Firewall Jobs in England

Firewall
UK > England

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 55 81
Rank change year-on-year -34 +26 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,583 3,420 3,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.24% 3.99% 3.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.20% 28.36% 25.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,310 2,908 2,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £83,484
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,245 12,060 14,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.85% 14.07% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,701 8,521 7,229
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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 -10 490 £72,500 +11.54% 638
South East -36 309 £47,500 +11.76% 413
North of England -81 254 £45,000 +5.88% 319
Midlands -45 208 £45,000 - 189
South West +12 162 £47,500 +5.56% 140
West Midlands -25 150 £44,500 -1.11% 117
North West -87 140 £52,500 +5.00% 127
East of England -32 123 £50,000 +20.48% 141
Yorkshire -30 93 £43,500 -3.33% 153
East Midlands -45 58 £45,500 +10.30% 62
North East -12 21 £37,500 -8.71% 48
Firewall
UK

Firewall
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
1 232 (14.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 147 (9.29%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.65%) IIS
4 14 (0.88%) Apache
4 14 (0.88%) Confluence
5 7 (0.44%) nginx
6 5 (0.32%) Moodle
7 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.19%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.13%) WordPress
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.063%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.063%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 117 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 20 (1.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.063%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 719 (45.42%) Azure
2 486 (30.70%) Microsoft 365
3 279 (17.62%) AWS
4 215 (13.58%) Entra ID
5 99 (6.25%) GCP
6 64 (4.04%) SaaS
7 59 (3.73%) OneDrive
8 57 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
9 48 (3.03%) IaaS
10 41 (2.59%) PaaS
11 40 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (2.40%) Power Platform
13 37 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
14 30 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (1.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 28 (1.77%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.64%) Google Workspace
18 24 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
18 24 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (1.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 447 (28.24%) VPN
2 425 (26.85%) WAN
3 372 (23.50%) DNS
4 323 (20.40%) LAN
5 319 (20.15%) Network Security
6 259 (16.36%) DHCP
7 212 (13.39%) TCP/IP
8 201 (12.70%) VLAN
9 193 (12.19%) BGP
10 187 (11.81%) SD-WAN
11 181 (11.43%) OSPF
12 172 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
13 105 (6.63%) MPLS
14 97 (6.13%) Intrusion Detection
15 90 (5.69%) Wireless
16 79 (4.99%) SAN
17 77 (4.86%) VoIP
18 74 (4.67%) EIGRP
19 72 (4.55%) Cisco Firepower
20 57 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.58%) Power BI
4 20 (1.26%) MySQL
5 15 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 12 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.19%) Big Data
10 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.13%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.13%) EDMS
12 1 (0.063%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.063%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.063%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.063%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 33 (2.08%) Git
2 27 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 25 (1.58%) JIRA
4 23 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.57%) GitLab
6 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (0.44%) Vagrant
7 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.13%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.13%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.13%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.063%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.063%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.063%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.063%) Maven
8 1 (0.063%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.063%) Subversion
General
1 511 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 211 (13.33%) Finance
3 133 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (3.85%) Legal
5 60 (3.79%) Manufacturing
6 59 (3.73%) Retail
7 58 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 57 (3.60%) Banking
9 53 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (3.10%) Law
11 33 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.96%) Public Sector
13 25 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.52%) Automotive
15 22 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.33%) Local Government
17 16 (1.01%) Aerospace
18 15 (0.95%) Back Office
19 13 (0.82%) Police
20 12 (0.76%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 271 (17.12%) Network Engineer
2 233 (14.72%) Analyst
3 189 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 188 (11.88%) Senior
5 178 (11.24%) Support Engineer
6 154 (9.73%) IT Support
7 144 (9.10%) Architect
8 114 (7.20%) Security Engineer
9 109 (6.89%) IT Engineer
10 103 (6.51%) Technical Support
11 99 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
12 96 (6.06%) Support Analyst
13 95 (6.00%) Lead
14 87 (5.50%) Security Analyst
15 81 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
16 79 (4.99%) 3rd Line Support
17 64 (4.04%) IT Analyst
17 64 (4.04%) Technical Engineer
18 63 (3.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 62 (3.92%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.77%) JSON
2 25 (1.58%) LDAP
