Firewall Jobs in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 73 99
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 -39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 603 745 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.41% 4.41% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.69% 23.52% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 496 503 481
10th Percentile £26,750 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,938 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +6.74% -1.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,225
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,178 3,167 2,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.32% 18.75% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,666 1,253 1,696
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -0.55% +0.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Yorkshire +49 269 £45,000 -2.70% 60
North West -16 266 £50,000 - 80
North East +7 80 £40,000 -5.88% 14
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 76 (12.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (9.95%) SharePoint
3 30 (4.98%) IIS
4 16 (2.65%) Apache
5 7 (1.16%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.66%) CMS
6 4 (0.66%) Confluence
6 4 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 274 (45.44%) Azure
2 208 (34.49%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (15.59%) AWS
4 56 (9.29%) Entra ID
5 39 (6.47%) GCP
6 20 (3.32%) SaaS
7 19 (3.15%) IaaS
8 16 (2.65%) Amazon S3
8 16 (2.65%) GitHub
8 16 (2.65%) PaaS
9 15 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (2.32%) OneDrive
11 13 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
12 11 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (1.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
16 5 (0.83%) Power Platform
16 5 (0.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 168 (27.86%) WAN
2 140 (23.22%) VPN
3 136 (22.55%) LAN
4 114 (18.91%) DNS
5 86 (14.26%) TCP/IP
6 84 (13.93%) Network Security
7 80 (13.27%) DHCP
8 67 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 61 (10.12%) SD-WAN
10 57 (9.45%) Wireless
11 48 (7.96%) SAN
12 45 (7.46%) VLAN
13 44 (7.30%) Internet
14 37 (6.14%) Intrusion Detection
15 36 (5.97%) OSPF
16 34 (5.64%) VoIP
17 32 (5.31%) BGP
18 29 (4.81%) MPLS
19 28 (4.64%) SSL
20 26 (4.31%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.83%) Redis
6 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.66%) Power BI
7 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.82%) JIRA
2 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.16%) Spinnaker
4 4 (0.66%) Git
4 4 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.50%) GitLab
5 3 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.17%) Postman
7 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 188 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.43%) Finance
3 43 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.31%) Law
5 26 (4.31%) Retail
6 25 (4.15%) Manufacturing
7 23 (3.81%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.99%) Legal
10 10 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.49%) Banking
12 7 (1.16%) Games
12 7 (1.16%) Military
12 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.83%) Marketing
15 3 (0.50%) Local Government
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 87 (14.43%) Network Engineer
2 85 (14.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 75 (12.44%) IT Support
4 70 (11.61%) IT Engineer
5 67 (11.11%) Lead
6 59 (9.78%) Analyst
7 52 (8.62%) Senior
8 50 (8.29%) Support Engineer
9 40 (6.63%) Team Leader
10 38 (6.30%) IT Manager
11 30 (4.98%) 3rd Line Support
12 28 (4.64%) Infrastructure Manager
12 28 (4.64%) IT Support Engineer
13 27 (4.48%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 27 (4.48%) 2nd Line Support
14 25 (4.15%) Architect
15 24 (3.98%) Security Analyst
16 21 (3.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 20 (3.32%) Consultant
18 19 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
1 15 (2.49%) YAML
2 10 (1.66%) .NET
3 7 (1.16%) Kafka
3 7 (1.16%) Middleware
4 4 (0.66%) Akka
4 4 (0.66%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (0.66%) CSS
4 4 (0.66%) HTML
4 4 (0.66%) jQuery
4 4 (0.66%) React
4 4 (0.66%) REST
4 4 (0.66%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 4 (0.66%) Vue
4 4 (0.66%) WPF
5 2 (0.33%) Web Services
6 1 (0.17%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.77%) Data Centre
2 52 (8.62%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.15%) Driving Licence
4 23 (3.81%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.15%) PMI
6 18 (2.99%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.49%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (2.32%) Security Operations Centre
