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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 57 74
Rank change year-on-year -32 +17 +57
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,609 3,493 3,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.25% 3.78% 4.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.05% 28.55% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 2,903 2,499
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,250 £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 £70,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £76,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.48% -2.43%

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 8,916 12,235 13,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.01% 13.25% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,787 8,526 6,884
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.94% -3.81%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -15 481 £70,000 +7.69% 580
South East -49 296 £47,500 +11.76% 429
North of England -59 294 £43,600 -3.11% 271
Midlands -43 212 £46,000 +2.22% 166
South West +17 174 £45,500 +1.11% 132
West Midlands -23 154 £46,000 +2.22% 108
Yorkshire -8 151 £42,500 -10.53% 115
East of England -33 122 £50,000 +20.48% 162
North West -93 120 £47,500 -5.00% 125
East Midlands -46 58 £45,000 +5.88% 52
North East +1 23 £37,500 -6.25% 36
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
1 238 (14.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 149 (9.26%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.18%) IIS
4 29 (1.80%) Confluence
5 10 (0.62%) Apache
6 7 (0.44%) nginx
7 6 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.37%) Moodle
8 4 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.062%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.062%) SAS
Applications
1 104 (6.46%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.62%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 22 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.50%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.062%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 715 (44.44%) Azure
2 509 (31.63%) Microsoft 365
3 292 (18.15%) AWS
4 225 (13.98%) Entra ID
5 96 (5.97%) GCP
6 61 (3.79%) OneDrive
7 55 (3.42%) SaaS
8 50 (3.11%) IaaS
9 47 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 43 (2.67%) PaaS
11 40 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 39 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (2.42%) Power Platform
13 36 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
14 33 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
15 32 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.93%) Amazon S3
17 30 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 28 (1.74%) AWS KMS
18 28 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 457 (28.40%) VPN
2 416 (25.85%) WAN
3 370 (23.00%) DNS
4 320 (19.89%) LAN
5 308 (19.14%) Network Security
6 251 (15.60%) DHCP
7 220 (13.67%) TCP/IP
8 201 (12.49%) VLAN
9 181 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
10 176 (10.94%) SD-WAN
11 172 (10.69%) BGP
12 167 (10.38%) OSPF
13 110 (6.84%) MPLS
14 91 (5.66%) Intrusion Detection
15 81 (5.03%) SAN
16 80 (4.97%) VoIP
16 80 (4.97%) Wireless
17 74 (4.60%) Cisco Firepower
18 60 (3.73%) EIGRP
19 53 (3.29%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (6.46%) SQL Server
2 60 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.49%) Power BI
4 21 (1.31%) MySQL
5 17 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 14 (0.87%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.19%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.12%) Big Data
11 2 (0.12%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.12%) EDMS
12 1 (0.062%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.062%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.062%) JasperReports
12 1 (0.062%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 52 (3.23%) Git
2 42 (2.61%) JIRA
3 35 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 23 (1.43%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.62%) GitLab
7 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.12%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.12%) Maven
9 2 (0.12%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.062%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.062%) IDA Disassembler
10 1 (0.062%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.062%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.062%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.062%) Subversion
10 1 (0.062%) TestRail
General
1 514 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 195 (12.12%) Finance
3 126 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (4.10%) Manufacturing
5 59 (3.67%) Legal
5 59 (3.67%) Telecoms
6 58 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (3.23%) Retail
8 51 (3.17%) Banking
9 44 (2.73%) Public Sector
10 31 (1.93%) Law
10 31 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 21 (1.31%) Local Government
14 18 (1.12%) Automotive
15 15 (0.93%) Back Office
16 13 (0.81%) Marketing
16 13 (0.81%) Police
17 12 (0.75%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 260 (16.16%) Network Engineer
2 230 (14.29%) Analyst
3 197 (12.24%) Support Engineer
4 180 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 176 (10.94%) IT Support
6 170 (10.57%) Senior
7 141 (8.76%) IT Engineer
8 123 (7.64%) Architect
9 121 (7.52%) Technical Support
10 103 (6.40%) 2nd Line Support
11 102 (6.34%) Support Analyst
12 98 (6.09%) Lead
13 93 (5.78%) Security Engineer
14 87 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
15 83 (5.16%) Security Analyst
16 73 (4.54%) Technical Engineer
17 72 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
18 71 (4.41%) IT Analyst
18 71 (4.41%) Technical Support Engineer
19 55 (3.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.18%) LDAP
2 26 (1.62%) JSON
3 20 (1.24%) 802.1X
4 15 (0.93%) YAML
