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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 86 104
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 -38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 548 456 649
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.27% 3.79% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.54% 36.98% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 409 358 468
10th Percentile £39,800 £35,525 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +2.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £93,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -1.96%

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 1,855 1,233 2,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.69% 10.26% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,072 869 1,321
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £40,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,773 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,500 £95,000
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 1 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 1 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 -19 49 £90,000 +28.57% 42
West London 0 32 £67,059 +21.93% 7
South London +9 18 £30,000 -34.78% 8
North London +8 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -7 7 £105,000 +208.82% 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 57 (10.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (10.22%) 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 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.36%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 6 (1.09%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 307 (56.02%) Azure
2 199 (36.31%) Microsoft 365
3 122 (22.26%) Entra ID
4 120 (21.90%) AWS
5 42 (7.66%) SaaS
6 37 (6.75%) PaaS
7 35 (6.39%) GCP
8 33 (6.02%) Datadog
8 33 (6.02%) IaaS
9 22 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
11 20 (3.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 19 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.47%) Mimecast
13 17 (3.10%) Serverless
14 16 (2.92%) OneDrive
15 15 (2.74%) Google Workspace
16 12 (2.19%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.01%) Power Platform
17 11 (2.01%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 212 (38.69%) VPN
2 176 (32.12%) Network Security
3 162 (29.56%) DNS
4 134 (24.45%) WAN
5 118 (21.53%) VLAN
6 108 (19.71%) DHCP
7 106 (19.34%) LAN
8 102 (18.61%) Wi-Fi
9 89 (16.24%) Wireless
10 85 (15.51%) SD-WAN
11 82 (14.96%) TCP/IP
12 62 (11.31%) Cisco ISE
13 60 (10.95%) BGP
14 55 (10.04%) OSPF
15 43 (7.85%) SAN
16 27 (4.93%) WLAN
17 26 (4.74%) MPLS
18 24 (4.38%) Cisco Wireless
19 21 (3.83%) SSL
20 19 (3.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.82%) Power BI
3 7 (1.28%) 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 (3.10%) JIRA
2 16 (2.92%) Chocolatey
3 11 (2.01%) Metasploit
4 10 (1.82%) Burp Suite
5 6 (1.09%) GitLab
6 5 (0.91%) Git
7 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 194 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 127 (23.18%) Finance
3 43 (7.85%) Banking
4 38 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.20%) Legal
6 31 (5.66%) Law
7 30 (5.47%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
11 11 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.64%) Retail
14 7 (1.28%) Back Office
15 6 (1.09%) Billing
15 6 (1.09%) Digital Health
15 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 115 (20.99%) Senior
2 110 (20.07%) Network Engineer
3 67 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 62 (11.31%) Azure Engineer
5 61 (11.13%) IT Engineer
6 59 (10.77%) Architect
7 44 (8.03%) Security Engineer
7 44 (8.03%) Support Engineer
8 41 (7.48%) IT Support
9 38 (6.93%) Lead
10 37 (6.75%) Senior Network Engineer
11 34 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (6.02%) Analyst
13 32 (5.84%) IT Support Engineer
14 30 (5.47%) 2nd Line Support
15 26 (4.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 25 (4.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 25 (4.56%) Network Architect
16 25 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 22 (4.01%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (13.50%) Terraform
2 16 (2.92%) OpenID
3 15 (2.74%) OAuth
4 14 (2.55%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (2.55%) REST
4 14 (2.55%) SAML
5 13 (2.37%) LDAP
6 11 (2.01%) 802.1X
6 11 (2.01%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.64%) ADO
8 5 (0.91%) Node.js
8 5 (0.91%) YAML
9 2 (0.36%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.36%) RESTful
9 2 (0.36%) Web Services
10 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.79%) Data Centre
2 64 (11.68%) Security Posture
3 37 (6.75%) Cyber Threat
4 34 (6.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (5.11%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 23 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 22 (4.01%) PKI
8 18 (3.28%) Cloud Native
9 17 (3.10%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.19%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.64%) Operational Technology
14 8 (1.46%) Blog
14 8 (1.46%) Private Cloud
15 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.28%) NHS
15 7 (1.28%) Public Cloud
16 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 186 (33.94%) Windows
2 76 (13.87%) Linux
3 60 (10.95%) Windows Server
4 34 (6.20%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.19%) Unix
7 11 (2.01%) VMS
8 8 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.09%) CentOS
9 6 (1.09%) Rocky
10 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.55%) Solaris
13 2 (0.36%) Android
13 2 (0.36%) tvOS
13 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (25.91%) Cybersecurity
2 109 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (19.16%) Incident Response
4 93 (16.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 92 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (15.88%) Roadmaps
7 84 (15.33%) Cloud Security
7 84 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 84 (15.33%) SIEM
8 77 (14.05%) Zero Trust
9 75 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 70 (12.77%) ITIL
10 70 (12.77%) Migration
11 67 (12.23%) Project Delivery
12 62 (11.31%) High Availability
13 61 (11.13%) Mentoring
14 56 (10.22%) Technical Leadership
15 55 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
16 53 (9.67%) Business Continuity
17 52 (9.49%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (12.96%) Python
2 69 (12.59%) PowerShell
3 31 (5.66%) Bash
4 19 (3.47%) Bicep
5 17 (3.10%) SQL
6 10 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.09%) Perl
7 6 (1.09%) 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
1 119 (21.72%) Cisco Certification
2 103 (18.80%) CCNP
3 69 (12.59%) Degree
4 63 (11.50%) CISSP
5 61 (11.13%) Azure Certification
6 42 (7.66%) CCNA
7 36 (6.57%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (5.47%) CCIE
10 27 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (4.38%) AWS Certification
11 24 (4.38%) CISM
12 18 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (2.55%) CEH
13 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.19%) GIAC
14 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
15 11 (2.01%) SC Cleared
16 10 (1.82%) OSCP
17 8 (1.46%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (13.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (13.69%) NIST
3 41 (7.48%) GDPR
4 32 (5.84%) PCI DSS
5 30 (5.47%) SLA
6 19 (3.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.64%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.46%) 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%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.55%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.55%) NCSC
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
1 155 (28.28%) Active Directory
2 56 (10.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.01%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.82%) Docker
6 8 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.46%) vSphere
7 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.55%) 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 79 (14.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 58 (10.58%) Ansible
3 53 (9.67%) FortiGate
4 33 (6.02%) Kubernetes
5 32 (5.84%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (4.38%) SCCM
7 19 (3.47%) Autotask
8 18 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (2.55%) Nessus
10 10 (1.82%) Grafana
10 10 (1.82%) Nmap
11 8 (1.46%) CASB
11 8 (1.46%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
13 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.73%) VxRail
14 3 (0.55%) Argo
14 3 (0.55%) Istio
14 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 290 (52.92%) Microsoft
2 172 (31.39%) Cisco
3 120 (21.90%) Palo Alto
4 102 (18.61%) VMware
5 65 (11.86%) Meraki
6 59 (10.77%) Fortinet
7 54 (9.85%) Zscaler
8 31 (5.66%) SolarWinds
8 31 (5.66%) Tenable
9 30 (5.47%) CheckPoint
10 27 (4.93%) CrowdStrike
10 27 (4.93%) Splunk
11 26 (4.74%) Aruba
11 26 (4.74%) F5
12 22 (4.01%) Arista
13 20 (3.65%) Dynatrace
13 20 (3.65%) Google
13 20 (3.65%) HP
14 17 (3.10%) Juniper
14 17 (3.10%) Ubiquiti