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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 85 109
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 -39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 545 458 618
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.28% 3.77% 3.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.05% 37.06% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 400 364 467
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,900 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +1.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -1.93%

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 1,876 1,236 2,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.84% 10.19% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 878 1,356
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,373 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,188 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.23% -0.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,125 £100,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,870 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% -15.00% -2.77%

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 20 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 20 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 -26 51 £90,750 +34.44% 20
West London -2 30 £70,809 +36.17% 5
North London +11 14 £55,000 -21.43%
South London +9 13 £34,250 -25.54% 9
East London -15 7 £105,000 +208.82% 6
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 52 (9.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 52 (9.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.73%) Confluence
3 3 (0.55%) SAS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (2.57%) MS Visio
2 12 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
4 2 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 314 (57.61%) Azure
2 190 (34.86%) Microsoft 365
3 121 (22.20%) AWS
4 113 (20.73%) Entra ID
5 44 (8.07%) SaaS
6 37 (6.79%) GCP
7 34 (6.24%) PaaS
8 33 (6.06%) Datadog
9 31 (5.69%) IaaS
10 23 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (4.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 18 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (3.12%) Mimecast
14 16 (2.94%) Serverless
15 15 (2.75%) Google Workspace
16 14 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
17 12 (2.20%) OneDrive
17 12 (2.20%) OpenShift
18 11 (2.02%) GitHub
18 11 (2.02%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 209 (38.35%) VPN
2 183 (33.58%) Network Security
3 157 (28.81%) DNS
4 145 (26.61%) WAN
5 117 (21.47%) LAN
6 116 (21.28%) VLAN
7 104 (19.08%) DHCP
7 104 (19.08%) Wi-Fi
8 91 (16.70%) SD-WAN
9 88 (16.15%) TCP/IP
10 83 (15.23%) Wireless
11 62 (11.38%) BGP
11 62 (11.38%) Cisco ISE
12 58 (10.64%) OSPF
13 43 (7.89%) SAN
14 30 (5.50%) WLAN
15 26 (4.77%) MPLS
16 25 (4.59%) Cisco Wireless
17 20 (3.67%) Cisco ASA
17 20 (3.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (11.01%) 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%) 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
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
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 (2.94%) Chocolatey
1 16 (2.94%) JIRA
2 10 (1.83%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.47%) Git
4 7 (1.28%) Burp Suite
5 6 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.10%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 189 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 125 (22.94%) Finance
3 43 (7.89%) Banking
4 39 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (5.87%) Legal
5 32 (5.87%) Telecoms
6 25 (4.59%) Law
7 15 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.39%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.02%) Mandarin Language
10 11 (2.02%) Retail
11 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.28%) Back Office
13 6 (1.10%) Billing
13 6 (1.10%) Digital Health
13 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 119 (21.83%) Senior
2 115 (21.10%) Network Engineer
3 63 (11.56%) IT Engineer
4 62 (11.38%) Azure Engineer
5 61 (11.19%) Architect
6 59 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (8.07%) Support Engineer
8 42 (7.71%) Security Engineer
9 41 (7.52%) IT Support
9 41 (7.52%) Lead
10 39 (7.16%) Senior Network Engineer
11 34 (6.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 32 (5.87%) Analyst
13 31 (5.69%) 2nd Line Support
13 31 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 28 (5.14%) Network Architect
15 27 (4.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 26 (4.77%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
16 26 (4.77%) Cisco Engineer
17 25 (4.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.39%) Terraform
2 17 (3.12%) OpenID
3 16 (2.94%) OAuth
4 15 (2.75%) REST
4 15 (2.75%) SAML
5 14 (2.57%) LDAP
6 13 (2.39%) 802.1X
6 13 (2.39%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (2.02%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.65%) ADO
