Firewall Jobs in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 34 64
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 -12
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 40 60 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.40% 6.19% 3.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.10% 23.53% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 34 58 56
10th Percentile £26,800 £32,749 £28,625
25th Percentile £32,438 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £39,858
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +6.63% +6.29%
75th Percentile £50,313 £48,750 £40,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £56,375 £41,625
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -2.89% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 166 255 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 9.95% 26.32% 11.51%
Number of salaries quoted 147 102 124
10th Percentile £25,500 £29,608 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £40,683 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +1.71% +6.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £48,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £55,525
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North East

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North East.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North East

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North East

Firewall
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Tyne and Wear -46 20 £40,000 -5.88% 12
Durham -1 19 £38,000 -10.06% 2
Northumberland - 1 £27,000 -
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.50%) Confluence
4 2 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 18 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.00%) Slack
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) WAN
2 12 (30.00%) DNS
2 12 (30.00%) LAN
2 12 (30.00%) VoIP
2 12 (30.00%) VPN
3 9 (22.50%) DHCP
4 8 (20.00%) VLAN
4 8 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (12.50%) Network Security
5 5 (12.50%) SSL
6 4 (10.00%) Wireless
7 3 (7.50%) BGP
7 3 (7.50%) DMZ
7 3 (7.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (7.50%) IPsec
7 3 (7.50%) iSCSI
7 3 (7.50%) MPLS
7 3 (7.50%) OSPF
7 3 (7.50%) SAN
7 3 (7.50%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) IT Support
4 4 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.50%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Presales Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Presales Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Support Technician
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
2 5 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.50%) IoT
4 3 (7.50%) PKI
4 3 (7.50%) Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (5.00%) Handset
5 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Robotics
6 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Windows
2 23 (57.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
5 6 (15.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (5.00%) Linux
7 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (27.50%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (15.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (12.50%) Energy Management
6 5 (12.50%) Operations Management
6 5 (12.50%) Quality Management
6 5 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (10.00%) Change Management
7 4 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (10.00%) Service Management
7 4 (10.00%) SIEM
8 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
8 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (7.50%) Email Filtering
8 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.50%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) Bash
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) CCNA
2 3 (7.50%) CISA
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.50%) CISMP
2 3 (7.50%) CISSP
2 3 (7.50%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (7.50%) GIAC
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.50%) SANS
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) CCNP
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) MCSA
4 1 (2.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.50%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 10 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) vSphere
4 2 (5.00%) Ceph
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.00%) Failover Clustering
2 6 (15.00%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (15.00%) SCCM
3 5 (12.50%) Autotask
4 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) N-central
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (42.50%) VMware
3 10 (25.00%) Cisco
4 7 (17.50%) Sophos
5 6 (15.00%) Fortinet
6 5 (12.50%) Aruba
6 5 (12.50%) Datto
6 5 (12.50%) Mitel
6 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
7 4 (10.00%) Draytek
8 3 (7.50%) Citrix
8 3 (7.50%) Juniper
8 3 (7.50%) Veeam
9 2 (5.00%) Apple
9 2 (5.00%) CheckPoint
9 2 (5.00%) Meraki
9 2 (5.00%) Zerto
10 1 (2.50%) Oracle
10 1 (2.50%) OutSystems
10 1 (2.50%) SAP