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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 55 77
Rank change year-on-year -33 +22 +50
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,565 3,433 3,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.24% 3.88% 4.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.01% 28.44% 25.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,227 2,907 2,547
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £76,250 £84,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% -3.00% -1.96%

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 8,691 12,070 13,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 13.65% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,631 8,541 7,118
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -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 28 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 28 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 -11 474 £70,000 +7.69% 464
South East -47 296 £47,500 +11.76% 317
North of England -67 287 £45,000 - 251
Midlands -53 197 £45,000 - 157
South West +15 160 £45,000 - 121
Yorkshire -5 149 £40,000 -11.11% 96
West Midlands -27 144 £45,000 - 94
North West -96 118 £52,750 +5.50% 126
East of England -33 116 £50,000 +20.48% 163
East Midlands -49 53 £45,500 +7.06% 55
North East -4 20 £37,500 -6.25% 35
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
1 224 (14.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 143 (9.14%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.36%) IIS
4 21 (1.34%) Confluence
5 12 (0.77%) Apache
6 8 (0.51%) nginx
7 6 (0.38%) Moodle
8 5 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.19%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.064%) SAS
Applications
1 104 (6.65%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 9 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 22 (1.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.064%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 696 (44.47%) Azure
2 479 (30.61%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (18.08%) AWS
4 212 (13.55%) Entra ID
5 101 (6.45%) GCP
6 60 (3.83%) OneDrive
7 56 (3.58%) SaaS
8 49 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
9 45 (2.88%) IaaS
10 40 (2.56%) PaaS
10 40 (2.56%) Power Platform
11 38 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 30 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
14 28 (1.79%) Power Automate
15 26 (1.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 25 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (1.60%) Google Workspace
17 24 (1.53%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 437 (27.92%) VPN
2 401 (25.62%) WAN
3 356 (22.75%) DNS
4 306 (19.55%) LAN
5 302 (19.30%) Network Security
6 240 (15.34%) DHCP
7 213 (13.61%) TCP/IP
8 191 (12.20%) VLAN
9 182 (11.63%) BGP
10 177 (11.31%) OSPF
11 176 (11.25%) SD-WAN
12 170 (10.86%) Wi-Fi
13 106 (6.77%) MPLS
14 89 (5.69%) Intrusion Detection
15 78 (4.98%) SAN
16 77 (4.92%) Wireless
17 74 (4.73%) VoIP
18 70 (4.47%) Cisco Firepower
19 67 (4.28%) EIGRP
20 53 (3.39%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 51 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (1.60%) Power BI
4 19 (1.21%) MySQL
5 16 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 13 (0.83%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.19%) Big Data
10 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.13%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.13%) EDMS
12 1 (0.064%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.064%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.064%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.064%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 43 (2.75%) Git
2 29 (1.85%) JIRA
3 27 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (0.96%) Vagrant
6 9 (0.58%) GitLab
7 7 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (0.38%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.13%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.064%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.064%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.064%) Maven
10 1 (0.064%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.064%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.064%) Subversion
10 1 (0.064%) TestRail
General
1 498 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 198 (12.65%) Finance
3 124 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (3.83%) Manufacturing
5 57 (3.64%) Legal
6 56 (3.58%) Telecoms
7 51 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 50 (3.19%) Retail
9 49 (3.13%) Banking
10 37 (2.36%) Public Sector
11 31 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.92%) Law
13 26 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
13 26 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (1.28%) Automotive
14 20 (1.28%) Local Government
15 15 (0.96%) Back Office
16 13 (0.83%) Police
17 12 (0.77%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.77%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 244 (15.59%) Network Engineer
2 226 (14.44%) Analyst
3 182 (11.63%) Support Engineer
4 166 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 165 (10.54%) Senior
6 162 (10.35%) IT Support
7 137 (8.75%) IT Engineer
8 129 (8.24%) Architect
9 110 (7.03%) Technical Support
10 100 (6.39%) 2nd Line Support
11 97 (6.20%) Support Analyst
12 95 (6.07%) Security Engineer
13 92 (5.88%) Lead
14 88 (5.62%) Security Analyst
15 80 (5.11%) 3rd Line Support
16 73 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
17 67 (4.28%) Technical Engineer
18 66 (4.22%) IT Analyst
19 65 (4.15%) Technical Support Engineer
20 56 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.98%) LDAP
2 27 (1.73%) JSON
3 19 (1.21%) 802.1X
4 15 (0.96%) YAML
5 9 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.38%) ARM Templates
6 6 (0.38%) RESTful
7 5 (0.32%) SAML
