Firewall Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firewall
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2,752 2,528 2,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.88% 4.20% 4.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.15% 23.17% 26.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,339 1,705 2,181
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £34,525 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,550 £71,250
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,776 10,911 10,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.11% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,770 6,474
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,889 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +22 824 £42,500 -5.56% 147
North of England +14 604 £42,500 -10.53% 141
Midlands +34 524 £45,000 - 124
South West +6 348 £45,000 +6.51% 89
West Midlands +48 347 £45,000 -0.28% 68
Yorkshire +51 271 £45,000 -4.00% 48
North West -16 264 £49,250 -1.50% 77
East of England +33 261 £41,500 -2.35% 51
East Midlands +5 173 £42,500 +0.59% 56
Scotland -113 98 £50,000 +5.26% 36
Wales +7 87 £40,500 -10.00% 14
North East +1 80 £42,155 -0.81% 18
Northern Ireland -3 21 £37,500 +2.74% 5
Isle of Man -2 16 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 - 1
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 451 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 363 (13.19%) SharePoint
3 107 (3.89%) IIS
4 63 (2.29%) Apache
5 23 (0.84%) nginx
6 19 (0.69%) Confluence
7 18 (0.65%) CMS
7 18 (0.65%) WordPress
8 16 (0.58%) Skype for Business
9 15 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
10 12 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.25%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2000
13 6 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
13 6 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
14 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.15%) SAS
14 4 (0.15%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 255 (9.27%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.15%) Sage 200
1 4 (0.15%) Sage X3
2 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.073%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.073%) Shopify
4 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,300 (47.24%) Azure
2 1,103 (40.08%) Microsoft 365
3 384 (13.95%) AWS
4 362 (13.15%) Entra ID
5 111 (4.03%) OneDrive
6 110 (4.00%) GCP
7 95 (3.45%) SaaS
8 88 (3.20%) IaaS
9 80 (2.91%) PaaS
10 55 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 55 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
11 46 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 37 (1.34%) Mimecast
14 30 (1.09%) GitHub
15 28 (1.02%) Power Platform
16 25 (0.91%) Google Workspace
17 22 (0.80%) Azure Storage
18 21 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 17 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 631 (22.93%) VPN
2 624 (22.67%) DNS
3 618 (22.46%) WAN
4 506 (18.39%) LAN
5 417 (15.15%) DHCP
6 391 (14.21%) TCP/IP
7 304 (11.05%) Wireless
8 296 (10.76%) Network Security
9 286 (10.39%) VLAN
10 255 (9.27%) Wi-Fi
11 195 (7.09%) SAN
12 191 (6.94%) SD-WAN
13 156 (5.67%) Internet
14 145 (5.27%) VoIP
15 115 (4.18%) Intrusion Detection
16 108 (3.92%) BGP
17 105 (3.82%) MPLS
18 102 (3.71%) OSPF
19 95 (3.45%) IPsec
20 84 (3.05%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 54 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 49 (1.78%) MongoDB
4 48 (1.74%) MySQL
5 43 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.58%) Big Data
8 15 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (0.55%) Power BI
9 10 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.29%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.18%) Redis
11 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.15%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.11%) Metabase
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.073%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 65 (2.36%) JIRA
2 50 (1.82%) Git
3 38 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 11 (0.40%) Robot Framework
5 10 (0.36%) GNU Toolchain
5 10 (0.36%) Subversion
5 10 (0.36%) Trac
6 7 (0.25%) Spinnaker
6 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.22%) GitLab
8 5 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.15%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.073%) Hudson
11 2 (0.073%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.073%) Selenium
11 2 (0.073%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.036%) Maven
General
1 784 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 272 (9.88%) Finance
3 184 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
3 184 (6.69%) Telecoms
4 83 (3.02%) Law
5 79 (2.87%) Manufacturing
5 79 (2.87%) Retail
6 75 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (2.40%) Public Sector
8 65 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 58 (2.11%) Legal
10 57 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (1.27%) Games
13 29 (1.05%) Marketing
14 22 (0.80%) Police
15 20 (0.73%) Local Government
15 20 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.55%) Back Office
17 13 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 484 (17.59%) Network Engineer
2 435 (15.81%) IT Engineer
3 422 (15.33%) Support Engineer
4 400 (14.53%) IT Support
5 377 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 372 (13.52%) Senior
7 278 (10.10%) Analyst
8 258 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
9 167 (6.07%) Lead
10 162 (5.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 161 (5.85%) 3rd Line Support
12 147 (5.34%) Senior Network Engineer
13 132 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support
14 130 (4.72%) IT Manager
15 114 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 109 (3.96%) Consultant
17 99 (3.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 94 (3.42%) Architect
19 91 (3.31%) Security Analyst
20 90 (3.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.03%) REST
2 54 (1.96%) YAML
3 49 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
