Firewall Jobs in England

Firewall
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Firewall skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firewall over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 82 117
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 -44
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,433 3,562 4,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.00% 3.95% 3.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.47% 25.17% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 2,573 3,150
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61,938 £67,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,297 £81,300
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Firewall is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,058 14,150 17,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.07% 15.71% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,518 7,301 10,417
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +13 883 £65,000 +8.33% 193
South East +21 825 £42,500 -5.56% 151
North of England +11 603 £42,500 -10.53% 148
Midlands +30 523 £45,000 - 125
West Midlands +48 347 £45,000 -0.28% 74
South West +8 346 £45,000 +5.88% 79
Yorkshire +52 270 £45,000 -5.26% 51
North West -18 264 £50,000 - 82
East of England +32 257 £41,500 -2.35% 50
East Midlands +3 172 £40,000 -5.33% 51
North East +5 80 £42,155 -0.81% 15
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
1 523 (15.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 403 (11.74%) SharePoint
3 119 (3.47%) IIS
4 52 (1.51%) Apache
5 34 (0.99%) Confluence
6 27 (0.79%) nginx
7 23 (0.67%) WordPress
8 18 (0.52%) CMS
8 18 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
9 17 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
10 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
10 11 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
11 10 (0.29%) Skype for Business
12 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
13 7 (0.20%) SAS
14 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 284 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Trello
6 3 (0.087%) SPSS
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.058%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.058%) Shopify
5 1 (0.029%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.029%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,599 (46.58%) Azure
2 1,308 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
3 524 (15.26%) AWS
4 399 (11.62%) Entra ID
5 152 (4.43%) GCP
6 119 (3.47%) OneDrive
7 116 (3.38%) SaaS
8 104 (3.03%) IaaS
9 91 (2.65%) PaaS
10 78 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
12 57 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
14 48 (1.40%) GitHub
14 48 (1.40%) Mimecast
15 40 (1.17%) Power Platform
16 34 (0.99%) Google Workspace
17 29 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 25 (0.73%) Serverless
19 23 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 809 (23.57%) WAN
2 803 (23.39%) VPN
3 800 (23.30%) DNS
4 680 (19.81%) LAN
5 526 (15.32%) DHCP
6 466 (13.57%) TCP/IP
7 393 (11.45%) Wireless
8 389 (11.33%) Network Security
9 384 (11.19%) Wi-Fi
10 351 (10.22%) VLAN
11 254 (7.40%) SD-WAN
12 247 (7.19%) SAN
13 210 (6.12%) Internet
14 181 (5.27%) MPLS
15 177 (5.16%) BGP
16 174 (5.07%) VoIP
17 158 (4.60%) Intrusion Detection
18 149 (4.34%) OSPF
19 123 (3.58%) SSL
20 109 (3.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 75 (2.18%) MySQL
3 50 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.76%) Power BI
8 20 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (0.47%) Big Data
10 12 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.23%) DB2
12 8 (0.23%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.23%) Redis
12 8 (0.23%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.15%) CockroachDB
15 4 (0.12%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 95 (2.77%) JIRA
2 86 (2.51%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.69%) Git
4 27 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 27 (0.79%) GitLab
5 15 (0.44%) Subversion
6 11 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 10 (0.29%) GNU Toolchain
7 10 (0.29%) Trac
8 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 7 (0.20%) Spinnaker
9 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.15%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.12%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.058%) Hudson
12 2 (0.058%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.058%) TeamCity
General
1 1,005 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 442 (12.88%) Finance
3 280 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (5.21%) Telecoms
5 150 (4.37%) Law
6 121 (3.52%) Legal
6 121 (3.52%) Retail
7 87 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 82 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 78 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 74 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 68 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 64 (1.86%) Banking
13 57 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 55 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
15 49 (1.43%) Games
16 42 (1.22%) Marketing
17 20 (0.58%) Police
18 17 (0.50%) Local Government
19 16 (0.47%) Billing
Job Titles
1 582 (16.95%) Network Engineer
2 503 (14.65%) Senior
3 464 (13.52%) IT Engineer
4 451 (13.14%) Support Engineer
5 445 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 412 (12.00%) IT Support
7 399 (11.62%) Analyst
8 271 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
9 223 (6.50%) Lead
10 182 (5.30%) Security Analyst
11 176 (5.13%) Architect
12 173 (5.04%) 3rd Line Support
13 167 (4.86%) Senior Network Engineer
14 156 (4.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 147 (4.28%) 2nd Line Support
16 137 (3.99%) IT Manager
17 118 (3.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 118 (3.44%) Consultant
17 118 (3.44%) Security Engineer
18 112 (3.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (1.84%) 802.1X
2 59 (1.72%) REST
3 57 (1.66%) YAML
4 40 (1.17%) HTML
5 38 (1.11%) .NET
6 34 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
