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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 86 112
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 -43
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 547 457 628
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.27% 3.78% 3.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.70% 36.94% 24.12%
Number of salaries quoted 403 361 462
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £38,100
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £102,000 £95,000 £93,175
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -0.50%

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 1,842 1,237 2,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.64% 10.24% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 873 1,348
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,250 £44,040
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 £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -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 27 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 27 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 -16 51 £90,000 +29.96% 28
West London -1 30 £70,809 +28.74% 8
South London +5 15 £34,250 -25.54% 7
North London +10 12 £55,000 -21.43%
East London -8 7 £105,000 +208.82% 5
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 (9.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (9.69%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
4 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 310 (56.67%) Azure
2 195 (35.65%) Microsoft 365
3 118 (21.57%) AWS
3 118 (21.57%) Entra ID
4 43 (7.86%) SaaS
5 36 (6.58%) GCP
5 36 (6.58%) PaaS
6 33 (6.03%) Datadog
7 32 (5.85%) IaaS
8 22 (4.02%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 20 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
10 19 (3.47%) Mimecast
11 17 (3.11%) Serverless
12 16 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (2.74%) Google Workspace
14 13 (2.38%) OneDrive
15 12 (2.19%) OpenShift
16 11 (2.01%) Power Platform
16 11 (2.01%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 209 (38.21%) VPN
2 180 (32.91%) Network Security
3 159 (29.07%) DNS
4 139 (25.41%) WAN
5 117 (21.39%) VLAN
6 111 (20.29%) LAN
7 107 (19.56%) DHCP
8 103 (18.83%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (16.09%) SD-WAN
10 85 (15.54%) TCP/IP
10 85 (15.54%) Wireless
11 63 (11.52%) Cisco ISE
12 61 (11.15%) BGP
13 57 (10.42%) OSPF
14 44 (8.04%) SAN
15 30 (5.48%) WLAN
16 26 (4.75%) MPLS
17 24 (4.39%) Cisco Wireless
18 21 (3.84%) SSL
19 20 (3.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.83%) 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 (0.37%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.37%) 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 16 (2.93%) Chocolatey
1 16 (2.93%) JIRA
2 10 (1.83%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.46%) Burp Suite
4 7 (1.28%) Git
5 6 (1.10%) GitLab
6 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 192 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 126 (23.03%) Finance
3 44 (8.04%) Banking
4 38 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.40%) Legal
6 32 (5.85%) Telecoms
7 29 (5.30%) Law
8 16 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.38%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.01%) Mandarin Language
12 10 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.83%) Retail
13 7 (1.28%) Back Office
14 6 (1.10%) Billing
14 6 (1.10%) Digital Health
14 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 117 (21.39%) Senior
2 114 (20.84%) Network Engineer
3 64 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (11.15%) Azure Engineer
4 61 (11.15%) IT Engineer
5 60 (10.97%) Architect
6 44 (8.04%) Security Engineer
6 44 (8.04%) Support Engineer
7 41 (7.50%) IT Support
8 39 (7.13%) Lead
8 39 (7.13%) Senior Network Engineer
9 34 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 33 (6.03%) IT Support Engineer
11 32 (5.85%) Analyst
12 31 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
13 27 (4.94%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 26 (4.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 26 (4.75%) Network Architect
15 25 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (4.39%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.35%) Terraform
2 17 (3.11%) OpenID
3 16 (2.93%) OAuth
4 15 (2.74%) REST
4 15 (2.74%) SAML
5 14 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
5 14 (2.56%) LDAP
6 12 (2.19%) 802.1X
7 11 (2.01%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.65%) ADO
9 5 (0.91%) Node.js
9 5 (0.91%) YAML
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.37%) RESTful
10 2 (0.37%) Web Services
11 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.18%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.82%) Data Centre
2 65 (11.88%) Security Posture
3 38 (6.95%) Cyber Threat
4 31 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (5.12%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 22 (4.02%) PKI
8 21 (3.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 18 (3.29%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.93%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (2.19%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.83%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.46%) Blog
14 8 (1.46%) Operational Technology
15 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (1.28%) NHS
15 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.10%) Eurex
16 6 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 181 (33.09%) Windows
2 76 (13.89%) Linux
3 61 (11.15%) Windows Server
4 33 (6.03%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.19%) Unix
7 10 (1.83%) VMS
8 9 (1.65%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.28%) CentOS
10 6 (1.10%) Rocky
10 6 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.91%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.55%) Solaris
13 2 (0.37%) Android
13 2 (0.37%) tvOS
13 2 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (25.78%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (19.93%) Incident Response
4 92 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 92 (16.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 87 (15.90%) Roadmaps
6 85 (15.54%) SIEM
7 84 (15.36%) Cloud Security
8 81 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 78 (14.26%) Zero Trust
10 72 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 70 (12.80%) ITIL
12 67 (12.25%) Migration
13 66 (12.07%) Project Delivery
14 61 (11.15%) Mentoring
15 60 (10.97%) High Availability
16 55 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
17 53 (9.69%) Business Continuity
17 53 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (9.51%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 73 (13.35%) Python
2 71 (12.98%) PowerShell
3 33 (6.03%) Bash
4 18 (3.29%) Bicep
5 17 (3.11%) SQL
6 10 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.10%) Perl
7 6 (1.10%) Ruby
8 5 (0.91%) C
8 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.37%) Java
9 2 (0.37%) Korn
9 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 122 (22.30%) Cisco Certification
2 106 (19.38%) CCNP
3 71 (12.98%) Degree
4 64 (11.70%) CISSP
5 62 (11.33%) Azure Certification
6 44 (8.04%) CCNA
7 35 (6.40%) Security Cleared
8 33 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (5.67%) CCIE
10 28 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (4.39%) CISM
12 23 (4.20%) AWS Certification
13 18 (3.29%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (2.74%) CEH
14 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
15 12 (2.19%) GIAC
15 12 (2.19%) Master's Degree
16 10 (1.83%) SC Cleared
17 9 (1.65%) JNCIP
17 9 (1.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.71%) NIST
2 74 (13.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.50%) GDPR
4 30 (5.48%) PCI DSS
4 30 (5.48%) SLA
5 18 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 7 (1.28%) GRC
8 6 (1.10%) QA
9 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.55%) JSP 440
10 3 (0.55%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 155 (28.34%) Active Directory
2 56 (10.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (4.20%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.01%) Docker
6 7 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.28%) vSphere
7 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Samba
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 60 (10.97%) Ansible
3 55 (10.05%) FortiGate
4 36 (6.58%) Kubernetes
5 29 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (4.20%) SCCM
7 19 (3.47%) Autotask
8 18 (3.29%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (2.38%) Nessus
10 10 (1.83%) Grafana
11 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.46%) CASB
12 8 (1.46%) Nmap
13 6 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
14 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.55%) Argo
15 3 (0.55%) Istio
15 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
15 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 286 (52.29%) Microsoft
2 172 (31.44%) Cisco
3 122 (22.30%) Palo Alto
4 100 (18.28%) VMware
5 64 (11.70%) Meraki
6 62 (11.33%) Fortinet
7 54 (9.87%) Zscaler
8 33 (6.03%) CheckPoint
8 33 (6.03%) SolarWinds
9 31 (5.67%) Tenable
10 28 (5.12%) Splunk
11 27 (4.94%) CrowdStrike
12 26 (4.75%) F5
13 25 (4.57%) Aruba
14 23 (4.20%) Arista
15 20 (3.66%) Dynatrace
15 20 (3.66%) Google
15 20 (3.66%) HP
16 17 (3.11%) Juniper
16 17 (3.11%) SonicWALL