Firewall Jobs in County Antrim

Firewall
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 54 37
Rank change year-on-year +26 -17 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 4 9 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.59% 1.56% 7.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.26% 11.11% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 28
10th Percentile £49,250 - £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £31,250 £35,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +48.48% +3.13%
75th Percentile £58,938 £90,000 £54,688
90th Percentile £59,275 - £67,800
Northern Ireland median annual salary £57,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +53.33% -11.76% +13.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 81 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 15.48% 14.01% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 41
10th Percentile £23,504 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,564 £28,750 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -17.65% +4.94%
75th Percentile £62,125 £42,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £81,295 £65,000 £68,500
Northern Ireland median annual salary £49,077 £37,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year +30.87% -9.09% +3.13%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in County Antrim

Firewall
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Firewall in County Antrim

Firewall
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
Belfast +25 4 £57,500 -36.11% 3
Firewall
Northern Ireland

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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