9 5 (0.92%) Node.js
9 5 (0.92%) 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 91 (16.70%) Data Centre
2 63 (11.56%) Security Posture
3 40 (7.34%) Cyber Threat
4 32 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (5.14%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.04%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.85%) PKI
8 19 (3.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 18 (3.30%) Cloud Native
10 16 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.83%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.65%) Blog
14 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.28%) NHS
14 7 (1.28%) Operational Technology
14 7 (1.28%) Private Cloud
15 6 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 178 (32.66%) Windows
2 74 (13.58%) Linux
3 59 (10.83%) Windows Server
4 31 (5.69%) Mac OS
5 13 (2.39%) Unix
5 13 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 9 (1.65%) VMS
7 7 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.10%) CentOS
8 6 (1.10%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.92%) Rocky
10 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.55%) Solaris
12 2 (0.37%) Android
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
13 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.14%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 92 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 90 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (15.78%) Roadmaps
6 86 (15.78%) SIEM
7 83 (15.23%) Cloud Security
8 76 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 75 (13.76%) Zero Trust
10 72 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 69 (12.66%) ITIL
11 69 (12.66%) Migration
12 67 (12.29%) Project Delivery
13 61 (11.19%) Mentoring
14 59 (10.83%) High Availability
15 55 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (10.09%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (9.72%) Business Continuity
16 53 (9.72%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 74 (13.58%) Python
2 72 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 34 (6.24%) Bash
4 18 (3.30%) Bicep
5 16 (2.94%) SQL
6 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (0.92%) C
7 5 (0.92%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.92%) Perl
7 5 (0.92%) Ruby
7 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.37%) Java
8 2 (0.37%) Korn
8 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 127 (23.30%) Cisco Certification
2 110 (20.18%) CCNP
3 71 (13.03%) Degree
4 64 (11.74%) CISSP
5 63 (11.56%) Azure Certification
6 46 (8.44%) CCNA
7 33 (6.06%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.87%) CCIE
8 32 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (4.40%) CISM
11 23 (4.22%) AWS Certification
12 19 (3.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 16 (2.94%) CEH
14 14 (2.57%) DV Cleared
15 12 (2.20%) GIAC
15 12 (2.20%) Master's Degree
16 11 (2.02%) SC Cleared
17 9 (1.65%) JNCIP
17 9 (1.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.58%) NIST
2 72 (13.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (7.52%) GDPR
4 30 (5.50%) SLA
5 29 (5.32%) PCI DSS
6 18 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.65%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.28%) GRC
9 6 (1.10%) QA
10 5 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.73%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.73%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.55%) NCSC
13 2 (0.37%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 154 (28.26%) Active Directory
2 56 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 23 (4.22%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.02%) Docker
6 9 (1.65%) vSphere
7 6 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.73%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.18%) Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (13.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (11.56%) Ansible
3 54 (9.91%) FortiGate
4 40 (7.34%) Kubernetes
5 26 (4.77%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (4.04%) SCCM
7 19 (3.49%) Autotask
8 17 (3.12%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.20%) Nessus
10 10 (1.83%) Grafana
11 9 (1.65%) Prometheus
12 7 (1.28%) CASB
12 7 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
12 7 (1.28%) Nmap
13 4 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.73%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.55%) Argo
14 3 (0.55%) Istio
14 3 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 278 (51.01%) Microsoft
2 173 (31.74%) Cisco
3 120 (22.02%) Palo Alto
4 102 (18.72%) VMware
5 64 (11.74%) Meraki
6 62 (11.38%) Fortinet
7 53 (9.72%) Zscaler
8 34 (6.24%) SolarWinds
9 33 (6.06%) CheckPoint
10 30 (5.50%) Tenable
11 27 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
11 27 (4.95%) Splunk
12 26 (4.77%) Aruba
12 26 (4.77%) F5
13 23 (4.22%) Arista
14 21 (3.85%) Google
15 20 (3.67%) Dynatrace
15 20 (3.67%) HP
16 18 (3.30%) Juniper
17 17 (3.12%) SonicWALL