Firewall Jobs in Wales

Firewall
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -18 +14 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 20 87 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.51% 3.70% 4.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.89% 32.58% 29.92%
Number of salaries quoted 20 44 22
10th Percentile - £24,500 £30,200
25th Percentile £25,438 £26,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -10.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £45,780 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,775 £56,375 £75,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,750 £50,250
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.98% -3.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 692 267 264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 52.34% 11.36% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 450 152 83
10th Percentile - £26,250 £26,800
25th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £40,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.06% +6.58% -15.56%
75th Percentile - £47,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £43,750 £59,750 £73,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.94% -3.81%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Wales.

Salary trend for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Wales over the 6 months to 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Wales

Firewall
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
South Wales -26 10 £53,750 +32.72% 23
North Wales +15 7 £25,875 -5.91% 2
West Wales +15 1 £37,733 -31.39% 1
Mid Wales - 1 £32,500 -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 10 (50.00%) VPN
2 8 (40.00%) DNS
2 8 (40.00%) VoIP
3 6 (30.00%) Broadband
3 6 (30.00%) IP Telephony
4 4 (20.00%) Network Security
4 4 (20.00%) VLAN
5 3 (15.00%) BGP
5 3 (15.00%) OSPF
5 3 (15.00%) WAN
5 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (15.00%) Wireless
6 2 (10.00%) DHCP
6 2 (10.00%) LAN
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (5.00%) DMARC
7 1 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
1 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JMeter
General
1 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
1 7 (35.00%) Technical Support
2 6 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) CentOS
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Time Management
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security
6 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.00%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (5.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCIE
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CCSA
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) GCIH
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (20.00%) vSphere
3 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Iperf
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) VMware
2 4 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.00%) Juniper
5 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.00%) Okta
5 1 (5.00%) Tufin
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler