Firewall Engineer Jobs in England

Firewall Engineer
UK > England

The median Firewall Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 829 913
Rank change year-on-year +173 +84 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 12 15 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.018% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.019% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 20
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.05% +36.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £63,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.57% +15.91% +37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall Engineer in England

Firewall Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
London +126 7 £62,500 -21.88%
North of England +62 3 £50,000 -20.00%
North West +11 3 £50,000 -20.00%
East of England +43 2 £42,500 -32.00% 2
Firewall Engineer
UK

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Firewall Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (75.00%) Cisco
3 7 (58.33%) Palo Alto
4 5 (41.67%) WAN
5 4 (33.33%) VPN
5 4 (33.33%) CCNA
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) LAN
5 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 4 (33.33%) Ansible
5 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Network Security
6 3 (25.00%) Firmware
6 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Windows
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (16.67%) CCNP
7 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 2 (16.67%) DNS
7 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
7 2 (16.67%) IIS
7 2 (16.67%) Apache
7 2 (16.67%) Python

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 2 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (16.67%) DNS
5 2 (16.67%) MPLS
5 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (8.33%) VLAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Presales
3 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (16.67%) Server Building
3 2 (16.67%) Straight-Through Processing
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
4 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNA
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCNP
2 2 (16.67%) JNCIA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Firmware
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) Palo Alto
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Aruba
5 2 (16.67%) Juniper
5 2 (16.67%) Meraki
5 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (8.33%) Dell
6 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
6 1 (8.33%) Veeam
6 1 (8.33%) Zerto