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 15 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 89 114
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 -38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,836 4,031 4,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 3.74% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.48% 24.72% 24.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,238 2,910 3,660
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,170
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

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 13,469 16,304 20,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.93% 15.13% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,611 8,507 11,860
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £88,283 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,227 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.94% - -

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 15 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 19 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 15 April 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 +33 3,521 £49,000 -2.00% 813
UK excluding London +22 2,795 £42,500 -5.56% 653
Work from Home +17 1,376 £52,500 -4.55% 299
London +26 926 £62,500 +3.31% 206
South East +27 823 £42,500 -5.56% 178
North of England +30 630 £42,500 -10.53% 169
Midlands +44 523 £45,000 - 114
South West +16 363 £49,000 +15.29% 84
West Midlands +47 349 £45,000 -1.69% 71
Yorkshire +59 280 £45,000 - 64
North West +12 274 £50,000 - 88
East of England +39 258 £40,000 -6.98% 68
East Midlands +20 170 £41,250 -2.94% 43
Scotland -82 102 £50,000 - 41
North East +9 87 £42,500 - 18
Wales +7 87 £40,500 -10.00% 11
Northern Ireland +9 23 £37,500 - 4
Isle of Man -4 16 £46,500 +3.33% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

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
1 576 (15.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 425 (11.08%) SharePoint
3 131 (3.42%) IIS
4 75 (1.96%) Apache
5 44 (1.15%) Confluence
6 28 (0.73%) nginx
7 25 (0.65%) WordPress
8 24 (0.63%) Skype for Business
9 23 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
10 18 (0.47%) CMS
11 17 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
12 11 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
13 10 (0.26%) Apache Spark
14 9 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2000
15 7 (0.18%) SAS
16 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2003
17 4 (0.10%) Jupyter
17 4 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 305 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.18%) Trello
5 4 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.078%) SPSS
7 2 (0.052%) 1Password
8 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.10%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.10%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.078%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.078%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.052%) Shopify
5 1 (0.026%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.026%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,762 (45.93%) Azure
2 1,427 (37.20%) Microsoft 365
3 559 (14.57%) AWS
4 451 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 170 (4.43%) GCP
6 152 (3.96%) IaaS
7 137 (3.57%) SaaS
8 124 (3.23%) PaaS
9 123 (3.21%) OneDrive
10 97 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
11 81 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 77 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
13 66 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
14 59 (1.54%) Mimecast
15 47 (1.23%) GitHub
16 43 (1.12%) Google Workspace
17 35 (0.91%) Power Platform
18 29 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 28 (0.73%) Serverless
20 24 (0.63%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 942 (24.56%) VPN
1 942 (24.56%) WAN
2 903 (23.54%) DNS
3 806 (21.01%) LAN
4 620 (16.16%) DHCP
5 541 (14.10%) TCP/IP
6 470 (12.25%) Wireless
7 440 (11.47%) Network Security
8 425 (11.08%) Wi-Fi
9 415 (10.82%) VLAN
10 294 (7.66%) SAN
11 281 (7.33%) SD-WAN
12 264 (6.88%) Internet
13 207 (5.40%) BGP
14 203 (5.29%) MPLS
15 196 (5.11%) VoIP
16 171 (4.46%) Intrusion Detection
17 169 (4.41%) OSPF
18 144 (3.75%) IPsec
19 130 (3.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (7.40%) SQL Server
2 92 (2.40%) MySQL
3 73 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
4 66 (1.72%) MongoDB
