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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 63 75
Rank change year-on-year -31 +12 +57
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,691 3,769 4,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.05% 3.65% 4.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.96% 27.79% 26.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 3,126 2,779
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £48,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% -3.48% -1.47%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £77,500 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -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 9,970 13,562 15,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.99% 13.13% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 9,412 7,743
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,781 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -32 1,599 £50,000 +2.04% 2,515
UK excluding London -46 1,128 £47,500 +11.76% 2,484
London -10 482 £70,000 +7.69% 346
Work from Home -71 470 £50,000 -4.76% 1,432
South East -43 302 £48,250 +13.53% 737
North of England -71 291 £44,850 -0.33% 521
Midlands -42 202 £46,000 +2.22% 449
South West +14 166 £46,000 +2.22% 299
Yorkshire -5 150 £40,000 -15.79% 226
West Midlands -27 148 £46,000 +2.22% 247
East of England -34 121 £50,000 +20.48% 382
North West -93 120 £51,250 +2.50% 233
East Midlands -42 54 £46,000 +8.24% 176
Scotland +49 32 £47,500 -5.00% 105
North East -5 21 £37,500 -6.25% 67
Wales -15 18 £47,500 +17.28% 69
Isle of Man +3 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
1 245 (14.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 159 (9.40%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.25%) IIS
4 24 (1.42%) Confluence
5 12 (0.71%) Apache
6 8 (0.47%) nginx
7 6 (0.35%) Moodle
8 5 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.18%) OpenEdge
9 3 (0.18%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.12%) JOnAS
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.059%) CMS
11 1 (0.059%) SAS
Applications
1 104 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.059%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.059%) Revit
Business Applications
1 22 (1.30%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.35%) 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%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 736 (43.52%) Azure
2 512 (30.28%) Microsoft 365
3 301 (17.80%) AWS
4 225 (13.31%) Entra ID
5 110 (6.51%) GCP
6 66 (3.90%) OneDrive
7 59 (3.49%) SaaS
8 51 (3.02%) IaaS
9 49 (2.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 46 (2.72%) PaaS
11 45 (2.66%) Power Platform
12 40 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
13 38 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
14 34 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
16 31 (1.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 30 (1.77%) Power Automate
18 27 (1.60%) Google Workspace
19 26 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
20 25 (1.48%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 482 (28.50%) VPN
2 437 (25.84%) WAN
3 391 (23.12%) DNS
4 335 (19.81%) LAN
5 324 (19.16%) Network Security
6 269 (15.91%) DHCP
7 233 (13.78%) TCP/IP
8 206 (12.18%) VLAN
9 190 (11.24%) BGP
9 190 (11.24%) SD-WAN
9 190 (11.24%) Wi-Fi
10 183 (10.82%) OSPF
11 111 (6.56%) MPLS
12 99 (5.85%) Intrusion Detection
13 92 (5.44%) Wireless
14 84 (4.97%) SAN
15 83 (4.91%) VoIP
16 74 (4.38%) Cisco Firepower
17 67 (3.96%) EIGRP
18 58 (3.43%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 52 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (1.77%) Power BI
4 26 (1.54%) MySQL
5 18 (1.06%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.24%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.12%) Big Data
11 2 (0.12%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.12%) EDMS
11 2 (0.12%) Tableau
12 1 (0.059%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 47 (2.78%) Git
2 36 (2.13%) JIRA
3 29 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (1.01%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.59%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.12%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.059%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.059%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.059%) Maven
10 1 (0.059%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.059%) Subversion
10 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 536 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 213 (12.60%) Finance
3 141 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (3.78%) Manufacturing
5 63 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 61 (3.61%) Legal
7 60 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (3.08%) Retail
9 51 (3.02%) Banking
10 44 (2.60%) Public Sector
11 33 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.89%) Law
13 29 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.30%) Local Government
15 19 (1.12%) Automotive
16 15 (0.89%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.89%) Back Office
17 13 (0.77%) Police
18 12 (0.71%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 276 (16.32%) Network Engineer
2 245 (14.49%) Analyst
3 195 (11.53%) Support Engineer
4 185 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 175 (10.35%) Senior
6 166 (9.82%) IT Support
7 146 (8.63%) Architect
8 141 (8.34%) IT Engineer
9 119 (7.04%) Technical Support
10 108 (6.39%) Lead
10 108 (6.39%) Security Engineer
11 104 (6.15%) Support Analyst
12 101 (5.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 91 (5.38%) Security Analyst
14 84 (4.97%) 3rd Line Support
15 82 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
16 70 (4.14%) IT Analyst
16 70 (4.14%) Technical Engineer
17 68 (4.02%) Technical Support Engineer
18 58 (3.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.95%) JSON
