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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 86 96
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 -30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 546 437 637
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.11% 3.70% 3.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.07% 35.94% 25.76%
Number of salaries quoted 407 330 405
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -4.64% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £94,350
England median annual salary £52,000 £46,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +11.83% -7.92% -4.99%

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 1,816 1,216 2,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 10.30% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 826 1,196
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,250 £50,500
% change year-on-year +24.22% -20.30% -3.81%

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 October 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 October 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 -29 41 £90,000 +28.57% 73
West London +9 30 £60,000 +9.09% 11
South London +15 22 £38,500 -16.30% 11
North London +5 12 £55,000 -24.14% 1
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 59 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (10.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) Moodle
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
3 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 295 (54.03%) Azure
2 193 (35.35%) Microsoft 365
3 142 (26.01%) Entra ID
4 100 (18.32%) AWS
5 40 (7.33%) PaaS
6 38 (6.96%) SaaS
7 32 (5.86%) IaaS
8 26 (4.76%) Datadog
8 26 (4.76%) GCP
9 24 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 20 (3.66%) Mimecast
11 20 (3.66%) OneDrive
12 17 (3.11%) Serverless
13 16 (2.93%) Power Platform
14 14 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (2.56%) Google Workspace
15 12 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 224 (41.03%) VPN
2 183 (33.52%) DNS
3 169 (30.95%) Network Security
4 137 (25.09%) WAN
5 128 (23.44%) DHCP
5 128 (23.44%) VLAN
6 111 (20.33%) LAN
7 108 (19.78%) Wi-Fi
8 100 (18.32%) TCP/IP
9 98 (17.95%) Wireless
10 72 (13.19%) SD-WAN
11 59 (10.81%) BGP
12 57 (10.44%) Cisco ISE
13 51 (9.34%) OSPF
14 41 (7.51%) SAN
15 25 (4.58%) SSL
16 24 (4.40%) MPLS
17 23 (4.21%) WLAN
18 21 (3.85%) Cisco Wireless
19 17 (3.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.75%) Power BI
3 14 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.55%) Big Data
4 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
5 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.18%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.18%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.18%) MySQL
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (2.93%) JIRA
2 12 (2.20%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.20%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.01%) Chocolatey
4 5 (0.92%) GitLab
5 4 (0.73%) Git
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle APEX
General
1 182 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 134 (24.54%) Finance
3 39 (7.14%) Banking
4 38 (6.96%) Law
5 32 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (5.49%) Legal
7 29 (5.31%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
12 11 (2.01%) Retail
13 9 (1.65%) Back Office
14 7 (1.28%) Marketing
15 6 (1.10%) Billing
15 6 (1.10%) Digital Health
15 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 112 (20.51%) Senior
2 99 (18.13%) Network Engineer
3 77 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 62 (11.36%) Architect
5 58 (10.62%) Azure Engineer
6 57 (10.44%) IT Engineer
7 46 (8.42%) Lead
8 44 (8.06%) Security Engineer
8 44 (8.06%) Support Engineer
9 43 (7.88%) IT Support
10 33 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (6.04%) Senior Network Engineer
11 32 (5.86%) IT Support Engineer
12 31 (5.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (5.13%) Analyst
14 26 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (4.58%) 2nd Line Support
16 23 (4.21%) 3rd Line Support
17 21 (3.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 21 (3.85%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.92%) Terraform
2 17 (3.11%) OpenID
2 17 (3.11%) SAML
3 16 (2.93%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (2.93%) OAuth
3 16 (2.93%) REST
4 15 (2.75%) LDAP
5 11 (2.01%) ARM Templates
6 10 (1.83%) 802.1X
7 8 (1.47%) ADO
8 5 (0.92%) Node.js
8 5 (0.92%) YAML
9 2 (0.37%) RESTful
9 2 (0.37%) Web Services
10 1 (0.18%) Azure Blueprints
