Firewall Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firewall
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -30 -1 +28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,274 2,561 2,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.94% 3.52% 4.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.94% 27.83% 26.70%
Number of salaries quoted 996 2,089 1,731
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £65,000 £74,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,137 9,203 9,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.09% 12.66% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,690 6,366 4,470
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £44,934 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.46% -0.15% -5.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £32,533 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -31.51% -7.77% -1.90%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. 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
South East -47 327 £47,000 +9.51% 246
North of England -50 321 £40,000 -12.57% 185
Midlands -22 239 £46,000 +2.22% 99
South West +28 217 £40,000 -8.05% 76
Yorkshire -4 174 £40,000 -13.51% 68
West Midlands +4 173 £47,500 +5.56% 68
East of England -41 119 £50,000 +17.65% 97
North West -81 119 £38,500 -23.00% 101
East Midlands -50 66 £40,000 - 28
Scotland +21 36 £47,500 +5.56% 42
North East +9 28 £35,349 -11.63% 18
Wales -9 21 £47,500 +17.19% 27
Northern Ireland +24 2 £52,500 +40.00% 8
Isle of Man +1 2 £34,500 -25.81% 2
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
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:

Application Platforms
1 237 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 125 (9.81%) SharePoint
3 44 (3.45%) IIS
4 41 (3.22%) Confluence
5 11 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.63%) Apache
7 4 (0.31%) nginx
8 3 (0.24%) JOnAS
9 2 (0.16%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.078%) SAS
10 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 86 (6.75%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 10 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (1.65%) Dynamics NAV
2 12 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.24%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 565 (44.35%) Azure
2 491 (38.54%) Microsoft 365
3 234 (18.37%) AWS
4 207 (16.25%) Entra ID
5 46 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
6 45 (3.53%) IaaS
7 44 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 44 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 40 (3.14%) AWS KMS
9 38 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 38 (2.98%) PaaS
10 37 (2.90%) Amazon ELB
10 37 (2.90%) SaaS
11 34 (2.67%) GCP
12 33 (2.59%) Amazon Glacier
13 31 (2.43%) Azure Sentinel
14 30 (2.35%) Power Platform
15 25 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
16 24 (1.88%) OneDrive
17 21 (1.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 379 (29.75%) VPN
2 369 (28.96%) DNS
3 316 (24.80%) WAN
4 264 (20.72%) DHCP
5 253 (19.86%) LAN
6 213 (16.72%) TCP/IP
7 208 (16.33%) VLAN
8 205 (16.09%) Network Security
9 154 (12.09%) Wi-Fi
10 117 (9.18%) SD-WAN
11 101 (7.93%) VoIP
12 89 (6.99%) SAN
13 79 (6.20%) BGP
14 78 (6.12%) OSPF
15 74 (5.81%) Wireless
16 60 (4.71%) MPLS
17 51 (4.00%) Internet
17 51 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
18 48 (3.77%) Cisco Firepower
19 39 (3.06%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
2 79 (6.20%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.20%) MySQL
4 17 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 15 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.18%) Power BI
6 5 (0.39%) MariaDB
7 4 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.31%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.16%) Big Data
9 2 (0.16%) EDMS
9 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.078%) DTS
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.078%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (4.32%) Git
2 52 (4.08%) JIRA
3 46 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 37 (2.90%) Vagrant
5 24 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.16%) GitLab
8 2 (0.16%) JMeter
8 2 (0.16%) Maven
8 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.078%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.078%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.078%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 469 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 90 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (6.28%) Manufacturing
4 64 (5.02%) Finance
4 64 (5.02%) Telecoms
5 47 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (2.98%) Retail
8 25 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (1.73%) Legal
11 19 (1.49%) Law
12 18 (1.41%) Local Government
13 15 (1.18%) Back Office
14 13 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.94%) Automotive
16 10 (0.78%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.78%) Aviation
17 9 (0.71%) Advertising
17 9 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 215 (16.88%) Support Engineer
2 204 (16.01%) IT Support
3 179 (14.05%) Analyst
4 160 (12.56%) Network Engineer
5 150 (11.77%) Technical Support
6 147 (11.54%) IT Engineer
7 143 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 111 (8.71%) Senior
9 110 (8.63%) 2nd Line Support
9 110 (8.63%) Support Analyst
10 96 (7.54%) 3rd Line Support
11 95 (7.46%) Technical Engineer
12 91 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
13 84 (6.59%) Lead
14 75 (5.89%) Security Engineer
15 58 (4.55%) IT Analyst
16 55 (4.32%) IT Support Engineer
17 53 (4.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 51 (4.00%) Architect
18 51 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.98%) LDAP
2 16 (1.26%) 802.1X
3 4 (0.31%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (0.31%) ModSecurity