5 7 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.37%) ARM Templates
6 6 (0.37%) REST
6 6 (0.37%) RESTful
7 5 (0.31%) SAML
8 4 (0.25%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.19%) .NET
9 3 (0.19%) Middleware
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.12%) ModSecurity
11 1 (0.062%) Azure Blueprints
11 1 (0.062%) FreeSWITCH
11 1 (0.062%) Kafka
11 1 (0.062%) Node.js
11 1 (0.062%) RFC 2544
11 1 (0.062%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 179 (11.12%) Data Centre
2 141 (8.76%) Management Information System
3 79 (4.91%) Driving Licence
4 78 (4.85%) Operational Technology
5 75 (4.66%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
7 56 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (3.36%) Onboarding
9 49 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 47 (2.92%) Public Cloud
11 42 (2.61%) PKI
12 31 (1.93%) Video Conferencing
13 30 (1.86%) Replication
14 21 (1.31%) Clustering
15 19 (1.18%) Client/Server
16 18 (1.12%) Cloud Native
17 17 (1.06%) Private Cloud
18 16 (0.99%) NHS
19 15 (0.93%) CCTV
19 15 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 776 (48.23%) Windows
2 441 (27.41%) Windows Server
3 232 (14.42%) Linux
4 112 (6.96%) Windows 10
5 79 (4.91%) Windows Server 2019
6 72 (4.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 49 (3.05%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.49%) Android
9 38 (2.36%) Apple iOS
10 27 (1.68%) Ubuntu
11 26 (1.62%) VMS
12 21 (1.31%) Unix
13 19 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 13 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
15 11 (0.68%) CentOS
15 11 (0.68%) Mac OS X
16 9 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
17 7 (0.44%) Rocky
17 7 (0.44%) Windows 7
18 6 (0.37%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
2 373 (23.18%) Cybersecurity
3 219 (13.61%) SIEM
4 207 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 200 (12.43%) Customer Service
6 198 (12.31%) ITIL
7 160 (9.94%) Incident Response
8 154 (9.57%) Information Security
9 145 (9.01%) Mentoring
10 142 (8.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 136 (8.45%) Network Design
12 133 (8.27%) DevOps
13 128 (7.96%) Cloud Security
14 117 (7.27%) Network Management
15 114 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (6.84%) Security Operations
17 96 (5.97%) Computer Science
17 96 (5.97%) Migration
18 93 (5.78%) Incident Management
19 92 (5.72%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 284 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 196 (12.18%) Python
3 143 (8.89%) SQL
4 87 (5.41%) Bash
5 22 (1.37%) Bicep
5 22 (1.37%) Groovy
6 21 (1.31%) Perl
7 13 (0.81%) C#
7 13 (0.81%) Java
8 8 (0.50%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.44%) C++
9 7 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.31%) Go
10 5 (0.31%) R
10 5 (0.31%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.25%) Progress 4GL
12 3 (0.19%) Korn
12 3 (0.19%) Ruby
13 2 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 253 (15.72%) Cisco Certification
2 234 (14.54%) Security Cleared
3 218 (13.55%) Degree
4 179 (11.12%) SC Cleared
5 176 (10.94%) CCNA
6 144 (8.95%) CCNP
7 106 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 94 (5.84%) CISSP
9 78 (4.85%) DV Cleared
10 75 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 60 (3.73%) Azure Certification
11 60 (3.73%) CISM
12 48 (2.98%) JNCIA
13 46 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
14 43 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
15 42 (2.61%) CEH
16 34 (2.11%) CCIE
17 33 (2.05%) A+ Certification
18 30 (1.86%) DBS Check
19 28 (1.74%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (10.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 120 (7.46%) NIST
3 106 (6.59%) GDPR
4 66 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 43 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 38 (2.36%) SLA
7 33 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 22 (1.37%) NCSC
9 16 (0.99%) COBIT
10 14 (0.87%) HIPAA
10 14 (0.87%) QA
11 10 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.56%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.37%) GRC
15 5 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 14001
17 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 596 (37.04%) Active Directory
2 285 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 192 (11.93%) Hyper-V
4 82 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 67 (4.16%) Virtual Servers
6 54 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
7 53 (3.29%) Docker
8 30 (1.86%) vSphere
9 29 (1.80%) Firmware
10 28 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (1.62%) VMware NSX
12 23 (1.43%) Terminal Services
13 20 (1.24%) XenApp
14 15 (0.93%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.56%) BitLocker
16 8 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.44%) NFS
18 5 (0.31%) Postfix
19 4 (0.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
19 4 (0.25%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 202 (12.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 127 (7.89%) Ansible
3 126 (7.83%) Terraform
4 83 (5.16%) FortiGate
5 75 (4.66%) SCCM
6 66 (4.10%) Kubernetes
7 47 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
8 37 (2.30%) Grafana
9 32 (1.99%) Prometheus
10 31 (1.93%) Nagios
11 28 (1.74%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.43%) QRadar
13 21 (1.31%) Nessus
14 20 (1.24%) Proxmox
15 16 (0.99%) Puppet
16 12 (0.75%) WSUS
17 11 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 10 (0.62%) CASB
19 8 (0.50%) vMotion
19 8 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 654 (40.65%) Microsoft
2 511 (31.76%) Cisco
3 365 (22.68%) VMware
4 207 (12.87%) Fortinet
5 153 (9.51%) Meraki
6 136 (8.45%) Juniper
7 134 (8.33%) Palo Alto
8 120 (7.46%) CheckPoint
9 90 (5.59%) SolarWinds
10 76 (4.72%) Citrix
11 73 (4.54%) Google
12 71 (4.41%) Veeam
13 67 (4.16%) Aruba
13 67 (4.16%) Dell
14 63 (3.92%) HP
15 48 (2.98%) Apple
16 46 (2.86%) F5
17 45 (2.80%) Splunk
18 38 (2.36%) SonicWALL
19 36 (2.24%) Sophos