8 4 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (0.26%) REST
9 3 (0.19%) Middleware
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.19%) Web Services
10 2 (0.13%) .NET
10 2 (0.13%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.064%) EDI
11 1 (0.064%) HTML
11 1 (0.064%) SailPoint
11 1 (0.064%) WSH
11 1 (0.064%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 184 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 148 (9.46%) Management Information System
3 81 (5.18%) Security Posture
4 76 (4.86%) Operational Technology
5 73 (4.66%) Driving Licence
6 62 (3.96%) Cyber Threat
7 55 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (3.32%) Onboarding
9 48 (3.07%) Public Cloud
10 47 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
11 38 (2.43%) PKI
12 27 (1.73%) Replication
12 27 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
13 26 (1.66%) Clustering
14 19 (1.21%) Client/Server
15 17 (1.09%) Private Cloud
16 16 (1.02%) NHS
17 15 (0.96%) CCTV
17 15 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
17 15 (0.96%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 743 (47.48%) Windows
2 418 (26.71%) Windows Server
3 222 (14.19%) Linux
4 113 (7.22%) Windows 10
5 74 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 73 (4.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 42 (2.68%) Mac OS
8 38 (2.43%) Android
9 36 (2.30%) Apple iOS
10 27 (1.73%) Ubuntu
11 19 (1.21%) Unix
12 18 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (1.15%) VMS
13 13 (0.83%) Mac OS X
14 12 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
15 11 (0.70%) CentOS
16 8 (0.51%) Windows Vista
17 7 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
17 7 (0.45%) Rocky
17 7 (0.45%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
2 377 (24.09%) Cybersecurity
3 219 (13.99%) SIEM
4 193 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 188 (12.01%) Customer Service
6 187 (11.95%) ITIL
7 166 (10.61%) Incident Response
8 159 (10.16%) Information Security
9 139 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
10 134 (8.56%) Network Design
11 133 (8.50%) Mentoring
12 124 (7.92%) Cloud Security
13 122 (7.80%) DevOps
14 119 (7.60%) Network Management
15 118 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (7.03%) Security Operations
17 106 (6.77%) Computer Science
18 96 (6.13%) Incident Management
19 95 (6.07%) Migration
20 93 (5.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 276 (17.64%) PowerShell
2 193 (12.33%) Python
3 144 (9.20%) SQL
4 85 (5.43%) Bash
5 23 (1.47%) Bicep
6 20 (1.28%) Perl
7 14 (0.89%) Groovy
8 13 (0.83%) C#
8 13 (0.83%) Java
9 10 (0.64%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 8 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.45%) C++
11 7 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.38%) Progress 4GL
13 5 (0.32%) R
14 4 (0.26%) Go
15 3 (0.19%) Ruby
16 2 (0.13%) VBScript
17 1 (0.064%) Korn
Qualifications
1 248 (15.85%) Cisco Certification
2 227 (14.50%) Security Cleared
3 216 (13.80%) Degree
4 180 (11.50%) SC Cleared
5 164 (10.48%) CCNA
6 139 (8.88%) CCNP
7 104 (6.65%) CISSP
8 103 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 88 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 77 (4.92%) DV Cleared
11 65 (4.15%) CISM
12 57 (3.64%) Azure Certification
13 53 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 49 (3.13%) CEH
14 49 (3.13%) JNCIA
15 37 (2.36%) Network+ Certification
16 32 (2.04%) CCIE
17 31 (1.98%) A+ Certification
17 31 (1.98%) DBS Check
18 28 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 119 (7.60%) NIST
3 102 (6.52%) GDPR
4 64 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 42 (2.68%) PCI DSS
6 40 (2.56%) SLA
7 31 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 24 (1.53%) NCSC
9 16 (1.02%) COBIT
10 14 (0.89%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.77%) QA
12 10 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.58%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.38%) GRC
16 5 (0.32%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.19%) ISO 14001
18 2 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 565 (36.10%) Active Directory
2 275 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 189 (12.08%) Hyper-V
4 82 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
5 65 (4.15%) Virtual Servers
6 55 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 52 (3.32%) Docker
8 29 (1.85%) vSphere
9 26 (1.66%) Firmware
10 25 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (1.60%) VMware NSX
11 22 (1.41%) Terminal Services
12 19 (1.21%) XenApp
13 9 (0.58%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.51%) DFS Replication
14 8 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.38%) NFS
16 4 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
16 4 (0.26%) Postfix
17 3 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 191 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 123 (7.86%) Terraform
3 118 (7.54%) Ansible
4 87 (5.56%) FortiGate
5 70 (4.47%) SCCM
6 65 (4.15%) Kubernetes
7 47 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
8 31 (1.98%) Nagios
9 27 (1.73%) Grafana
10 26 (1.66%) Prometheus
10 26 (1.66%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.53%) QRadar
12 20 (1.28%) Nessus
13 19 (1.21%) Proxmox
14 17 (1.09%) Puppet
15 12 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
16 11 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.70%) WSUS
17 9 (0.58%) CASB
18 8 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 624 (39.87%) Microsoft
2 501 (32.01%) Cisco
3 360 (23.00%) VMware
4 215 (13.74%) Fortinet
5 149 (9.52%) Meraki
6 132 (8.43%) Palo Alto
7 125 (7.99%) Juniper
8 119 (7.60%) CheckPoint
9 86 (5.50%) SolarWinds
10 77 (4.92%) Citrix
11 74 (4.73%) Google
12 70 (4.47%) Veeam
13 68 (4.35%) Dell
14 67 (4.28%) Aruba
15 61 (3.90%) HP
16 49 (3.13%) F5
17 47 (3.00%) Apple
18 43 (2.75%) Splunk
19 36 (2.30%) SonicWALL
20 32 (2.04%) Sophos