3 4 (0.31%) Node.js
3 4 (0.31%) SAML
3 4 (0.31%) YAML
4 3 (0.24%) EDI
5 2 (0.16%) .NET
5 2 (0.16%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.16%) JSON
5 2 (0.16%) Middleware
6 1 (0.078%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.078%) LAMP
6 1 (0.078%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.078%) ServiceStack
6 1 (0.078%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 104 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 88 (6.91%) Driving Licence
3 82 (6.44%) Operational Technology
4 65 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 57 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 42 (3.30%) Replication
8 41 (3.22%) PKI
8 41 (3.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 41 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
10 29 (2.28%) Clustering
11 25 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
12 17 (1.33%) Client/Server
12 17 (1.33%) Cloud Native
13 16 (1.26%) FMCG
13 16 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.18%) CCTV
14 15 (1.18%) NHS
15 13 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 693 (54.40%) Windows
2 414 (32.50%) Windows Server
3 191 (14.99%) Linux
4 106 (8.32%) Windows 10
5 90 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 66 (5.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 54 (4.24%) VMS
8 51 (4.00%) Mac OS
9 26 (2.04%) Android
10 25 (1.96%) Apple iOS
10 25 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 19 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
11 19 (1.49%) Unix
12 17 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
14 10 (0.78%) CentOS
14 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.47%) Windows Vista
16 5 (0.39%) Mac OS X
16 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
2 295 (23.16%) Cybersecurity
3 209 (16.41%) Customer Service
4 179 (14.05%) ITIL
5 159 (12.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 141 (11.07%) Mentoring
7 132 (10.36%) SIEM
8 130 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 115 (9.03%) Cloud Security
9 115 (9.03%) Network Design
10 111 (8.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 97 (7.61%) Incident Response
12 90 (7.06%) DevOps
13 84 (6.59%) Network Management
14 82 (6.44%) Migration
15 77 (6.04%) Agile
16 76 (5.97%) Information Security
17 71 (5.57%) Project Delivery
18 68 (5.34%) Change Management
19 67 (5.26%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 241 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 122 (9.58%) Python
3 102 (8.01%) SQL
4 56 (4.40%) Bash
5 36 (2.83%) Groovy
6 24 (1.88%) Perl
7 20 (1.57%) Java
8 19 (1.49%) Bicep
9 11 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (0.78%) C#
11 9 (0.71%) VB
12 8 (0.63%) Korn
13 7 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.47%) C++
15 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.24%) Progress 4GL
16 3 (0.24%) R
16 3 (0.24%) Ruby
17 2 (0.16%) JavaScript
17 2 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 202 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 169 (13.27%) Cisco Certification
3 154 (12.09%) Degree
4 148 (11.62%) SC Cleared
5 116 (9.11%) CCNA
6 105 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 79 (6.20%) CCNP
8 68 (5.34%) CISSP
9 65 (5.10%) DV Cleared
10 59 (4.63%) Azure Certification
11 47 (3.69%) Network+ Certification
12 46 (3.61%) CISM
13 45 (3.53%) JNCIA
14 37 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
15 30 (2.35%) CEH
16 29 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
17 28 (2.20%) A+ Certification
18 27 (2.12%) DBS Check
19 21 (1.65%) MCP
19 21 (1.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (9.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (5.34%) NIST
3 63 (4.95%) GDPR
4 61 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 40 (3.14%) SLA
6 28 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 19 (1.49%) NCSC
8 17 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.18%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.71%) COBIT
10 9 (0.71%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.31%) QA
12 3 (0.24%) GRC
12 3 (0.24%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.078%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.078%) NIST 800
System Software
1 582 (45.68%) Active Directory
2 261 (20.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 221 (17.35%) Hyper-V
4 65 (5.10%) Virtual Servers
5 61 (4.79%) Virtual Machines
6 57 (4.47%) Docker
7 43 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
8 25 (1.96%) Terminal Services
8 25 (1.96%) vSphere
9 24 (1.88%) DFS Replication
9 24 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 21 (1.65%) Firmware
11 14 (1.10%) XenApp
12 10 (0.78%) VMware NSX
13 8 (0.63%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.31%) Dovecot
14 4 (0.31%) Postfix
14 4 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 211 (16.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (6.36%) Ansible
3 74 (5.81%) Terraform
4 63 (4.95%) FortiGate
5 39 (3.06%) SCCM
6 36 (2.83%) Grafana
6 36 (2.83%) Kubernetes
6 36 (2.83%) Prometheus
7 27 (2.12%) vCenter Server
8 25 (1.96%) QRadar
9 20 (1.57%) Proxmox
10 18 (1.41%) Nessus
10 18 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (1.41%) WSUS
11 11 (0.86%) Nagios
12 10 (0.78%) Autotask
12 10 (0.78%) CASB
12 10 (0.78%) Puppet
13 8 (0.63%) vMotion
14 7 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 634 (49.76%) Microsoft
2 349 (27.39%) Cisco
3 292 (22.92%) VMware
4 133 (10.44%) Fortinet
5 103 (8.08%) Meraki
6 101 (7.93%) Juniper
7 75 (5.89%) Palo Alto
8 74 (5.81%) Veeam
9 63 (4.95%) Aruba
9 63 (4.95%) HP
10 58 (4.55%) Citrix
10 58 (4.55%) Dell
11 56 (4.40%) Apple
12 49 (3.85%) ServiceNow
12 49 (3.85%) SonicWALL
13 43 (3.38%) CheckPoint
13 43 (3.38%) Splunk
14 39 (3.06%) Sophos
15 38 (2.98%) SolarWinds
16 31 (2.43%) Google