5 58 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 43 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (0.63%) Power BI
8 23 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.44%) Big Data
10 13 (0.34%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.23%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.21%) CockroachDB
12 8 (0.21%) DB2
12 8 (0.21%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.21%) Redis
12 8 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.10%) Metabase
15 4 (0.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 107 (2.79%) JIRA
2 99 (2.58%) Jenkins
3 62 (1.62%) Git
4 30 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 25 (0.65%) GitLab
6 16 (0.42%) Subversion
7 11 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.26%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (0.26%) Spinnaker
8 10 (0.26%) Trac
9 8 (0.21%) Jaeger
9 8 (0.21%) Robot Framework
10 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.16%) Burp Suite
11 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.10%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.10%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.10%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.10%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.078%) Maven
General
1 1,086 (28.31%) Social Skills
2 498 (12.98%) Finance
3 297 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (5.21%) Telecoms
5 146 (3.81%) Law
6 121 (3.15%) Legal
7 119 (3.10%) Retail
8 108 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (2.79%) Public Sector
10 93 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 79 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 66 (1.72%) Banking
13 62 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
14 60 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 53 (1.38%) Games
16 46 (1.20%) Aerospace
17 45 (1.17%) Marketing
18 33 (0.86%) Police
19 22 (0.57%) Local Government
19 22 (0.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 684 (17.83%) Network Engineer
2 613 (15.98%) Senior
3 501 (13.06%) IT Engineer
4 480 (12.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 469 (12.23%) Support Engineer
6 452 (11.78%) Analyst
7 430 (11.21%) IT Support
8 268 (6.99%) IT Support Engineer
9 241 (6.28%) Lead
10 220 (5.74%) Senior Network Engineer
11 203 (5.29%) Architect
12 183 (4.77%) Security Analyst
13 178 (4.64%) 3rd Line Support
14 175 (4.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 162 (4.22%) Consultant
16 154 (4.01%) 2nd Line Support
17 148 (3.86%) IT Manager
18 142 (3.70%) Security Engineer
19 122 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
19 122 (3.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (1.98%) YAML
2 61 (1.59%) 802.1X
2 61 (1.59%) REST
3 54 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
4 41 (1.07%) HTML
5 38 (0.99%) .NET
6 36 (0.94%) SAML
7 29 (0.76%) OAuth
8 23 (0.60%) CSS
8 23 (0.60%) Kafka
9 22 (0.57%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.57%) jQuery
10 21 (0.55%) ARM Templates
11 19 (0.50%) AngularJS
11 19 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 19 (0.50%) React
11 19 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (0.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 19 (0.50%) Vue
11 19 (0.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 488 (12.72%) Data Centre
2 285 (7.43%) Management Information System
3 223 (5.81%) Driving Licence
4 140 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 137 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 131 (3.42%) Replication
7 98 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
8 90 (2.35%) PKI
9 82 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 77 (2.01%) Clustering
11 69 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 61 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
13 47 (1.23%) Client/Server
14 44 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
15 42 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 42 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
15 42 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
16 41 (1.07%) CCTV
17 38 (0.99%) Cyberattack
18 35 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,796 (46.82%) Windows
2 1,071 (27.92%) Windows Server
3 790 (20.59%) Linux
4 289 (7.53%) Windows 10
5 223 (5.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 200 (5.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 191 (4.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 119 (3.10%) Mac OS
