%) DNS
3 158 (29.59%) Network Security
4 135 (25.28%) WAN
5 128 (23.97%) DHCP
6 123 (23.03%) VLAN
7 109 (20.41%) LAN
7 109 (20.41%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (20.04%) TCP/IP
9 98 (18.35%) Wireless
10 67 (12.55%) SD-WAN
11 59 (11.05%) BGP
12 56 (10.49%) Cisco ISE
13 48 (8.99%) OSPF
14 41 (7.68%) SAN
15 24 (4.49%) MPLS
16 23 (4.31%) SSL
17 20 (3.75%) WLAN
18 17 (3.18%) Cisco ASA
18 17 (3.18%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.81%) Power BI
3 14 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.56%) Big Data
5 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.37%) MySQL
7 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (3.00%) JIRA
2 12 (2.25%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.25%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.06%) Chocolatey
4 6 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 5 (0.94%) Git
6 4 (0.75%) GitLab
7 3 (0.56%) Maven
8 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 183 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 133 (24.91%) Finance
3 42 (7.87%) Law
4 37 (6.93%) Banking
5 29 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (5.43%) Legal
5 29 (5.43%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 17 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.25%) Back Office
11 10 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.87%) Mandarin Language
12 9 (1.69%) Retail
13 7 (1.31%) Marketing
14 6 (1.12%) Billing
14 6 (1.12%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 106 (19.85%) Senior
2 95 (17.79%) Network Engineer
3 76 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (11.42%) Architect
5 55 (10.30%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (9.74%) IT Engineer
7 49 (9.18%) Security Engineer
8 47 (8.80%) Lead
9 45 (8.43%) Support Engineer
10 43 (8.05%) IT Support
11 36 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 32 (5.99%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (5.62%) IT Support Engineer
14 29 (5.43%) Senior Network Engineer
15 27 (5.06%) Analyst
16 25 (4.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (4.49%) 2nd Line Support
18 22 (4.12%) 3rd Line Support
18 22 (4.12%) Senior Security Engineer
19 21 (3.93%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (14.04%) Terraform
2 15 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (2.81%) SAML
3 14 (2.62%) LDAP
3 14 (2.62%) OAuth
3 14 (2.62%) OpenID
3 14 (2.62%) REST
4 10 (1.87%) ARM Templates
5 9 (1.69%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.12%) ADO
7 5 (0.94%) Node.js
7 5 (0.94%) YAML
8 3 (0.56%) RESTful
9 2 (0.37%) Middleware
9 2 (0.37%) Web Services
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Blueprints
10 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.19%) Rendezvous
10 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.29%) Data Centre
2 69 (12.92%) Security Posture
3 42 (7.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (7.87%) Onboarding
4 31 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.62%) Cyber Threat
6 26 (4.87%) Cloud Native
7 24 (4.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 21 (3.93%) PKI
9 16 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (3.00%) Video Conferencing
10 13 (2.43%) Driving Licence
11 11 (2.06%) Blog
12 9 (1.69%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.50%) Eurex
13 8 (1.50%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
14 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 197 (36.89%) Windows
2 79 (14.79%) Linux
3 76 (14.23%) Windows Server
4 31 (5.81%) Mac OS
5 15 (2.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.43%) Unix
6 13 (2.43%) VMS
7 10 (1.87%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.69%) CentOS
8 9 (1.69%) Rocky
9 7 (1.31%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.94%) Solaris
11 3 (0.56%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.37%) Android
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (27.53%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 102 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (16.85%) Cloud Security
6 89 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 89 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 86 (16.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 80 (14.98%) Roadmaps
9 76 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 76 (14.23%) Migration
10 71 (13.30%) SIEM
11 63 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 63 (11.80%) Vulnerability Management
12 62 (11.61%) ITIL
13 59 (11.05%) High Availability
14 58 (10.86%) Mentoring
14 58 (10.86%) Project Delivery
15 55 (10.30%) Information Security
16 50 (9.36%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (14.61%) PowerShell
2 68 (12.73%) Python
3 31 (5.81%) SQL
4 29 (5.43%) Bash
5 24 (4.49%) Bicep
6 8 (1.50%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.50%) Perl
6 8 (1.50%) Ruby
7 7 (1.31%) Go
7 7 (1.31%) Java
7 7 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (0.94%) C
9 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.19%) Korn
10 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (19.29%) Cisco Certification
2 77 (14.42%) CCNP
3 69 (12.92%) CISSP
4 67 (12.55%) Degree
5 51 (9.55%) Azure Certification
6 42 (7.87%) CCNA
7 38 (7.12%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.99%) CISM
8 32 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (4.12%) AWS Certification
11 18 (3.37%) CCIE
12 14 (2.62%) CCSP
13 12 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (1.87%) DV Cleared
16 9 (1.69%) CHECK Team Member
16 9 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (1.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (14.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (13.86%) NIST
3 40 (7.49%) SLA
4 37 (6.93%) PCI DSS
5 35 (6.55%) GDPR
6 12 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (2.25%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.69%) GRC
8 7 (1.31%) QA
9 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.56%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.37%) NCSC
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 151 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 56 (10.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.06%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.37%) Docker
4 18 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.81%) vSphere
6 6 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.94%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.37%) Firmware
8 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.19%) NFS
9 1 (0.19%) Samba
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
9 1 (0.19%) XenApp
9 1 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (13.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (9.36%) Ansible
2 50 (9.36%) FortiGate
3 39 (7.30%) Kubernetes
4 33 (6.18%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (3.56%) SCCM
6 17 (3.18%) Grafana
7 15 (2.81%) Autotask
7 15 (2.81%) Nessus
8 14 (2.62%) CASB
8 14 (2.62%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.25%) Nmap
10 9 (1.69%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.12%) Cilium
11 6 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.75%) Argo
13 3 (0.56%) Istio
13 3 (0.56%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
13 3 (0.56%) VxRail
14 2 (0.37%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 285 (53.37%) Microsoft
2 154 (28.84%) Cisco
3 114 (21.35%) Palo Alto
4 101 (18.91%) VMware
5 56 (10.49%) Fortinet
6 52 (9.74%) Zscaler
7 49 (9.18%) Meraki
8 25 (4.68%) F5
9 24 (4.49%) Tenable
10 23 (4.31%) CheckPoint
10 23 (4.31%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (4.12%) Aruba
11 22 (4.12%) Juniper
12 21 (3.93%) Google
12 21 (3.93%) SolarWinds
12 21 (3.93%) Splunk
13 19 (3.56%) Arista
14 18 (3.37%) Dynatrace
14 18 (3.37%) HP
15 15 (2.81%) Sophos