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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 77 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 -10 +26
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 510 514 897
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.67% 3.98% 3.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.18% 35.92% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 354 421 755
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,600
25th Percentile £47,838 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 2,109 1,431 3,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.04% 11.09% 14.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 981 2,101
10th Percentile £29,600 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.00% +5.26% -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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +30 92 £80,000 +14.29% 39
East London -3 19 £35,000 -63.64%
West London -11 17 £67,059 +28.96% 6
North London +12 13 £55,000 -16.98%
South London +4 6 £31,000 -48.33% 3
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 35 (6.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.18%) Confluence
4 5 (0.98%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 311 (60.98%) Azure
2 158 (30.98%) Microsoft 365
3 126 (24.71%) AWS
4 76 (14.90%) Entra ID
5 47 (9.22%) GCP
6 45 (8.82%) SaaS
7 41 (8.04%) Datadog
8 28 (5.49%) GitHub
9 26 (5.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 26 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (4.51%) IaaS
12 21 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (3.92%) PaaS
14 17 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (2.94%) Mimecast
16 14 (2.75%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (2.55%) AWS Direct Connect
17 13 (2.55%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 208 (40.78%) VPN
2 145 (28.43%) WAN
3 128 (25.10%) Network Security
4 123 (24.12%) DNS
5 107 (20.98%) Wi-Fi
6 106 (20.78%) LAN
7 97 (19.02%) VLAN
8 92 (18.04%) SD-WAN
9 88 (17.25%) DHCP
10 66 (12.94%) Wireless
11 63 (12.35%) TCP/IP
12 54 (10.59%) BGP
13 48 (9.41%) OSPF
14 47 (9.22%) Cisco ISE
15 39 (7.65%) SAN
16 35 (6.86%) Cisco Firepower
17 32 (6.27%) WLAN
18 31 (6.08%) Cisco ASA
19 30 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
20 29 (5.69%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.57%) Power BI
3 5 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (3.53%) Chocolatey
2 12 (2.35%) Git
3 11 (2.16%) JIRA
4 9 (1.76%) GitLab
5 8 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.37%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.78%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 137 (26.86%) Finance
2 133 (26.08%) Social Skills
3 49 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.02%) Banking
5 27 (5.29%) Legal
6 15 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (2.35%) Retail
8 10 (1.96%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.37%) Aviation
10 7 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.18%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.98%) Back Office
12 5 (0.98%) Law
12 5 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Advertising
13 4 (0.78%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 128 (25.10%) Network Engineer
2 91 (17.84%) Senior
3 69 (13.53%) Azure Engineer
4 65 (12.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 64 (12.55%) IT Engineer
6 52 (10.20%) Analyst
7 50 (9.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (9.61%) Support Engineer
9 46 (9.02%) IT Support
10 44 (8.63%) Cisco Engineer
11 41 (8.04%) Architect
12 40 (7.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 30 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
14 28 (5.49%) Lead
15 27 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
16 26 (5.10%) Security Engineer
16 26 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (5.10%) Senior IT Engineer
17 25 (4.90%) Senior Network Engineer
18 22 (4.31%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.12%) OAuth
2 20 (3.92%) SAML
3 16 (3.14%) ADO
4 12 (2.35%) YAML
5 10 (1.96%) 802.1X
5 10 (1.96%) OpenID
6 8 (1.57%) REST
7 7 (1.37%) .NET
7 7 (1.37%) LDAP
8 3 (0.59%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.39%) AWS SAM
9 2 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.39%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.39%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.20%) RESTful
10 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 42 (8.24%) Security Posture
