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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 66 133
Rank change year-on-year +3 +67 -37
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2,773 3,284 4,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.54% 4.62% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.84% 28.57% 23.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,211 2,548 3,260
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,985 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% -2.89% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £48,800 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +5.00%

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 9,962 11,495 18,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.71% 16.17% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6,437 6,665 10,966
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -32 689 £62,500 - 84
South East +5 682 £45,000 - 111
North of England -6 463 £47,500 -2.06% 108
Midlands +3 438 £45,000 - 58
South West +8 315 £43,000 -4.44% 45
West Midlands +5 255 £46,090 +2.42% 42
North West -13 239 £50,000 -3.05% 56
Yorkshire +13 199 £47,500 -5.00% 36
East of England -1 192 £45,000 +4.65% 33
East Midlands -18 179 £42,500 -8.11% 16
North East -23 40 £39,000 -8.24% 18
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
1 406 (14.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 312 (11.25%) SharePoint
3 79 (2.85%) IIS
4 36 (1.30%) Apache
5 23 (0.83%) Confluence
6 16 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
6 16 (0.58%) SharePoint 2013
7 10 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.29%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.22%) CMS
10 6 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
11 5 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
11 5 (0.18%) WordPress
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.11%) nginx
13 3 (0.11%) SAS
14 2 (0.072%) OpenStack
Applications
1 260 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.072%) Trello
7 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.36%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.11%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.072%) Shopify
6 1 (0.036%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.036%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.036%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (43.49%) Azure
2 972 (35.05%) Microsoft 365
3 379 (13.67%) AWS
4 282 (10.17%) Entra ID
5 106 (3.82%) SaaS
6 101 (3.64%) IaaS
7 95 (3.43%) PaaS
8 92 (3.32%) GCP
9 90 (3.25%) OneDrive
10 59 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
11 56 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (1.77%) Power Platform
13 47 (1.69%) Mimecast
14 44 (1.59%) Amazon S3
15 40 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
16 37 (1.33%) Google Workspace
17 35 (1.26%) GitHub
18 27 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 21 (0.76%) Azure Storage
20 20 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 691 (24.92%) WAN
2 672 (24.23%) VPN
3 605 (21.82%) DNS
4 548 (19.76%) LAN
5 388 (13.99%) DHCP
6 378 (13.63%) Network Security
7 364 (13.13%) TCP/IP
8 322 (11.61%) Wi-Fi
9 313 (11.29%) VLAN
10 307 (11.07%) Wireless
11 256 (9.23%) SD-WAN
12 192 (6.92%) Internet
13 172 (6.20%) BGP
14 171 (6.17%) OSPF
15 154 (5.55%) SAN
16 153 (5.52%) MPLS
17 138 (4.98%) VoIP
18 130 (4.69%) IPsec
19 127 (4.58%) Intrusion Detection
20 105 (3.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 40 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
3 37 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 32 (1.15%) Power BI
5 18 (0.65%) MySQL
6 16 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 16 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (0.47%) Big Data
7 13 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.29%) DB2
10 7 (0.25%) MariaDB
10 7 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.22%) Redis
11 6 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.18%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 60 (2.16%) JIRA
2 54 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 49 (1.77%) Git
4 28 (1.01%) GitLab
5 13 (0.47%) Bitbucket
5 13 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 9 (0.32%) Trac
7 7 (0.25%) Katalon Studio
8 6 (0.22%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.11%) Maven
10 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.11%) Subversion
11 2 (0.072%) GNU Toolchain
11 2 (0.072%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.036%) Hudson
12 1 (0.036%) Selenium
12 1 (0.036%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.036%) TeamCity
General
1 764 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 313 (11.29%) Finance
3 217 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 121 (4.36%) Law
6 102 (3.68%) Retail
7 77 (2.78%) Legal
8 75 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 72 (2.60%) Aerospace
10 70 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
11 65 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 61 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 54 (1.95%) Banking
14 47 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 42 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (0.97%) Games
17 18 (0.65%) Marketing
18 14 (0.50%) Local Government
19 13 (0.47%) Investment Banking
19 13 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 525 (18.93%) Network Engineer
2 410 (14.79%) Senior
3 379 (13.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 337 (12.15%) Analyst
4 337 (12.15%) Support Engineer
5 323 (11.65%) IT Engineer
6 272 (9.81%) IT Support
7 176 (6.35%) Lead
8 164 (5.91%) IT Support Engineer
9 148 (5.34%) Senior Network Engineer
10 145 (5.23%) Consultant
11 134 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
12 129 (4.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 129 (4.65%) Security Analyst
13 124 (4.47%) Architect
14 114 (4.11%) IT Manager
15 107 (3.86%) Security Engineer
16 104 (3.75%) 2nd Line Support
17 99 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
18 88 (3.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.02%) 802.1X
2 53 (1.91%) YAML