10 13 (2.16%) Clustering
11 12 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.82%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.82%) IoT
13 8 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
14 7 (1.16%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 5 (0.83%) CCTV
16 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
17 4 (0.66%) Life Science
17 4 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 292 (48.42%) Windows
2 181 (30.02%) Windows Server
3 131 (21.72%) Linux
4 42 (6.97%) Windows 10
5 39 (6.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 37 (6.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (3.32%) Mac OS
8 16 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.49%) Data ONTAP
10 13 (2.16%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (1.66%) Android
11 10 (1.66%) Apple iOS
11 10 (1.66%) VMS
12 7 (1.16%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.66%) Unix
13 4 (0.66%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
15 2 (0.33%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
2 142 (23.55%) Cybersecurity
3 131 (21.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 102 (16.92%) Customer Service
5 93 (15.42%) ITIL
6 72 (11.94%) SIEM
7 63 (10.45%) Incident Response
8 57 (9.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 51 (8.46%) Kalman Filter
10 49 (8.13%) Agile
11 46 (7.63%) Mentoring
12 45 (7.46%) Migration
13 44 (7.30%) Project Management
14 42 (6.97%) Information Security
15 37 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (5.64%) Computer Science
17 33 (5.47%) DevOps
17 33 (5.47%) Service Delivery
18 31 (5.14%) Cloud Security
19 30 (4.98%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (13.43%) PowerShell
2 51 (8.46%) Python
3 49 (8.13%) SQL
4 24 (3.98%) Bash
5 10 (1.66%) VBScript
6 9 (1.49%) Java
7 4 (0.66%) C#
7 4 (0.66%) XAML
8 3 (0.50%) Go
8 3 (0.50%) Ruby
9 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (14.93%) Cisco Certification
2 79 (13.10%) Degree
3 54 (8.96%) CCNA
4 49 (8.13%) CCNP
4 49 (8.13%) CISSP
5 38 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (5.31%) Security Cleared
7 30 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.65%) MCSE
9 19 (3.15%) Azure Certification
9 19 (3.15%) CCIE
9 19 (3.15%) MCP
9 19 (3.15%) PMI Certification
10 17 (2.82%) SC Cleared
11 15 (2.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (2.32%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.32%) CISA
12 14 (2.32%) SANS
13 11 (1.82%) MCSA
14 9 (1.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (7.46%) SLA
3 37 (6.14%) NIST
4 21 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 19 (3.15%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.33%) GDPR
7 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.50%) QA
9 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) COBIT
10 2 (0.33%) GLBA
10 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.33%) NCSC
11 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.17%) FISMA
11 1 (0.17%) HITRUST
System Software
1 221 (36.65%) Active Directory
2 151 (25.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (19.90%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.98%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (3.48%) vSphere
6 20 (3.32%) Docker
7 15 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (1.82%) Terminal Services
9 10 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (1.49%) VMware NSX
11 7 (1.16%) XenApp
11 7 (1.16%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.83%) Firmware
13 4 (0.66%) vCloud
14 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.33%) VMware Server
16 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
16 1 (0.17%) Postfix
16 1 (0.17%) Snort
16 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 87 (14.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.64%) SCCM
4 20 (3.32%) FortiGate
4 20 (3.32%) Prometheus
4 20 (3.32%) vCenter Server
5 18 (2.99%) Ansible
6 15 (2.49%) ZABBIX
7 14 (2.32%) Terraform
8 13 (2.16%) Failover Clustering
9 12 (1.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (1.99%) Opsgenie
9 12 (1.99%) VxRail
10 9 (1.49%) Autotask
10 9 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.16%) Nessus
12 6 (1.00%) Nagios
12 6 (1.00%) Nmap
12 6 (1.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 282 (46.77%) Microsoft
2 241 (39.97%) VMware
3 167 (27.69%) Cisco
4 63 (10.45%) Fortinet
5 44 (7.30%) Palo Alto
6 39 (6.47%) Aruba
7 32 (5.31%) Meraki
8 30 (4.98%) Juniper
9 29 (4.81%) Citrix
9 29 (4.81%) NetApp
10 28 (4.64%) Veeam
11 26 (4.31%) SolarWinds
12 23 (3.81%) Dell
13 16 (2.65%) CheckPoint
13 16 (2.65%) Datto
13 16 (2.65%) Ubiquiti
14 15 (2.49%) HP
14 15 (2.49%) Red Hat
14 15 (2.49%) SolidFire
14 15 (2.49%) Sophos