Firewall Jobs in Cardiff

Firewall
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 46 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 -24
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 17 20 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.59% 3.49% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.98% 25.32% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17 14 7
10th Percentile £33,860 £31,500 £22,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £57,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,067 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +22.45% +50.77%
75th Percentile £52,500 £75,000 £50,500
90th Percentile £64,000 - £60,600
South Wales median annual salary £40,500 £60,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +71.43% +7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 63 79 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 9.59% 13.79% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 51 37 75
10th Percentile £26,750 £23,000 £30,194
25th Percentile £37,101 £30,500 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -15.79% +35.71%
75th Percentile £53,125 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £41,067 £37,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.99% -17.78% +26.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cardiff

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Cardiff

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cardiff over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Cardiff

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) Network Security
3 5 (29.41%) DHCP
3 5 (29.41%) LAN
3 5 (29.41%) WAN
4 4 (23.53%) VPN
5 3 (17.65%) VoIP
5 3 (17.65%) Wireless
6 2 (11.76%) BGP
6 2 (11.76%) EIGRP
6 2 (11.76%) IPsec
6 2 (11.76%) MPLS
6 2 (11.76%) VLAN
7 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Welsh Language
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Security Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) IT Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) IT Security Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (11.76%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (29.41%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
2 3 (17.65%) Network Management
2 3 (17.65%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (11.76%) Line Management
3 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.88%) ITSM
4 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (5.88%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.88%) Security Patching
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCNA
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (17.65%) CCNP
3 1 (5.88%) CISMP
3 1 (5.88%) CISSP
3 1 (5.88%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (11.76%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) VMware
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (23.53%) Veeam
5 2 (11.76%) SonicWALL
6 1 (5.88%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (5.88%) Dell
6 1 (5.88%) HP
6 1 (5.88%) IBM
6 1 (5.88%) Meraki
6 1 (5.88%) Sophos