Firewall
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 54 101 101
Rank change year-on-year +47 0 -35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2,640 4,224 4,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.95% 3.37% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.76% 27.10% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 3,226 3,536
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £39,945 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +3.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,058 15,585 16,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.10% 12.43% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,334 10,462 11,508
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

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 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 18 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 2 December 2023. 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 +45 2,377 £52,500 - 1,010
UK excluding London +53 1,747 £47,500 +5.56% 754
Work from Home +44 1,083 £55,000 - 370
London +51 789 £65,000 +1.56% 291
South East +39 467 £50,000 +11.11% 189
North of England +46 359 £47,500 +5.56% 189
Midlands +51 310 £47,500 - 168
South West +37 309 £49,000 +10.06% 100
West Midlands +44 236 £47,500 -5.00% 121
Yorkshire +31 166 £47,500 +5.56% 82
North West +26 155 £49,250 +9.44% 90
East of England +61 139 £48,500 +7.78% 78
Scotland +43 101 £50,000 +7.53% 29
East Midlands +48 71 £48,392 +4.07% 47
Wales +32 64 £47,500 +5.56% 15
North East +43 47 £42,500 +6.25% 20
Northern Ireland +45 32 £37,500 -12.79% 5
Isle of Man - 2 £72,500 -

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
1 221 (8.37%) SharePoint
2 87 (3.30%) IIS
2 87 (3.30%) MS Exchange
3 60 (2.27%) Confluence
4 17 (0.64%) Apache
5 14 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 10 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.11%) CMS
10 2 (0.076%) ColdFusion
10 2 (0.076%) Drupal
10 2 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.076%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
10 2 (0.076%) WordPress
11 1 (0.038%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.038%) uWSGI
Applications
1 110 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 12 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 3 (0.11%) 1Password
5 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.076%) Misys Equation
3 2 (0.076%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.038%) PlanetPress Connect
4 1 (0.038%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 1,153 (43.67%) Azure
2 866 (32.80%) Microsoft 365
3 332 (12.58%) AWS
4 322 (12.20%) Entra ID
5 138 (5.23%) IaaS
6 117 (4.43%) PaaS
6 117 (4.43%) SaaS
7 98 (3.71%) GCP
8 59 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
9 51 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (1.74%) Mimecast
10 46 (1.74%) Serverless
11 44 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
12 43 (1.63%) GitHub
12 43 (1.63%) OneDrive
13 41 (1.55%) WhatsApp
14 38 (1.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 35 (1.33%) Azure Storage
16 33 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
17 28 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 719 (27.23%) WAN
2 683 (25.87%) VPN
3 609 (23.07%) DNS
4 590 (22.35%) LAN
5 499 (18.90%) DHCP
6 423 (16.02%) Network Security
7 410 (15.53%) TCP/IP
8 375 (14.20%) Wireless
9 316 (11.97%) VLAN
10 283 (10.72%) Wi-Fi
11 280 (10.61%) BGP
12 247 (9.36%) SD-WAN
13 243 (9.20%) OSPF
14 211 (7.99%) Internet
15 207 (7.84%) SAN
16 200 (7.58%) MPLS
17 179 (6.78%) Cisco ASA
18 158 (5.98%) Intrusion Detection
19 153 (5.80%) VoIP
20 116 (4.39%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (7.88%) SQL Server
2 55 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (1.82%) MySQL
4 28 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (0.64%) Relational Database
7 14 (0.53%) GIS
8 12 (0.45%) Big Data
8 12 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 11 (0.42%) Power BI
10 10 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.23%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.15%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.11%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.076%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.076%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 82 (3.11%) JIRA
2 56 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 45 (1.70%) Git
4 21 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (0.45%) Axure RP
5 12 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 10 (0.38%) GitLab
6 10 (0.38%) Spinnaker
7 7 (0.27%) Subversion
8 6 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 6 (0.23%) Gradle
8 6 (0.23%) Maven
9 5 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.15%) Postman
11 3 (0.11%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.11%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.11%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.11%) Vagrant
General
1 672 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 330 (12.50%) Finance
3 210 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 122 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 120 (4.55%) Banking
7 112 (4.24%) Retail
8 89 (3.37%) Law
9 79 (2.99%) Legal
10 64 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 60 (2.27%) Games
12 47 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 42 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 42 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.29%) Billing
15 29 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 24 (0.91%) Marketing
18 20 (0.76%) Advertising
18 20 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 513 (19.43%) Network Engineer
2 432 (16.36%) Senior
3 345 (13.07%) Analyst
4 300 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 274 (10.38%) IT Engineer
6 268 (10.15%) Support Engineer
7 183 (6.93%) Security Engineer
8 163 (6.17%) IT Support
9 156 (5.91%) Security Analyst
10 137 (5.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 137 (5.19%) Lead
11 136 (5.15%) Senior Network Engineer
12 133 (5.04%) Architect
13 100 (3.79%) Consultant
14 99 (3.75%) 3rd Line Support
15 95 (3.60%) IT Support Engineer
