Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring NGFW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited NGFW over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 643 1043
Rank change year-on-year -75 +400 -4
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 66 121 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.21% 0.061%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 1.40% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35 73 49
10th Percentile £37,043 £43,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +38.10% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,125 £106,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £112,250 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £66,250 £39,322
% change year-on-year -24.53% +68.48% -17.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NGFW 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 11,214 8,637 17,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.85% 15.13% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,035 6,629 10,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in the UK

NGFW
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NGFW.

Salary trend for NGFW in the UK

NGFW
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NGFW over the 6 months to 8 November 2024.

Salary histogram for NGFW in the UK

NGFW
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the UK over the 6 months to 8 November 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 -87 63 £57,500 -19.30% 10
UK excluding London -75 47 £50,000 -24.53% 5
Work from Home -9 36 £48,000 -33.79% 10
North of England -27 19 £64,000 +2.40% 2
North West -35 14 £64,000 +2.40% 1
London -13 13 £70,000 -31.71% 4
West Midlands -26 8 £48,000 +11.63%
Midlands -54 8 £48,000 +11.63%
South East -56 8 £54,750 -24.48% 2
South West +3 7 £35,015 -43.98% 1
North East -30 5 £53,000 -24.29%
East of England - 4 £47,500 -
Scotland -4 1 £46,500 -35.86%

NGFW
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 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.70%) Azure
2 11 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (13.64%) AWS
4 7 (10.61%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.06%) Mimecast
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.52%) GCP
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 57 (86.36%) Firewall
2 20 (30.30%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (28.79%) WAN
4 17 (25.76%) Wireshark
5 16 (24.24%) VXLAN
6 14 (21.21%) SD-WAN
7 13 (19.70%) Network Security
8 12 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
8 12 (18.18%) Wireless
9 7 (10.61%) LAN
10 6 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (9.09%) DNS
11 5 (7.58%) TCP/IP
11 5 (7.58%) VLAN
12 4 (6.06%) BGP
13 3 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (4.55%) DHCP
13 3 (4.55%) OSPF
13 3 (4.55%) VoIP
14 2 (3.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.52%) Law
6 1 (1.52%) Local Government
6 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (39.39%) Network Engineer
2 22 (33.33%) Senior
3 10 (15.15%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Consultant
5 8 (12.12%) Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Lead
5 8 (12.12%) Network Consultant
5 8 (12.12%) Security Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Senior Consultant
5 8 (12.12%) Senior Network Consultant
6 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Network Security Consultant
7 6 (9.09%) Security Consultant
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Network Security Consultant
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Security Consultant
8 5 (7.58%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Security Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) REST
1 1 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (37.88%) Data Centre
2 16 (24.24%) PKI
3 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.03%) Clustering
5 2 (3.03%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Replication
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) IoT
6 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 20 (30.30%) Load Balancing
3 19 (28.79%) Network Monitoring
4 18 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
5 16 (24.24%) Coaching
5 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (24.24%) ITSM
5 16 (24.24%) Service Management
6 15 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
8 10 (15.15%) Information Security
8 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (15.15%) Kalman Filter
8 10 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
9 9 (13.64%) Security Operations
10 8 (12.12%) SIEM
11 7 (10.61%) Project Delivery
12 6 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 6 (9.09%) Email Filtering
13 5 (7.58%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (27.27%) CCNP
3 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (12.12%) CCNA
5 6 (9.09%) CCIE
5 6 (9.09%) Degree
6 4 (6.06%) OSCP
7 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.03%) CISSP
8 2 (3.03%) MCSA
8 2 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.52%) CISM
9 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) NIST
2 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) GxP
3 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
2 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.03%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (24.24%) Ansible
1 16 (24.24%) Terraform
2 10 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (12.12%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.52%) CASB
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 27 (40.91%) Palo Alto
2 23 (34.85%) Aruba
3 22 (33.33%) Cisco
4 21 (31.82%) Microsoft
5 16 (24.24%) Arista
5 16 (24.24%) BMC
5 16 (24.24%) NetScout
6 15 (22.73%) Fortinet
7 7 (10.61%) CheckPoint
7 7 (10.61%) VMware
8 6 (9.09%) Zscaler
9 5 (7.58%) F5
10 4 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (6.06%) Juniper
10 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
11 3 (4.55%) Meraki
11 3 (4.55%) Rapid7
12 2 (3.03%) Draytek
12 2 (3.03%) Mitel
12 2 (3.03%) Ruckus Wireless