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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 79 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 508 491 847
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.45% 3.98% 3.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.77% 37.68% 26.53%
Number of salaries quoted 361 386 711
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +9.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +5.10% -2.00%

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 1,898 1,303 3,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 9.17% 10.56% 13.61%
Number of salaries quoted 996 939 2,003
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,387 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +21 90 £80,000 +14.29% 33
East London -1 17 £105,000 +9.09% 3
North London +13 16 £55,000 -21.43% 1
South London +13 12 £30,000 -40.00% 3
West London -15 12 £77,500 +58.16% 12
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 38 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (5.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.98%) Confluence
4 4 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (2.95%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.59%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
1 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 314 (61.81%) Azure
2 161 (31.69%) Microsoft 365
3 130 (25.59%) AWS
4 84 (16.54%) Entra ID
5 49 (9.65%) Datadog
6 47 (9.25%) SaaS
7 44 (8.66%) GCP
8 27 (5.31%) IaaS
9 26 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (4.72%) PaaS
11 23 (4.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 23 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (4.33%) GitHub
13 21 (4.13%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (3.74%) Mimecast
15 18 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (3.35%) AWS Direct Connect
17 16 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
19 13 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 210 (41.34%) VPN
2 157 (30.91%) WAN
3 150 (29.53%) Network Security
4 128 (25.20%) DNS
5 110 (21.65%) LAN
5 110 (21.65%) Wi-Fi
6 106 (20.87%) SD-WAN
7 98 (19.29%) VLAN
8 87 (17.13%) DHCP
9 73 (14.37%) Wireless
10 68 (13.39%) BGP
11 67 (13.19%) Cisco ISE
12 62 (12.20%) OSPF
13 58 (11.42%) TCP/IP
14 46 (9.06%) SAN
15 39 (7.68%) WLAN
16 38 (7.48%) Cisco Firepower
17 35 (6.89%) Cisco ASA
18 33 (6.50%) Cisco Wireless
19 28 (5.51%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (0.98%) Power BI
3 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.20%) MySQL
5 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (4.13%) Chocolatey
2 11 (2.17%) Git
2 11 (2.17%) JIRA
3 10 (1.97%) GitLab
4 8 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.79%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 142 (27.95%) Finance
2 138 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 50 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.46%) Banking
5 28 (5.51%) Legal
6 15 (2.95%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.97%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.57%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.57%) Retail
10 7 (1.38%) Aviation
10 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.38%) Law
10 7 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.59%) Billing
11 3 (0.59%) German Language
11 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.59%) Marketing
11 3 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 138 (27.17%) Network Engineer
2 98 (19.29%) Senior
3 69 (13.58%) IT Engineer
4 66 (12.99%) Azure Engineer
5 56 (11.02%) Architect
6 51 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 43 (8.46%) Support Engineer
9 42 (8.27%) Cisco Engineer
10 41 (8.07%) IT Support
11 35 (6.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 33 (6.50%) Network Architect
13 32 (6.30%) Analyst
14 31 (6.10%) IT Support Engineer
14 31 (6.10%) Lead
15 30 (5.91%) Security Engineer
15 30 (5.91%) Senior IT Engineer
15 30 (5.91%) Senior Network Engineer
16 25 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
17 21 (4.13%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.33%) OAuth
2 21 (4.13%) SAML
3 16 (3.15%) ADO
4 13 (2.56%) 802.1X
4 13 (2.56%) OpenID
5 12 (2.36%) YAML
6 11 (2.17%) REST
7 10 (1.97%) LDAP
8 6 (1.18%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.59%) Node.js
10 2 (0.39%) .NET
10 2 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.39%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.39%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.20%) AWS SAM
11 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 89 (17.52%) Data Centre
