Firewall Job Trends in London

Firewall
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London citing Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	108	81	87
Rank change year-on-year	-27	+6	-23
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	539	444	606
As % of all permanent jobs in London	2.07%	3.69%	3.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	29.29%	35.13%	29.88%
Number of salaries quoted	386	327	380
10^th Percentile	£40,000	£33,250	£37,950
25^th Percentile	£51,250	£43,000	£48,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£66,500	£70,000
Median % change year-on-year	+1.50%	-5.00%	+7.69%
75^th Percentile	£87,500	£82,500	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£103,750	£95,000	£93,850
England median annual salary	£51,500	£45,142	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+14.08%	-14.01%	-1.87%

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in London.

	6 months to 29 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	1,840	1,264	2,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London	7.06%	10.51%	11.63%
Number of salaries quoted	1,073	861	1,168
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£29,270	£36,925
25^th Percentile	£46,250	£37,000	£48,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£60,000	£66,250
Median % change year-on-year	+8.33%	-9.43%	+1.92%
75^th Percentile	£88,750	£82,500	£82,500
90^th Percentile	£105,000	£105,000	£99,300
England median annual salary	£50,000	£40,000	£53,000
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-24.53%	+0.95%

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 Salary Trend in London

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 29 October 2026.

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 29 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West London	0	29	£60,000	+9.09%	12
Central London	-31	29	£85,000	+21.43%	23
South London	+9	25	£38,500	-16.30%	2
North London	-1	7	£60,000	-20.00%
East London	-28	4	£73,750	+110.71%	8
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Firewall Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 29 October 2026, job vacancies citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region citing Firewall.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	53.6%	289
2	Azure	53.1%	286
3	VPN	43.8%	236
4	Windows	39.1%	211
5	Microsoft 365	36.4%	196
6	DNS	34.5%	186
7	Active Directory	28.4%	153
8	Network Security	27.8%	150
9	Entra ID	27.3%	147
10	Cisco	27.1%	146
11	Cybersecurity	26.9%	145
12	WAN	25.4%	137
13	DHCP	24.1%	130
14	Problem-Solving	23.4%	126
15	VLAN	22.4%	121
16	TCP/IP	22.1%	119
17	Infrastructure Engineering	21.2%	114
18	LAN	20.8%	112
19	Palo Alto	20.6%	111
20	Wi-Fi	20.2%	109
21	AWS	19.5%	105
21	Continuous Improvement	19.5%	105
23	VMware	19.3%	104
24	Cisco Certification	19.1%	103
25	Wireless	18.9%	102
26	Cloud Security	18.0%	97
27	PowerShell	16.9%	91
28	Terraform	16.5%	89
29	Disaster Recovery	16.3%	88
29	Incident Response	16.3%	88

Firewall Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	VPN	43.8%	236
2	DNS	34.5%	186
3	Network Security	27.8%	150
4	WAN	25.4%	137
5	DHCP	24.1%	130
6	VLAN	22.4%	121
7	TCP/IP	22.1%	119
8	LAN	20.8%	112
9	Wi-Fi	20.2%	109
10	Wireless	18.9%	102
11	BGP	12.4%	67
12	SD-WAN	12.1%	65
13	OSPF	9.1%	49
14	Cisco ISE	8.9%	48
15	SAN	7.2%	39
16	MPLS	3.7%	20
16	SSL	3.7%	20
18	Cisco Nexus	3.2%	17
19	Cisco ASA	3.0%	16
19	Internet	3.0%	16