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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 76 72
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 507 511 883
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.55% 4.00% 3.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.06% 37.57% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 357 416 743
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +7.14% -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 2,107 1,360 3,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 10.58% 10.65% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 997 977 2,052
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £105,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +24 90 £80,000 +14.29% 35
East London -7 17 £105,000 +9.09% 1
West London -17 15 £67,059 +28.96% 8
North London +9 14 £55,000 -16.98% 1
South London 0 6 £31,000 -48.33% 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 35 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.18%) Confluence
4 4 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (2.37%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.20%) Alphatax
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 306 (60.36%) Azure
2 156 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 124 (24.46%) AWS
4 80 (15.78%) Entra ID
5 47 (9.27%) SaaS
6 45 (8.88%) Datadog
7 44 (8.68%) GCP
8 26 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (4.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 25 (4.93%) GitHub
9 25 (4.93%) IaaS
10 22 (4.34%) PaaS
11 21 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (3.75%) Mimecast
14 15 (2.96%) AWS Direct Connect
15 14 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (2.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 216 (42.60%) VPN
2 146 (28.80%) WAN
3 133 (26.23%) Network Security
4 123 (24.26%) DNS
5 107 (21.10%) Wi-Fi
6 106 (20.91%) LAN
7 99 (19.53%) VLAN
8 95 (18.74%) SD-WAN
9 86 (16.96%) DHCP
10 63 (12.43%) Wireless
11 61 (12.03%) TCP/IP
12 58 (11.44%) BGP
13 55 (10.85%) Cisco ISE
14 52 (10.26%) OSPF
15 42 (8.28%) SAN
16 36 (7.10%) Cisco Firepower
17 33 (6.51%) WLAN
18 31 (6.11%) Cisco ASA
19 29 (5.72%) Cisco Wireless
20 27 (5.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.18%) Power BI
3 5 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (3.94%) Chocolatey
2 11 (2.17%) Git
2 11 (2.17%) JIRA
3 9 (1.78%) GitLab
4 8 (1.58%) 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
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 139 (27.42%) Finance
2 129 (25.44%) Social Skills
3 52 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.07%) Banking
5 26 (5.13%) Legal
6 15 (2.96%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.97%) Retail Banking
9 9 (1.78%) Retail
10 8 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.38%) Aviation
11 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.38%) Law
11 7 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.18%) Public Sector
13 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.79%) Marketing
14 3 (0.59%) Advertising
14 3 (0.59%) Electronics
14 3 (0.59%) German Language
Job Titles
1 132 (26.04%) Network Engineer
2 91 (17.95%) Senior
3 66 (13.02%) Azure Engineer
4 64 (12.62%) IT Engineer
5 60 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 47 (9.27%) Analyst
7 46 (9.07%) Architect
7 46 (9.07%) Support Engineer
8 45 (8.88%) Cisco Engineer
9 44 (8.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 41 (8.09%) IT Support
11 38 (7.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 29 (5.72%) IT Support Engineer
12 29 (5.72%) Lead
12 29 (5.72%) Security Engineer
13 28 (5.52%) Senior Network Engineer
14 27 (5.33%) Senior IT Engineer
15 26 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
16 25 (4.93%) Network Architect
17 23 (4.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.34%) OAuth
2 21 (4.14%) SAML
3 16 (3.16%) ADO
4 12 (2.37%) YAML
5 11 (2.17%) OpenID
6 10 (1.97%) 802.1X
7 9 (1.78%) REST
8 8 (1.58%) LDAP
9 5 (0.99%) .NET
10 4 (0.79%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.39%) AWS SAM
12 2 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.39%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.39%) SailPoint
13 1 (0.20%) RESTful
13 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 46 (9.07%) Security Posture
3 38 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
4 29 (5.72%) Management Information System
