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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 540 469 638
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.31% 3.83% 3.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.51% 37.67% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 387 378 494
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,100 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.40% -
75th Percentile £88,125 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £95,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -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 1,894 1,245 2,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.12% 10.18% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 891 1,385
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -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 4 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 4 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 -25 51 £90,000 +35.34% 38
West London -12 28 £72,500 +39.42% 7
North London +10 15 £55,000 -21.43%
South London +8 13 £30,500 -33.70% 5
East London -13 7 £105,000 +208.82% 1
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 49 (9.07%) Microsoft Exchange
1 49 (9.07%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.56%) Confluence
2 3 (0.56%) SAS
3 2 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (2.96%) MS Visio
2 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 316 (58.52%) Azure
2 184 (34.07%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (23.15%) AWS
4 113 (20.93%) Entra ID
5 43 (7.96%) SaaS
6 39 (7.22%) GCP
7 36 (6.67%) Datadog
8 29 (5.37%) IaaS
8 29 (5.37%) PaaS
9 22 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (3.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (3.33%) Mimecast
13 16 (2.96%) Serverless
14 15 (2.78%) Google Workspace
15 14 (2.59%) GitHub
15 14 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (2.22%) OpenShift
17 11 (2.04%) Power Platform
17 11 (2.04%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 208 (38.52%) VPN
2 191 (35.37%) Network Security
3 152 (28.15%) DNS
4 145 (26.85%) WAN
5 118 (21.85%) LAN
6 115 (21.30%) VLAN
7 108 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 97 (17.96%) DHCP
9 95 (17.59%) SD-WAN
10 83 (15.37%) TCP/IP
11 78 (14.44%) Wireless
12 67 (12.41%) BGP
13 63 (11.67%) Cisco ISE
14 61 (11.30%) OSPF
15 43 (7.96%) SAN
16 32 (5.93%) WLAN
17 27 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
17 27 (5.00%) MPLS
18 22 (4.07%) Cisco Firepower
18 22 (4.07%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.85%) Power BI
3 7 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.56%) Big Data
4 3 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.19%) MySQL
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.15%) Chocolatey
2 15 (2.78%) JIRA
3 8 (1.48%) Bitbucket
3 8 (1.48%) Git
3 8 (1.48%) Metasploit
4 7 (1.30%) GitLab
5 4 (0.74%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.56%) Maven
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 184 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 122 (22.59%) Finance
3 40 (7.41%) Banking
4 38 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.93%) Telecoms
6 31 (5.74%) Legal
7 20 (3.70%) Law
8 13 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.04%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (2.04%) Retail
11 10 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.30%) Back Office
14 7 (1.30%) Retail Banking
15 6 (1.11%) Billing
15 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 119 (22.04%) Network Engineer
1 119 (22.04%) Senior
2 66 (12.22%) Architect
3 59 (10.93%) Azure Engineer
3 59 (10.93%) IT Engineer
4 52 (9.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 44 (8.15%) Support Engineer
6 42 (7.78%) IT Support
7 41 (7.59%) Senior Network Engineer
8 40 (7.41%) Security Engineer
9 36 (6.67%) Lead
10 34 (6.30%) IT Support Engineer
11 32 (5.93%) Network Architect
12 31 (5.74%) Analyst
13 30 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
14 28 (5.19%) Cisco Engineer
14 28 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 26 (4.81%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 25 (4.63%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.52%) OpenID
2 18 (3.33%) OAuth
3 17 (3.15%) REST
3 17 (3.15%) SAML
4 16 (2.96%) LDAP
5 12 (2.22%) 802.1X
6 11 (2.04%) ARM Templates
7 9 (1.67%) ADO
7 9 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.93%) Node.js
8 5 (0.93%) YAML
9 2 (0.37%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.37%) RESTful
9 2 (0.37%) Web Services
10 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.48%) Data Centre
2 65 (12.04%) Security Posture
