Firewall Jobs in Manchester

Firewall
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 99 106
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 147 181 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.89% 3.58% 3.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.83% 19.48% 24.89%
Number of salaries quoted 130 149 124
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £74,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 569 929 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.17% 18.37% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 449 412 464
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,625 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,833 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £73,675
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,250
% change year-on-year -4.26% +3.87% +0.56%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Salford +16 9 £72,500 +41.46% 4
Stockport - 6 £60,000 - 2
Bolton +12 4 £32,500 -33.33% 2
Cheadle -4 4 £50,000 -13.04%
Bury - 4 £50,000 -
Rochdale +17 1 £60,000 +57.89%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 17 (11.56%) IIS
2 13 (8.84%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.40%) Apache
5 4 (2.72%) CMS
5 4 (2.72%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (52.38%) Azure
2 48 (32.65%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (25.17%) AWS
4 27 (18.37%) GCP
5 16 (10.88%) GitHub
6 12 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.40%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.40%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (2.72%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.04%) Anthos
10 3 (2.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (27.89%) DNS
2 39 (26.53%) WAN
3 29 (19.73%) LAN
4 25 (17.01%) DHCP
5 23 (15.65%) VPN
6 21 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 20 (13.61%) SAN
8 19 (12.93%) SD-WAN
9 18 (12.24%) Network Security
10 17 (11.56%) Wireless
11 12 (8.16%) iSCSI
12 11 (7.48%) OSPF
13 9 (6.12%) SNMP
13 9 (6.12%) VLAN
14 7 (4.76%) BGP
14 7 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (4.08%) NAS
15 6 (4.08%) WLAN
16 5 (3.40%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.72%) Power BI
4 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
5 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.12%) Spinnaker
3 7 (4.76%) JIRA
4 4 (2.72%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.68%) Git
6 1 (0.68%) GitLab
General
1 37 (25.17%) Finance
2 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.12%) Banking
4 9 (6.12%) Retail
5 6 (4.08%) Law
6 4 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.72%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Network Engineer
2 22 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (14.97%) IT Engineer
3 16 (10.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 14 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Manager
6 12 (8.16%) IT Support
6 12 (8.16%) Senior
7 11 (7.48%) 2nd Line Support
7 11 (7.48%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Lead
8 10 (6.80%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) GCP Software Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.12%) Kafka
2 5 (3.40%) .NET
2 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (3.40%) YAML
3 4 (2.72%) Akka
4 2 (1.36%) Web Services
5 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.68%) CSS
5 1 (0.68%) HTML
5 1 (0.68%) jQuery
5 1 (0.68%) React
5 1 (0.68%) REST
5 1 (0.68%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.68%) Vue
5 1 (0.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 14 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.16%) PMI
4 9 (6.12%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (4.08%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (4.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.08%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.04%) Smart Energy
10 2 (1.36%) Anti-Spyware
10 2 (1.36%) CCTV
10 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.68%) CSOC
11 1 (0.68%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (41.50%) Windows
2 38 (25.85%) Linux
2 38 (25.85%) Windows Server
3 15 (10.20%) Windows 10
4 6 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.40%) Data ONTAP
5 5 (3.40%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.72%) Kali Linux
6 4 (2.72%) VMS
7 2 (1.36%) Unix
7 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.68%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (24.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (21.09%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (18.37%) Mentoring
5 24 (16.33%) Incident Response
6 23 (15.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (15.65%) ITIL
7 22 (14.97%) Agile
7 22 (14.97%) Information Security
8 21 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 19 (12.93%) Project Management
10 18 (12.24%) Customer Service
11 17 (11.56%) Server Management
12 14 (9.52%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 14 (9.52%) DevOps
12 14 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
13 12 (8.16%) Capacity Planning
13 12 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.16%) Line Management
13 12 (8.16%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.29%) Python
2 16 (10.88%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.48%) Bash
4 10 (6.80%) Java
5 3 (2.04%) Go
5 3 (2.04%) Ruby
6 1 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Perl
6 1 (0.68%) SQL
6 1 (0.68%) XAML
Qualifications
1 35 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (18.37%) Degree
3 25 (17.01%) CCNA
4 18 (12.24%) CCNP
5 12 (8.16%) PMI Certification
6 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (6.12%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.08%) CISM
8 6 (4.08%) CISSP
9 5 (3.40%) CCIE
10 4 (2.72%) CCNA CyberOps
10 4 (2.72%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (2.72%) CRISC
10 4 (2.72%) HNC
10 4 (2.72%) HND
11 3 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (8.84%) NIST
3 8 (5.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (4.76%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.04%) GDPR
6 3 (2.04%) SLA
7 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 47 (31.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (30.61%) Active Directory
3 22 (14.97%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.44%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.08%) Docker
5 6 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.40%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.36%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.68%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.68%) Postfix
8 1 (0.68%) Snort
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (8.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (8.16%) Opsgenie
3 12 (8.16%) VxRail
3 12 (8.16%) ZABBIX
4 6 (4.08%) Ansible
5 5 (3.40%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.40%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.72%) Terraform
7 3 (2.04%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.04%) SELinux
8 2 (1.36%) CASB
8 2 (1.36%) Nessus
9 1 (0.68%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.68%) SCCM
9 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (44.22%) Microsoft
2 61 (41.50%) Cisco
3 60 (40.82%) VMware
4 28 (19.05%) Fortinet
5 19 (12.93%) Dell
6 17 (11.56%) NetApp
7 14 (9.52%) SolarWinds
8 13 (8.84%) Meraki
9 10 (6.80%) Citrix
10 9 (6.12%) Confluent
10 9 (6.12%) Juniper
10 9 (6.12%) Palo Alto
11 8 (5.44%) Aruba
12 7 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
12 7 (4.76%) HP
13 5 (3.40%) ESET
13 5 (3.40%) Red Hat
13 5 (3.40%) SolidFire
13 5 (3.40%) Sophos
13 5 (3.40%) Veeam