Firewall Jobs in Birmingham

Firewall
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 38 58 82
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 -12
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 143 93 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.28% 4.61% 3.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.24% 31.10% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 129 78 102
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,003 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £78,625
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,125 £45,000
% change year-on-year -0.28% +0.28% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 374 299 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.81% 14.82% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 308 212 315
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,938 £34,063 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

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

Salary histogram for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (14.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (10.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.80%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (2.10%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 70 (48.95%) Azure
2 48 (33.57%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (28.67%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (5.59%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.80%) AWS
6 4 (2.80%) IaaS
7 3 (2.10%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.40%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.40%) OpenDNS
9 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.70%) GCP
9 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (35.66%) WAN
2 35 (24.48%) DNS
2 35 (24.48%) LAN
3 28 (19.58%) DHCP
4 23 (16.08%) Network Security
4 23 (16.08%) TCP/IP
5 20 (13.99%) VPN
6 19 (13.29%) SD-WAN
7 17 (11.89%) Wireless
8 16 (11.19%) Intrusion Detection
9 14 (9.79%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (9.09%) VLAN
11 12 (8.39%) PBX
11 12 (8.39%) SAN
12 11 (7.69%) iSCSI
13 10 (6.99%) MPLS
14 7 (4.90%) IPsec
14 7 (4.90%) WLAN
15 6 (4.20%) OSPF
15 6 (4.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 49 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.28%) Telecoms
3 12 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.29%) Finance
5 8 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.20%) Police
8 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.80%) Retail
9 3 (2.10%) Legal
10 2 (1.40%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.40%) Law
10 2 (1.40%) Local Government
10 2 (1.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (20.98%) Network Engineer
2 27 (18.88%) Senior
3 23 (16.08%) Support Engineer
4 18 (12.59%) IT Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Administrator
7 12 (8.39%) Architect
7 12 (8.39%) Implementation Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) IT Support
7 12 (8.39%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Senior Implementation Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (7.69%) IT Administrator
8 11 (7.69%) IT Systems Administrator
9 10 (6.99%) Analyst
9 10 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.59%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (5.59%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.10%) .NET
2 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.10%) ASP.NET
2 3 (2.10%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (2.10%) CSS
2 3 (2.10%) HTML
2 3 (2.10%) jQuery
2 3 (2.10%) React
2 3 (2.10%) REST
2 3 (2.10%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (2.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (2.10%) Vue
2 3 (2.10%) WPF
3 2 (1.40%) EDI
3 2 (1.40%) LAMP
3 2 (1.40%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.29%) Replication
2 12 (8.39%) Wiki
3 10 (6.99%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.90%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.50%) IoT
5 5 (3.50%) PKI
5 5 (3.50%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.80%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.70%) NHS
9 1 (0.70%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 68 (47.55%) Windows
2 48 (33.57%) Windows Server
3 26 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 22 (15.38%) Windows 10
5 10 (6.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (6.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (3.50%) Linux
8 4 (2.80%) VMS
9 3 (2.10%) SUSE
9 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
9 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (23.78%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (13.29%) ITIL
5 16 (11.19%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (9.79%) Change Management
7 12 (8.39%) Customer Service
8 11 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 11 (7.69%) Fault Management
8 11 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 11 (7.69%) Patch Management
9 10 (6.99%) Agile
10 9 (6.29%) Project Delivery
11 8 (5.59%) Business Development
11 8 (5.59%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.59%) Decision-Making
11 8 (5.59%) Network Management
11 8 (5.59%) Service Delivery
12 7 (4.90%) Information Security
12 7 (4.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.69%) Perl
2 11 (7.69%) Python
3 9 (6.29%) SQL
4 3 (2.10%) C#
4 3 (2.10%) XAML
Qualifications
1 27 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.29%) CCNP
4 9 (6.29%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.59%) Degree
6 7 (4.90%) CCNA
7 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.80%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.40%) CCDA
9 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.70%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.40%) GDPR
2 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.40%) NIST
2 2 (1.40%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (37.06%) Active Directory
2 45 (31.47%) Hyper-V
3 34 (23.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (12.59%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.20%) pfSense
6 5 (3.50%) NFS
7 2 (1.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.40%) Docker
7 2 (1.40%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (18.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (11.19%) SCCM
3 3 (2.10%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 2 (1.40%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.70%) CASB
5 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (32.87%) Cisco
2 45 (31.47%) VMware
3 41 (28.67%) Microsoft
4 31 (21.68%) Juniper
5 29 (20.28%) Veeam
6 23 (16.08%) Aruba
7 21 (14.69%) Fortinet
8 8 (5.59%) Meraki
8 8 (5.59%) Sophos
9 6 (4.20%) Dell
10 5 (3.50%) Citrix
11 4 (2.80%) Barracuda Networks
11 4 (2.80%) BroadSoft
11 4 (2.80%) Brocade
11 4 (2.80%) Dell Compellent
11 4 (2.80%) HP
11 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.80%) QNAP
11 4 (2.80%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.80%) Zerto