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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 -34
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 538 438 613
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.07% 3.75% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.53% 35.90% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 391 325 386
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,950 £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 £88,750 £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% -5.50%

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 1,822 1,220 2,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.02% 10.45% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 827 1,184
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,125
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.26% +1.73%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £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 12 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 12 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 -18 34 £87,500 +25.00% 81
West London +1 28 £72,500 +31.82% 9
South London +11 24 £38,500 -16.30% 9
North London +3 9 £55,000 -26.67% 1
East London -17 6 £105,000 +200.00% 12
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 55 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (10.04%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.74%) 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 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) 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
1 285 (52.97%) Azure
2 190 (35.32%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (26.21%) Entra ID
4 103 (19.14%) AWS
5 43 (7.99%) PaaS
6 40 (7.43%) SaaS
7 33 (6.13%) IaaS
8 31 (5.76%) GCP
9 25 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (4.28%) Datadog
10 23 (4.28%) Mimecast
11 22 (4.09%) OneDrive
12 20 (3.72%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 19 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (3.16%) Serverless
14 17 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (2.97%) Power Platform
16 14 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 230 (42.75%) VPN
2 182 (33.83%) DNS
3 158 (29.37%) Network Security
4 136 (25.28%) WAN
5 128 (23.79%) DHCP
6 123 (22.86%) VLAN
7 109 (20.26%) LAN
7 109 (20.26%) Wi-Fi
8 107 (19.89%) TCP/IP
9 98 (18.22%) Wireless
10 68 (12.64%) SD-WAN
11 60 (11.15%) BGP
12 56 (10.41%) Cisco ISE
13 48 (8.92%) OSPF
14 42 (7.81%) SAN
15 24 (4.46%) MPLS
16 23 (4.28%) SSL
17 19 (3.53%) WLAN
18 18 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
19 17 (3.16%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.79%) Power BI
3 14 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.30%) 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
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 16 (2.97%) JIRA
2 12 (2.23%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.23%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.04%) Chocolatey
4 7 (1.30%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.12%) Git
6 5 (0.93%) GitLab
7 3 (0.56%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
General
1 183 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 133 (24.72%) Finance
3 44 (8.18%) Law
4 38 (7.06%) Banking
5 31 (5.76%) Legal
5 31 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 29 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 17 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.42%) Back Office
10 13 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.04%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.04%) Retail
13 10 (1.86%) Mandarin Language
14 8 (1.49%) Marketing
15 6 (1.12%) Billing
15 6 (1.12%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 104 (19.33%) Senior
2 96 (17.84%) Network Engineer
3 75 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (12.08%) Architect
5 54 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (9.67%) IT Engineer
7 50 (9.29%) Security Engineer
8 48 (8.92%) Lead
9 43 (7.99%) IT Support
9 43 (7.99%) Support Engineer
10 37 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (5.95%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (5.39%) IT Support Engineer
12 29 (5.39%) Senior Network Engineer
13 27 (5.02%) Analyst
14 23 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (4.09%) 2nd Line Support
15 22 (4.09%) Senior Security Engineer
16 21 (3.90%) 3rd Line Support
16 21 (3.90%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (14.31%) Terraform
2 17 (3.16%) SAML
3 16 (2.97%) LDAP
3 16 (2.97%) OAuth
3 16 (2.97%) OpenID
4 15 (2.79%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (2.79%) REST
5 9 (1.67%) 802.1X
5 9 (1.67%) ARM Templates
6 6 (1.12%) ADO
7 5 (0.93%) Node.js
7 5 (0.93%) YAML
8 4 (0.74%) RESTful
9 2 (0.37%) Middleware
9 2 (0.37%) Rendezvous
