Firewall Jobs

Firewall
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -28 +7 +62
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,728 3,859 4,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.09% 3.51% 4.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.45% 27.86% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 3,128 2,787
10th Percentile £30,600 £27,425 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £77,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -5.56% -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10,506 13,853 15,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.77% 12.61% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,692 9,443 7,634
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £44,886 £45,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% -0.25% -5.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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
England -27 1,634 £50,000 +2.56% 1,576
UK excluding London -38 1,167 £46,500 +9.41% 1,210
London -13 483 £70,000 +7.69% 543
Work from Home -73 475 £50,000 -4.76% 682
North of England -56 303 £42,000 -6.67% 245
South East -49 297 £47,500 +11.76% 403
Midlands -35 220 £46,000 +2.22% 190
South West +22 180 £45,000 +3.45% 125
West Midlands -19 158 £46,000 +2.22% 105
Yorkshire -3 156 £42,000 -11.58% 107
North West -84 123 £45,000 -10.00% 114
East of England -35 119 £50,000 +20.48% 149
East Midlands -36 62 £41,250 -2.94% 80
Scotland +39 33 £46,250 +2.78% 70
North East +3 24 £37,500 -6.25% 25
Wales -18 20 £47,500 +17.28% 29
Isle of Man 0 2 £34,500 -25.81%

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 260 (15.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 166 (9.61%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.26%) IIS
4 32 (1.85%) Confluence
5 9 (0.52%) Apache
6 7 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.41%) Moodle
7 6 (0.35%) nginx
8 4 (0.23%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.12%) JOnAS
9 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.058%) CMS
10 1 (0.058%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.058%) SAS
Applications
1 110 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) Revit
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 22 (1.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 12 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.35%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.17%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 780 (45.14%) Azure
2 552 (31.94%) Microsoft 365
3 321 (18.58%) AWS
4 241 (13.95%) Entra ID
5 105 (6.08%) GCP
6 63 (3.65%) OneDrive
7 59 (3.41%) SaaS
8 56 (3.24%) IaaS
9 49 (2.84%) PaaS
10 47 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 47 (2.72%) Power Platform
11 42 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 38 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
13 34 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.91%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
16 30 (1.74%) AWS KMS
16 30 (1.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 495 (28.65%) VPN
2 440 (25.46%) WAN
3 404 (23.38%) DNS
4 341 (19.73%) LAN
5 324 (18.75%) Network Security
6 274 (15.86%) DHCP
7 241 (13.95%) TCP/IP
8 220 (12.73%) VLAN
9 199 (11.52%) Wi-Fi
10 191 (11.05%) SD-WAN
11 179 (10.36%) BGP
12 171 (9.90%) OSPF
13 111 (6.42%) MPLS
14 95 (5.50%) Intrusion Detection
14 95 (5.50%) Wireless
15 91 (5.27%) SAN
15 91 (5.27%) VoIP
16 75 (4.34%) Cisco Firepower
17 58 (3.36%) EIGRP
18 53 (3.07%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 64 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (1.74%) Power BI
4 28 (1.62%) MySQL
5 19 (1.10%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.04%) Data Lake
7 11 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.29%) MariaDB
9 5 (0.29%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.12%) Big Data
12 2 (0.12%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.12%) EDMS
12 2 (0.12%) Tableau
13 1 (0.058%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 56 (3.24%) Git
2 45 (2.60%) JIRA
3 36 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 25 (1.45%) Vagrant
5 9 (0.52%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.12%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.058%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.058%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.058%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.058%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.058%) Subversion
General
1 555 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 213 (12.33%) Finance
3 140 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (4.11%) Manufacturing
5 67 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 66 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 54 (3.13%) Retail
8 52 (3.01%) Legal
9 51 (2.95%) Banking
10 33 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.79%) Law
13 28 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.33%) Local Government
15 18 (1.04%) Automotive
16 16 (0.93%) Marketing
17 15 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 15 (0.87%) Back Office
18 13 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 271 (15.68%) Network Engineer
2 249 (14.41%) Analyst
3 214 (12.38%) Support Engineer
4 200 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 190 (11.00%) IT Support
6 179 (10.36%) Senior
7 153 (8.85%) IT Engineer
8 136 (7.87%) Technical Support
9 130 (7.52%) Architect
10 115 (6.66%) Lead
11 113 (6.54%) Support Analyst
12 105 (6.08%) 2nd Line Support
12 105 (6.08%) Security Engineer
13 89 (5.15%) 3rd Line Support
14 82 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
14 82 (4.75%) Security Analyst
15 79 (4.57%) Technical Engineer
16 77 (4.46%) Technical Support Engineer
17 73 (4.22%) IT Analyst
18 57 (3.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.03%) LDAP
2 31 (1.79%) JSON
3 21 (1.22%) 802.1X
4 15 (0.87%) YAML
5 9 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.41%) ARM Templates