3 41 (7.59%) Cyber Threat
4 26 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (4.63%) PKI
6 24 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 23 (4.26%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.33%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 16 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.04%) Blog
12 10 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.67%) Driving Licence
14 8 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
15 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
15 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.30%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 177 (32.78%) Windows
2 66 (12.22%) Linux
3 57 (10.56%) Windows Server
4 29 (5.37%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (2.04%) Unix
7 8 (1.48%) VMS
8 7 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.93%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.56%) CentOS
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
11 2 (0.37%) tvOS
12 1 (0.19%) Solaris
12 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (23.89%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (20.56%) Incident Response
3 104 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
4 90 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 87 (16.11%) Roadmaps
6 86 (15.93%) SIEM
7 85 (15.74%) Cloud Security
7 85 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (15.00%) Zero Trust
9 71 (13.15%) Migration
10 69 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 65 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 65 (12.04%) Project Delivery
12 64 (11.85%) ITIL
13 57 (10.56%) Mentoring
14 55 (10.19%) High Availability
15 54 (10.00%) Business Continuity
16 52 (9.63%) Information Security
17 51 (9.44%) ITSM
17 51 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.07%) PowerShell
2 73 (13.52%) Python
3 32 (5.93%) Bash
4 13 (2.41%) Bicep
4 13 (2.41%) SQL
5 9 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.56%) Java
7 3 (0.56%) Korn
7 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.37%) C
8 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.37%) Perl
8 2 (0.37%) Ruby
9 1 (0.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (24.26%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (20.93%) CCNP
3 67 (12.41%) CISSP
4 65 (12.04%) Degree
5 58 (10.74%) Azure Certification
6 47 (8.70%) CCNA
7 32 (5.93%) CCIE
8 31 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (5.74%) Security Cleared
9 28 (5.19%) CISM
10 26 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (3.89%) CompTIA Security+
12 20 (3.70%) AWS Certification
13 16 (2.96%) CEH
14 15 (2.78%) DV Cleared
15 14 (2.59%) SC Cleared
16 12 (2.22%) GIAC
17 11 (2.04%) Master's Degree
18 10 (1.85%) OSCP
19 9 (1.67%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 72 (13.33%) NIST
2 35 (6.48%) GDPR
3 31 (5.74%) PCI DSS
4 30 (5.56%) SLA
5 18 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.85%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.11%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (1.11%) JSP 440
7 6 (1.11%) QA
8 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.93%) GRC
8 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.56%) NCSC
10 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 154 (28.52%) Active Directory
2 55 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.44%) Hyper-V
3 24 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (1.48%) Docker
5 7 (1.30%) vSphere
6 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.19%) Firmware
9 1 (0.19%) KVM
9 1 (0.19%) NLBS
9 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (12.96%) Terraform
3 69 (12.78%) Ansible
4 51 (9.44%) FortiGate
5 40 (7.41%) Kubernetes
6 25 (4.63%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (4.26%) SCCM
8 19 (3.52%) Autotask
9 16 (2.96%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (2.04%) Grafana
11 9 (1.67%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.48%) Cisco Prime
13 6 (1.11%) Check_MK
13 6 (1.11%) Nessus
14 5 (0.93%) CASB
15 4 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.74%) Nmap
16 3 (0.56%) Data Guard
16 3 (0.56%) Nagios
16 3 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 271 (50.19%) Microsoft
2 175 (32.41%) Cisco
3 117 (21.67%) Palo Alto
4 99 (18.33%) VMware
5 69 (12.78%) Meraki
6 63 (11.67%) Fortinet
7 52 (9.63%) Zscaler
8 41 (7.59%) SolarWinds
9 36 (6.67%) CheckPoint
10 28 (5.19%) Splunk
10 28 (5.19%) Tenable
11 26 (4.81%) Arista
11 26 (4.81%) Aruba
11 26 (4.81%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (4.81%) F5
12 24 (4.44%) Google
13 23 (4.26%) Dynatrace
14 19 (3.52%) HP
14 19 (3.52%) Juniper
14 19 (3.52%) SonicWALL