Firewall Jobs in the North West

Firewall
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 78 106
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 -53
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 271 352 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.79% 4.42% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.71% 21.78% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 231 256 217
10th Percentile £26,750 £33,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,938 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,400
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,143 1,616 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.79% 20.29% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 874 681 734
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £45,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +3.87% +0.56%
75th Percentile £62,188 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +18 144 £57,500 +15.00% 46
Cheshire 0 54 £37,500 -40.00% 22
Merseyside -20 37 £48,000 -10.28% 5
Lancashire -19 26 £45,000 - 8
Cumbria -25 10 £36,500 -8.75% 3
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 21 (7.75%) IIS
2 16 (5.90%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (4.06%) Apache
5 8 (2.95%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.48%) CMS
6 4 (1.48%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.37%) Confluence
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 115 (42.44%) Azure
2 83 (30.63%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (18.45%) AWS
4 31 (11.44%) GCP
5 15 (5.54%) GitHub
6 12 (4.43%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (3.69%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.32%) IaaS
9 9 (3.32%) SaaS
10 8 (2.95%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.95%) PaaS
11 7 (2.58%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.85%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.48%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 69 (25.46%) WAN
2 61 (22.51%) DNS
3 59 (21.77%) LAN
4 51 (18.82%) VPN
5 46 (16.97%) TCP/IP
6 40 (14.76%) DHCP
7 34 (12.55%) Network Security
7 34 (12.55%) SD-WAN
8 31 (11.44%) Wireless
9 24 (8.86%) SAN
10 23 (8.49%) OSPF
11 22 (8.12%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (7.75%) VLAN
13 20 (7.38%) Internet
13 20 (7.38%) IPsec
14 19 (7.01%) BGP
15 18 (6.64%) Intrusion Detection
16 17 (6.27%) SSL
17 15 (5.54%) MPLS
18 14 (5.17%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.69%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.85%) MySQL
4 4 (1.48%) Power BI
5 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (4.06%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.95%) Spinnaker
3 7 (2.58%) JIRA
4 4 (1.48%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.37%) Git
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 77 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.82%) Finance
3 26 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.43%) Retail
5 11 (4.06%) Law
5 11 (4.06%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.32%) Banking
6 9 (3.32%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.58%) Legal
7 7 (2.58%) Military
8 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (20.30%) Network Engineer
2 34 (12.55%) IT Engineer
3 30 (11.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (11.07%) IT Support
3 30 (11.07%) Senior
4 24 (8.86%) Lead
5 22 (8.12%) Analyst
5 22 (8.12%) Support Engineer
6 21 (7.75%) IT Manager
7 17 (6.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 17 (6.27%) Infrastructure Manager
8 16 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (5.54%) 2nd Line Support
10 14 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Consultant
12 10 (3.69%) NetApp Consultant
13 8 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (2.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 8 (2.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (3.69%) YAML
2 8 (2.95%) Kafka
3 5 (1.85%) .NET
4 4 (1.48%) Akka
5 2 (0.74%) Web Services
6 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.37%) CSS
6 1 (0.37%) HTML
6 1 (0.37%) jQuery
6 1 (0.37%) JSON
6 1 (0.37%) React
6 1 (0.37%) REST
6 1 (0.37%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.37%) Vue
6 1 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.96%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.59%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.54%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.80%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.43%) PMI
6 11 (4.06%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (4.06%) Cyberattack
7 9 (3.32%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (2.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.85%) CCTV
11 4 (1.48%) Life Science
11 4 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.11%) PKI
12 3 (1.11%) Smart Energy
13 2 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 114 (42.07%) Windows
2 74 (27.31%) Windows Server
3 56 (20.66%) Linux
4 20 (7.38%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (3.69%) Data ONTAP
8 9 (3.32%) VMS
9 8 (2.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.85%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.48%) Android
11 4 (1.48%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.48%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.74%) Unix
12 2 (0.74%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.37%) CentOS
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.37%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (24.35%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (20.30%) ITIL
4 52 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (15.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 40 (14.76%) Customer Service
7 35 (12.92%) Incident Response
8 32 (11.81%) Mentoring
8 32 (11.81%) Project Management
9 29 (10.70%) Agile
10 26 (9.59%) SIEM
11 25 (9.23%) Information Security
12 21 (7.75%) Release Management
13 20 (7.38%) CI/CD
13 20 (7.38%) Computer Science
13 20 (7.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 20 (7.38%) Threat Intelligence
14 19 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (6.64%) Network Monitoring
16 17 (6.27%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (11.44%) Python
2 18 (6.64%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.43%) SQL
4 11 (4.06%) Bash
5 9 (3.32%) Java
6 3 (1.11%) Go
6 3 (1.11%) Ruby
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
7 1 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (18.08%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (16.97%) Degree
3 34 (12.55%) CCNA
4 27 (9.96%) CCNP
5 17 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.54%) CISSP
7 14 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (4.43%) PMI Certification
9 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
10 10 (3.69%) MCP
11 9 (3.32%) Security Cleared
12 6 (2.21%) CISA
12 6 (2.21%) CISM
13 5 (1.85%) CCIE
13 5 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.48%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (1.48%) HNC
14 4 (1.48%) HND
14 4 (1.48%) MCSE
14 4 (1.48%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (9.23%) SLA
3 16 (5.90%) NIST
4 13 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (3.32%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.85%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.48%) GDPR
7 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) FISMA
9 1 (0.37%) HITRUST
9 1 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (33.95%) Active Directory
2 79 (29.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (15.50%) Hyper-V
4 11 (4.06%) Docker
5 9 (3.32%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.85%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.11%) vSphere
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.37%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.37%) Postfix
10 1 (0.37%) Snort
10 1 (0.37%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 22 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (4.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (4.43%) Ansible
3 12 (4.43%) Opsgenie
3 12 (4.43%) VxRail
3 12 (4.43%) ZABBIX
4 10 (3.69%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.69%) Terraform
4 10 (3.69%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.58%) Nessus
6 4 (1.48%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.11%) SELinux
7 3 (1.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.74%) CASB
8 2 (0.74%) SCCM
8 2 (0.74%) vRealize
9 1 (0.37%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (45.76%) Microsoft
2 103 (38.01%) VMware
3 89 (32.84%) Cisco
4 46 (16.97%) Fortinet
5 24 (8.86%) Dell
6 22 (8.12%) NetApp
7 20 (7.38%) Aruba
8 19 (7.01%) SolarWinds
9 17 (6.27%) Palo Alto
10 15 (5.54%) HP
10 15 (5.54%) Juniper
11 14 (5.17%) Meraki
12 13 (4.80%) Citrix
13 12 (4.43%) Ubiquiti
14 10 (3.69%) Red Hat
14 10 (3.69%) SolidFire
15 8 (2.95%) Confluent
15 8 (2.95%) Google
16 7 (2.58%) ESET
16 7 (2.58%) Sophos