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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 86 94
Rank change year-on-year -25 +8 -30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 542 439 616
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.07% 3.75% 3.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.60% 35.72% 29.80%
Number of salaries quoted 392 323 388
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,850
25th Percentile £52,188 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £51,250 £46,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +11.41% -11.54% -5.45%

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 1,831 1,229 2,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 10.49% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,072 827 1,188
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.43% +1.92%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £99,300
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -29 32 £86,250 +23.21% 76
West London +3 29 £66,250 +26.19% 11
South London +15 24 £38,500 -16.30% 9
North London +3 9 £55,000 -26.67% 1
East London -18 6 £105,000 +200.00% 10
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 56 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (10.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.55%) Confluence
3 3 (0.55%) SAS
4 2 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) Moodle
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) SmartSuite
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.18%) Eikon
3 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 286 (52.77%) Azure
2 193 (35.61%) Microsoft 365
3 144 (26.57%) Entra ID
4 104 (19.19%) AWS
5 43 (7.93%) PaaS
6 41 (7.56%) SaaS
7 34 (6.27%) IaaS
8 31 (5.72%) GCP
9 25 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (4.61%) Mimecast
10 23 (4.24%) OneDrive
11 22 (4.06%) Datadog
12 20 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 19 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (3.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (3.14%) Serverless
16 16 (2.95%) Power Platform
17 14 (2.58%) Azure Key Vault
17 14 (2.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 234 (43.17%) VPN
2 182 (33.58%) DNS
3 156 (28.78%) Network Security
4 136 (25.09%) WAN
5 128 (23.62%) DHCP
6 124 (22.88%) VLAN
7 111 (20.48%) LAN
7 111 (20.48%) Wi-Fi
8 109 (20.11%) TCP/IP
9 99 (18.27%) Wireless
10 67 (12.36%) SD-WAN
11 62 (11.44%) BGP
12 56 (10.33%) Cisco ISE
13 48 (8.86%) OSPF
14 42 (7.75%) SAN
15 24 (4.43%) MPLS
16 22 (4.06%) SSL
17 18 (3.32%) Cisco ASA
17 18 (3.32%) VXLAN
17 18 (3.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.33%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.77%) Power BI
3 14 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.55%) Big Data
5 3 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.55%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.37%) MySQL
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 15 (2.77%) JIRA
2 12 (2.21%) Burp Suite
2 12 (2.21%) Metasploit
3 11 (2.03%) Chocolatey
4 8 (1.48%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.11%) Git
6 3 (0.55%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) Maven
7 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 186 (34.32%) Social Skills
2 134 (24.72%) Finance
3 45 (8.30%) Law
4 37 (6.83%) Banking
5 31 (5.72%) Legal
5 31 (5.72%) Telecoms
6 29 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.58%) Back Office
10 14 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.85%) Mandarin Language
12 10 (1.85%) Retail
13 8 (1.48%) Marketing
14 6 (1.11%) Billing
14 6 (1.11%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 103 (19.00%) Senior
2 96 (17.71%) Network Engineer
3 75 (13.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (11.99%) Architect
5 53 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
5 53 (9.78%) Security Engineer
6 52 (9.59%) IT Engineer
7 50 (9.23%) Lead
8 45 (8.30%) Support Engineer
9 44 (8.12%) IT Support
10 38 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
11 32 (5.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (5.35%) IT Support Engineer
13 28 (5.17%) Senior Network Engineer
14 26 (4.80%) Analyst
15 23 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (4.24%) Senior Security Engineer
16 22 (4.06%) 2nd Line Support
16 22 (4.06%) Team Leader
17 21 (3.87%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (14.02%) Terraform
2 17 (3.14%) SAML
3 16 (2.95%) LDAP
3 16 (2.95%) OAuth
3 16 (2.95%) OpenID
4 15 (2.77%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (2.77%) REST
5 9 (1.66%) 802.1X
5 9 (1.66%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.92%) ADO
6 5 (0.92%) Node.js
6 5 (0.92%) YAML
7 4 (0.74%) RESTful
8 2 (0.37%) Middleware
8 2 (0.37%) Rendezvous
8 2 (0.37%) Web Services
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Blueprints
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.18%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (15.87%) Data Centre
2 72 (13.28%) Security Posture