16 90 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
17 79 (2.99%) IT Manager
18 78 (2.95%) 2nd Line Support
19 77 (2.92%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (1.78%) LDAP
2 45 (1.70%) 802.1X
3 30 (1.14%) REST
4 28 (1.06%) JSON
4 28 (1.06%) Spine.js
5 25 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 20 (0.76%) YAML
7 17 (0.64%) Middleware
8 16 (0.61%) WebRTC
9 15 (0.57%) Web Services
10 14 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
10 14 (0.53%) SAML
11 13 (0.49%) Kafka
12 11 (0.42%) .NET
12 11 (0.42%) RESTful
12 11 (0.42%) XML
13 10 (0.38%) HTML
14 8 (0.30%) OAuth
15 7 (0.27%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 353 (13.37%) Data Centre
2 143 (5.42%) PKI
3 136 (5.15%) Management Information System
4 101 (3.83%) Cyber Threat
5 94 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 88 (3.33%) Driving Licence
8 64 (2.42%) Replication
9 59 (2.23%) Onboarding
9 59 (2.23%) Security Operations Centre
10 57 (2.16%) Clustering
11 48 (1.82%) Cyberattack
11 48 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 47 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 47 (1.78%) Cloud Native
13 38 (1.44%) CMDB
14 29 (1.10%) Operational Technology
15 27 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 26 (0.98%) NHS
16 26 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,112 (42.12%) Windows
2 652 (24.70%) Windows Server
3 437 (16.55%) Linux
4 213 (8.07%) Windows 10
5 181 (6.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 162 (6.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 143 (5.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 88 (3.33%) Unix
9 74 (2.80%) Mac OS
10 70 (2.65%) Ubuntu
11 37 (1.40%) Android
12 34 (1.29%) Apple iOS
12 34 (1.29%) CentOS
13 33 (1.25%) VMS
14 31 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.80%) Solaris
16 18 (0.68%) SUSE
16 18 (0.68%) Windows 8
17 15 (0.57%) Mac OS X
18 14 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 624 (23.64%) Cybersecurity
2 497 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
3 460 (17.42%) ITIL
4 371 (14.05%) SIEM
5 366 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 275 (10.42%) Information Security
7 228 (8.64%) Agile
8 226 (8.56%) Customer Service
9 184 (6.97%) Disaster Recovery
10 182 (6.89%) Security Operations
11 176 (6.67%) Incident Response
12 167 (6.33%) Project Delivery
13 166 (6.29%) DevOps
14 164 (6.21%) Cloud Security
15 156 (5.91%) Load Balancing
16 153 (5.80%) Kalman Filter
17 147 (5.57%) Vulnerability Management
18 140 (5.30%) CI/CD
19 132 (5.00%) Migration
20 129 (4.89%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 325 (12.31%) PowerShell
2 226 (8.56%) SQL
3 211 (7.99%) Python
4 118 (4.47%) Bash
5 42 (1.59%) C#
6 40 (1.52%) Perl
7 29 (1.10%) VBScript
8 28 (1.06%) JavaScript
9 26 (0.98%) Java
10 25 (0.95%) VB
11 20 (0.76%) Ruby
12 18 (0.68%) Bicep
12 18 (0.68%) Go
13 12 (0.45%) C++
14 11 (0.42%) C
15 10 (0.38%) PHP
15 10 (0.38%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.34%) Groovy
16 9 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 501 (18.98%) Cisco Certification
2 431 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 379 (14.36%) Degree
4 291 (11.02%) CCNP
5 274 (10.38%) CCNA
6 248 (9.39%) SC Cleared
7 137 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 130 (4.92%) CISSP
8 130 (4.92%) DV Cleared
9 77 (2.92%) MCSE
10 76 (2.88%) CCIE
11 65 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 59 (2.23%) Azure Certification
13 55 (2.08%) CISM
14 50 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 49 (1.86%) Network+ Certification
16 46 (1.74%) MCSA
17 43 (1.63%) MCP
18 42 (1.59%) CCSP
19 40 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 121 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 117 (4.43%) SLA
4 108 (4.09%) NIST
5 66 (2.50%) GDPR
6 44 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 37 (1.40%) NCSC
8 32 (1.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 29 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 24 (0.91%) SOC 2
11 20 (0.76%) ISO 9001
12 15 (0.57%) GRC
12 15 (0.57%) QA
13 11 (0.42%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.34%) Accessibility
14 9 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.30%) PMO
16 5 (0.19%) HL7
16 5 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 5 (0.19%) RMADS
System Software
1 886 (33.56%) Active Directory
2 458 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 323 (12.23%) Hyper-V
4 93 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
5 82 (3.11%) vSphere
6 81 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
7 74 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 43 (1.63%) Firmware
9 40 (1.52%) Docker
10 37 (1.40%) VMware NSX
11 27 (1.02%) vCloud
12 24 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
13 19 (0.72%) XenApp
14 17 (0.64%) Terminal Services
15 12 (0.45%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.38%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.34%) Terminal Server
18 8 (0.30%) NFS
19 7 (0.27%) Samba
20 6 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 309 (11.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 211 (7.99%) FortiGate
3 141 (5.34%) Terraform
4 137 (5.19%) Ansible
5 105 (3.98%) SCCM
6 103 (3.90%) Kubernetes
7 58 (2.20%) SCOM
8 52 (1.97%) WSUS
9 46 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 29 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (1.06%) Grafana
11 28 (1.06%) Puppet
12 20 (0.76%) Progress Chef
13 17 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
13 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
13 17 (0.64%) Nagios
13 17 (0.64%) Nessus
13 17 (0.64%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
14 13 (0.49%) Icinga
Vendors
1 1,028 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 961 (36.40%) Cisco
3 701 (26.55%) VMware
4 276 (10.45%) CheckPoint
5 258 (9.77%) Palo Alto
6 249 (9.43%) Meraki
7 237 (8.98%) Fortinet
8 227 (8.60%) Juniper
9 188 (7.12%) F5
10 160 (6.06%) Aruba
11 131 (4.96%) Citrix
12 109 (4.13%) Veeam
13 105 (3.98%) HP
14 95 (3.60%) SolarWinds
15 77 (2.92%) Dell
16 73 (2.77%) Google
17 61 (2.31%) Splunk
18 60 (2.27%) ServiceNow
19 52 (1.97%) Dynatrace
20 51 (1.93%) Sophos