Firewall
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 83 116
Rank change year-on-year +20 +33 -39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,797 4,081 4,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.87% 3.90% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.95% 25.43% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,195 2,869 3,614
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +26 3,487 £49,000 -2.00% 776
UK excluding London +15 2,770 £42,500 -5.56% 630
Work from Home +14 1,351 £52,500 -4.55% 330
London +20 913 £62,500 +4.17% 196
South East +24 827 £42,500 -5.56% 163
North of England +20 613 £42,500 -10.53% 146
Midlands +41 523 £45,000 - 128
South West +11 351 £47,500 +12.43% 87
West Midlands +42 347 £45,000 -0.28% 83
Yorkshire +49 274 £45,000 -2.70% 42
North West -4 271 £50,000 - 86
East of England +38 262 £40,000 -5.88% 60
East Midlands +9 172 £40,000 -5.88% 45
Scotland -104 102 £50,000 +4.17% 41
Wales +9 87 £40,500 -10.00% 15
North East +5 81 £42,500 - 20
Northern Ireland +5 21 £37,500 +1.35% 8
Isle of Man -5 16 £46,500 +3.33% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 - 1

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 564 (14.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 420 (11.06%) SharePoint
3 127 (3.34%) IIS
4 73 (1.92%) Apache
5 40 (1.05%) Confluence
6 28 (0.74%) nginx
7 24 (0.63%) Skype for Business
7 24 (0.63%) WordPress
8 23 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
9 18 (0.47%) CMS
10 17 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
11 11 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
12 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.21%) Apache Spark
14 7 (0.18%) SAS
14 7 (0.18%) SharePoint 2010
14 7 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
15 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 304 (8.01%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.11%) Trello
6 3 (0.079%) SPSS
7 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (0.42%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.11%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.11%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.079%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.053%) Shopify
5 1 (0.026%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.026%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,740 (45.83%) Azure
2 1,406 (37.03%) Microsoft 365
3 570 (15.01%) AWS
4 430 (11.32%) Entra ID
5 168 (4.42%) GCP
6 144 (3.79%) IaaS
7 132 (3.48%) SaaS
8 125 (3.29%) OneDrive
9 122 (3.21%) PaaS
10 94 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 78 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
13 66 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
14 59 (1.55%) Mimecast
15 47 (1.24%) GitHub
16 43 (1.13%) Google Workspace
17 39 (1.03%) Power Platform
18 28 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 26 (0.68%) Serverless
20 25 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 941 (24.78%) VPN
2 925 (24.36%) WAN
3 882 (23.23%) DNS
4 790 (20.81%) LAN
5 594 (15.64%) DHCP
6 529 (13.93%) TCP/IP
7 465 (12.25%) Wireless
8 446 (11.75%) Network Security
9 414 (10.90%) Wi-Fi
10 408 (10.75%) VLAN
11 280 (7.37%) SD-WAN
12 276 (7.27%) SAN
13 257 (6.77%) Internet
14 205 (5.40%) MPLS
15 201 (5.29%) BGP
16 188 (4.95%) VoIP
17 178 (4.69%) Intrusion Detection
18 165 (4.35%) OSPF
19 148 (3.90%) IPsec
20 128 (3.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 83 (2.19%) MySQL
3 70 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
4 64 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 53 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 40 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.68%) Power BI
8 20 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.45%) Big Data
10 12 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.21%) CockroachDB
12 8 (0.21%) DB2
12 8 (0.21%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.21%) Redis
12 8 (0.21%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.11%) Metabase
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (2.66%) JIRA
2 93 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.53%) Git
4 30 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 26 (0.68%) GitLab
6 15 (0.40%) Subversion
7 11 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.26%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (0.26%) Trac
9 9 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.21%) Jaeger
10 8 (0.21%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.16%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.13%) Katalon Studio
14 4 (0.11%) Metasploit
14 4 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
15 3 (0.079%) Maven
General
1 1,075 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 495 (13.04%) Finance
3 298 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (5.40%) Telecoms
5 155 (4.08%) Law
6 121 (3.19%) Retail
7 120 (3.16%) Legal
8 112 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (2.74%) Public Sector
10 90 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 80 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 63 (1.66%) Banking
13 60 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
14 59 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 55 (1.45%) Aerospace
16 53 (1.40%) Games
17 43 (1.13%) Marketing
18 32 (0.84%) Police
19 21 (0.55%) Local Government
20 20 (0.53%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 678 (17.86%) Network Engineer
2 608 (16.01%) Senior
3 494 (13.01%) IT Engineer
4 473 (12.46%) Support Engineer
5 471 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 447 (11.77%) Analyst
7 430 (11.32%) IT Support
8 272 (7.16%) IT Support Engineer
9 241 (6.35%) Lead
10 215 (5.66%) Senior Network Engineer
11 204 (5.37%) Architect
12 191 (5.03%) Security Analyst
13 180 (4.74%) 3rd Line Support
14 173 (4.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 158 (4.16%) 2nd Line Support
16 156 (4.11%) Consultant
17 147 (3.87%) IT Manager
18 144 (3.79%) Security Engineer
19 122 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
19 122 (3.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (2.00%) YAML