3 46 (8.49%) Onboarding
4 43 (7.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (5.90%) Management Information System
6 29 (5.35%) Cloud Native
7 28 (5.17%) Cyber Threat
8 25 (4.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 20 (3.69%) PKI
10 16 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.95%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (2.77%) Driving Licence
12 13 (2.40%) Blog
13 10 (1.85%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.66%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.66%) Virtual Team
15 8 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.48%) Eurex
15 8 (1.48%) Operational Technology
16 7 (1.29%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 202 (37.27%) Windows
2 80 (14.76%) Windows Server
3 79 (14.58%) Linux
4 30 (5.54%) macOS
5 16 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.40%) Unix
6 13 (2.40%) VMS
7 9 (1.66%) CentOS
7 9 (1.66%) Rocky
7 9 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.48%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.92%) Solaris
10 4 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.55%) Android
11 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
11 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.37%) tvOS
13 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (28.04%) Cybersecurity
2 120 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
3 107 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 104 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 93 (17.16%) Zero Trust
6 92 (16.97%) Cloud Security
7 89 (16.42%) Incident Response
8 85 (15.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 81 (14.94%) Roadmaps
10 77 (14.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (14.21%) Migration
11 70 (12.92%) SIEM
12 64 (11.81%) ITIL
12 64 (11.81%) Vulnerability Management
13 62 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (10.89%) Information Security
15 58 (10.70%) High Availability
16 57 (10.52%) Mentoring
16 57 (10.52%) Project Delivery
17 56 (10.33%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 82 (15.13%) PowerShell
2 71 (13.10%) Python
3 34 (6.27%) SQL
4 30 (5.54%) Bash
5 24 (4.43%) Bicep
6 10 (1.85%) Java
7 9 (1.66%) Go
8 8 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.48%) Perl
8 8 (1.48%) Ruby
9 7 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.92%) C
11 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.37%) Korn
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (19.56%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (14.02%) CCNP
3 72 (13.28%) CISSP
4 68 (12.55%) Degree
5 50 (9.23%) Azure Certification
6 43 (7.93%) CCNA
7 38 (7.01%) Security Cleared
8 34 (6.27%) CISM
9 32 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (4.06%) AWS Certification
12 18 (3.32%) CCIE
13 16 (2.95%) CCSP
14 13 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (1.85%) DV Cleared
18 9 (1.66%) GIAC
18 9 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
18 9 (1.66%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (15.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (14.21%) NIST
3 42 (7.75%) SLA
4 40 (7.38%) PCI DSS
5 36 (6.64%) GDPR
6 13 (2.40%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.66%) GRC
9 7 (1.29%) QA
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.74%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.37%) NCSC
12 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 152 (28.04%) Active Directory
2 56 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (4.98%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.32%) Docker
4 18 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (3.14%) vSphere
6 15 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.92%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.37%) Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.18%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.18%) Samba
10 1 (0.18%) Xen
10 1 (0.18%) XenApp
10 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (13.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (9.23%) Ansible
2 50 (9.23%) FortiGate
3 41 (7.56%) Kubernetes
4 36 (6.64%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (3.69%) Grafana
6 19 (3.51%) SCCM
7 16 (2.95%) CASB
8 15 (2.77%) Nessus
9 13 (2.40%) Autotask
9 13 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.21%) Nmap
11 9 (1.66%) Prometheus
12 8 (1.48%) Cilium
13 6 (1.11%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.74%) Argo
15 3 (0.55%) Istio
15 3 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
15 3 (0.55%) VxRail
16 2 (0.37%) Mesos
Vendors
1 289 (53.32%) Microsoft
2 155 (28.60%) Cisco
3 116 (21.40%) Palo Alto
4 101 (18.63%) VMware
5 58 (10.70%) Fortinet
6 53 (9.78%) Zscaler
7 49 (9.04%) Meraki
8 24 (4.43%) F5
9 23 (4.24%) CheckPoint
9 23 (4.24%) Tenable
10 22 (4.06%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (4.06%) Google
11 21 (3.87%) Juniper
11 21 (3.87%) Splunk
12 20 (3.69%) Arista
12 20 (3.69%) SolarWinds
13 19 (3.51%) Aruba
14 18 (3.32%) Dynatrace
15 17 (3.14%) HP
16 15 (2.77%) Sophos