Firewall Job Trends in South London

Firewall
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 67 48
Rank change year-on-year +29 -19 +13
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 1.71% 3.14% 3.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.73% 20.69% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 17 14
10th Percentile £42,475 £43,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £60,000 £45,125
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +32.96% -14.05%
75th Percentile £49,000 £65,272 £55,000
90th Percentile - £67,250 £64,625
London median annual salary £67,500 £72,450 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.83% +11.46% +4.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 169 87 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 36.03% 15.16% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 19 45 31
10th Percentile £27,694 £32,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £49,000 £73,750 £64,375
90th Percentile - - £76,250
London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South London.

Firewall job vacancy trend in South London

Firewall
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Firewall

Firewall
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the South London region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Sutton - 6 £46,000 -
Bromley +14 1 £47,500 -5.47% 2
Kingston Upon Thames +3 1 £42,500 -36.09%
Firewall
London

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) IT Support
1 6 (75.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Account Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) VMS
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
1 6 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Autotask
2 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) N-able