9 2 (0.37%) Web Services
10 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.19%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (16.17%) Data Centre
2 72 (13.38%) Security Posture
3 44 (8.18%) Onboarding
4 42 (7.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (5.76%) Management Information System
6 28 (5.20%) Cloud Native
6 28 (5.20%) Cyber Threat
7 24 (4.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 21 (3.90%) PKI
9 16 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.97%) Video Conferencing
10 14 (2.60%) Driving Licence
11 12 (2.23%) Blog
12 9 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.67%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.49%) Eurex
13 8 (1.49%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
14 7 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 199 (36.99%) Windows
2 80 (14.87%) Linux
3 77 (14.31%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.58%) macOS
5 16 (2.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.42%) Unix
6 13 (2.42%) VMS
7 10 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.67%) CentOS
8 9 (1.67%) Rocky
9 8 (1.49%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.93%) Solaris
11 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.56%) Android
12 3 (0.56%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.37%) tvOS
14 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (27.70%) Cybersecurity
2 116 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (19.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 103 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (17.29%) Zero Trust
6 91 (16.91%) Cloud Security
7 88 (16.36%) Incident Response
8 85 (15.80%) Disaster Recovery
9 82 (15.24%) Roadmaps
10 77 (14.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 76 (14.13%) Migration
12 69 (12.83%) SIEM
13 64 (11.90%) ITIL
14 62 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 62 (11.52%) Vulnerability Management
15 59 (10.97%) High Availability
16 58 (10.78%) Information Security
17 57 (10.59%) Project Delivery
18 56 (10.41%) Mentoring
19 52 (9.67%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 81 (15.06%) PowerShell
2 71 (13.20%) Python
3 33 (6.13%) SQL
4 31 (5.76%) Bash
5 24 (4.46%) Bicep
6 9 (1.67%) Java
7 8 (1.49%) Go
7 8 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.49%) Perl
7 8 (1.49%) Ruby
8 7 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.93%) C
10 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (19.70%) Cisco Certification
2 77 (14.31%) CCNP
3 72 (13.38%) CISSP
4 68 (12.64%) Degree
5 51 (9.48%) Azure Certification
6 42 (7.81%) CCNA
7 38 (7.06%) Security Cleared
8 34 (6.32%) CISM
9 32 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (4.09%) AWS Certification
12 18 (3.35%) CCIE
13 16 (2.97%) CCSP
14 13 (2.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (1.86%) DV Cleared
17 9 (1.67%) CHECK Team Member
17 9 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (15.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (14.13%) NIST
3 41 (7.62%) SLA
4 39 (7.25%) PCI DSS
5 36 (6.69%) GDPR
6 13 (2.42%) SOC 2
7 11 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.67%) GRC
9 7 (1.30%) QA
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.74%) 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 (28.07%) Active Directory
2 57 (10.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.02%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.35%) Docker
4 18 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.16%) vSphere
6 15 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.19%) NFS
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.19%) Samba
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.19%) Xen
10 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 71 (13.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (9.85%) Ansible
3 50 (9.29%) FortiGate
4 41 (7.62%) Kubernetes
5 34 (6.32%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (3.53%) Grafana
6 19 (3.53%) SCCM
7 16 (2.97%) CASB
8 15 (2.79%) Nessus
9 13 (2.42%) Autotask
9 13 (2.42%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.23%) Nmap
11 9 (1.67%) Prometheus
12 7 (1.30%) Cilium
13 6 (1.12%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.74%) Argo
15 3 (0.56%) Istio
15 3 (0.56%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
15 3 (0.56%) VxRail
16 2 (0.37%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 286 (53.16%) Microsoft
2 155 (28.81%) Cisco
3 116 (21.56%) Palo Alto
4 102 (18.96%) VMware
5 57 (10.59%) Fortinet
6 54 (10.04%) Zscaler
7 49 (9.11%) Meraki
8 25 (4.65%) F5
9 24 (4.46%) Tenable
10 23 (4.28%) CheckPoint
11 22 (4.09%) CrowdStrike
11 22 (4.09%) Splunk
12 21 (3.90%) Google
12 21 (3.90%) Juniper
12 21 (3.90%) SolarWinds
13 20 (3.72%) Arista
14 19 (3.53%) Aruba
15 18 (3.35%) Dynatrace
16 17 (3.16%) HP
17 15 (2.79%) Sophos