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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 84 109
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 -36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 540 472 646
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.32% 3.84% 3.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.26% 37.64% 24.99%
Number of salaries quoted 383 380 505
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,825 £39,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £95,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -1.93%

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 1,911 1,254 2,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.21% 10.21% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 898 1,433
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,938 £41,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -3.89%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -19 53 £90,000 +35.34% 38
West London -9 27 £72,500 +39.42% 6
North London +11 13 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South London +3 13 £30,500 -33.70% 4
East London -11 8 £105,000 +208.82% 1
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 50 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (9.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.56%) Confluence
3 3 (0.56%) SAS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (2.96%) MS Visio
2 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.19%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 315 (58.33%) Azure
2 182 (33.70%) Microsoft 365
3 126 (23.33%) AWS
4 111 (20.56%) Entra ID
5 43 (7.96%) SaaS
6 39 (7.22%) GCP
7 35 (6.48%) Datadog
8 28 (5.19%) IaaS
9 27 (5.00%) PaaS
10 21 (3.89%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (3.33%) Mimecast
13 17 (3.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 15 (2.78%) Google Workspace
14 15 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (2.59%) GitHub
15 14 (2.59%) Serverless
16 12 (2.22%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.04%) OneDrive
17 11 (2.04%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 209 (38.70%) VPN
2 191 (35.37%) Network Security
3 149 (27.59%) DNS
4 146 (27.04%) WAN
5 119 (22.04%) LAN
6 115 (21.30%) VLAN
7 108 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 95 (17.59%) DHCP
8 95 (17.59%) SD-WAN
9 79 (14.63%) TCP/IP
10 78 (14.44%) Wireless
11 67 (12.41%) BGP
12 64 (11.85%) Cisco ISE
13 62 (11.48%) OSPF
14 42 (7.78%) SAN
15 33 (6.11%) WLAN
16 28 (5.19%) MPLS
17 27 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
18 24 (4.44%) Cisco Firepower
19 23 (4.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.81%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.04%) Power BI
3 6 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.56%) Big Data
4 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.96%) Chocolatey
1 16 (2.96%) JIRA
2 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket
2 8 (1.48%) Git
2 8 (1.48%) Metasploit
3 7 (1.30%) GitLab
4 4 (0.74%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.56%) Maven
5 3 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 185 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 123 (22.78%) Finance
3 38 (7.04%) Banking
4 37 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.74%) Telecoms
6 30 (5.56%) Legal
7 19 (3.52%) Law
8 13 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.04%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (2.04%) Retail
11 10 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.30%) Back Office
14 7 (1.30%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.11%) Billing
15 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 117 (21.67%) Network Engineer
2 116 (21.48%) Senior
3 67 (12.41%) Architect
4 59 (10.93%) IT Engineer
5 55 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (9.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (8.15%) Support Engineer
8 43 (7.96%) IT Support
9 40 (7.41%) Security Engineer
10 38 (7.04%) Senior Network Engineer
11 34 (6.30%) IT Support Engineer
11 34 (6.30%) Lead
12 33 (6.11%) Network Architect
13 32 (5.93%) Analyst
14 31 (5.74%) 2nd Line Support
15 29 (5.37%) Cisco Engineer
16 27 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 26 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 26 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
17 26 (4.81%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.52%) OpenID
2 18 (3.33%) OAuth
3 17 (3.15%) REST
3 17 (3.15%) SAML
4 16 (2.96%) LDAP
5 11 (2.04%) 802.1X
6 10 (1.85%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.67%) ADO
7 9 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.93%) Node.js
8 5 (0.93%) YAML
9 3 (0.56%) Web Services
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.85%) Data Centre
2 66 (12.22%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
4 25 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 25 (4.63%) PKI
5 23 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 16 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
8 15 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (2.04%) Blog
10 10 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
11 8 (1.48%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
12 7 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 177 (32.78%) Windows
2 67 (12.41%) Linux
3 58 (10.74%) Windows Server
4 29 (5.37%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (2.04%) Unix
7 8 (1.48%) VMS
8 7 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.93%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.56%) CentOS
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
11 2 (0.37%) tvOS
12 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (24.26%) Cybersecurity
2 110 (20.37%) Incident Response
3 100 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 89 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
4 89 (16.48%) SIEM
5 87 (16.11%) Roadmaps
6 85 (15.74%) Cloud Security
7 84 (15.56%) Zero Trust
8 81 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 71 (13.15%) Migration
10 65 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (12.04%) Project Delivery
11 64 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 61 (11.30%) ITIL
13 56 (10.37%) Mentoring
14 55 (10.19%) High Availability
15 54 (10.00%) Business Continuity
16 52 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 51 (9.44%) Information Security
17 51 (9.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.26%) PowerShell
2 73 (13.52%) Python
3 32 (5.93%) Bash
4 12 (2.22%) SQL
5 10 (1.85%) Bicep
6 9 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.56%) Java
8 3 (0.56%) Korn
8 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.37%) C
9 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.37%) Perl
9 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 134 (24.81%) Cisco Certification
2 115 (21.30%) CCNP
3 68 (12.59%) CISSP
4 64 (11.85%) Degree
5 55 (10.19%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.89%) CCNA
7 34 (6.30%) CCIE
8 31 (5.74%) Security Cleared
9 30 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 29 (5.37%) CISM
11 26 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (4.07%) CompTIA Security+
13 20 (3.70%) AWS Certification
14 17 (3.15%) CEH
15 15 (2.78%) DV Cleared
16 14 (2.59%) SC Cleared
17 13 (2.41%) GIAC
18 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
19 10 (1.85%) OSCP
20 9 (1.67%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 73 (13.52%) NIST
3 35 (6.48%) GDPR
4 31 (5.74%) PCI DSS
5 28 (5.19%) SLA
6 19 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (2.04%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (1.11%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.11%) QA
9 5 (0.93%) GRC
9 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.56%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 155 (28.70%) Active Directory
2 55 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.07%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.48%) Docker
6 7 (1.30%) vSphere
7 4 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.19%) Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.19%) NLBS
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (13.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (12.78%) Ansible
3 67 (12.41%) Terraform
4 52 (9.63%) FortiGate
5 40 (7.41%) Kubernetes
6 26 (4.81%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (4.07%) SCCM
8 19 (3.52%) Autotask
9 16 (2.96%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (2.04%) Grafana
11 9 (1.67%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.48%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (1.11%) Check_MK
13 6 (1.11%) Nessus
14 5 (0.93%) CASB
15 4 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.74%) Nmap
15 4 (0.74%) VxRail
16 3 (0.56%) Nagios
16 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 268 (49.63%) Microsoft
2 176 (32.59%) Cisco
3 116 (21.48%) Palo Alto
4 98 (18.15%) VMware
5 70 (12.96%) Meraki
6 65 (12.04%) Fortinet
7 52 (9.63%) Zscaler
8 42 (7.78%) SolarWinds
9 39 (7.22%) CheckPoint
10 30 (5.56%) Splunk
11 27 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (5.00%) Tenable
12 26 (4.81%) Arista
12 26 (4.81%) Aruba
13 25 (4.63%) F5
14 24 (4.44%) Google
15 23 (4.26%) Dynatrace
16 19 (3.52%) Juniper
16 19 (3.52%) SonicWALL
17 18 (3.33%) Sophos