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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 84 106
Rank change year-on-year -18 +22 -33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 549 462 634
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.31% 3.79% 3.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.97% 37.17% 24.86%
Number of salaries quoted 397 371 487
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,000 £93,450
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -1.22%

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 1,895 1,243 2,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.96% 10.19% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 885 1,373
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.63%

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 12 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 12 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 -27 51 £90,000 +35.34% 26
West London -4 30 £70,809 +44.51% 5
North London +10 14 £55,000 -21.43%
South London +7 13 £30,500 -33.70% 5
East London -14 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 51 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (9.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.73%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (2.73%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.55%) AutoCAD
4 3 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.36%) SmartSuite
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 319 (58.11%) Azure
2 186 (33.88%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (22.59%) AWS
4 111 (20.22%) Entra ID
5 45 (8.20%) SaaS
6 38 (6.92%) GCP
7 33 (6.01%) Datadog
7 33 (6.01%) PaaS
8 31 (5.65%) IaaS
9 22 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
10 20 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (3.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (3.28%) Mimecast
13 15 (2.73%) Google Workspace
13 15 (2.73%) Serverless
14 12 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.19%) GitHub
14 12 (2.19%) OpenShift
15 11 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (2.00%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 211 (38.43%) VPN
2 190 (34.61%) Network Security
3 153 (27.87%) DNS
4 148 (26.96%) WAN
5 120 (21.86%) LAN
6 116 (21.13%) VLAN
7 108 (19.67%) Wi-Fi
8 100 (18.21%) DHCP
9 94 (17.12%) SD-WAN
10 87 (15.85%) TCP/IP
11 82 (14.94%) Wireless
12 66 (12.02%) BGP
13 61 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
13 61 (11.11%) OSPF
14 43 (7.83%) SAN
15 33 (6.01%) WLAN
16 27 (4.92%) MPLS
17 26 (4.74%) Cisco Wireless
18 21 (3.83%) Cisco Firepower
18 21 (3.83%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.38%) 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%) 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%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (2.91%) Chocolatey
2 15 (2.73%) JIRA
3 9 (1.64%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.46%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.46%) Git
5 6 (1.09%) GitLab
6 5 (0.91%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 189 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 125 (22.77%) Finance
3 42 (7.65%) Banking
4 39 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (6.01%) Legal
5 33 (6.01%) Telecoms
6 23 (4.19%) Law
7 14 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.37%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (2.00%) Retail
11 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Back Office
14 6 (1.09%) Billing
14 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.09%) Marketing
14 6 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (22.04%) Network Engineer
2 119 (21.68%) Senior
3 63 (11.48%) Architect
4 61 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 60 (10.93%) Azure Engineer
6 55 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (8.01%) Support Engineer
8 42 (7.65%) IT Support
9 41 (7.47%) Security Engineer
9 41 (7.47%) Senior Network Engineer
10 39 (7.10%) Lead
11 34 (6.19%) IT Support Engineer
12 33 (6.01%) Analyst
13 31 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support
13 31 (5.65%) Network Architect
14 29 (5.28%) Cisco Engineer
15 28 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
16 27 (4.92%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 26 (4.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
18 24 (4.37%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.10%) OpenID
2 16 (2.91%) OAuth
3 15 (2.73%) REST
3 15 (2.73%) SAML
4 14 (2.55%) LDAP
5 13 (2.37%) 802.1X
6 11 (2.00%) ARM Templates
6 11 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
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
Miscellaneous
1 91 (16.58%) Data Centre
2 64 (11.66%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.29%) Cyber Threat
4 28 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (5.10%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.83%) PKI
7 18 (3.28%) Cloud Native
8 17 (3.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 16 (2.91%) Video Conferencing
10 14 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.00%) Blog
12 10 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.64%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
15 6 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
15 6 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 177 (32.24%) Windows
2 71 (12.93%) Linux
3 56 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.46%) Mac OS
5 14 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.37%) Unix
7 9 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.64%) VMS
8 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.09%) Kali Linux
10 5 (0.91%) CentOS
10 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.73%) Rocky
12 3 (0.55%) Solaris
13 2 (0.36%) Android
13 2 (0.36%) tvOS
14 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (23.86%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (20.77%) Incident Response
3 107 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 87 (15.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 86 (15.66%) Roadmaps
5 86 (15.66%) SIEM
6 85 (15.48%) Cloud Security
7 77 (14.03%) Zero Trust
8 71 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (12.75%) Migration
10 69 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 67 (12.20%) Project Delivery
12 66 (12.02%) ITIL
13 57 (10.38%) Mentoring
14 55 (10.02%) High Availability
14 55 (10.02%) Information Security
15 53 (9.65%) Business Continuity
15 53 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
16 52 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.48%) PowerShell
1 74 (13.48%) Python
2 34 (6.19%) Bash
3 15 (2.73%) Bicep
4 14 (2.55%) SQL
5 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
7 4 (0.73%) C
7 4 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.73%) Perl
7 4 (0.73%) Ruby
8 2 (0.36%) Java
8 2 (0.36%) Korn
8 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (23.86%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (20.58%) CCNP
3 68 (12.39%) Degree
4 63 (11.48%) CISSP
5 60 (10.93%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.74%) CCNA
7 33 (6.01%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.83%) CCIE
9 31 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (4.74%) CISM
10 26 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (3.83%) AWS Certification
12 20 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (2.91%) CEH
13 16 (2.91%) DV Cleared
14 13 (2.37%) SC Cleared
15 12 (2.19%) GIAC
16 11 (2.00%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.64%) JNCIP
17 9 (1.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (13.66%) NIST
2 74 (13.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (7.10%) GDPR
4 30 (5.46%) SLA
5 29 (5.28%) PCI DSS
6 18 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.64%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
8 6 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 6 (1.09%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.09%) QA
9 5 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.91%) GRC
9 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.55%) NCSC
11 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 151 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 53 (9.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.01%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.82%) Docker
6 8 (1.46%) vSphere
7 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.36%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (12.93%) Terraform
3 66 (12.02%) Ansible
4 52 (9.47%) FortiGate
5 42 (7.65%) Kubernetes
6 25 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (4.19%) SCCM
8 19 (3.46%) Autotask
9 17 (3.10%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (1.82%) Grafana
11 9 (1.64%) Nessus
11 9 (1.64%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.46%) Cisco Prime
13 7 (1.28%) CASB
14 5 (0.91%) Check_MK
14 5 (0.91%) Nmap
15 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.55%) Argo
16 3 (0.55%) Istio
16 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 274 (49.91%) Microsoft
2 177 (32.24%) Cisco
3 120 (21.86%) Palo Alto
4 99 (18.03%) VMware
5 69 (12.57%) Meraki
6 63 (11.48%) Fortinet
7 53 (9.65%) Zscaler
8 38 (6.92%) SolarWinds
9 35 (6.38%) CheckPoint
10 28 (5.10%) Tenable
11 26 (4.74%) Aruba
11 26 (4.74%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (4.74%) F5
11 26 (4.74%) Splunk
12 24 (4.37%) Arista
13 23 (4.19%) Google
14 21 (3.83%) Dynatrace
15 20 (3.64%) HP
16 18 (3.28%) Juniper
16 18 (3.28%) SonicWALL