Firewall Jobs in the North West

Firewall
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 71 110
Rank change year-on-year -13 +39 -51
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 263 359 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.69% 4.59% 3.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.97% 22.44% 23.04%
Number of salaries quoted 227 254 204
10th Percentile £26,750 £33,750 £27,150
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,200
% change year-on-year -2.00% -0.40% +0.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,145 1,600 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.72% 20.44% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 873 665 708
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,000 £59,787
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Manchester +1 141 £57,500 +15.00% 39
Cheshire +2 50 £37,500 -50.00% 22
Merseyside -20 36 £47,250 -11.68% 5
Lancashire -20 26 £45,000 - 3
Cumbria -22 10 £34,250 -14.38% 7
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.98%) IIS
2 16 (6.08%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (4.18%) Apache
5 7 (2.66%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.52%) CMS
6 4 (1.52%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 113 (42.97%) Azure
2 84 (31.94%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (19.01%) AWS
4 29 (11.03%) GCP
5 14 (5.32%) GitHub
6 12 (4.56%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 10 (3.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.42%) IaaS
10 8 (3.04%) OneDrive
10 8 (3.04%) PaaS
10 8 (3.04%) SaaS
11 7 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.90%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.52%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 67 (25.48%) WAN
2 60 (22.81%) DNS
3 57 (21.67%) LAN
4 52 (19.77%) VPN
5 45 (17.11%) TCP/IP
6 39 (14.83%) DHCP
7 35 (13.31%) Network Security
8 33 (12.55%) SD-WAN
9 31 (11.79%) Wireless
10 23 (8.75%) OSPF
11 22 (8.37%) Internet
11 22 (8.37%) SAN
11 22 (8.37%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (7.98%) IPsec
13 20 (7.60%) VLAN
14 19 (7.22%) BGP
15 18 (6.84%) Intrusion Detection
16 17 (6.46%) SSL
17 15 (5.70%) MPLS
18 14 (5.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.08%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.52%) Power BI
5 3 (1.14%) MySQL
5 3 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.66%) JIRA
2 7 (2.66%) Spinnaker
3 4 (1.52%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.38%) Git
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 74 (28.14%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.25%) Finance
3 26 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.18%) Law
4 11 (4.18%) Retail
4 11 (4.18%) Telecoms
5 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.04%) Banking
7 7 (2.66%) Legal
7 7 (2.66%) Military
8 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (21.29%) Network Engineer
2 35 (13.31%) IT Engineer
3 31 (11.79%) IT Support
4 30 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 29 (11.03%) Senior
6 23 (8.75%) Support Engineer
7 21 (7.98%) IT Manager
8 20 (7.60%) Lead
9 19 (7.22%) Analyst
10 17 (6.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 17 (6.46%) Infrastructure Manager
10 17 (6.46%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (5.70%) 2nd Line Support
12 13 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Consultant
14 10 (3.80%) NetApp Consultant
15 8 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
15 8 (3.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (3.80%) YAML
2 7 (2.66%) Kafka
3 5 (1.90%) .NET
4 4 (1.52%) Akka
5 2 (0.76%) Web Services
6 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.38%) CSS
6 1 (0.38%) HTML
6 1 (0.38%) jQuery
6 1 (0.38%) React
6 1 (0.38%) REST
6 1 (0.38%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.38%) Vue
6 1 (0.38%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.13%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.37%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.70%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.32%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.56%) PMI
6 11 (4.18%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (4.18%) Cyberattack
7 7 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.28%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (2.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (2.28%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.28%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.90%) CCTV
10 4 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.14%) PKI
11 3 (1.14%) Smart Energy
12 2 (0.76%) Life Science
12 2 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 111 (42.21%) Windows
2 73 (27.76%) Windows Server
3 54 (20.53%) Linux
4 20 (7.60%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (4.94%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (3.80%) Data ONTAP
8 9 (3.42%) VMS
9 8 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.90%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.52%) Android
11 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.52%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.76%) Unix
12 2 (0.76%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.38%) CentOS
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.38%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (24.33%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (20.15%) ITIL
4 52 (19.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (15.59%) Customer Service
5 41 (15.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (12.55%) Incident Response
7 32 (12.17%) Project Management
8 31 (11.79%) Mentoring
9 29 (11.03%) Agile
10 24 (9.13%) SIEM
11 22 (8.37%) Information Security
12 21 (7.98%) Release Management
13 19 (7.22%) CI/CD
13 19 (7.22%) Computer Science
14 18 (6.84%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 18 (6.84%) Threat Intelligence
15 17 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (6.46%) Line Management
15 17 (6.46%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.41%) Python
2 18 (6.84%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.18%) Bash
4 10 (3.80%) SQL
5 8 (3.04%) Java
6 3 (1.14%) Go
6 3 (1.14%) Ruby
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (18.63%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (16.35%) Degree
3 33 (12.55%) CCNA
4 28 (10.65%) CCNP
5 16 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.70%) CISSP
7 14 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.56%) AWS Certification
8 12 (4.56%) PMI Certification
9 10 (3.80%) MCP
10 7 (2.66%) Security Cleared
11 6 (2.28%) CCIE
11 6 (2.28%) CISA
11 6 (2.28%) CISM
12 5 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.52%) Chartered Engineer
13 4 (1.52%) CRISC
13 4 (1.52%) HNC
13 4 (1.52%) HND
13 4 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (8.75%) SLA
3 14 (5.32%) NIST
4 10 (3.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.80%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.90%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.52%) GDPR
6 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.38%) FISMA
9 1 (0.38%) HITRUST
9 1 (0.38%) NCSC
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (33.84%) Active Directory
2 75 (28.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (15.97%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.18%) Docker
5 8 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (3.04%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.90%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.14%) vSphere
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.38%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.38%) Postfix
9 1 (0.38%) Snort
9 1 (0.38%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 21 (7.98%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (4.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (4.56%) Opsgenie
3 12 (4.56%) VxRail
3 12 (4.56%) ZABBIX
4 11 (4.18%) Ansible
5 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.80%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.42%) Terraform
7 7 (2.66%) Nessus
8 3 (1.14%) SELinux
8 3 (1.14%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.76%) SCCM
9 2 (0.76%) vRealize
10 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 99 (37.64%) VMware
3 86 (32.70%) Cisco
4 45 (17.11%) Fortinet
5 23 (8.75%) Dell
6 22 (8.37%) NetApp
7 19 (7.22%) Aruba
8 18 (6.84%) SolarWinds
9 16 (6.08%) Palo Alto
10 15 (5.70%) HP
11 14 (5.32%) Juniper
11 14 (5.32%) Meraki
12 13 (4.94%) Citrix
12 13 (4.94%) Ubiquiti
13 10 (3.80%) Red Hat
13 10 (3.80%) SolidFire
14 8 (3.04%) ESET
14 8 (3.04%) Sophos
15 7 (2.66%) Confluent
15 7 (2.66%) Google