2 31 (1.83%) LDAP
3 20 (1.18%) 802.1X
4 15 (0.89%) YAML
5 9 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (0.41%) ARM Templates
7 6 (0.35%) RESTful
8 5 (0.30%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.30%) Middleware
8 5 (0.30%) REST
8 5 (0.30%) SAML
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.18%) Web Services
10 2 (0.12%) .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 (0.059%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 199 (11.77%) Data Centre
2 163 (9.64%) Management Information System
3 89 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 80 (4.73%) Driving Licence
5 78 (4.61%) Operational Technology
6 64 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
8 57 (3.37%) Public Cloud
9 56 (3.31%) Onboarding
10 49 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
11 42 (2.48%) PKI
12 29 (1.71%) Replication
12 29 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
13 24 (1.42%) Clustering
14 19 (1.12%) Client/Server
15 18 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (1.01%) NHS
16 17 (1.01%) Private Cloud
17 16 (0.95%) CCTV
17 16 (0.95%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 790 (46.72%) Windows
2 439 (25.96%) Windows Server
3 244 (14.43%) Linux
4 116 (6.86%) Windows 10
5 77 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 76 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 46 (2.72%) Mac OS
8 40 (2.37%) Android
9 37 (2.19%) Apple iOS
10 31 (1.83%) Ubuntu
11 30 (1.77%) Unix
12 27 (1.60%) VMS
13 23 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 16 (0.95%) CentOS
15 14 (0.83%) Windows Vista
16 13 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
17 12 (0.71%) Mac OS X
18 10 (0.59%) Windows 7
19 8 (0.47%) Rocky
20 7 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
2 407 (24.07%) Cybersecurity
3 235 (13.90%) SIEM
4 211 (12.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 204 (12.06%) Customer Service
5 204 (12.06%) ITIL
6 181 (10.70%) Incident Response
7 168 (9.93%) Information Security
8 151 (8.93%) Mentoring
9 146 (8.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 146 (8.63%) Network Design
10 144 (8.52%) Cloud Security
11 135 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 134 (7.92%) DevOps
13 118 (6.98%) Network Management
14 115 (6.80%) Computer Science
14 115 (6.80%) Security Operations
15 106 (6.27%) Vulnerability Management
16 101 (5.97%) Migration
17 97 (5.74%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 297 (17.56%) PowerShell
2 210 (12.42%) Python
3 149 (8.81%) SQL
4 88 (5.20%) Bash
5 24 (1.42%) Bicep
6 22 (1.30%) Perl
7 16 (0.95%) Groovy
8 14 (0.83%) Java
9 13 (0.77%) C#
10 11 (0.65%) JavaScript
11 8 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 8 (0.47%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.41%) C++
12 7 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.35%) Go
13 6 (0.35%) Progress 4GL
14 5 (0.30%) R
15 3 (0.18%) Ruby
16 2 (0.12%) Korn
16 2 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 278 (16.44%) Cisco Certification
2 250 (14.78%) Security Cleared
3 238 (14.07%) Degree
4 190 (11.24%) SC Cleared
5 181 (10.70%) CCNA
6 153 (9.05%) CCNP
7 120 (7.10%) CISSP
8 110 (6.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 90 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 84 (4.97%) DV Cleared
11 79 (4.67%) CISM
12 64 (3.78%) Azure Certification
13 57 (3.37%) CEH
14 54 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
15 51 (3.02%) JNCIA
16 44 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
17 42 (2.48%) DBS Check
18 36 (2.13%) CCIE
19 31 (1.83%) A+ Certification
20 30 (1.77%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 136 (8.04%) NIST
3 115 (6.80%) GDPR
4 66 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 44 (2.60%) PCI DSS
6 42 (2.48%) SLA
7 33 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (1.71%) NCSC
9 16 (0.95%) COBIT
10 15 (0.89%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.83%) HIPAA
11 14 (0.83%) QA
12 10 (0.59%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.47%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.30%) GRC
14 5 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 14001
16 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 588 (34.77%) Active Directory
2 300 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 204 (12.06%) Hyper-V
4 88 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (4.08%) Virtual Servers
6 59 (3.49%) VMware ESXi
7 53 (3.13%) Docker
8 38 (2.25%) VMware NSX
9 34 (2.01%) vSphere
10 28 (1.66%) Firmware
10 28 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (1.30%) Terminal Services
12 21 (1.24%) XenApp
13 10 (0.59%) DFS Replication
14 9 (0.53%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
16 7 (0.41%) NFS
17 4 (0.24%) EMC RecoverPoint
17 4 (0.24%) Postfix
18 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 214 (12.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 134 (7.92%) Terraform
3 133 (7.87%) Ansible
4 97 (5.74%) FortiGate
5 75 (4.44%) SCCM
6 68 (4.02%) Kubernetes
7 48 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
8 32 (1.89%) Grafana
9 31 (1.83%) Nagios
10 29 (1.71%) vCenter Server
11 26 (1.54%) Prometheus
12 25 (1.48%) QRadar
13 21 (1.24%) Nessus
14 20 (1.18%) Proxmox
15 17 (1.01%) Puppet
16 13 (0.77%) WSUS
17 11 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.65%) CASB
18 10 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
19 9 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 663 (39.21%) Microsoft
2 548 (32.41%) Cisco
3 396 (23.42%) VMware
4 227 (13.42%) Fortinet
5 156 (9.23%) Meraki
6 143 (8.46%) Palo Alto
7 139 (8.22%) Juniper
8 129 (7.63%) CheckPoint
9 97 (5.74%) SolarWinds
10 84 (4.97%) Google
11 79 (4.67%) Citrix
12 72 (4.26%) Aruba
13 71 (4.20%) Veeam
14 69 (4.08%) Dell
15 65 (3.84%) HP
16 56 (3.31%) F5
17 52 (3.08%) Apple
18 47 (2.78%) Splunk
19 39 (2.31%) SonicWALL
20 33 (1.95%) Sophos