Firewall Jobs in Birmingham

Firewall
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 55 81
Rank change year-on-year +19 +26 -14
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 150 91 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.49% 4.57% 3.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.37% 31.06% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 135 77 104
10th Percentile £27,650 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £78,250 £82,500 £78,375
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.55% +0.56% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 381 293 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.96% 14.72% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 312 208 319
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £34,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £77,500 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (14.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.00%) Azure
2 49 (32.67%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (28.00%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (5.33%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.67%) AWS
6 4 (2.67%) IaaS
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.33%) Azure Stack
7 2 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.33%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.33%) OpenDNS
8 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (35.33%) WAN
2 35 (23.33%) DNS
2 35 (23.33%) LAN
3 28 (18.67%) DHCP
4 27 (18.00%) Network Security
5 23 (15.33%) TCP/IP
6 21 (14.00%) SD-WAN
6 21 (14.00%) VPN
7 18 (12.00%) Wireless
8 16 (10.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 14 (9.33%) PBX
9 14 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (8.67%) VLAN
11 11 (7.33%) iSCSI
11 11 (7.33%) SAN
12 10 (6.67%) MPLS
13 8 (5.33%) WLAN
14 7 (4.67%) IPsec
15 6 (4.00%) NGFW
15 6 (4.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 51 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 12 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.67%) Finance
5 9 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.00%) Police
8 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.67%) Retail
9 3 (2.00%) Legal
10 2 (1.33%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.33%) Law
10 2 (1.33%) Local Government
10 2 (1.33%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (21.33%) Network Engineer
2 29 (19.33%) Senior
3 25 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 18 (12.00%) IT Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 13 (8.67%) Architect
7 12 (8.00%) Implementation Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) IT Support
7 12 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (8.00%) Senior Implementation Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) Administrator
8 11 (7.33%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (6.67%) Analyst
9 10 (6.67%) IT Administrator
9 10 (6.67%) IT Systems Administrator
9 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) IP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.00%) .NET
2 3 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (2.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (2.00%) CSS
2 3 (2.00%) EDI
2 3 (2.00%) HTML
2 3 (2.00%) jQuery
2 3 (2.00%) React
2 3 (2.00%) REST
2 3 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (2.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (2.00%) Vue
2 3 (2.00%) WPF
3 2 (1.33%) LAMP
3 2 (1.33%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Replication
2 11 (7.33%) Wiki
3 10 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.33%) IoT
6 5 (3.33%) PKI
7 4 (2.67%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) NHS
9 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 69 (46.00%) Windows
2 49 (32.67%) Windows Server
3 28 (18.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (16.00%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.67%) Linux
7 4 (2.67%) VMS
8 2 (1.33%) SUSE
8 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.33%) Unix
8 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (15.33%) ITIL
5 17 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (10.00%) Change Management
7 13 (8.67%) Agile
8 12 (8.00%) Configuration Management
8 12 (8.00%) Customer Service
8 12 (8.00%) Fault Management
8 12 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 11 (7.33%) Patch Management
9 11 (7.33%) Service Delivery
10 10 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
10 10 (6.67%) Project Delivery
10 10 (6.67%) Security Operations
11 8 (5.33%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.33%) Decision-Making
11 8 (5.33%) Network Management
11 8 (5.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.67%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.33%) Perl
2 11 (7.33%) Python
3 9 (6.00%) SQL
4 3 (2.00%) C#
4 3 (2.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.33%) Azure Certification
3 11 (7.33%) CCNP
3 11 (7.33%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.33%) Degree
5 7 (4.67%) CCNA
6 5 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.67%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.33%) CCDA
8 2 (1.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.67%) CCIE
9 1 (0.67%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.33%) GDPR
2 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.33%) NIST
2 2 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (35.33%) Active Directory
2 45 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 36 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.00%) pfSense
6 5 (3.33%) NFS
7 2 (1.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.33%) Docker
7 2 (1.33%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (18.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (12.00%) SCCM
3 2 (1.33%) Backup Exec
3 2 (1.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 1 (0.67%) CASB
4 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (32.67%) Cisco
2 47 (31.33%) VMware
3 39 (26.00%) Microsoft
4 32 (21.33%) Juniper
5 30 (20.00%) Veeam
6 24 (16.00%) Aruba
7 22 (14.67%) Fortinet
8 10 (6.67%) Meraki
9 8 (5.33%) Sophos
10 6 (4.00%) Dell
11 5 (3.33%) CheckPoint
11 5 (3.33%) Palo Alto
12 4 (2.67%) BroadSoft
12 4 (2.67%) Citrix
12 4 (2.67%) Dell Compellent
12 4 (2.67%) HP
12 4 (2.67%) QNAP
12 4 (2.67%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.67%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (2.67%) Zerto