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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 64 139
Rank change year-on-year -2 +75 -44
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,048 3,820 5,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.37% 4.73% 3.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.38% 29.44% 23.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,409 2,826 3,709
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £29,950
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,800 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £83,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year - -2.17% +2.22%

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 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
England +3 2,773 £50,000 -1.93% 425
UK excluding London -2 2,261 £45,000 - 381
Work from Home -2 1,097 £52,500 -4.55% 185
London -32 689 £62,500 - 84
South East +5 682 £45,000 - 111
North of England -6 463 £47,500 -2.06% 108
Midlands +3 438 £45,000 - 58
South West +8 315 £43,000 -4.44% 45
West Midlands +5 255 £46,090 +2.42% 42
North West -13 239 £50,000 -3.05% 56
Yorkshire +13 199 £47,500 -5.00% 36
East of England -1 192 £45,000 +4.65% 33
East Midlands -18 179 £42,500 -8.11% 16
Scotland -93 106 £45,000 +1.12% 25
Wales +3 66 £41,067 -8.74% 9
North East -23 40 £39,000 -8.24% 18
Northern Ireland -18 15 £37,500 -3.23% 6
Isle of Man -6 14 £46,500 -20.85% 1

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
1 435 (14.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 331 (10.86%) SharePoint
3 82 (2.69%) IIS
4 56 (1.84%) Apache
5 27 (0.89%) Confluence
6 17 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 16 (0.52%) SharePoint 2010
7 16 (0.52%) SharePoint 2013
8 10 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.20%) CMS
11 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
12 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
12 5 (0.16%) WordPress
13 4 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2000
13 4 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.098%) nginx
14 3 (0.098%) SAS
Applications
1 284 (9.32%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.066%) Trello
7 1 (0.033%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.33%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.13%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.098%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.098%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.066%) Shopify
6 1 (0.033%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.033%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.033%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.033%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,306 (42.85%) Azure
2 1,044 (34.25%) Microsoft 365
3 421 (13.81%) AWS
4 301 (9.88%) Entra ID
5 123 (4.04%) IaaS
6 117 (3.84%) SaaS
7 114 (3.74%) PaaS
8 110 (3.61%) GCP
9 96 (3.15%) OneDrive
10 65 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
11 64 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 57 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
13 50 (1.64%) Power Platform
14 47 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
14 47 (1.54%) Mimecast
15 42 (1.38%) Google Workspace
16 35 (1.15%) GitHub
17 27 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 21 (0.69%) Azure Storage
19 20 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 778 (25.52%) WAN
2 767 (25.16%) VPN
3 659 (21.62%) DNS
4 609 (19.98%) LAN
5 428 (14.04%) Network Security
6 425 (13.94%) DHCP
7 405 (13.29%) TCP/IP
8 358 (11.75%) Wireless
9 340 (11.15%) Wi-Fi
10 338 (11.09%) VLAN
11 295 (9.68%) SD-WAN
12 228 (7.48%) Internet
13 181 (5.94%) BGP
14 180 (5.91%) OSPF
15 173 (5.68%) IPsec
16 165 (5.41%) MPLS
16 165 (5.41%) SAN
17 151 (4.95%) VoIP
18 138 (4.53%) Intrusion Detection
19 105 (3.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 60 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
3 57 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 41 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (1.08%) Power BI
6 18 (0.59%) MySQL
7 16 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 16 (0.52%) Big Data
7 16 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.30%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.26%) DB2
