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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 83 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 532 480 781
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.39% 3.85% 3.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.49% 38.28% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 375 383 627
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -6.84%

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 1,935 1,254 2,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.71% 10.07% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 911 1,802
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,750 £32,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 58 £87,500 +27.74% 18
West London -8 18 £73,750 +34.09% 6
South London +13 15 £31,000 -36.41% 2
North London +15 14 £55,000 -21.43%
East London 0 10 £105,000 +20.00% 2
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 (9.21%) SharePoint
2 48 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.56%) Apache
3 3 (0.56%) Confluence
3 3 (0.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (3.38%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.56%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 315 (59.21%) Azure
2 175 (32.89%) Microsoft 365
3 126 (23.68%) AWS
4 109 (20.49%) Entra ID
5 42 (7.89%) SaaS
6 40 (7.52%) Datadog
7 37 (6.95%) GCP
8 27 (5.08%) IaaS
9 25 (4.70%) PaaS
10 23 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (4.32%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (3.38%) Mimecast
13 17 (3.20%) GitHub
13 17 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.44%) Google Workspace
14 13 (2.44%) Serverless
15 12 (2.26%) Power Platform
16 11 (2.07%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 214 (40.23%) VPN
2 181 (34.02%) Network Security
3 147 (27.63%) WAN
4 140 (26.32%) DNS
5 114 (21.43%) LAN
6 113 (21.24%) VLAN
7 109 (20.49%) Wi-Fi
8 97 (18.23%) SD-WAN
9 89 (16.73%) DHCP
10 80 (15.04%) Wireless
11 74 (13.91%) BGP
12 68 (12.78%) OSPF
13 67 (12.59%) TCP/IP
14 66 (12.41%) Cisco ISE
15 43 (8.08%) SAN
16 36 (6.77%) WLAN
17 32 (6.02%) Cisco Wireless
18 30 (5.64%) Cisco Firepower
19 29 (5.45%) MPLS
20 25 (4.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.26%) Power BI
3 6 (1.13%) 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%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.01%) Chocolatey
1 16 (3.01%) JIRA
2 9 (1.69%) Git
3 8 (1.50%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.32%) GitLab
5 6 (1.13%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.56%) Maven
6 3 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.38%) Burp Suite
General
1 172 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 132 (24.81%) Finance
3 40 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.77%) Banking
5 27 (5.08%) Legal
6 26 (4.89%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.44%) Law
8 12 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 10 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.88%) Retail
10 9 (1.69%) Mandarin Language
10 9 (1.69%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.13%) Back Office
13 6 (1.13%) Billing
13 6 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.94%) Military
15 4 (0.75%) Marketing
15 4 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (23.12%) Network Engineer
2 115 (21.62%) Senior
3 66 (12.41%) Architect
4 64 (12.03%) IT Engineer
5 56 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (8.27%) Support Engineer
8 42 (7.89%) IT Support
9 41 (7.71%) Security Engineer
10 35 (6.58%) Network Architect
11 34 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (6.20%) IT Support Engineer
12 33 (6.20%) Senior Network Engineer
13 31 (5.83%) Lead
14 30 (5.64%) Cisco Engineer
15 29 (5.45%) Analyst
16 28 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
17 25 (4.70%) Security Specialist
18 24 (4.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 24 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.57%) OAuth
2 18 (3.38%) SAML
3 17 (3.20%) OpenID
4 14 (2.63%) LDAP
5 13 (2.44%) 802.1X
5 13 (2.44%) REST
6 12 (2.26%) ADO
7 10 (1.88%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.50%) YAML
9 6 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.94%) Node.js
11 2 (0.38%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.38%) RESTful
11 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
12 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 97 (18.23%) Data Centre
2 65 (12.22%) Security Posture
3 37 (6.95%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (5.26%) PKI
5 26 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (4.51%) Management Information System
7 19 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 18 (3.38%) Onboarding
9 15 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (2.26%) Blog
11 11 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 10 (1.88%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
15 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
16 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (1.13%) Private Cloud
16 6 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
17 4 (0.75%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 171 (32.14%) Windows
2 61 (11.47%) Linux
3 53 (9.96%) Windows Server
4 26 (4.89%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.26%) VMS
7 9 (1.69%) Unix
8 7 (1.32%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.38%) tvOS
11 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.19%) CentOS
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (23.12%) Cybersecurity
2 103 (19.36%) Incident Response
3 95 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 93 (17.48%) Disaster Recovery
5 85 (15.98%) Cloud Security
5 85 (15.98%) SIEM
6 84 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 82 (15.41%) Zero Trust
8 77 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (12.59%) Migration
11 62 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 60 (11.28%) High Availability
13 58 (10.90%) Project Delivery
14 56 (10.53%) Business Continuity
15 55 (10.34%) ITIL
16 53 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
17 52 (9.77%) Mentoring
18 51 (9.59%) Security Architecture
18 51 (9.59%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 70 (13.16%) Python
3 28 (5.26%) Bash
4 13 (2.44%) SQL
5 12 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.88%) Bicep
7 6 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.56%) Java
8 3 (0.56%) Korn
8 3 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 133 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 114 (21.43%) CCNP
3 65 (12.22%) Degree
4 63 (11.84%) CISSP
5 54 (10.15%) Azure Certification
6 49 (9.21%) CCNA
7 41 (7.71%) CCIE
8 32 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (5.64%) Security Cleared
10 28 (5.26%) CISM
11 24 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (4.14%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (3.38%) AWS Certification
14 17 (3.20%) CEH
14 17 (3.20%) DV Cleared
15 14 (2.63%) SC Cleared
16 13 (2.44%) CCSA
16 13 (2.44%) CCSE
16 13 (2.44%) GIAC
17 10 (1.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (13.16%) NIST
3 34 (6.39%) GDPR
4 29 (5.45%) PCI DSS
5 24 (4.51%) SLA
6 20 (3.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (2.63%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.32%) Government Security Classifications
8 7 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 7 (1.32%) JSP 440
9 6 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (1.13%) QA
10 5 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.56%) NCSC
12 2 (0.38%) GRC
12 2 (0.38%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 155 (29.14%) Active Directory
2 50 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.50%) vSphere
6 7 (1.32%) Docker
7 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.75%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 4 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.56%) Firmware
10 2 (0.38%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.19%) KVM
11 1 (0.19%) NLBS
11 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (13.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (13.16%) Ansible
2 70 (13.16%) Terraform
3 52 (9.77%) FortiGate
4 37 (6.95%) Kubernetes
5 24 (4.51%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (4.14%) SCCM
7 19 (3.57%) Autotask
8 15 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.26%) Grafana
10 10 (1.88%) Prometheus
11 9 (1.69%) Cisco Prime
12 8 (1.50%) Check_MK
13 4 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.75%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.75%) VxRail
14 3 (0.56%) Argo
14 3 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.56%) Istio
14 3 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 261 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 172 (32.33%) Cisco
3 115 (21.62%) Palo Alto
4 93 (17.48%) VMware
5 68 (12.78%) Meraki
6 65 (12.22%) Fortinet
7 51 (9.59%) SolarWinds
8 42 (7.89%) CheckPoint
9 39 (7.33%) Zscaler
10 33 (6.20%) Splunk
11 29 (5.45%) Arista
12 27 (5.08%) Aruba
12 27 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
12 27 (5.08%) Dynatrace
13 26 (4.89%) Tenable
14 23 (4.32%) F5
14 23 (4.32%) Google
15 20 (3.76%) Juniper
15 20 (3.76%) SonicWALL
16 16 (3.01%) AppDynamics