3 21 (1.33%) 802.1X
4 14 (0.88%) YAML
5 10 (0.63%) SAML
6 8 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (0.44%) RESTful
8 6 (0.38%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.32%) Middleware
10 3 (0.19%) HTML
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.19%) REST
10 3 (0.19%) Web Services
11 2 (0.13%) .NET
11 2 (0.13%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.13%) SOAP
11 2 (0.13%) XML
11 2 (0.13%) XSLT
12 1 (0.063%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 195 (12.32%) Data Centre
2 162 (10.23%) Management Information System
3 99 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 73 (4.61%) Driving Licence
5 67 (4.23%) Cyber Threat
5 67 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 48 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 39 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 34 (2.15%) PKI
10 29 (1.83%) Clustering
11 28 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
12 24 (1.52%) Replication
13 20 (1.26%) Cloud Native
14 18 (1.14%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.07%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
16 16 (1.01%) NHS
16 16 (1.01%) Operational Technology
17 15 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 709 (44.79%) Windows
2 438 (27.67%) Windows Server
3 240 (15.16%) Linux
4 123 (7.77%) Windows 10
5 78 (4.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 78 (4.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (2.59%) Mac OS
7 38 (2.40%) Android
8 36 (2.27%) Apple iOS
9 29 (1.83%) Ubuntu
10 20 (1.26%) Unix
11 17 (1.07%) Mac OS X
11 17 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.95%) CentOS
13 14 (0.88%) Windows Vista
14 13 (0.82%) VMS
14 13 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.44%) Rocky
15 7 (0.44%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
2 331 (20.91%) Cybersecurity
3 214 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 210 (13.27%) SIEM
5 197 (12.44%) ITIL
6 192 (12.13%) Customer Service
7 178 (11.24%) Information Security
8 156 (9.85%) Incident Response
9 153 (9.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 134 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (8.40%) Cloud Security
12 130 (8.21%) Mentoring
13 129 (8.15%) DevOps
14 119 (7.52%) Security Operations
15 118 (7.45%) Computer Science
16 112 (7.08%) Vulnerability Management
17 99 (6.25%) Incident Management
18 96 (6.06%) Migration
19 91 (5.75%) Risk Management
20 87 (5.50%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 280 (17.69%) PowerShell
2 182 (11.50%) Python
3 154 (9.73%) SQL
4 88 (5.56%) Bash
5 23 (1.45%) Bicep
6 20 (1.26%) Perl
7 15 (0.95%) C#
8 13 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 11 (0.69%) Java
10 8 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 8 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.44%) C++
11 7 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.38%) Groovy
12 6 (0.38%) Progress 4GL
13 5 (0.32%) Go
13 5 (0.32%) R
14 4 (0.25%) Ruby
15 3 (0.19%) C
16 2 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 278 (17.56%) Cisco Certification
2 237 (14.97%) Security Cleared
3 233 (14.72%) Degree
4 188 (11.88%) SC Cleared
5 171 (10.80%) CCNA
6 149 (9.41%) CCNP
7 125 (7.90%) CISSP
8 105 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 101 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 84 (5.31%) DV Cleared
11 77 (4.86%) CISM
12 58 (3.66%) Azure Certification
13 56 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 55 (3.47%) CEH
15 53 (3.35%) JNCIA
16 37 (2.34%) DBS Check
16 37 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
17 36 (2.27%) AWS Certification
18 32 (2.02%) CCIE
19 31 (1.96%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 125 (7.90%) NIST
3 108 (6.82%) GDPR
4 64 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 46 (2.91%) PCI DSS
6 39 (2.46%) SLA
7 30 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 27 (1.71%) NCSC
9 18 (1.14%) COBIT
10 15 (0.95%) QA
11 13 (0.82%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.63%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.57%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.51%) GRC
14 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.32%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 522 (32.98%) Active Directory
2 290 (18.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 210 (13.27%) Hyper-V
4 84 (5.31%) Virtual Machines
5 63 (3.98%) VMware ESXi
6 48 (3.03%) Docker
7 34 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (1.83%) VMware NSX
9 28 (1.77%) vSphere
10 26 (1.64%) Firmware
11 20 (1.26%) Terminal Services
12 19 (1.20%) XenApp
13 9 (0.57%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
15 7 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.32%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.25%) DFS Replication
17 4 (0.25%) pfSense
18 3 (0.19%) KVM
18 3 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 195 (12.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 113 (7.14%) Ansible
2 113 (7.14%) Terraform
3 101 (6.38%) FortiGate
4 72 (4.55%) SCCM
5 61 (3.85%) Kubernetes
6 51 (3.22%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.90%) vCenter Server
8 29 (1.83%) Nagios
9 23 (1.45%) Puppet
10 21 (1.33%) QRadar
11 20 (1.26%) Nessus
12 19 (1.20%) Grafana
13 18 (1.14%) Prometheus
14 17 (1.07%) Proxmox
15 12 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
15 12 (0.76%) WSUS
16 10 (0.63%) CASB
17 9 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 631 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 544 (34.37%) Cisco
3 383 (24.19%) VMware
4 240 (15.16%) Fortinet
5 154 (9.73%) Palo Alto
6 153 (9.67%) Meraki
7 135 (8.53%) Juniper
8 123 (7.77%) CheckPoint
9 93 (5.87%) SolarWinds
10 80 (5.05%) Citrix
11 77 (4.86%) Dell
11 77 (4.86%) Google
11 77 (4.86%) Veeam
12 74 (4.67%) Aruba
13 65 (4.11%) HP
14 51 (3.22%) F5
15 46 (2.91%) Apple
16 36 (2.27%) SonicWALL
16 36 (2.27%) Splunk
17 31 (1.96%) Ubiquiti