11 7 (0.23%) MariaDB
11 7 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.20%) Redis
12 6 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.16%) CockroachDB
13 5 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.16%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.13%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 65 (2.13%) JIRA
2 61 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 50 (1.64%) Git
4 28 (0.92%) GitLab
5 13 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 13 (0.43%) Robot Framework
6 9 (0.30%) Trac
6 9 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (0.23%) Katalon Studio
8 6 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.16%) Jaeger
10 4 (0.13%) Maven
11 3 (0.098%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.098%) Subversion
12 2 (0.066%) GNU Toolchain
13 1 (0.033%) Gradle
13 1 (0.033%) Hudson
13 1 (0.033%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.033%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 825 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 368 (12.07%) Finance
3 232 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (5.81%) Telecoms
5 122 (4.00%) Law
6 108 (3.54%) Retail
7 83 (2.72%) Public Sector
8 81 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 78 (2.56%) Legal
10 74 (2.43%) Aerospace
11 73 (2.40%) Manufacturing
12 70 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 54 (1.77%) Banking
14 47 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
15 45 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (0.89%) Games
17 18 (0.59%) Marketing
18 17 (0.56%) Local Government
19 16 (0.52%) Police
20 14 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 573 (18.80%) Network Engineer
2 464 (15.22%) Senior
3 403 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 383 (12.57%) Analyst
5 359 (11.78%) Support Engineer
6 343 (11.25%) IT Engineer
7 300 (9.84%) IT Support
8 198 (6.50%) Lead
9 184 (6.04%) Consultant
10 171 (5.61%) IT Support Engineer
11 167 (5.48%) Senior Network Engineer
12 142 (4.66%) Architect
13 140 (4.59%) 3rd Line Support
14 139 (4.56%) Security Analyst
15 138 (4.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 124 (4.07%) IT Manager
17 117 (3.84%) 2nd Line Support
17 117 (3.84%) Security Engineer
18 103 (3.38%) Support Analyst
19 99 (3.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.40%) YAML
2 60 (1.97%) 802.1X
3 54 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
4 50 (1.64%) REST
5 43 (1.41%) HTML
6 36 (1.18%) .NET
7 35 (1.15%) SAML
8 29 (0.95%) OAuth
9 25 (0.82%) Web Services
10 23 (0.75%) CSS
11 22 (0.72%) ASP.NET
11 22 (0.72%) jQuery
12 20 (0.66%) AngularJS
12 20 (0.66%) LDAP
12 20 (0.66%) XML
13 19 (0.62%) ASP.NET MVC
13 19 (0.62%) React
13 19 (0.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 19 (0.62%) Vue
13 19 (0.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 408 (13.39%) Data Centre
2 230 (7.55%) Management Information System
3 176 (5.77%) Driving Licence
4 113 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
5 109 (3.58%) Replication
6 90 (2.95%) Public Cloud
7 80 (2.62%) PKI
8 78 (2.56%) Security Posture
9 60 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
10 54 (1.77%) Onboarding
10 54 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
11 49 (1.61%) Clustering
12 46 (1.51%) Client/Server
12 46 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
13 45 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
14 38 (1.25%) Cyberattack
15 36 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
16 34 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
17 32 (1.05%) Operational Technology
18 29 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,354 (44.42%) Windows
2 787 (25.82%) Windows Server
3 601 (19.72%) Linux
4 247 (8.10%) Windows 10
5 192 (6.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 162 (5.31%) Windows Server 2019
7 132 (4.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 63 (2.07%) Ubuntu
9 60 (1.97%) Mac OS
10 57 (1.87%) VMS
11 54 (1.77%) Apple iOS
11 54 (1.77%) Data ONTAP
12 52 (1.71%) Unix
13 50 (1.64%) Android
14 49 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
15 39 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 28 (0.92%) CentOS
17 26 (0.85%) Windows 7