2 50 (9.84%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.87%) Cyber Threat
4 26 (5.12%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.53%) PKI
6 20 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.54%) Cloud Native
8 14 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
10 9 (1.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 9 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.38%) Blog
13 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.18%) IoT
13 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 164 (32.28%) Windows
2 56 (11.02%) Linux
3 54 (10.63%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.94%) Mac OS
5 18 (3.54%) VMS
6 17 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (2.17%) Unix
8 10 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (1.77%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.38%) Windows 10
11 5 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.79%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.39%) tvOS
14 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.20%) CentOS
14 1 (0.20%) Solaris
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (20.28%) Incident Response
2 102 (20.08%) Cybersecurity
3 96 (18.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 94 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (16.34%) SIEM
6 78 (15.35%) Zero Trust
7 74 (14.57%) Cloud Security
8 67 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 66 (12.99%) Migration
10 65 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 62 (12.20%) Roadmaps
12 59 (11.61%) High Availability
13 58 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (10.83%) ITIL
15 52 (10.24%) Business Continuity
16 51 (10.04%) DevOps
17 50 (9.84%) CI/CD
17 50 (9.84%) Vulnerability Management
18 49 (9.65%) ITSM
19 48 (9.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 74 (14.57%) PowerShell
2 68 (13.39%) Python
3 25 (4.92%) Bash
4 16 (3.15%) Kusto Query Language
4 16 (3.15%) SQL
5 12 (2.36%) Bicep
6 5 (0.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.39%) Java
7 2 (0.39%) Korn
7 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.20%) C
8 1 (0.20%) C#
8 1 (0.20%) Go
8 1 (0.20%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 129 (25.39%) Cisco Certification
2 107 (21.06%) CCNP
3 64 (12.60%) Degree
4 61 (12.01%) CISSP
5 47 (9.25%) Azure Certification
6 45 (8.86%) CCNA
7 43 (8.46%) CCIE
8 33 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (6.10%) CISM
10 24 (4.72%) Security Cleared
11 23 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (3.54%) CCSA
13 18 (3.54%) CCSE
13 18 (3.54%) CEH
14 17 (3.35%) DV Cleared
15 12 (2.36%) SC Cleared
16 11 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (2.17%) CISA
16 11 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (16.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (12.01%) NIST
3 49 (9.65%) GDPR
4 34 (6.69%) PCI DSS
5 24 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (4.13%) SLA
7 18 (3.54%) SOC 2
8 12 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.38%) Government Security Classifications
9 7 (1.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (1.38%) JSP 440
10 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.79%) GRC
12 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.59%) NCSC
14 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 144 (28.35%) Active Directory
2 42 (8.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (3.35%) Docker
5 15 (2.95%) Firmware
5 15 (2.95%) Hyper-V
6 13 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.57%) vSphere
8 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.20%) KVM
10 1 (0.20%) NLBS
10 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (16.14%) Ansible
2 78 (15.35%) Terraform
3 71 (13.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (8.86%) FortiGate
5 40 (7.87%) Kubernetes
6 30 (5.91%) SCCM
7 16 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (2.56%) Autotask
9 12 (2.36%) Grafana
9 12 (2.36%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (1.77%) Check_MK
11 9 (1.77%) Cisco Prime
12 6 (1.18%) CASB
13 5 (0.98%) Nagios
14 4 (0.79%) Argo
14 4 (0.79%) Istio
14 4 (0.79%) linkerd
14 4 (0.79%) Mesos
14 4 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 225 (44.29%) Microsoft
2 178 (35.04%) Cisco
3 102 (20.08%) Palo Alto
4 84 (16.54%) VMware
5 75 (14.76%) Fortinet
6 69 (13.58%) Meraki
7 55 (10.83%) SolarWinds
8 48 (9.45%) CheckPoint
9 37 (7.28%) Dynatrace
10 32 (6.30%) Zscaler
11 29 (5.71%) CrowdStrike
12 27 (5.31%) Splunk
12 27 (5.31%) Tenable
13 26 (5.12%) Juniper
14 23 (4.53%) Google
15 22 (4.33%) AppDynamics
15 22 (4.33%) Arista
16 21 (4.13%) Aruba
17 17 (3.35%) F5
18 15 (2.95%) SonicWALL