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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 81 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 493 518 890
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.93% 3.81% 4.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.87% 33.08% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 335 401 749
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +13.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -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 1,982 1,566 2,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.78% 11.53% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 999 976 2,116
10th Percentile £28,697 £36,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +5.60% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £106,250 £97,500
England median annual salary £42,000 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.75% +9.28% -5.55%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 85 £80,000 +6.67% 27
East London +7 25 £35,000 - 2
West London -10 14 £82,059 +49.20% 9
North London +19 13 £55,000 -12.00% 4
South London +18 6 £36,750 -33.48% 6
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 (7.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) Apache
4 4 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.61%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 293 (59.43%) Azure
2 140 (28.40%) Microsoft 365
3 113 (22.92%) AWS
4 67 (13.59%) Entra ID
5 42 (8.52%) GCP
6 38 (7.71%) SaaS
7 32 (6.49%) Datadog
8 26 (5.27%) GitHub
9 24 (4.87%) IaaS
10 23 (4.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 23 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (4.67%) PaaS
11 22 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (4.06%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (3.04%) AWS Direct Connect
16 13 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.64%) Mimecast
17 12 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 204 (41.38%) VPN
2 149 (30.22%) WAN
3 109 (22.11%) LAN
4 107 (21.70%) Wi-Fi
5 102 (20.69%) DNS
6 100 (20.28%) Network Security
7 87 (17.65%) SD-WAN
8 81 (16.43%) VLAN
9 71 (14.40%) DHCP
10 63 (12.78%) Wireless
11 58 (11.76%) TCP/IP
12 51 (10.34%) BGP
13 49 (9.94%) OSPF
14 42 (8.52%) Cisco ISE
15 39 (7.91%) Cisco ASA
16 38 (7.71%) Cisco Firepower
17 31 (6.29%) SAN
18 30 (6.09%) WLAN
19 26 (5.27%) Cisco Wireless
20 25 (5.07%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.30%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.03%) Power BI
3 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.20%) Metadata
4 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.20%) MySQL
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (2.64%) Chocolatey
2 11 (2.23%) Git
3 9 (1.83%) JIRA
4 8 (1.62%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.22%) GitLab
7 4 (0.81%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.81%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.20%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.20%) MLflow
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
General
1 141 (28.60%) Finance
2 127 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 55 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.52%) Banking
5 19 (3.85%) Legal
5 19 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 10 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (2.03%) Retail
6 10 (2.03%) Retail Banking
7 8 (1.62%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (1.62%) Law
7 8 (1.62%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.42%) Aviation
9 6 (1.22%) Advertising
9 6 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.22%) Marketing
10 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.81%) Back Office
11 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (26.98%) Network Engineer
2 78 (15.82%) Senior
3 68 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 63 (12.78%) Analyst
5 57 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (10.75%) IT Engineer
7 46 (9.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (9.33%) IT Support
7 46 (9.33%) Support Engineer
8 43 (8.72%) Cisco Engineer
9 41 (8.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 31 (6.29%) Architect
11 27 (5.48%) Lead
12 26 (5.27%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (5.07%) IT Support Engineer
13 25 (5.07%) Support Analyst
14 24 (4.87%) Security Analyst
14 24 (4.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (4.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.04%) OAuth
1 15 (3.04%) SAML
2 13 (2.64%) ADO
3 12 (2.43%) YAML
4 8 (1.62%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.42%) .NET
6 4 (0.81%) REST
7 3 (0.61%) LDAP
7 3 (0.61%) OpenID
8 2 (0.41%) AWS SAM
8 2 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.41%) RESTful
9 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.20%) Kafka
9 1 (0.20%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.20%) Web Services