9 98 (2.55%) Ubuntu
10 84 (2.19%) Apple iOS
11 81 (2.11%) Unix
12 77 (2.01%) VMS
13 64 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 61 (1.59%) Android
15 54 (1.41%) Data ONTAP
16 36 (0.94%) CentOS
17 34 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 27 (0.70%) Windows 7
19 18 (0.47%) Mac OS X
19 18 (0.47%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 873 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
2 844 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
3 608 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 547 (14.26%) ITIL
5 449 (11.70%) Customer Service
6 328 (8.55%) Information Security
7 327 (8.52%) Disaster Recovery
8 310 (8.08%) Agile
9 306 (7.98%) SIEM
10 285 (7.43%) DevOps
11 272 (7.09%) Mentoring
12 262 (6.83%) Project Management
13 234 (6.10%) Incident Response
14 220 (5.74%) Migration
15 211 (5.50%) Service Delivery
16 207 (5.40%) Project Delivery
17 195 (5.08%) Cloud Security
18 192 (5.01%) Actionable Insight
19 175 (4.56%) Kalman Filter
20 172 (4.48%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 462 (12.04%) PowerShell
2 364 (9.49%) SQL
3 313 (8.16%) Python
4 195 (5.08%) Bash
5 66 (1.72%) C#
6 64 (1.67%) Java
7 48 (1.25%) Perl
8 33 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 27 (0.70%) Bicep
9 27 (0.70%) VBScript
10 21 (0.55%) Ruby
11 19 (0.50%) XAML
12 15 (0.39%) C++
13 14 (0.36%) C
13 14 (0.36%) PHP
13 14 (0.36%) VB
14 13 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.26%) RPG
16 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 565 (14.73%) Cisco Certification
2 527 (13.74%) Degree
3 520 (13.56%) Security Cleared
4 373 (9.72%) CCNA
5 299 (7.79%) SC Cleared
6 245 (6.39%) CISSP
7 230 (6.00%) CCNP
8 217 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 180 (4.69%) DV Cleared
10 125 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 110 (2.87%) Azure Certification
12 101 (2.63%) MCSE
13 90 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
14 83 (2.16%) CISM
15 75 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
16 66 (1.72%) MCSA
17 59 (1.54%) CCSP
18 57 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 57 (1.49%) CCIE
19 56 (1.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 188 (4.90%) SLA
3 161 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 159 (4.14%) NIST
5 140 (3.65%) GDPR
6 97 (2.53%) PCI DSS
7 56 (1.46%) SOC 2
8 46 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 24 (0.63%) NCSC
10 23 (0.60%) GRC
10 23 (0.60%) QA
11 21 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.44%) COBIT
13 9 (0.23%) COSHH
13 9 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 9 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,353 (35.27%) Active Directory
2 810 (21.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 635 (16.55%) Hyper-V
4 170 (4.43%) VMware ESXi
5 159 (4.14%) Docker
6 126 (3.28%) vSphere
7 106 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
8 89 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 44 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
10 41 (1.07%) VMware NSX
11 33 (0.86%) Firmware
12 31 (0.81%) Terminal Services
13 24 (0.63%) pfSense
14 20 (0.52%) vCloud
14 20 (0.52%) XenApp
15 17 (0.44%) NFS
15 17 (0.44%) XenDesktop
16 12 (0.31%) KVM
17 9 (0.23%) VMware Server
18 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 437 (11.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 276 (7.19%) Ansible
3 200 (5.21%) Terraform
4 188 (4.90%) Kubernetes
5 149 (3.88%) SCCM
6 147 (3.83%) FortiGate
7 109 (2.84%) WSUS
8 98 (2.55%) vCenter Server
9 76 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
10 69 (1.80%) Prometheus
11 64 (1.67%) SCOM
12 46 (1.20%) Puppet
13 38 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 36 (0.94%) Grafana
15 35 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
15 35 (0.91%) Nagios
16 34 (0.89%) ZABBIX
17 33 (0.86%) Progress Chef
18 23 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
19 22 (0.57%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,656 (43.17%) Microsoft
2 1,163 (30.32%) VMware
3 1,090 (28.42%) Cisco
4 315 (8.21%) Palo Alto
5 292 (7.61%) Veeam
6 262 (6.83%) Juniper
7 249 (6.49%) Fortinet
7 249 (6.49%) Meraki
8 198 (5.16%) Citrix
9 188 (4.90%) Aruba
10 171 (4.46%) CheckPoint
11 167 (4.35%) HP
12 122 (3.18%) NetApp
13 118 (3.08%) Red Hat
14 117 (3.05%) Dell
15 116 (3.02%) Google
16 94 (2.45%) SolarWinds
17 91 (2.37%) Sophos
18 81 (2.11%) Apple
19 79 (2.06%) Oracle