Firewall Jobs in Belfast

Firewall
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 54 38
Rank change year-on-year +26 -16 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 4 2 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 1.70% 0.41% 7.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 3.13% 44.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 24
10th Percentile £49,250 - £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 - £35,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £90,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% +125.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £58,938 - £58,750
90th Percentile £59,275 - £68,200
County Antrim median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year -6.12% +63.33% -6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Belfast

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 32 64 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 13.62% 13.17% 16.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 36
10th Percentile £46,500 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,730 £28,750 £35,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% -8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £42,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,518 £75,000 £69,650
County Antrim median annual salary £56,250 £35,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year +60.71% -15.15% +1.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Belfast

Firewall
Salary Trend in Belfast

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Belfast

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SNA
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Control
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCSP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Aruba