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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 84 105
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 -35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 552 460 621
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.30% 3.81% 3.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.24% 37.37% 24.19%
Number of salaries quoted 407 363 465
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,850 £38,400
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% +2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £54,249 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.21% -5.00% -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 1,888 1,231 2,567
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.87% 10.19% 13.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 872 1,351
10th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,063 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.94% -15.00% -2.91%

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 22 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 22 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 -15 52 £90,000 +31.39% 17
West London +2 30 £70,809 +36.17% 9
North London +11 14 £55,000 -21.43%
South London +9 14 £38,500 -16.30% 9
East London -14 7 £105,000 +208.82% 7
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 54 (9.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.54%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 315 (57.07%) Azure
2 194 (35.14%) Microsoft 365
3 121 (21.92%) AWS
4 115 (20.83%) Entra ID
5 43 (7.79%) SaaS
6 37 (6.70%) GCP
7 35 (6.34%) PaaS
8 33 (5.98%) Datadog
9 31 (5.62%) IaaS
10 23 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (3.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 19 (3.44%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (3.26%) Mimecast
14 16 (2.90%) Serverless
15 15 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (2.72%) Google Workspace
16 12 (2.17%) OneDrive
16 12 (2.17%) OpenShift
17 11 (1.99%) Power Platform
17 11 (1.99%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 212 (38.41%) VPN
2 183 (33.15%) Network Security
3 161 (29.17%) DNS
4 145 (26.27%) WAN
5 117 (21.20%) LAN
5 117 (21.20%) VLAN
6 108 (19.57%) DHCP
7 104 (18.84%) Wi-Fi
8 90 (16.30%) SD-WAN
9 89 (16.12%) TCP/IP
10 84 (15.22%) Wireless
11 62 (11.23%) Cisco ISE
12 61 (11.05%) BGP
13 57 (10.33%) OSPF
14 44 (7.97%) SAN
15 30 (5.43%) WLAN
16 26 (4.71%) MPLS
17 25 (4.53%) Cisco Wireless
18 21 (3.80%) SSL
19 20 (3.62%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.81%) Power BI
3 7 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.54%) Big Data
4 3 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.54%) 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 (3.08%) JIRA
2 16 (2.90%) Chocolatey
3 9 (1.63%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.45%) Git
5 7 (1.27%) Burp Suite
6 6 (1.09%) GitLab
7 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.54%) Maven
9 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 192 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 126 (22.83%) Finance
3 45 (8.15%) Banking
4 39 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.16%) Legal
6 32 (5.80%) Telecoms
7 27 (4.89%) Law
8 15 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.99%) Mandarin Language
11 11 (1.99%) Retail
12 10 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.27%) Back Office
14 6 (1.09%) Billing
14 6 (1.09%) Digital Health
14 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 118 (21.38%) Senior
2 115 (20.83%) Network Engineer
3 63 (11.41%) IT Engineer
4 62 (11.23%) Azure Engineer
5 61 (11.05%) Architect
5 61 (11.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 45 (8.15%) Support Engineer
7 44 (7.97%) Security Engineer
8 42 (7.61%) Lead
9 41 (7.43%) IT Support
10 39 (7.07%) Senior Network Engineer
11 34 (6.16%) IT Support Engineer
12 33 (5.98%) Analyst
13 32 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 31 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
15 28 (5.07%) Network Architect
16 27 (4.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 26 (4.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 26 (4.71%) Cisco Engineer
18 25 (4.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.59%) Terraform
2 17 (3.08%) OpenID
3 16 (2.90%) OAuth
4 15 (2.72%) REST
4 15 (2.72%) SAML
5 14 (2.54%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (2.54%) LDAP
6 12 (2.17%) 802.1X
7 11 (1.99%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.63%) 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 92 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 64 (11.59%) Security Posture
3 39 (7.07%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (5.07%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.99%) PKI
8 20 (3.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 18 (3.26%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.90%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.99%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.81%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.45%) Blog
15 7 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.27%) NHS
15 7 (1.27%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.27%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 181 (32.79%) Windows
2 78 (14.13%) Linux
3 62 (11.23%) Windows Server
4 32 (5.80%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.36%) Unix
5 13 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.63%) VMS
7 7 (1.27%) CentOS
7 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.09%) Rocky
9 5 (0.91%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.54%) Solaris
11 2 (0.36%) Android
11 2 (0.36%) tvOS
12 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (19.93%) Incident Response
4 93 (16.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 91 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (15.58%) Roadmaps
6 86 (15.58%) SIEM
7 83 (15.04%) Cloud Security
8 79 (14.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 76 (13.77%) Zero Trust
10 74 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (12.68%) ITIL
12 69 (12.50%) Migration
13 67 (12.14%) Project Delivery
14 62 (11.23%) Mentoring
15 60 (10.87%) High Availability
16 56 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 56 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
17 52 (9.42%) Business Continuity
17 52 (9.42%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.41%) Python
2 73 (13.22%) PowerShell
3 34 (6.16%) Bash
4 19 (3.44%) Bicep
5 17 (3.08%) SQL
6 10 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.09%) Perl
7 6 (1.09%) Ruby
8 5 (0.91%) C
8 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.36%) Java
9 2 (0.36%) Korn
9 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 126 (22.83%) Cisco Certification
2 109 (19.75%) CCNP
3 73 (13.22%) Degree
4 64 (11.59%) CISSP
5 63 (11.41%) Azure Certification
6 46 (8.33%) CCNA
7 34 (6.16%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.80%) CCIE
8 32 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (4.17%) AWS Certification
10 23 (4.17%) CISM
11 19 (3.44%) CompTIA Security+
12 16 (2.90%) CEH
13 15 (2.72%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.17%) GIAC
14 12 (2.17%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.81%) SC Cleared
16 9 (1.63%) JNCIP
16 9 (1.63%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.41%) NIST
2 72 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.43%) GDPR
4 30 (5.43%) SLA
5 29 (5.25%) PCI DSS
6 18 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.63%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.27%) GRC
9 6 (1.09%) QA
10 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.54%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.54%) NCSC
12 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 155 (28.08%) Active Directory
2 57 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.99%) Docker
6 10 (1.81%) vSphere
7 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.18%) NFS
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.18%) Samba
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (11.41%) Ansible
3 54 (9.78%) FortiGate
4 39 (7.07%) Kubernetes
5 28 (5.07%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (3.99%) SCCM
7 19 (3.44%) Autotask
8 18 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.17%) Nessus
10 10 (1.81%) Grafana
11 9 (1.63%) Prometheus
12 7 (1.27%) CASB
12 7 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
12 7 (1.27%) Nmap
13 4 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.72%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.54%) Argo
14 3 (0.54%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.54%) Istio
14 3 (0.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 286 (51.81%) Microsoft
2 174 (31.52%) Cisco
3 122 (22.10%) Palo Alto
4 104 (18.84%) VMware
5 65 (11.78%) Meraki
6 62 (11.23%) Fortinet
7 53 (9.60%) Zscaler
8 33 (5.98%) CheckPoint
8 33 (5.98%) SolarWinds
9 31 (5.62%) Tenable
10 28 (5.07%) Splunk
11 27 (4.89%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (4.71%) Aruba
12 26 (4.71%) F5
13 23 (4.17%) Arista
14 20 (3.62%) Dynatrace
14 20 (3.62%) Google
14 20 (3.62%) HP
15 18 (3.26%) Juniper
16 17 (3.08%) SonicWALL