9 1 (0.20%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 76 (15.42%) Data Centre
2 32 (6.49%) Cyber Threat
2 32 (6.49%) Security Posture
3 30 (6.09%) Management Information System
4 27 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 19 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 17 (3.45%) Driving Licence
8 15 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.43%) PKI
10 12 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (1.83%) Blog
12 9 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.62%) IoT
14 7 (1.42%) Cyber Security Posture
14 7 (1.42%) Private Cloud
15 6 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 167 (33.87%) Windows
2 74 (15.01%) Windows Server
3 66 (13.39%) Linux
4 21 (4.26%) VMS
5 20 (4.06%) Unix
6 18 (3.65%) Windows 10
7 16 (3.25%) Mac OS
8 14 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (2.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 13 (2.64%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.22%) CentOS
12 4 (0.81%) Kali Linux
12 4 (0.81%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.41%) Android
14 2 (0.41%) Solaris
14 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (20.89%) Incident Response
1 103 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (19.88%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 86 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 78 (15.82%) SIEM
6 67 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (13.59%) Migration
7 64 (12.98%) Computer Science
8 62 (12.58%) Zero Trust
9 58 (11.76%) ITIL
10 57 (11.56%) Cloud Security
11 55 (11.16%) DevOps
12 53 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (10.55%) CI/CD
14 51 (10.34%) High Availability
15 47 (9.53%) Information Security
16 46 (9.33%) Vulnerability Management
17 42 (8.52%) Security Operations
18 41 (8.32%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 89 (18.05%) PowerShell
2 68 (13.79%) Python
3 33 (6.69%) Bash
4 19 (3.85%) SQL
5 16 (3.25%) Bicep
5 16 (3.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.22%) Go
7 4 (0.81%) Java
7 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.41%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.20%) C#
9 1 (0.20%) Korn
9 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (18.26%) CCNP
3 84 (17.04%) Degree
4 57 (11.56%) CISSP
5 50 (10.14%) CCNA
6 44 (8.92%) CCIE
7 39 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (6.49%) Azure Certification
9 30 (6.09%) CISM
9 30 (6.09%) Security Cleared
10 22 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (3.65%) CCSA
12 18 (3.65%) CCSE
12 18 (3.65%) Network+ Certification
12 18 (3.65%) SC Cleared
13 17 (3.45%) DBS Check
14 16 (3.25%) DV Cleared
15 14 (2.84%) CISA
16 12 (2.43%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (17.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (9.94%) NIST
3 44 (8.92%) GDPR
4 27 (5.48%) PCI DSS
5 25 (5.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (4.06%) SOC 2
7 14 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (2.64%) SLA
9 7 (1.42%) GRC
10 5 (1.01%) Government Security Classifications
10 5 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 5 (1.01%) JSP 440
10 5 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.61%) ITGC
13 2 (0.41%) Basel III
13 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.41%) MiFID
13 2 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 158 (32.05%) Active Directory
2 48 (9.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.67%) Firmware
3 23 (4.67%) Hyper-V
4 20 (4.06%) Docker
4 20 (4.06%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (2.23%) vSphere
7 8 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.22%) KVM
9 2 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.20%) NFS
10 1 (0.20%) NLBS
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.20%) XenApp
10 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 79 (16.02%) Terraform
2 67 (13.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 64 (12.98%) Ansible
4 44 (8.92%) Kubernetes
5 36 (7.30%) FortiGate
6 31 (6.29%) SCCM
7 12 (2.43%) Grafana
8 10 (2.03%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.62%) Check_MK
10 7 (1.42%) CASB
11 6 (1.22%) Argo
11 6 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.22%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.01%) Autotask
12 5 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (1.01%) Istio
12 5 (1.01%) linkerd
12 5 (1.01%) Mesos
12 5 (1.01%) Nagios
12 5 (1.01%) SCOM
Vendors
1 182 (36.92%) Microsoft
2 164 (33.27%) Cisco
3 90 (18.26%) VMware
4 84 (17.04%) Palo Alto
5 68 (13.79%) Fortinet
6 61 (12.37%) CheckPoint
7 55 (11.16%) Meraki
8 46 (9.33%) SolarWinds
9 29 (5.88%) Juniper
10 27 (5.48%) Dynatrace
10 27 (5.48%) Zscaler
11 21 (4.26%) Google
12 20 (4.06%) Arista
13 19 (3.85%) Tenable
14 18 (3.65%) Splunk
15 17 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (3.25%) AppDynamics
17 13 (2.64%) ServiceNow
18 10 (2.03%) F5
19 8 (1.62%) Aruba