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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 74 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2,756 2,531 2,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.89% 4.21% 4.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.21% 23.21% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,342 1,710 2,171
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £34,525 £34,121
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 £70,125 £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 9,769 10,906 10,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.13% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,776 6,432
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,886 £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 9 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 9 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 +20 826 £42,500 -5.56% 140
North of England +17 604 £42,500 -10.53% 129
Midlands +35 525 £45,000 - 121
South West +8 351 £45,000 +6.51% 85
West Midlands +43 348 £45,000 - 64
Yorkshire +48 270 £45,000 -2.70% 42
North West -20 265 £50,000 - 71
East of England +32 260 £41,500 -2.35% 50
East Midlands +1 173 £41,250 -1.79% 57
Scotland -123 98 £50,000 +5.82% 34
Wales +2 86 £40,500 -10.00% 13
North East +1 80 £42,155 -0.81% 16
Northern Ireland -4 21 £37,500 +1.35% 5
Isle of Man -3 16 £46,500 +3.33% 2
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
1 454 (16.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 366 (13.28%) SharePoint
3 107 (3.88%) IIS
4 63 (2.29%) Apache
5 23 (0.83%) 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 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
10 12 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.25%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
12 7 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
13 6 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2000
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 (9.25%) 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 1,301 (47.21%) Azure
2 1,104 (40.06%) Microsoft 365
3 384 (13.93%) AWS
4 362 (13.13%) Entra ID
5 111 (4.03%) OneDrive
6 110 (3.99%) GCP
7 95 (3.45%) SaaS
8 88 (3.19%) IaaS
9 80 (2.90%) PaaS
10 57 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
11 55 (2.00%) Amazon S3
12 46 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 44 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
14 37 (1.34%) Mimecast
15 30 (1.09%) GitHub
16 28 (1.02%) Power Platform
17 25 (0.91%) Google Workspace
18 22 (0.80%) Azure Storage
19 21 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
20 17 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 628 (22.79%) VPN
2 624 (22.64%) DNS
3 618 (22.42%) WAN
4 506 (18.36%) LAN
5 417 (15.13%) DHCP
6 390 (14.15%) TCP/IP
7 304 (11.03%) Wireless
8 295 (10.70%) Network Security
9 285 (10.34%) VLAN
10 255 (9.25%) Wi-Fi
11 195 (7.08%) SAN
12 191 (6.93%) SD-WAN
13 155 (5.62%) Internet
14 143 (5.19%) VoIP
15 115 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
16 108 (3.92%) BGP
17 105 (3.81%) MPLS
18 102 (3.70%) OSPF
19 95 (3.45%) IPsec
20 84 (3.05%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.15%) SQL Server
2 54 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 49 (1.78%) MongoDB
4 48 (1.74%) MySQL
5 42 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (0.58%) Big Data
8 15 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (0.54%) 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%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 65 (2.36%) JIRA
2 50 (1.81%) 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%) Gradle
General
1 787 (28.56%) Social Skills
2 272 (9.87%) Finance
3 184 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
3 184 (6.68%) Telecoms
4 83 (3.01%) Law
5 79 (2.87%) Manufacturing
5 79 (2.87%) Retail
6 75 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 66 (2.39%) Public Sector
8 65 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 59 (2.14%) Legal
10 57 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.23%) Games
13 30 (1.09%) Marketing
14 22 (0.80%) Police
15 20 (0.73%) Local Government
15 20 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.54%) Back Office
17 13 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 483 (17.53%) Network Engineer
2 437 (15.86%) IT Engineer
3 424 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 401 (14.55%) IT Support
5 377 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 372 (13.50%) Senior
7 279 (10.12%) Analyst
8 259 (9.40%) IT Support Engineer
9 167 (6.06%) Lead
10 162 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 161 (5.84%) 3rd Line Support
12 146 (5.30%) Senior Network Engineer
13 133 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
14 129 (4.68%) IT Manager
15 114 (4.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 109 (3.96%) Consultant
17 99 (3.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
18 94 (3.41%) Architect
19 93 (3.37%) Security Analyst
20 91 (3.30%) 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 (0.83%) 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 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 216 (7.84%) Driving Licence
3 180 (6.53%) Management Information System
4 101 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 96 (3.48%) Replication
6 84 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 62 (2.25%) Clustering
8 58 (2.10%) Security Operations Centre
9 52 (1.89%) Onboarding
10 49 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
11 40 (1.45%) CCTV
11 40 (1.45%) Security Posture
12 38 (1.38%) IoT
13 37 (1.34%) PKI
14 35 (1.27%) Client/Server
14 35 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.91%) Cyberattack
17 24 (0.87%) CMDB
17 24 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,365 (49.53%) Windows
2 850 (30.84%) Windows Server
3 553 (20.07%) Linux
4 230 (8.35%) Windows 10
5 187 (6.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 153 (5.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 148 (5.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 65 (2.36%) Mac OS
9 49 (1.78%) Data ONTAP
10 46 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
11 45 (1.63%) Apple iOS
12 44 (1.60%) Unix
13 37 (1.34%) Android
14 33 (1.20%) VMS
15 29 (1.05%) 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 13 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
2 541 (19.63%) Cybersecurity
3 484 (17.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 400 (14.51%) Customer Service
5 369 (13.39%) ITIL
6 217 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 202 (7.33%) Agile
8 193 (7.00%) Mentoring
9 187 (6.79%) Project Management
10 178 (6.46%) DevOps
11 168 (6.10%) Incident Response
12 163 (5.91%) Service Delivery
13 152 (5.52%) Information Security
13 152 (5.52%) SIEM
14 149 (5.41%) Project Delivery
15 146 (5.30%) Migration
16 137 (4.97%) Actionable Insight
17 133 (4.83%) Kalman Filter
18 130 (4.72%) Computer Science
19 114 (4.14%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 315 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 251 (9.11%) SQL
3 194 (7.04%) Python
4 99 (3.59%) 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
1 396 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 392 (14.22%) Degree
3 381 (13.82%) Cisco Certification
4 278 (10.09%) CCNA
5 239 (8.67%) SC Cleared
6 167 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 154 (5.59%) CCNP
8 119 (4.32%) CISSP
9 118 (4.28%) DV Cleared
10 105 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 87 (3.16%) Azure Certification
12 83 (3.01%) MCSE
13 65 (2.36%) Network+ Certification
14 53 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
15 46 (1.67%) MCP
16 36 (1.31%) CCIE
16 36 (1.31%) MCSA
17 35 (1.27%) CISM
18 33 (1.20%) AWS Certification
19 29 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (5.19%) SLA
3 96 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 96 (3.48%) GDPR
4 81 (2.94%) NIST
5 42 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 26 (0.94%) QA
7 23 (0.83%) SOC 2
8 22 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (0.40%) NCSC
10 9 (0.33%) COSHH
10 9 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.18%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.15%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.15%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.11%) COBIT
13 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,011 (36.68%) Active Directory
2 620 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 543 (19.70%) Hyper-V
4 107 (3.88%) Docker
5 101 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
6 94 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
7 82 (2.98%) vSphere
8 64 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (1.49%) VMware NSX
10 32 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
11 25 (0.91%) XenApp
12 24 (0.87%) pfSense
12 24 (0.87%) XenDesktop
13 20 (0.73%) Firmware
13 20 (0.73%) Terminal Services
14 16 (0.58%) NFS
15 8 (0.29%) VMware Server
16 6 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
17 4 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 4 (0.15%) KVM
Systems Management
1 378 (13.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 163 (5.91%) Ansible
3 140 (5.08%) Kubernetes
4 133 (4.83%) SCCM
5 106 (3.85%) FortiGate
6 89 (3.23%) Terraform
7 81 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 78 (2.83%) WSUS
9 58 (2.10%) Prometheus
10 50 (1.81%) SCOM
11 35 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 32 (1.16%) ZABBIX
13 27 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
15 22 (0.80%) Grafana
15 22 (0.80%) Nagios
16 21 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
17 19 (0.69%) SmoothWall
18 18 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
19 16 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,246 (45.21%) Microsoft
2 886 (32.15%) VMware
3 785 (28.48%) Cisco
4 242 (8.78%) Veeam
5 222 (8.06%) Palo Alto
6 205 (7.44%) Juniper
7 188 (6.82%) Fortinet
8 164 (5.95%) Meraki
9 150 (5.44%) Aruba
10 147 (5.33%) Citrix
11 131 (4.75%) HP
12 120 (4.35%) CheckPoint
13 97 (3.52%) Dell
14 93 (3.37%) NetApp
15 83 (3.01%) Sophos
16 63 (2.29%) Google
17 62 (2.25%) Red Hat
18 52 (1.89%) Apple
19 49 (1.78%) SolidFire
20 48 (1.74%) SolarWinds