5 24 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (3.75%) PKI
7 17 (3.35%) Cloud Native
8 15 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 14 (2.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
12 9 (1.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 8 (1.58%) Blog
13 8 (1.58%) IoT
14 7 (1.38%) Cyber Security Posture
15 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
15 6 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 161 (31.76%) Windows
2 58 (11.44%) Linux
3 57 (11.24%) Windows Server
4 21 (4.14%) Mac OS
5 19 (3.75%) VMS
6 15 (2.96%) Unix
7 13 (2.56%) Windows 10
8 12 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (2.17%) Ubuntu
9 11 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.79%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.39%) CentOS
13 2 (0.39%) Solaris
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (22.09%) Incident Response
2 111 (21.89%) Cybersecurity
3 100 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (18.93%) Disaster Recovery
5 89 (17.55%) SIEM
6 77 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 74 (14.60%) Zero Trust
8 71 (14.00%) Cloud Security
8 71 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (13.81%) Migration
10 62 (12.23%) ITIL
11 59 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 58 (11.44%) High Availability
13 56 (11.05%) DevOps
14 53 (10.45%) Roadmaps
15 52 (10.26%) Vulnerability Management
16 51 (10.06%) Business Continuity
17 50 (9.86%) CI/CD
18 49 (9.66%) Information Security
19 48 (9.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 79 (15.58%) PowerShell
2 67 (13.21%) Python
3 27 (5.33%) Bash
4 18 (3.55%) Kusto Query Language
4 18 (3.55%) SQL
5 15 (2.96%) Bicep
6 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.59%) Go
8 2 (0.39%) Java
8 2 (0.39%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.39%) Korn
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.20%) C#
9 1 (0.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 127 (25.05%) Cisco Certification
2 102 (20.12%) CCNP
3 70 (13.81%) Degree
4 65 (12.82%) CISSP
5 48 (9.47%) CCNA
6 41 (8.09%) Azure Certification
7 37 (7.30%) CCIE
8 33 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 28 (5.52%) CISM
10 24 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (4.73%) Security Cleared
11 22 (4.34%) CompTIA Security+
12 17 (3.35%) CEH
13 15 (2.96%) CCSA
13 15 (2.96%) CCSE
13 15 (2.96%) DV Cleared
14 14 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (2.56%) DBS Check
15 13 (2.56%) SC Cleared
16 12 (2.37%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (16.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (12.03%) NIST
3 54 (10.65%) GDPR
4 33 (6.51%) PCI DSS
5 22 (4.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (4.14%) SOC 2
7 20 (3.94%) SLA
8 11 (2.17%) 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 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.79%) GRC
12 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.59%) ITGC
13 3 (0.59%) NCSC
14 1 (0.20%) MiFID
14 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 149 (29.39%) Active Directory
2 43 (8.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (3.94%) Docker
5 17 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (3.16%) Firmware
7 13 (2.56%) Hyper-V
8 10 (1.97%) vSphere
9 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.59%) KVM
11 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.20%) NLBS
12 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (15.78%) Terraform
2 77 (15.19%) Ansible
3 71 (14.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (8.48%) Kubernetes
5 35 (6.90%) FortiGate
6 30 (5.92%) SCCM
7 15 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (2.17%) Autotask
9 10 (1.97%) Grafana
10 9 (1.78%) Check_MK
10 9 (1.78%) Cisco Prime
11 8 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (1.58%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.99%) CASB
12 5 (0.99%) Nagios
12 5 (0.99%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.79%) Istio
13 4 (0.79%) linkerd
13 4 (0.79%) Mesos
Vendors
1 214 (42.21%) Microsoft
2 168 (33.14%) Cisco
3 98 (19.33%) Palo Alto
4 86 (16.96%) VMware
5 71 (14.00%) Fortinet
6 67 (13.21%) Meraki
7 51 (10.06%) SolarWinds
8 44 (8.68%) CheckPoint
9 35 (6.90%) Dynatrace
10 33 (6.51%) Zscaler
11 29 (5.72%) Juniper
12 28 (5.52%) CrowdStrike
13 27 (5.33%) Splunk
14 25 (4.93%) Tenable
15 24 (4.73%) Google
16 23 (4.54%) AppDynamics
17 22 (4.34%) Arista
18 20 (3.94%) Aruba
19 14 (2.76%) F5
20 13 (2.56%) iManage