3 50 (1.80%) REST
4 43 (1.55%) HTML
5 36 (1.30%) .NET
6 34 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
7 32 (1.15%) SAML
8 29 (1.05%) OAuth
9 25 (0.90%) Web Services
10 23 (0.83%) CSS
11 22 (0.79%) ASP.NET
11 22 (0.79%) jQuery
12 20 (0.72%) AngularJS
12 20 (0.72%) LDAP
12 20 (0.72%) XML
13 19 (0.69%) ASP.NET MVC
13 19 (0.69%) React
13 19 (0.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 19 (0.69%) Vue
13 19 (0.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 331 (11.94%) Data Centre
2 213 (7.68%) Management Information System
3 167 (6.02%) Driving Licence
4 106 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 89 (3.21%) Replication
6 78 (2.81%) PKI
7 74 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 74 (2.67%) Security Posture
8 52 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
9 51 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
10 47 (1.69%) Clustering
11 46 (1.66%) Client/Server
11 46 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
12 45 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 41 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
14 36 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.26%) Cyberattack
16 33 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
17 28 (1.01%) IoT
18 24 (0.87%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1,232 (44.43%) Windows
2 710 (25.60%) Windows Server
3 528 (19.04%) Linux
4 235 (8.47%) Windows 10
5 182 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 147 (5.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 116 (4.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 61 (2.20%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.95%) VMS
10 48 (1.73%) Unix
11 46 (1.66%) Mac OS
12 45 (1.62%) Apple iOS
13 44 (1.59%) Android
14 43 (1.55%) Windows Server 2008
15 39 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
17 27 (0.97%) CentOS
18 18 (0.65%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.58%) Windows 7
20 15 (0.54%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 596 (21.49%) Cybersecurity
2 568 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
3 483 (17.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 366 (13.20%) ITIL
5 313 (11.29%) Customer Service
6 285 (10.28%) Agile
7 255 (9.20%) Information Security
8 250 (9.02%) SIEM
9 198 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 196 (7.07%) Mentoring
11 195 (7.03%) DevOps
11 195 (7.03%) Project Management
12 181 (6.53%) Incident Response
13 153 (5.52%) Migration
14 148 (5.34%) Computer Science
15 143 (5.16%) Service Delivery
16 131 (4.72%) Project Delivery
17 127 (4.58%) Change Management
17 127 (4.58%) Security Operations
18 122 (4.40%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 344 (12.41%) PowerShell
2 248 (8.94%) Python
3 228 (8.22%) SQL
4 121 (4.36%) Bash
5 57 (2.06%) C#
6 47 (1.69%) Java
7 32 (1.15%) Perl
8 25 (0.90%) Bicep
9 24 (0.87%) VBScript
10 19 (0.69%) JavaScript
10 19 (0.69%) XAML
11 16 (0.58%) VB
12 13 (0.47%) C++
12 13 (0.47%) Go
12 13 (0.47%) Ruby
13 8 (0.29%) C
14 6 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.18%) Rust
15 5 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 382 (13.78%) Degree
2 377 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 355 (12.80%) Cisco Certification
4 211 (7.61%) CCNA
4 211 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 199 (7.18%) CISSP
6 196 (7.07%) CCNP
7 162 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 113 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 108 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 94 (3.39%) CISM
11 93 (3.35%) Azure Certification
12 69 (2.49%) MCSE
13 63 (2.27%) CISA
14 58 (2.09%) CCIE
15 50 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
16 48 (1.73%) MCSA
17 39 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
18 35 (1.26%) CEH
18 35 (1.26%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (7.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 125 (4.51%) SLA
3 118 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 111 (4.00%) NIST
5 99 (3.57%) GDPR
6 57 (2.06%) PCI DSS
7 35 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 24 (0.87%) QA
9 22 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 22 (0.79%) GRC
10 16 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 16 (0.58%) NCSC
11 11 (0.40%) COBIT
12 10 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.22%) COSHH
16 5 (0.18%) SOC 1
17 4 (0.14%) Accessibility
17 4 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 926 (33.39%) Active Directory
2 524 (18.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 418 (15.07%) Hyper-V
4 109 (3.93%) VMware ESXi
5 108 (3.89%) Docker
6 88 (3.17%) vSphere
7 78 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 44 (1.59%) VMware NSX
10 36 (1.30%) Firmware
11 34 (1.23%) XenApp
11 34 (1.23%) XenDesktop
12 32 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
13 26 (0.94%) pfSense
14 20 (0.72%) NFS
15 10 (0.36%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.22%) vCloud
18 5 (0.18%) Terminal Server
19 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 326 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 191 (6.89%) Ansible
3 155 (5.59%) Kubernetes
4 140 (5.05%) SCCM
5 125 (4.51%) Terraform
6 109 (3.93%) FortiGate
7 85 (3.07%) WSUS
8 60 (2.16%) vCenter Server
9 55 (1.98%) Prometheus
10 54 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
11 36 (1.30%) SCOM
12 32 (1.15%) ZABBIX
13 30 (1.08%) Puppet
14 29 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.94%) Grafana
16 24 (0.87%) Progress Chef
17 19 (0.69%) CASB
17 19 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
18 18 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
18 18 (0.65%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1,174 (42.34%) Microsoft
2 803 (28.96%) Cisco
3 757 (27.30%) VMware
4 257 (9.27%) Palo Alto
5 232 (8.37%) Fortinet
6 203 (7.32%) Veeam
7 199 (7.18%) Juniper
8 172 (6.20%) Meraki
9 167 (6.02%) Citrix
10 129 (4.65%) Aruba
11 128 (4.62%) Dell
12 127 (4.58%) HP
13 123 (4.44%) CheckPoint
14 90 (3.25%) Google
15 89 (3.21%) Red Hat
16 82 (2.96%) SolarWinds
17 64 (2.31%) F5
18 61 (2.20%) NetApp
18 61 (2.20%) Sophos
19 56 (2.02%) Apple