Firewall Jobs in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 40 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 82 74 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.50% 5.80% 4.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.54% 24.34% 29.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 69 71
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £41,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,850 £45,000
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 the North East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 304 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.82% 23.84% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 229 117 152
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,750 £25,775
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% +2.50% +1.91%
75th Percentile £61,250 £48,750 £44,438
90th Percentile £72,500 £66,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 25 April 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 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
Tyne and Wear -2 56 £42,500 - 9
Durham +13 23 £34,000 -9.33% 5
Northumberland -3 3 £27,000 -1.82% 2
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 14 (17.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) Azure
2 29 (35.37%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (21.95%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.88%) AWS
5 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.44%) Slack
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Dropbox
6 1 (1.22%) Google Drive
6 1 (1.22%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.61%) WAN
2 18 (21.95%) DNS
2 18 (21.95%) LAN
3 16 (19.51%) VPN
3 16 (19.51%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (18.29%) VoIP
5 13 (15.85%) DHCP
6 8 (9.76%) VLAN
7 7 (8.54%) Network Security
8 6 (7.32%) Wireless
9 5 (6.10%) DMZ
9 5 (6.10%) SD-WAN
9 5 (6.10%) SSL
10 4 (4.88%) BGP
10 4 (4.88%) OSPF
11 3 (3.66%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (3.66%) IPsec
11 3 (3.66%) MPLS
12 2 (2.44%) HTTPS
12 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Git
1 2 (2.44%) GitLab
1 2 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 38 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Legal
5 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Law
5 3 (3.66%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Analyst
1 16 (19.51%) Security Analyst
2 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (13.41%) Lead
3 10 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Network Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) Network Specialist
4 9 (10.98%) Team Leader
5 7 (8.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 7 (8.54%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
5 7 (8.54%) Network Team Leader
5 7 (8.54%) Project Leader
6 6 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (7.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) IT Support
7 4 (4.88%) Support Technician
8 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.66%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.32%) Clustering
3 6 (7.32%) Driving Licence
3 6 (7.32%) IoT
4 3 (3.66%) Mobile Computing
4 3 (3.66%) PKI
5 2 (2.44%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.44%) Handset
5 2 (2.44%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.44%) Robotics
5 2 (2.44%) Tandem
6 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (52.44%) Windows
2 40 (48.78%) Windows Server
3 14 (17.07%) Windows 10
4 13 (15.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (13.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (7.32%) Mac OS
6 6 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (2.44%) Linux
7 2 (2.44%) Unix
7 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (31.71%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.73%) Network Architecture
4 16 (19.51%) SIEM
5 11 (13.41%) Kalman Filter
6 10 (12.20%) Cloud Security
6 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (12.20%) Web Filtering
7 9 (10.98%) Document Management
7 9 (10.98%) User Experience
8 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (9.76%) Energy Management
8 8 (9.76%) Operations Management
8 8 (9.76%) Security Management
8 8 (9.76%) Threat Analysis
8 8 (9.76%) Virtual Environments
8 8 (9.76%) Zero Trust
9 7 (8.54%) Business Case
9 7 (8.54%) Project Delivery
9 7 (8.54%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.29%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.20%) SQL
3 9 (10.98%) Bash
4 7 (8.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Degree
2 7 (8.54%) CISSP
2 7 (8.54%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (7.32%) CISA
3 6 (7.32%) CISMP
3 6 (7.32%) GIAC
3 6 (7.32%) SANS
3 6 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.66%) CCNA
6 3 (3.66%) CCNP
6 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.44%) HNC
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.22%) CCSP
8 1 (1.22%) CISM
8 1 (1.22%) MCSE
8 1 (1.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (15.85%) NIST
2 9 (10.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.88%) SLA
4 2 (2.44%) GDPR
4 2 (2.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 16 (19.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.66%) vSphere
5 2 (2.44%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (7.32%) Autotask
3 6 (7.32%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (7.32%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (7.32%) SCCM
4 3 (3.66%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (31.71%) VMware
3 24 (29.27%) Cisco
4 12 (14.63%) Aruba
5 10 (12.20%) Palo Alto
6 8 (9.76%) Juniper
7 5 (6.10%) CheckPoint
7 5 (6.10%) Datto
7 5 (6.10%) Intel
8 4 (4.88%) Apple
8 4 (4.88%) Fortinet
8 4 (4.88%) Meraki
9 2 (2.44%) Forcepoint
9 2 (2.44%) Mitel
10 1 (1.22%) Citrix
10 1 (1.22%) Google
10 1 (1.22%) Rapid7
10 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.22%) Sophos
10 1 (1.22%) Splunk