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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -31
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 550 446 656
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.23% 3.71% 3.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.40% 35.97% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 410 345 455
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +3.80%
75th Percentile £89,688 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £92,950
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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 1,871 1,240 2,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.58% 10.33% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 864 1,287
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £41,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,773 £60,000 £63,264
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -5.16% +1.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,750 £96,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 46 £90,000 +28.57% 36
West London +7 32 £67,059 +21.93% 4
South London +8 21 £34,250 -25.54% 8
North London +10 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -11 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 58 (10.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (10.18%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
3 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 305 (55.45%) Azure
2 202 (36.73%) Microsoft 365
3 127 (23.09%) Entra ID
4 116 (21.09%) AWS
5 40 (7.27%) SaaS
6 38 (6.91%) PaaS
7 35 (6.36%) IaaS
8 32 (5.82%) Datadog
8 32 (5.82%) GCP
9 22 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 20 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 20 (3.64%) Mimecast
11 19 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.27%) Serverless
13 16 (2.91%) OneDrive
14 15 (2.73%) Google Workspace
15 12 (2.18%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.00%) Power Platform
16 11 (2.00%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 212 (38.55%) VPN
2 176 (32.00%) Network Security
3 166 (30.18%) DNS
4 131 (23.82%) WAN
5 121 (22.00%) VLAN
6 112 (20.36%) DHCP
7 103 (18.73%) LAN
8 100 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (16.00%) Wireless
10 86 (15.64%) TCP/IP
11 80 (14.55%) SD-WAN
12 61 (11.09%) BGP
13 58 (10.55%) Cisco ISE
14 53 (9.64%) OSPF
15 43 (7.82%) SAN
16 25 (4.55%) WLAN
17 24 (4.36%) MPLS
18 23 (4.18%) Cisco Wireless
19 22 (4.00%) SSL
20 18 (3.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.82%) Power BI
3 7 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.55%) Big Data
4 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.09%) JIRA
2 15 (2.73%) Chocolatey
3 11 (2.00%) Burp Suite
3 11 (2.00%) Metasploit
4 6 (1.09%) GitLab
5 5 (0.91%) Git
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 129 (23.45%) Finance
3 45 (8.18%) Banking
4 38 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.18%) Legal
6 33 (6.00%) Law
7 30 (5.45%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 13 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
13 9 (1.64%) Retail
14 7 (1.27%) Back Office
15 6 (1.09%) Billing
15 6 (1.09%) Digital Health
15 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 115 (20.91%) Senior
2 105 (19.09%) Network Engineer
3 74 (13.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (11.64%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (10.91%) IT Engineer
6 55 (10.00%) Architect
7 45 (8.18%) Security Engineer
8 44 (8.00%) Support Engineer
9 41 (7.45%) IT Support
10 37 (6.73%) Lead
11 35 (6.36%) Senior Network Engineer
12 34 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (6.00%) Analyst
14 32 (5.82%) IT Support Engineer
15 29 (5.27%) 2nd Line Support
16 28 (5.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (4.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 25 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 24 (4.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
20 22 (4.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.64%) Terraform
2 16 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
2 16 (2.91%) OpenID
3 15 (2.73%) OAuth
4 14 (2.55%) REST
4 14 (2.55%) SAML
5 13 (2.36%) LDAP
6 11 (2.00%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.82%) 802.1X
8 9 (1.64%) ADO
9 5 (0.91%) Node.js
9 5 (0.91%) YAML
10 2 (0.36%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.36%) RESTful
10 2 (0.36%) Web Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.55%) Data Centre
2 66 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 35 (6.36%) Cyber Threat
3 35 (6.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 30 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 25 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (4.18%) Management Information System
7 22 (4.00%) PKI
8 18 (3.27%) Cloud Native
9 17 (3.09%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.18%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.82%) Operational Technology
12 10 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.64%) Private Cloud
14 8 (1.45%) Blog
14 8 (1.45%) Eurex
15 7 (1.27%) IoT
15 7 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 190 (34.55%) Windows
2 78 (14.18%) Linux
3 61 (11.09%) Windows Server
4 35 (6.36%) Mac OS
5 15 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.36%) Unix
6 13 (2.36%) VMS
7 10 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.45%) CentOS
8 8 (1.45%) Rocky
9 5 (0.91%) Solaris
10 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.36%) Android
12 2 (0.36%) tvOS
12 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (26.36%) Cybersecurity
2 110 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (18.55%) Incident Response
4 95 (17.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 94 (17.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 92 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 89 (16.18%) Cloud Security
8 86 (15.64%) Roadmaps
9 83 (15.09%) Zero Trust
10 82 (14.91%) SIEM
11 76 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 74 (13.45%) ITIL
13 70 (12.73%) Migration
14 66 (12.00%) Project Delivery
15 64 (11.64%) High Availability
16 61 (11.09%) Mentoring
17 60 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
18 58 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
19 55 (10.00%) Change Management
19 55 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.91%) PowerShell
2 70 (12.73%) Python
3 32 (5.82%) Bash
4 20 (3.64%) Bicep
5 19 (3.45%) SQL
6 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 8 (1.45%) Perl
7 8 (1.45%) Ruby
8 5 (0.91%) C
9 4 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.36%) Java
10 2 (0.36%) Korn
10 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 112 (20.36%) Cisco Certification
2 97 (17.64%) CCNP
3 67 (12.18%) Degree
4 64 (11.64%) CISSP
5 61 (11.09%) Azure Certification
6 40 (7.27%) CCNA
7 36 (6.55%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (4.73%) CISM
9 26 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (4.55%) CCIE
11 24 (4.36%) AWS Certification
12 17 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (2.55%) CEH
14 12 (2.18%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.18%) GIAC
14 12 (2.18%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.82%) OSCP
16 9 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (14.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (14.18%) NIST
3 41 (7.45%) GDPR
4 34 (6.18%) PCI DSS
5 30 (5.45%) SLA
6 19 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.82%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.64%) GRC
9 6 (1.09%) QA
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.55%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.55%) NCSC
13 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 153 (27.82%) Active Directory
2 57 (10.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.18%) Hyper-V
4 22 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.82%) Docker
5 10 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.64%) vSphere
7 5 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.36%) Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Samba
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (10.18%) Ansible
3 50 (9.09%) FortiGate
4 34 (6.18%) Single Sign-On
5 31 (5.64%) Kubernetes
6 23 (4.18%) SCCM
7 19 (3.45%) Autotask
8 18 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (2.73%) Nessus
10 11 (2.00%) Nmap
11 10 (1.82%) Grafana
12 9 (1.64%) CASB
13 8 (1.45%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.73%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.55%) Argo
15 3 (0.55%) Istio
15 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
15 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 296 (53.82%) Microsoft
2 172 (31.27%) Cisco
3 121 (22.00%) Palo Alto
4 104 (18.91%) VMware
5 60 (10.91%) Meraki
6 59 (10.73%) Fortinet
7 54 (9.82%) Zscaler
8 29 (5.27%) SolarWinds
8 29 (5.27%) Tenable
9 27 (4.91%) CheckPoint
9 27 (4.91%) CrowdStrike
9 27 (4.91%) F5
9 27 (4.91%) Splunk
10 26 (4.73%) Aruba
11 22 (4.00%) Arista
12 20 (3.64%) Google
12 20 (3.64%) HP
13 19 (3.45%) Dynatrace
14 18 (3.27%) Juniper
15 17 (3.09%) SonicWALL