Firewall Jobs in Northern Ireland

Firewall
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 51 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 -24 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 21 51 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.02% 5.88% 8.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.26% 39.23% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11 20 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,175 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,188 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +2.07% -14.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £44,625 £42,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £53,875 £46,375
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 115 130 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.55% 14.99% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 35 40 59
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £47,375 £46,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £53,875 £69,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 4 May 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 4 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
County Antrim -12 16 £40,000 +6.67% 6
County Down - 5 £37,500 - 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 (23.81%) Apache
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.52%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon S3
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (14.29%) Route 53
4 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) VPN
2 8 (38.10%) Internet
3 5 (23.81%) DHCP
3 5 (23.81%) IPsec
3 5 (23.81%) LAN
3 5 (23.81%) Network Security
3 5 (23.81%) SNMP
4 4 (19.05%) DNS
4 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (14.29%) WAN
5 3 (14.29%) Wireless
6 2 (9.52%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (9.52%) Unified Communications
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (14.29%) Law
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Consultant
1 5 (23.81%) NetApp Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Development Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Firewall Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Security Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Head of IT
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Support
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (23.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Unix
4 5 (23.81%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
5 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Computer Science
2 8 (38.10%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (38.10%) Release Management
3 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 6 (28.57%) SIEM
4 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (23.81%) IT Strategy
4 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) Project Management
4 5 (23.81%) Project Planning
4 5 (23.81%) Storage Management
5 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) CCNA
3 2 (9.52%) CCNP
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (38.10%) Docker
3 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (28.57%) Terraform
3 5 (23.81%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Prometheus
3 5 (23.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) NetApp
3 5 (23.81%) Palo Alto
3 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
3 5 (23.81%) SolidFire
4 3 (14.29%) Google
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco
5 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki