Firewall Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Firewall Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 745 729 825
Rank change year-on-year -16 +96 -147
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 18 19 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.032% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.036% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 17
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +7.14% -18.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £55,000 £37,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £67,600 £48,000
UK median annual salary £63,750 £56,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year +13.84% +45.45% -10.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firewall Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +42 7 £68,750 +38.89%
West Midlands +12 7 £62,500 +66.67%
North West -5 7 £68,750 +25.00%
Midlands -9 7 £62,500 +66.67% 1
Yorkshire +78 6 £68,750 +150.00%
East of England +17 6 £68,750 +83.33% 1
South East +3 6 £62,500 -
North East -2 3 £62,500 +73.61%
South West - 3 £32,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 -
Firewall Engineer
UK

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Firewall Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) SD-WAN
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (44.44%) WAN
5 7 (38.89%) LAN
5 7 (38.89%) WLAN
5 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (38.89%) Cisco
5 7 (38.89%) Network Security
6 6 (33.33%) Palo Alto
6 6 (33.33%) Presales
7 5 (27.78%) CCNA
7 5 (27.78%) VPN
7 5 (27.78%) DNS
7 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
8 4 (22.22%) Finance
9 3 (16.67%) Forcepoint
9 3 (16.67%) SSL
9 3 (16.67%) ITIL
9 3 (16.67%) Unix
9 3 (16.67%) Python
9 3 (16.67%) Juniper
9 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
9 3 (16.67%) DMZ
9 3 (16.67%) MPLS
9 3 (16.67%) OSPF
9 3 (16.67%) Sophos
9 3 (16.67%) BGP
9 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
9 3 (16.67%) FortiGate

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) SD-WAN
3 8 (44.44%) WAN
4 7 (38.89%) LAN
4 7 (38.89%) Network Security
4 7 (38.89%) WLAN
5 5 (27.78%) DNS
5 5 (27.78%) VPN
6 3 (16.67%) BGP
6 3 (16.67%) DMZ
6 3 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (16.67%) IPsec
6 3 (16.67%) MPLS
6 3 (16.67%) OSPF
6 3 (16.67%) SSL
7 2 (11.11%) DHCP
7 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Presales
3 3 (16.67%) Business Development
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 3 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 3 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) SIEM
3 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 2 (11.11%) Change Control
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Agile
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.56%) Change Management
5 1 (5.56%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Cisco
2 6 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
4 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 3 (16.67%) Forcepoint
4 3 (16.67%) Juniper
4 3 (16.67%) Sophos
4 3 (16.67%) WatchGuard
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
5 2 (11.11%) Snow
5 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (5.56%) F5