2 63 (1.66%) 802.1X
2 63 (1.66%) REST
3 54 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 38 (1.00%) .NET
4 38 (1.00%) HTML
5 37 (0.97%) SAML
6 30 (0.79%) OAuth
7 22 (0.58%) ASP.NET
7 22 (0.58%) CSS
7 22 (0.58%) jQuery
8 21 (0.55%) Kafka
9 19 (0.50%) AngularJS
9 19 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 19 (0.50%) OpenID
9 19 (0.50%) React
9 19 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
9 19 (0.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 19 (0.50%) Vue
9 19 (0.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 488 (12.85%) Data Centre
2 282 (7.43%) Management Information System
3 224 (5.90%) Driving Licence
4 137 (3.61%) Public Cloud
5 133 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 129 (3.40%) Replication
7 102 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
8 87 (2.29%) PKI
9 77 (2.03%) Security Posture
10 76 (2.00%) Clustering
11 75 (1.98%) Onboarding
12 65 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
13 47 (1.24%) Client/Server
14 46 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
15 44 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
16 42 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
17 41 (1.08%) CCTV
17 41 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 39 (1.03%) Cyberattack
19 37 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,769 (46.59%) Windows
2 1,049 (27.63%) Windows Server
3 793 (20.88%) Linux
4 283 (7.45%) Windows 10
5 220 (5.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 190 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 189 (4.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 114 (3.00%) Mac OS
9 97 (2.55%) Ubuntu
10 78 (2.05%) Unix
10 78 (2.05%) VMS
11 77 (2.03%) Apple iOS
12 61 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
13 57 (1.50%) Android
14 54 (1.42%) Data ONTAP
15 36 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.90%) CentOS
17 26 (0.68%) Windows 7
18 17 (0.45%) SUSE
19 16 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (22.52%) Cybersecurity
2 848 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
3 599 (15.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 528 (13.91%) ITIL
5 446 (11.75%) Customer Service
6 340 (8.95%) Information Security
7 329 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
8 320 (8.43%) SIEM
9 308 (8.11%) Agile
10 284 (7.48%) DevOps
11 277 (7.30%) Mentoring
12 267 (7.03%) Project Management
13 241 (6.35%) Incident Response
14 213 (5.61%) Migration
15 199 (5.24%) Project Delivery
16 198 (5.21%) Service Delivery
17 193 (5.08%) Cloud Security
18 192 (5.06%) Actionable Insight
19 176 (4.64%) Security Operations
20 170 (4.48%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 457 (12.04%) PowerShell
2 352 (9.27%) SQL
3 324 (8.53%) Python
4 193 (5.08%) Bash
5 66 (1.74%) C#
6 64 (1.69%) Java
7 46 (1.21%) Perl
8 32 (0.84%) JavaScript
9 26 (0.68%) Bicep
10 25 (0.66%) VBScript
11 20 (0.53%) Ruby
12 19 (0.50%) XAML
13 15 (0.40%) C
14 14 (0.37%) C++
14 14 (0.37%) VB
15 12 (0.32%) PHP
15 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.26%) RPG
17 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 560 (14.75%) Cisco Certification
2 519 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 515 (13.56%) Degree
4 370 (9.74%) CCNA
5 295 (7.77%) SC Cleared
6 261 (6.87%) CISSP
7 228 (6.00%) CCNP
8 219 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 178 (4.69%) DV Cleared
10 119 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 114 (3.00%) Azure Certification
12 105 (2.77%) MCSE
13 91 (2.40%) CISM
14 86 (2.26%) Network+ Certification
15 80 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
16 63 (1.66%) MCSA
17 61 (1.61%) CCSP
18 57 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 57 (1.50%) GIAC
19 56 (1.47%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 179 (4.71%) SLA
3 166 (4.37%) NIST
4 158 (4.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 137 (3.61%) GDPR
6 98 (2.58%) PCI DSS
7 56 (1.47%) SOC 2
8 46 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 25 (0.66%) GRC
10 24 (0.63%) NCSC
10 24 (0.63%) QA
11 21 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.47%) COBIT
13 10 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.24%) COSHH
14 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.16%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,320 (34.76%) Active Directory
2 792 (20.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 622 (16.38%) Hyper-V
4 167 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
5 153 (4.03%) Docker
6 120 (3.16%) vSphere
7 102 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
8 85 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 44 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
10 39 (1.03%) VMware NSX
11 32 (0.84%) Firmware
12 30 (0.79%) Terminal Services
13 24 (0.63%) pfSense
13 24 (0.63%) XenApp
14 22 (0.58%) XenDesktop
15 19 (0.50%) vCloud
16 17 (0.45%) NFS
17 12 (0.32%) KVM
18 8 (0.21%) VMware Server
19 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 440 (11.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 277 (7.30%) Ansible
3 199 (5.24%) Terraform
4 187 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 152 (4.00%) SCCM
6 140 (3.69%) FortiGate
7 106 (2.79%) WSUS
8 97 (2.55%) vCenter Server
9 71 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
10 70 (1.84%) Prometheus
11 62 (1.63%) SCOM
12 45 (1.19%) Puppet
13 38 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 36 (0.95%) ZABBIX
15 35 (0.92%) Grafana
16 34 (0.90%) Nagios
17 32 (0.84%) Progress Chef
18 31 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
19 24 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
20 21 (0.55%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,630 (42.93%) Microsoft
2 1,132 (29.81%) VMware
3 1,084 (28.55%) Cisco
4 327 (8.61%) Palo Alto
5 293 (7.72%) Veeam
6 266 (7.01%) Juniper
7 249 (6.56%) Fortinet
8 239 (6.29%) Meraki
9 205 (5.40%) Citrix
10 187 (4.92%) Aruba
11 181 (4.77%) CheckPoint
12 169 (4.45%) HP
13 122 (3.21%) Dell
14 120 (3.16%) NetApp
15 115 (3.03%) Red Hat
16 114 (3.00%) Google
17 96 (2.53%) SolarWinds
18 93 (2.45%) Sophos
19 78 (2.05%) Oracle
20 75 (1.98%) Apple