6 7 (0.41%) REST
7 5 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (0.29%) Middleware
7 5 (0.29%) RESTful
7 5 (0.29%) SAML
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.17%) .NET
10 2 (0.12%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.12%) AWS SAM
10 2 (0.12%) EDI
10 2 (0.12%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.12%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.058%) Azure Blueprints
11 1 (0.058%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 199 (11.52%) Data Centre
2 150 (8.68%) Management Information System
3 89 (5.15%) Driving Licence
4 79 (4.57%) Operational Technology
5 77 (4.46%) Security Posture
6 63 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
7 59 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
8 58 (3.36%) Onboarding
9 56 (3.24%) Public Cloud
10 50 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
11 42 (2.43%) PKI
12 35 (2.03%) Replication
13 32 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
14 25 (1.45%) Clustering
15 20 (1.16%) Cloud Native
16 19 (1.10%) Client/Server
17 17 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (0.98%) NHS
17 17 (0.98%) Private Cloud
18 16 (0.93%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 831 (48.09%) Windows
2 468 (27.08%) Windows Server
3 254 (14.70%) Linux
4 118 (6.83%) Windows 10
5 84 (4.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 76 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 53 (3.07%) Mac OS
8 41 (2.37%) Android
9 40 (2.31%) Apple iOS
10 39 (2.26%) VMS
11 32 (1.85%) Unix
12 31 (1.79%) Ubuntu
13 23 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
15 15 (0.87%) CentOS
16 11 (0.64%) Mac OS X
17 10 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
17 10 (0.58%) Windows 7
17 10 (0.58%) Windows Vista
18 8 (0.46%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
2 394 (22.80%) Cybersecurity
3 229 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 228 (13.19%) SIEM
5 219 (12.67%) Customer Service
6 216 (12.50%) ITIL
7 172 (9.95%) Incident Response
8 165 (9.55%) Information Security
9 162 (9.38%) Mentoring
10 153 (8.85%) Disaster Recovery
11 149 (8.62%) Cloud Security
12 145 (8.39%) DevOps
13 141 (8.16%) Network Design
14 136 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 116 (6.71%) Network Management
16 112 (6.48%) Security Operations
17 107 (6.19%) Computer Science
17 107 (6.19%) Migration
18 100 (5.79%) Change Management
19 99 (5.73%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 303 (17.53%) PowerShell
2 216 (12.50%) Python
3 151 (8.74%) SQL
4 89 (5.15%) Bash
5 24 (1.39%) Groovy
5 24 (1.39%) Perl
6 23 (1.33%) Bicep
7 16 (0.93%) Java
8 13 (0.75%) C#
9 11 (0.64%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.41%) C++
12 7 (0.41%) Go
12 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.35%) R
14 4 (0.23%) Korn
14 4 (0.23%) Progress 4GL
15 3 (0.17%) Ruby
16 2 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 271 (15.68%) Cisco Certification
2 247 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 236 (13.66%) Degree
4 185 (10.71%) CCNA
4 185 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 152 (8.80%) CCNP
6 117 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 107 (6.19%) CISSP
8 78 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 77 (4.46%) DV Cleared
10 73 (4.22%) CISM
11 70 (4.05%) Azure Certification
12 48 (2.78%) JNCIA
13 47 (2.72%) CompTIA Security+
13 47 (2.72%) Network+ Certification
14 44 (2.55%) CEH
15 38 (2.20%) DBS Check
16 34 (1.97%) CCIE
17 32 (1.85%) A+ Certification
18 30 (1.74%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (10.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 134 (7.75%) NIST
3 114 (6.60%) GDPR
4 71 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 44 (2.55%) PCI DSS
6 43 (2.49%) SLA
7 36 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 28 (1.62%) NCSC
9 16 (0.93%) COBIT
9 16 (0.93%) QA
10 15 (0.87%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.75%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.58%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.46%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.35%) GRC
15 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.17%) ISO 14001
17 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 633 (36.63%) Active Directory
2 311 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 217 (12.56%) Hyper-V
4 83 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
5 72 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
6 59 (3.41%) Docker
7 58 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
8 37 (2.14%) VMware NSX
9 35 (2.03%) vSphere
10 29 (1.68%) Firmware
11 28 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (1.33%) Terminal Services
13 20 (1.16%) XenApp
14 16 (0.93%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.52%) BitLocker
16 8 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.41%) NFS
18 5 (0.29%) EMC RecoverPoint
18 5 (0.29%) Postfix
18 5 (0.29%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 226 (13.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 141 (8.16%) Terraform
3 139 (8.04%) Ansible
4 95 (5.50%) FortiGate
5 80 (4.63%) SCCM
6 72 (4.17%) Kubernetes
7 42 (2.43%) Grafana
7 42 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (1.97%) Prometheus
9 30 (1.74%) Nagios
10 29 (1.68%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.39%) QRadar
12 22 (1.27%) Nessus
13 21 (1.22%) Proxmox
14 15 (0.87%) Puppet
15 12 (0.69%) WSUS
16 11 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 10 (0.58%) CASB
17 10 (0.58%) ZABBIX
18 9 (0.52%) Autotask
Vendors
1 712 (41.20%) Microsoft
2 549 (31.77%) Cisco
3 405 (23.44%) VMware
4 218 (12.62%) Fortinet
5 159 (9.20%) Meraki
6 143 (8.28%) Palo Alto
7 136 (7.87%) Juniper
8 126 (7.29%) CheckPoint
9 98 (5.67%) SolarWinds
10 80 (4.63%) Google
11 76 (4.40%) Citrix
12 74 (4.28%) Veeam
13 73 (4.22%) Aruba
14 71 (4.11%) Dell
15 70 (4.05%) HP
16 55 (3.18%) Apple
17 54 (3.13%) F5
18 49 (2.84%) Splunk
19 41 (2.37%) ServiceNow
19 41 (2.37%) SonicWALL