Firewall Jobs in Manchester

Firewall
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 87 117
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 -31
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 142 190 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.73% 3.88% 2.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.74% 20.77% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 126 147 105
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,850 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £71,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 574 915 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.03% 18.69% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 445 394 439
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,625 £26,950
25th Percentile £35,112 £40,188 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +6.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £71,250
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +4.44%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Salford +15 9 £72,500 +41.46% 2
Stockport - 6 £60,000 - 2
Bolton +8 4 £32,500 -33.33% 2
Cheadle -3 4 £50,000 -28.57%
Bury - 4 £50,000 -
Rochdale +19 1 £60,000 +57.89% 1
Wigan +8 1 £43,500 -3.33% 3
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 17 (11.97%) IIS
2 13 (9.15%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (4.93%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.52%) Apache
6 4 (2.82%) CMS
6 4 (2.82%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.93%) Azure
2 49 (34.51%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (26.06%) AWS
4 25 (17.61%) GCP
5 14 (9.86%) GitHub
6 10 (7.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.23%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.23%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.52%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.11%) Anthos
11 3 (2.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (28.17%) DNS
2 38 (26.76%) WAN
3 26 (18.31%) LAN
4 24 (16.90%) DHCP
4 24 (16.90%) VPN
5 20 (14.08%) SAN
5 20 (14.08%) SD-WAN
5 20 (14.08%) TCP/IP
6 19 (13.38%) Network Security
7 18 (12.68%) Wireless
8 12 (8.45%) iSCSI
9 11 (7.75%) OSPF
10 9 (6.34%) SNMP
11 8 (5.63%) VLAN
12 7 (4.93%) BGP
12 7 (4.93%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (4.93%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (4.23%) Internet
13 6 (4.23%) IPsec
13 6 (4.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.52%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.82%) Power BI
4 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.93%) JIRA
2 7 (4.93%) Spinnaker
3 4 (2.82%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
General
1 35 (24.65%) Finance
2 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.93%) Banking
4 7 (4.93%) Retail
5 6 (4.23%) Law
6 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (24.65%) Network Engineer
2 22 (15.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (15.49%) IT Engineer
3 16 (11.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 13 (9.15%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.45%) Infrastructure Manager
5 12 (8.45%) IT Support
5 12 (8.45%) Senior
6 11 (7.75%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (7.75%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Lead
8 8 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Field Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) GCP Software Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.93%) Kafka
2 5 (3.52%) .NET
2 5 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (3.52%) YAML
3 4 (2.82%) Akka
4 2 (1.41%) Web Services
5 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.70%) CSS
5 1 (0.70%) HTML
5 1 (0.70%) jQuery
5 1 (0.70%) React
5 1 (0.70%) REST
5 1 (0.70%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.70%) Vue
5 1 (0.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.15%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.45%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.45%) PMI
3 9 (6.34%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (4.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (4.23%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.11%) Smart Energy
9 2 (1.41%) Anti-Spyware
9 2 (1.41%) CCTV
9 2 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.70%) CSOC
10 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.70%) Robotics
10 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (42.25%) Windows
2 39 (27.46%) Windows Server
3 36 (25.35%) Linux
4 15 (10.56%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.52%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (3.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.82%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.82%) VMS
8 2 (1.41%) Unix
8 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.70%) CentOS
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (25.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (20.42%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (18.31%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.49%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (15.49%) Incident Response
5 22 (15.49%) ITIL
6 21 (14.79%) Agile
7 19 (13.38%) CI/CD
7 19 (13.38%) Customer Service
7 19 (13.38%) Information Security
7 19 (13.38%) Project Management
8 17 (11.97%) Server Management
9 13 (9.15%) Capacity Planning
9 13 (9.15%) DevOps
10 12 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (8.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 12 (8.45%) Line Management
10 12 (8.45%) Network Architecture
10 12 (8.45%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.79%) Python
2 16 (11.27%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.75%) Bash
4 8 (5.63%) Java
5 3 (2.11%) Go
5 3 (2.11%) Ruby
6 1 (0.70%) C#
6 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.70%) Perl
6 1 (0.70%) SQL
6 1 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (23.94%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (18.31%) Degree
3 23 (16.20%) CCNA
4 18 (12.68%) CCNP
5 12 (8.45%) PMI Certification
6 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (7.04%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.23%) CCIE
8 6 (4.23%) CISM
8 6 (4.23%) CISSP
9 4 (2.82%) CCNA CyberOps
9 4 (2.82%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) CRISC
9 4 (2.82%) HNC
9 4 (2.82%) HND
9 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (7.75%) NIST
3 8 (5.63%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.11%) GDPR
6 3 (2.11%) SLA
7 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (33.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (30.99%) Active Directory
3 22 (15.49%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.63%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.23%) Docker
5 6 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.52%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.70%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.70%) Postfix
8 1 (0.70%) Snort
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (8.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (8.45%) Opsgenie
3 12 (8.45%) VxRail
3 12 (8.45%) ZABBIX
4 6 (4.23%) Ansible
5 5 (3.52%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.52%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.82%) Terraform
7 3 (2.11%) SELinux
8 2 (1.41%) Nessus
9 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.70%) SCCM
9 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (44.37%) Microsoft
2 60 (42.25%) VMware
3 58 (40.85%) Cisco
4 28 (19.72%) Fortinet
5 17 (11.97%) Dell
5 17 (11.97%) NetApp
6 14 (9.86%) SolarWinds
7 13 (9.15%) Meraki
8 10 (7.04%) Citrix
9 8 (5.63%) Aruba
9 8 (5.63%) Juniper
10 7 (4.93%) Confluent
10 7 (4.93%) Extreme Networks
10 7 (4.93%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.52%) ESET
11 5 (3.52%) HP
11 5 (3.52%) Red Hat
11 5 (3.52%) SolidFire
11 5 (3.52%) Sophos
11 5 (3.52%) Veeam