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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 92 112
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 -23
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 143 185 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.79% 3.73% 2.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.96% 20.09% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 126 147 114
10th Percentile £27,375 £28,625 £26,650
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £44,075
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +13.44% -3.13%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £72,050
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 573 921 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.16% 18.56% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 447 402 451
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,513 £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% +5.56%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £59,375
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

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 3 May 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 3 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
Salford +17 9 £72,500 +41.46% 3
Stockport - 6 £60,000 - 2
Bolton +13 4 £32,500 -33.33% 2
Cheadle -3 4 £50,000 -28.57%
Bury - 4 £50,000 -
Rochdale +15 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 (11.89%) IIS
2 13 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (4.90%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.50%) Apache
6 4 (2.80%) CMS
6 4 (2.80%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.85%) Azure
2 48 (33.57%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (25.87%) AWS
4 25 (17.48%) GCP
5 14 (9.79%) GitHub
6 10 (6.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.50%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.50%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.80%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.10%) IaaS
11 3 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (27.97%) DNS
2 38 (26.57%) WAN
3 26 (18.18%) LAN
4 24 (16.78%) DHCP
5 23 (16.08%) VPN
6 20 (13.99%) SAN
6 20 (13.99%) TCP/IP
7 19 (13.29%) Network Security
7 19 (13.29%) SD-WAN
8 18 (12.59%) Wireless
9 12 (8.39%) iSCSI
10 11 (7.69%) OSPF
11 9 (6.29%) SNMP
12 8 (5.59%) VLAN
13 7 (4.90%) BGP
13 7 (4.90%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (4.90%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (4.20%) MPLS
14 6 (4.20%) NAS
14 6 (4.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.80%) Power BI
4 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.90%) JIRA
2 7 (4.90%) Spinnaker
3 4 (2.80%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.70%) Git
5 1 (0.70%) GitLab
General
1 35 (24.48%) Finance
2 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.90%) Banking
4 7 (4.90%) Retail
5 6 (4.20%) Law
6 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Network Engineer
2 22 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 16 (11.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 13 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Manager
5 12 (8.39%) IT Support
5 12 (8.39%) Senior
6 11 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Lead
7 10 (6.99%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Field Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) GCP Software Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.90%) Kafka
2 5 (3.50%) .NET
2 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (3.50%) YAML
3 4 (2.80%) Akka
4 2 (1.40%) Web Services
5 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.70%) CSS
5 1 (0.70%) HTML
5 1 (0.70%) jQuery
5 1 (0.70%) React
5 1 (0.70%) REST
5 1 (0.70%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.70%) Vue
5 1 (0.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.79%) Data Centre
2 13 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 12 (8.39%) PMI
4 9 (6.29%) Security Posture
5 7 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (4.20%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (4.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 6 (4.20%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.10%) Smart Energy
10 2 (1.40%) Anti-Spyware
10 2 (1.40%) CCTV
10 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.70%) CSOC
11 1 (0.70%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.70%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.70%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 60 (41.96%) Windows
2 38 (26.57%) Windows Server
3 37 (25.87%) Linux
4 15 (10.49%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.50%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (3.50%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.80%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.80%) VMS
8 2 (1.40%) Unix
8 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.70%) CentOS
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.70%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (25.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (20.98%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (18.88%) Mentoring
5 23 (16.08%) Incident Response
6 22 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (15.38%) ITIL
7 21 (14.69%) Agile
8 20 (13.99%) Information Security
9 19 (13.29%) CI/CD
9 19 (13.29%) Project Management
10 18 (12.59%) Customer Service
11 17 (11.89%) Server Management
12 14 (9.79%) DevOps
13 13 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 13 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
14 12 (8.39%) Capacity Planning
14 12 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (8.39%) Line Management
14 12 (8.39%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.69%) Python
2 16 (11.19%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.69%) Bash
4 8 (5.59%) Java
5 3 (2.10%) Go
5 3 (2.10%) Ruby
6 1 (0.70%) C#
6 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.70%) Perl
6 1 (0.70%) SQL
6 1 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (23.78%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (18.88%) Degree
3 23 (16.08%) CCNA
4 18 (12.59%) CCNP
5 12 (8.39%) PMI Certification
6 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.99%) AWS Certification
8 6 (4.20%) CCIE
8 6 (4.20%) CISM
8 6 (4.20%) CISSP
9 4 (2.80%) CCNA CyberOps
9 4 (2.80%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (2.80%) CRISC
9 4 (2.80%) HNC
9 4 (2.80%) HND
9 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (8.39%) NIST
3 7 (4.90%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.10%) GDPR
6 3 (2.10%) SLA
7 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 46 (32.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 21 (14.69%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.59%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.20%) Docker
5 6 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.50%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.70%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.70%) Postfix
8 1 (0.70%) Snort
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (8.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (8.39%) Opsgenie
3 12 (8.39%) VxRail
3 12 (8.39%) ZABBIX
4 6 (4.20%) Ansible
5 5 (3.50%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.50%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.80%) Terraform
7 3 (2.10%) SELinux
8 2 (1.40%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.40%) Nessus
9 1 (0.70%) CASB
9 1 (0.70%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.70%) SCCM
9 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (44.76%) Microsoft
2 59 (41.26%) Cisco
2 59 (41.26%) VMware
3 28 (19.58%) Fortinet
4 18 (12.59%) Dell
5 17 (11.89%) NetApp
6 14 (9.79%) SolarWinds
7 13 (9.09%) Meraki
8 10 (6.99%) Citrix
9 8 (5.59%) Aruba
9 8 (5.59%) Juniper
9 8 (5.59%) Palo Alto
10 7 (4.90%) Confluent
10 7 (4.90%) Extreme Networks
11 6 (4.20%) HP
12 5 (3.50%) ESET
12 5 (3.50%) Red Hat
12 5 (3.50%) SolidFire
12 5 (3.50%) Sophos
12 5 (3.50%) Veeam