7 33 (0.96%) SAML
8 28 (0.82%) OAuth
9 22 (0.64%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.64%) CSS
9 22 (0.64%) jQuery
10 19 (0.55%) AngularJS
10 19 (0.55%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (0.55%) React
10 19 (0.55%) Tailwind CSS
10 19 (0.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 19 (0.55%) Vue
10 19 (0.55%) WPF
11 18 (0.52%) ARM Templates
11 18 (0.52%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 384 (11.19%) Data Centre
2 262 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 205 (5.97%) Driving Licence
4 120 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 109 (3.18%) Public Cloud
6 107 (3.12%) Replication
7 90 (2.62%) PKI
8 85 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
9 82 (2.39%) Security Posture
10 72 (2.10%) Clustering
11 65 (1.89%) Onboarding
12 64 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
13 49 (1.43%) Client/Server
13 49 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
14 45 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 41 (1.19%) CCTV
16 39 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
17 37 (1.08%) Cyberattack
17 37 (1.08%) IoT
18 29 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1,611 (46.93%) Windows
2 942 (27.44%) Windows Server
3 699 (20.36%) Linux
4 271 (7.89%) Windows 10
5 210 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 169 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 169 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 91 (2.65%) Mac OS
8 87 (2.53%) Ubuntu
9 73 (2.13%) VMS
10 70 (2.04%) Unix
11 65 (1.89%) Apple iOS
12 55 (1.60%) Android
13 53 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 37 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 34 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
16 28 (0.82%) CentOS
17 21 (0.61%) Windows 7
18 17 (0.50%) Windows XP
19 16 (0.47%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (22.78%) Cybersecurity
2 762 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
3 570 (16.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 481 (14.01%) ITIL
5 405 (11.80%) Customer Service
6 321 (9.35%) Information Security
7 315 (9.18%) Agile
8 303 (8.83%) SIEM
9 286 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 248 (7.22%) DevOps
11 245 (7.14%) Mentoring
12 237 (6.90%) Project Management
13 224 (6.52%) Incident Response
14 186 (5.42%) Service Delivery
15 182 (5.30%) Migration
16 174 (5.07%) Project Delivery
17 172 (5.01%) Cloud Security
18 166 (4.84%) Kalman Filter
19 163 (4.75%) Security Operations
20 145 (4.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 444 (12.93%) PowerShell
2 316 (9.20%) SQL
3 298 (8.68%) Python
4 175 (5.10%) Bash
5 64 (1.86%) C#
6 59 (1.72%) Java
7 47 (1.37%) Perl
8 32 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 27 (0.79%) VBScript
10 25 (0.73%) Bicep
11 19 (0.55%) Ruby
11 19 (0.55%) XAML
12 15 (0.44%) C
13 14 (0.41%) C++
13 14 (0.41%) VB
14 12 (0.35%) PHP
15 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.29%) RPG
17 6 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 462 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
2 454 (13.22%) Degree
3 433 (12.61%) Security Cleared
4 305 (8.88%) CCNA
5 247 (7.19%) CISSP
6 226 (6.58%) SC Cleared
7 202 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 194 (5.65%) CCNP
9 160 (4.66%) DV Cleared
10 105 (3.06%) Azure Certification
11 101 (2.94%) MCSE
12 97 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
13 90 (2.62%) CISM
14 74 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
15 71 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
16 61 (1.78%) CISA
17 60 (1.75%) GIAC
18 59 (1.72%) MCSA
19 50 (1.46%) AWS Certification
20 49 (1.43%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (4.57%) SLA
3 150 (4.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 150 (4.37%) NIST
4 136 (3.96%) GDPR
5 96 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 50 (1.46%) SOC 2
7 40 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 28 (0.82%) GRC
9 27 (0.79%) QA
10 23 (0.67%) NCSC
11 21 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.58%) COBIT
13 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 10 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.26%) COSHH
16 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.17%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.15%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1,226 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 704 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 590 (17.19%) Hyper-V
4 165 (4.81%) VMware ESXi
5 127 (3.70%) Docker
6 113 (3.29%) vSphere
7 92 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
8 78 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
10 30 (0.87%) VMware NSX
10 30 (0.87%) XenApp
11 29 (0.84%) Firmware
12 28 (0.82%) XenDesktop
13 26 (0.76%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.70%) pfSense
15 17 (0.50%) NFS
15 17 (0.50%) vCloud
16 12 (0.35%) KVM
17 8 (0.23%) VMware Server
18 6 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 414 (12.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 233 (6.79%) Ansible
3 158 (4.60%) Kubernetes
4 157 (4.57%) SCCM
5 154 (4.49%) Terraform
6 122 (3.55%) FortiGate
7 102 (2.97%) WSUS
8 77 (2.24%) vCenter Server
9 69 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (1.75%) SCOM
11 50 (1.46%) Prometheus
12 43 (1.25%) Puppet
13 38 (1.11%) ZABBIX
14 37 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 35 (1.02%) Grafana
15 35 (1.02%) Nagios
16 28 (0.82%) Progress Chef
17 25 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
18 22 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
19 19 (0.55%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,490 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 1,018 (29.65%) VMware
3 914 (26.62%) Cisco
4 276 (8.04%) Veeam
5 268 (7.81%) Palo Alto
6 236 (6.87%) Juniper
7 221 (6.44%) Fortinet
8 200 (5.83%) Citrix
9 198 (5.77%) Meraki
10 181 (5.27%) Aruba
11 172 (5.01%) HP
12 154 (4.49%) CheckPoint
13 126 (3.67%) Dell
14 106 (3.09%) Google
15 95 (2.77%) Red Hat
16 89 (2.59%) SolarWinds
17 85 (2.48%) NetApp
17 85 (2.48%) Sophos
18 73 (2.13%) Apple
19 63 (1.84%) Oracle