18 18 (0.59%) Mac OS X
19 15 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (21.52%) Cybersecurity
2 643 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
3 516 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 398 (13.06%) ITIL
5 352 (11.55%) Customer Service
6 290 (9.51%) Agile
7 272 (8.92%) Information Security
8 264 (8.66%) SIEM
9 239 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 225 (7.38%) Project Management
11 218 (7.15%) Mentoring
12 217 (7.12%) DevOps
13 204 (6.69%) Incident Response
14 168 (5.51%) Migration
15 159 (5.22%) Computer Science
16 156 (5.12%) Service Delivery
17 151 (4.95%) Actionable Insight
18 145 (4.76%) Project Delivery
19 143 (4.69%) Change Management
20 139 (4.56%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 350 (11.48%) PowerShell
2 272 (8.92%) Python
3 240 (7.87%) SQL
4 123 (4.04%) Bash
5 57 (1.87%) C#
6 50 (1.64%) Java
7 32 (1.05%) Perl
8 25 (0.82%) Bicep
9 24 (0.79%) VBScript
10 19 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 19 (0.62%) XAML
11 16 (0.52%) VB
12 14 (0.46%) Ruby
13 13 (0.43%) C++
13 13 (0.43%) Go
14 8 (0.26%) C
15 6 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.16%) Rust
16 5 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 425 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 423 (13.88%) Cisco Certification
3 418 (13.71%) Degree
4 261 (8.56%) CCNA
5 253 (8.30%) SC Cleared
6 219 (7.19%) CISSP
7 214 (7.02%) CCNP
8 175 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 124 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 116 (3.81%) DV Cleared
11 109 (3.58%) CISM
12 99 (3.25%) Azure Certification
13 73 (2.40%) MCSE
14 66 (2.17%) CCIE
15 63 (2.07%) CISA
16 55 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
17 50 (1.64%) MCSA
18 42 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
19 37 (1.21%) CEH
19 37 (1.21%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (4.46%) SLA
3 130 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 125 (4.10%) NIST
5 107 (3.51%) GDPR
6 61 (2.00%) PCI DSS
7 36 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 28 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 24 (0.79%) QA
10 22 (0.72%) GRC
11 17 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.52%) NCSC
13 11 (0.36%) COBIT
14 10 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 8 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.23%) ISO 22301
17 6 (0.20%) COSHH
17 6 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.16%) SOC 1
System Software
1 983 (32.25%) Active Directory
2 592 (19.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 435 (14.27%) Hyper-V
4 131 (4.30%) Docker
5 116 (3.81%) VMware ESXi
6 92 (3.02%) vSphere
7 82 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
8 58 (1.90%) VMware NSX
9 51 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
10 37 (1.21%) Firmware
11 34 (1.12%) XenApp
11 34 (1.12%) XenDesktop
12 32 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
13 26 (0.85%) pfSense
14 20 (0.66%) NFS
15 14 (0.46%) Terminal Services
16 9 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.20%) vCloud
18 5 (0.16%) Terminal Server
19 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 340 (11.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 230 (7.55%) Ansible
3 182 (5.97%) Kubernetes
4 146 (4.79%) Terraform
5 140 (4.59%) SCCM
6 126 (4.13%) FortiGate
7 85 (2.79%) WSUS
8 80 (2.62%) vCenter Server
9 75 (2.46%) Prometheus
10 57 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 36 (1.18%) SCOM
12 32 (1.05%) Puppet
12 32 (1.05%) ZABBIX
13 29 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.85%) Grafana
15 24 (0.79%) Progress Chef
16 19 (0.62%) CASB
16 19 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
16 19 (0.62%) Nessus
17 18 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,270 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 913 (29.95%) Cisco
3 835 (27.40%) VMware
4 312 (10.24%) Palo Alto
5 263 (8.63%) Fortinet
6 224 (7.35%) Juniper
7 217 (7.12%) Veeam
8 198 (6.50%) Meraki
9 175 (5.74%) Citrix
10 138 (4.53%) CheckPoint
11 132 (4.33%) Dell
12 131 (4.30%) Aruba
13 129 (4.23%) HP
14 109 (3.58%) Red Hat
15 95 (3.12%) Google
16 93 (3.05%) NetApp
17 87 (2.85%) SolarWinds
18 67 (2.20%) F5
18 67 (2.20%) Sophos
19 59 (1.94%) Oracle