10 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.18%) Middleware
10 1 (0.18%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 67 (12.27%) Security Posture
3 43 (7.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 30 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (4.95%) Management Information System
7 25 (4.58%) PKI
8 24 (4.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 20 (3.66%) Cloud Native
10 19 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
12 13 (2.38%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.83%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.65%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.65%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.65%) Public Cloud
15 8 (1.47%) Eurex
16 7 (1.28%) IoT
16 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 196 (35.90%) Windows
2 81 (14.84%) Linux
3 72 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 33 (6.04%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.38%) Unix
6 13 (2.38%) VMS
7 12 (2.20%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.47%) CentOS
8 8 (1.47%) Rocky
9 6 (1.10%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.92%) Solaris
11 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.37%) Android
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (26.74%) Cybersecurity
2 112 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 99 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (17.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 89 (16.30%) Incident Response
7 86 (15.75%) Cloud Security
8 85 (15.57%) Zero Trust
9 83 (15.20%) Roadmaps
10 77 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 76 (13.92%) Migration
12 70 (12.82%) SIEM
13 64 (11.72%) ITIL
13 64 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (11.54%) Mentoring
15 62 (11.36%) High Availability
15 62 (11.36%) Project Delivery
16 57 (10.44%) Technical Leadership
16 57 (10.44%) Vulnerability Management
17 54 (9.89%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 66 (12.09%) Python
3 28 (5.13%) Bash
4 27 (4.95%) SQL
5 25 (4.58%) Bicep
6 8 (1.47%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (1.47%) Perl
6 8 (1.47%) Ruby
7 5 (0.92%) C
8 3 (0.55%) Go
8 3 (0.55%) Java
8 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.18%) Korn
9 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (18.50%) Cisco Certification
2 83 (15.20%) CCNP
3 68 (12.45%) Degree
4 66 (12.09%) CISSP
5 54 (9.89%) Azure Certification
6 41 (7.51%) CCNA
7 37 (6.78%) Security Cleared
8 33 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (4.76%) CISM
11 22 (4.03%) AWS Certification
12 19 (3.48%) CCIE
13 12 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (2.01%) Master's Degree
15 10 (1.83%) DV Cleared
16 9 (1.65%) CCSP
16 9 (1.65%) CHECK Team Member
16 9 (1.65%) GIAC
16 9 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (13.00%) NIST
3 37 (6.78%) GDPR
3 37 (6.78%) SLA
4 36 (6.59%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.65%) GRC
6 9 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.10%) QA
8 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 154 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 54 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.11%) Docker
4 17 (3.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.38%) vSphere
7 5 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.37%) Firmware
8 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.18%) NFS
9 1 (0.18%) Samba
9 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (9.71%) Ansible
3 49 (8.97%) FortiGate
4 36 (6.59%) Kubernetes
5 34 (6.23%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (3.30%) SCCM
7 17 (3.11%) Autotask
8 16 (2.93%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (2.75%) Nessus
10 13 (2.38%) Grafana
11 12 (2.20%) CASB
11 12 (2.20%) Nmap
12 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
13 6 (1.10%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.55%) Argo
14 3 (0.55%) Istio
14 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
14 3 (0.55%) VxRail
15 2 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 294 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 161 (29.49%) Cisco
3 118 (21.61%) Palo Alto
4 103 (18.86%) VMware
5 57 (10.44%) Fortinet
6 54 (9.89%) Zscaler
7 52 (9.52%) Meraki
8 29 (5.31%) F5
9 26 (4.76%) Aruba
10 25 (4.58%) SolarWinds
11 24 (4.40%) Juniper
11 24 (4.40%) Splunk
11 24 (4.40%) Tenable
12 23 (4.21%) CheckPoint
13 22 (4.03%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (3.85%) Arista
15 19 (3.48%) HP
16 18 (3.30%) Google
17 17 (3.11%) Dynatrace
18 16 (2.93%) Sophos