Firewall Jobs in Northern Ireland

Firewall
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 56 38 65
Rank change year-on-year -18 +27 +24
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 15 57 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.17% 7.40% 3.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.31% 46.72% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 33
10th Percentile - £32,500 -
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,969 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £53,438 £46,250
90th Percentile - £67,438 £48,750
UK median annual salary £48,800 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 122 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.16% 15.84% 23.85%
Number of salaries quoted 31 39 74
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -27.27%
75th Percentile £42,000 £48,375 £50,938
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,400 £69,500
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Salary histogram for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -19 11 £61,250 +63.33% 6
County Down - 4 £37,500 -
Newry - 1 - -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) VPN
2 8 (53.33%) Internet
3 5 (33.33%) IPsec
3 5 (33.33%) Network Security
3 5 (33.33%) SNMP
4 4 (26.67%) DHCP
4 4 (26.67%) LAN
4 4 (26.67%) WAN
5 3 (20.00%) DNS
5 3 (20.00%) Wireless
6 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (13.33%) VLAN
7 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Consultant
1 5 (33.33%) NetApp Consultant
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 3 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 5 (33.33%) Release Management
3 5 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (20.00%) Business Case
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Data Privacy
4 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (20.00%) Network Management
4 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) CCNP
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) NetApp
1 5 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (33.33%) SolidFire
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft