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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 61 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,709 3,810 4,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.28% 3.87% 3.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.64% 27.97% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 3,208 2,854
10th Percentile £31,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

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 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 -17 1,599 £52,500 +7.14% 929
UK excluding London -26 1,110 £47,500 +11.76% 691
Work from Home -14 523 £50,000 -4.76% 445
London -10 511 £72,500 +16.00% 303
South East -30 300 £50,000 +17.65% 192
North of England -56 261 £45,000 +5.88% 174
Midlands -43 204 £45,000 - 101
South West +10 156 £47,500 - 96
West Midlands -29 151 £45,000 - 63
North West -54 146 £50,000 - 87
East of England -18 127 £47,500 +18.75% 67
Yorkshire -29 90 £44,700 -0.67% 70
East Midlands -37 53 £41,250 +3.13% 36
Scotland +64 37 £47,500 -5.00% 45
North East +1 25 £37,500 -11.76% 23
Wales -14 21 £47,500 +17.28% 16
Northern Ireland +21 6 - - 15
Isle of Man +3 2 £34,500 -25.81% 2

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
1 259 (15.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 167 (9.77%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.46%) IIS
4 17 (0.99%) Apache
5 15 (0.88%) Confluence
6 9 (0.53%) nginx
7 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.18%) Moodle
7 3 (0.18%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.18%) WordPress
8 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.059%) CMS
9 1 (0.059%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 130 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
2 14 (0.82%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.059%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 776 (45.41%) Azure
2 525 (30.72%) Microsoft 365
3 293 (17.14%) AWS
4 224 (13.11%) Entra ID
5 107 (6.26%) GCP
6 68 (3.98%) OneDrive
7 63 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 60 (3.51%) SaaS
9 43 (2.52%) IaaS
10 37 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 32 (1.87%) PaaS
12 27 (1.58%) Google Workspace
13 26 (1.52%) Power Platform
14 23 (1.35%) Mimecast
15 21 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 21 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.17%) GitHub
17 19 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 18 (1.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 477 (27.91%) VPN
2 446 (26.10%) WAN
3 394 (23.05%) DNS
4 359 (21.01%) Network Security
5 353 (20.66%) LAN
6 289 (16.91%) DHCP
7 244 (14.28%) TCP/IP
8 220 (12.87%) VLAN
9 208 (12.17%) BGP
10 197 (11.53%) SD-WAN
11 189 (11.06%) Wi-Fi
12 187 (10.94%) OSPF
13 113 (6.61%) Intrusion Detection
14 108 (6.32%) MPLS
15 105 (6.14%) Wireless
16 79 (4.62%) VoIP
17 78 (4.56%) SAN
18 73 (4.27%) Cisco Firepower
18 73 (4.27%) EIGRP
19 65 (3.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 32 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (0.94%) Relational Database
4 15 (0.88%) Power BI
5 10 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (0.59%) MySQL
6 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.29%) MariaDB
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.23%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.18%) Big Data
9 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.12%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.12%) EDMS
10 2 (0.12%) Tableau
11 1 (0.059%) JasperReports
11 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (1.40%) Jenkins
1 24 (1.40%) JIRA
2 23 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 18 (1.05%) Git
4 11 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 10 (0.59%) GitLab
6 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (0.29%) Vagrant
8 4 (0.23%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.12%) Apache Archiva
10 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.12%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.12%) JMeter
10 2 (0.12%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.059%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.059%) Maven
11 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.059%) Subversion
General
1 539 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 232 (13.58%) Finance
3 147 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (4.10%) Retail
5 67 (3.92%) Legal
6 65 (3.80%) Law
7 63 (3.69%) Manufacturing
8 58 (3.39%) Banking
8 58 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 55 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (2.34%) Public Sector
11 36 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.81%) Automotive
13 26 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.46%) Local Government
15 22 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.05%) Aerospace
17 16 (0.94%) Back Office
18 15 (0.88%) Police
19 11 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 300 (17.55%) Network Engineer
2 247 (14.45%) Analyst
3 222 (12.99%) Senior
4 213 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 174 (10.18%) Support Engineer
6 155 (9.07%) Architect
7 142 (8.31%) IT Support
8 137 (8.02%) Security Engineer
9 128 (7.49%) IT Engineer
10 111 (6.50%) Lead
11 100 (5.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 97 (5.68%) 2nd Line Support
13 94 (5.50%) Support Analyst
14 90 (5.27%) Technical Support
15 89 (5.21%) Security Analyst
16 74 (4.33%) 3rd Line Support
17 65 (3.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 61 (3.57%) IT Analyst
19 54 (3.16%) Senior Network Engineer
19 54 (3.16%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.81%) JSON
2 22 (1.29%) 802.1X
2 22 (1.29%) LDAP
3 14 (0.82%) SAML
4 13 (0.76%) YAML
5 11 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (0.64%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (0.53%) HTML
7 7 (0.41%) ARM Templates
7 7 (0.41%) Middleware
8 6 (0.35%) RESTful
9 5 (0.29%) Node.js
10 4 (0.23%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.23%) HTML5
10 4 (0.23%) Sass
10 4 (0.23%) SOAP
10 4 (0.23%) Web Services
10 4 (0.23%) WebRTC
10 4 (0.23%) XML
10 4 (0.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 210 (12.29%) Data Centre
2 189 (11.06%) Management Information System
3 115 (6.73%) Security Posture
4 85 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (4.51%) Driving Licence
6 69 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
7 59 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 56 (3.28%) Public Cloud
9 37 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
10 36 (2.11%) PKI
11 28 (1.64%) Clustering
11 28 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
12 26 (1.52%) Replication
13 24 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 23 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
15 21 (1.23%) Social Media
16 19 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (0.99%) CCTV
17 17 (0.99%) Client/Server
18 16 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 757 (44.29%) Windows
2 470 (27.50%) Windows Server
3 276 (16.15%) Linux
4 131 (7.67%) Windows 10
5 93 (5.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 87 (5.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 46 (2.69%) Mac OS
8 42 (2.46%) Ubuntu
9 36 (2.11%) Android
9 36 (2.11%) Apple iOS
10 30 (1.76%) Unix
11 29 (1.70%) CentOS
12 22 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 21 (1.23%) Windows Vista
14 20 (1.17%) Mac OS X
15 15 (0.88%) VMS
15 15 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.59%) Debian
17 8 (0.47%) Rocky
18 7 (0.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (24.93%) Problem-Solving
2 378 (22.12%) Cybersecurity
3 240 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 223 (13.05%) SIEM
5 205 (12.00%) Information Security
6 204 (11.94%) ITIL
7 182 (10.65%) Customer Service
8 173 (10.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 165 (9.65%) Incident Response
10 157 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 152 (8.89%) Cloud Security
12 142 (8.31%) Computer Science
13 139 (8.13%) Vulnerability Management
14 138 (8.07%) DevOps
15 130 (7.61%) Mentoring
16 127 (7.43%) Security Operations
17 103 (6.03%) Risk Management
18 101 (5.91%) Incident Management
19 95 (5.56%) Migration
19 95 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 287 (16.79%) PowerShell
2 201 (11.76%) Python
3 153 (8.95%) SQL
4 96 (5.62%) Bash
5 26 (1.52%) Perl
6 21 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.94%) C#
8 14 (0.82%) Bicep
8 14 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 12 (0.70%) Java
10 9 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (0.47%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.41%) C++
12 7 (0.41%) Go
13 6 (0.35%) Progress 4GL
13 6 (0.35%) Ruby
14 5 (0.29%) C
14 5 (0.29%) R
15 4 (0.23%) Jython
16 3 (0.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 312 (18.26%) Cisco Certification
2 265 (15.51%) Degree
3 246 (14.39%) Security Cleared
4 195 (11.41%) SC Cleared
5 182 (10.65%) CCNA
6 165 (9.65%) CCNP
7 145 (8.48%) CISSP
8 119 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 118 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 89 (5.21%) CISM
11 85 (4.97%) DV Cleared
12 62 (3.63%) CEH
13 58 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
14 50 (2.93%) JNCIA
15 48 (2.81%) Azure Certification
16 43 (2.52%) AWS Certification
17 41 (2.40%) CISA
18 38 (2.22%) Master's Degree
19 36 (2.11%) CCIE
20 35 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (10.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 143 (8.37%) NIST
3 120 (7.02%) GDPR
4 67 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 48 (2.81%) PCI DSS
6 41 (2.40%) SLA
7 34 (1.99%) NCSC
8 31 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 23 (1.35%) QA
10 18 (1.05%) COBIT
11 15 (0.88%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.82%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.59%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.47%) GRC
14 8 (0.47%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 560 (32.77%) Active Directory
2 305 (17.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 233 (13.63%) Hyper-V
4 77 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
5 68 (3.98%) VMware ESXi
6 48 (2.81%) Docker
7 36 (2.11%) VMware NSX
8 33 (1.93%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (1.76%) Firmware
10 29 (1.70%) vSphere
11 22 (1.29%) XenApp
12 17 (0.99%) Terminal Services
13 12 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
14 10 (0.59%) pfSense
15 8 (0.47%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.41%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.18%) NFS
18 3 (0.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 220 (12.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 123 (7.20%) Terraform
3 119 (6.96%) Ansible
4 112 (6.55%) FortiGate
5 75 (4.39%) SCCM
6 64 (3.74%) Kubernetes
7 40 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 30 (1.76%) vCenter Server
9 26 (1.52%) Nagios
10 25 (1.46%) Puppet
11 21 (1.23%) Nessus
12 19 (1.11%) QRadar
13 15 (0.88%) Grafana
13 15 (0.88%) Proxmox
13 15 (0.88%) WSUS
14 14 (0.82%) Prometheus
15 13 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 13 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
16 9 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 656 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 581 (34.00%) Cisco
3 404 (23.64%) VMware
4 240 (14.04%) Fortinet
5 169 (9.89%) Palo Alto
6 139 (8.13%) Meraki
7 135 (7.90%) CheckPoint
8 132 (7.72%) Juniper
9 99 (5.79%) SolarWinds
10 84 (4.92%) Citrix
10 84 (4.92%) Veeam
11 82 (4.80%) Google
12 79 (4.62%) Dell
13 73 (4.27%) Aruba
14 63 (3.69%) HP
15 58 (3.39%) F5
16 45 (2.63%) Apple
17 38 (2.22%) SonicWALL
18 35 (2.05%) Ubiquiti
19 31 (1.81%) Splunk