4 36 (1.31%) 802.1X
5 33 (1.20%) .NET
5 33 (1.20%) HTML
6 23 (0.84%) SAML
7 22 (0.80%) ASP.NET
7 22 (0.80%) CSS
7 22 (0.80%) jQuery
8 19 (0.69%) AngularJS
8 19 (0.69%) ASP.NET MVC
8 19 (0.69%) React
8 19 (0.69%) Tailwind CSS
8 19 (0.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 19 (0.69%) Vue
8 19 (0.69%) WPF
9 18 (0.65%) OAuth
9 18 (0.65%) OpenID
10 17 (0.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 334 (12.14%) Data Centre
2 216 (7.85%) Driving Licence
3 177 (6.43%) Management Information System
4 101 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 96 (3.49%) Replication
6 85 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 62 (2.25%) Clustering
8 59 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
9 50 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
9 50 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 40 (1.45%) CCTV
11 38 (1.38%) IoT
11 38 (1.38%) PKI
11 38 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 35 (1.27%) Client/Server
13 34 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
14 29 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (0.91%) Cyberattack
16 24 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
16 24 (0.87%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,362 (49.49%) Windows
2 849 (30.85%) Windows Server
3 551 (20.02%) Linux
4 230 (8.36%) Windows 10
5 187 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 153 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 148 (5.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 65 (2.36%) Mac OS
9 49 (1.78%) Data ONTAP
10 46 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
11 45 (1.64%) Apple iOS
12 44 (1.60%) Unix
13 36 (1.31%) Android
14 33 (1.20%) VMS
15 28 (1.02%) Ubuntu
16 25 (0.91%) Windows 7
17 16 (0.58%) Windows XP
18 14 (0.51%) Windows 8
18 14 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
19 12 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
2 539 (19.59%) Cybersecurity
3 482 (17.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 399 (14.50%) Customer Service
5 368 (13.37%) ITIL
6 217 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
7 202 (7.34%) Agile
8 193 (7.01%) Mentoring
9 187 (6.80%) Project Management
10 178 (6.47%) DevOps
11 166 (6.03%) Incident Response
12 163 (5.92%) Service Delivery
13 151 (5.49%) SIEM
14 150 (5.45%) Information Security
15 149 (5.41%) Project Delivery
16 145 (5.27%) Migration
17 138 (5.01%) Actionable Insight
18 133 (4.83%) Kalman Filter
19 128 (4.65%) Computer Science
20 114 (4.14%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 315 (11.45%) PowerShell
2 251 (9.12%) SQL
3 194 (7.05%) Python
4 99 (3.60%) Bash
5 51 (1.85%) C#
6 38 (1.38%) Java
7 25 (0.91%) VBScript
8 24 (0.87%) Bicep
9 19 (0.69%) XAML
10 14 (0.51%) C
10 14 (0.51%) VB
11 13 (0.47%) Perl
12 12 (0.44%) PHP
13 11 (0.40%) C++
14 9 (0.33%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.25%) JavaScript
16 5 (0.18%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.15%) Go
17 4 (0.15%) Ruby
18 3 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 397 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 390 (14.17%) Degree
3 382 (13.88%) Cisco Certification
4 278 (10.10%) CCNA
5 240 (8.72%) SC Cleared
6 165 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 155 (5.63%) CCNP
8 118 (4.29%) DV Cleared
9 117 (4.25%) CISSP
10 103 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 87 (3.16%) Azure Certification
12 81 (2.94%) MCSE
13 65 (2.36%) Network+ Certification
14 53 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (1.67%) MCP
16 36 (1.31%) CCIE
17 35 (1.27%) MCSA
18 33 (1.20%) AWS Certification
18 33 (1.20%) CISM
19 30 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (5.20%) SLA
3 96 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 95 (3.45%) GDPR
5 81 (2.94%) NIST
6 40 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 26 (0.94%) QA
8 23 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 22 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (0.40%) NCSC
11 9 (0.33%) COSHH
11 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.18%) SOC 1
13 4 (0.15%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.15%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.11%) COBIT
14 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,011 (36.74%) Active Directory
2 620 (22.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 543 (19.73%) Hyper-V
4 107 (3.89%) Docker
5 101 (3.67%) VMware ESXi
6 93 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
7 83 (3.02%) vSphere
8 65 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (1.49%) VMware NSX
10 31 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
11 24 (0.87%) pfSense
11 24 (0.87%) XenApp
12 23 (0.84%) XenDesktop
13 21 (0.76%) Firmware
14 20 (0.73%) Terminal Services
15 16 (0.58%) NFS
16 8 (0.29%) VMware Server
17 6 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
18 4 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 4 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 378 (13.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 163 (5.92%) Ansible
3 140 (5.09%) Kubernetes
4 132 (4.80%) SCCM
5 107 (3.89%) FortiGate
6 89 (3.23%) Terraform
7 81 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 79 (2.87%) WSUS
9 58 (2.11%) Prometheus
10 50 (1.82%) SCOM
11 35 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 32 (1.16%) ZABBIX
13 27 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
15 22 (0.80%) Grafana
15 22 (0.80%) Nagios
16 21 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
17 20 (0.73%) SmoothWall
18 18 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
19 16 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,242 (45.13%) Microsoft
2 885 (32.16%) VMware
3 786 (28.56%) Cisco
4 242 (8.79%) Veeam
5 222 (8.07%) Palo Alto
6 206 (7.49%) Juniper
7 187 (6.80%) Fortinet
8 165 (6.00%) Meraki
9 150 (5.45%) Aruba
10 146 (5.31%) Citrix
11 129 (4.69%) HP
12 122 (4.43%) CheckPoint
13 95 (3.45%) Dell
14 93 (3.38%) NetApp
15 82 (2.98%) Sophos
16 63 (2.29%) Google
17 61 (2.22%) Red Hat
18 51 (1.85%) Apple
19 49 (1.78%) SolidFire
20 48 (1.74%) SolarWinds