3 36 (7.06%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.69%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.51%) Cloud Native
5 23 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.94%) PKI
8 11 (2.16%) Blog
8 11 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
9 9 (1.76%) IoT
10 8 (1.57%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
11 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 163 (31.96%) Windows
2 62 (12.16%) Linux
3 61 (11.96%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.92%) Mac OS
4 20 (3.92%) VMS
5 16 (3.14%) Unix
6 15 (2.94%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (2.55%) Ubuntu
8 13 (2.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.78%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.59%) CentOS
12 2 (0.39%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.39%) Solaris
13 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (21.76%) Incident Response
2 107 (20.98%) Cybersecurity
3 99 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (18.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 84 (16.47%) SIEM
6 83 (16.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 77 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 73 (14.31%) Cloud Security
9 70 (13.73%) Migration
9 70 (13.73%) Zero Trust
10 62 (12.16%) ITIL
11 61 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (10.98%) DevOps
13 55 (10.78%) High Availability
14 54 (10.59%) Vulnerability Management
15 53 (10.39%) CI/CD
16 52 (10.20%) Computer Science
17 49 (9.61%) Business Continuity
17 49 (9.61%) Roadmaps
18 48 (9.41%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 70 (13.73%) Python
3 31 (6.08%) Bash
4 18 (3.53%) Kusto Query Language
4 18 (3.53%) SQL
5 16 (3.14%) Bicep
6 6 (1.18%) Go
7 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.39%) Java
8 2 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.39%) Korn
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.20%) C#
9 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 124 (24.31%) Cisco Certification
2 98 (19.22%) CCNP
3 75 (14.71%) Degree
4 64 (12.55%) CISSP
5 49 (9.61%) CCNA
6 40 (7.84%) Azure Certification
7 38 (7.45%) CCIE
8 36 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (5.88%) CISM
10 27 (5.29%) Security Cleared
11 25 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (4.51%) CompTIA Security+
13 17 (3.33%) CCSA
13 17 (3.33%) CCSE
13 17 (3.33%) DV Cleared
14 16 (3.14%) CEH
14 16 (3.14%) DBS Check
14 16 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
14 16 (3.14%) SC Cleared
15 14 (2.75%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (16.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 58 (11.37%) NIST
3 55 (10.78%) GDPR
4 32 (6.27%) PCI DSS
5 24 (4.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 24 (4.71%) SOC 2
6 18 (3.53%) SLA
7 13 (2.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (1.37%) GRC
8 7 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (1.37%) JSP 440
9 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.59%) ITGC
13 2 (0.39%) NCSC
14 1 (0.20%) Basel III
14 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 153 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 44 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (3.92%) Docker
5 17 (3.33%) Firmware
5 17 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (2.94%) Hyper-V
7 10 (1.96%) vSphere
8 6 (1.18%) KVM
9 4 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.20%) NLBS
11 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 90 (17.65%) Terraform
2 76 (14.90%) Ansible
3 73 (14.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (9.41%) Kubernetes
5 35 (6.86%) FortiGate
6 31 (6.08%) SCCM
7 12 (2.35%) Grafana
8 11 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.76%) Autotask
9 9 (1.76%) Cisco Prime
9 9 (1.76%) Prometheus
10 8 (1.57%) Check_MK
11 7 (1.37%) CASB
11 7 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.98%) Argo
12 5 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.98%) Istio
12 5 (0.98%) linkerd
12 5 (0.98%) Mesos
12 5 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 209 (40.98%) Microsoft
2 162 (31.76%) Cisco
3 92 (18.04%) Palo Alto
4 90 (17.65%) VMware
5 71 (13.92%) Fortinet
6 62 (12.16%) Meraki
7 46 (9.02%) SolarWinds
8 45 (8.82%) CheckPoint
9 34 (6.67%) Zscaler
10 31 (6.08%) Dynatrace
11 26 (5.10%) Juniper
12 25 (4.90%) Splunk
13 24 (4.71%) CrowdStrike
13 24 (4.71%) Google
14 23 (4.51%) Tenable
15 21 (4.12%) AppDynamics
16 18 (3.53%) Arista
17 14 (2.75%) Aruba
17 14 (2.75%) F5
18 12 (2.35%) ServiceNow