Firewall Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Firewall Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Firewall Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 578 648
Rank change year-on-year +187 +70 +195
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 6 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.041% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.043% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 13
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +11.61% +17.89%
75th Percentile £60,625 £69,688 £60,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £90,000 £64,150
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +37.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Firewall Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Firewall Engineer.

Firewall Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Firewall Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Firewall Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Firewall Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) CCNP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Firmware
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (33.33%) MPLS
4 2 (33.33%) CCNA
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (33.33%) Meraki
4 2 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Mimecast
2 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Server Building
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 2 (33.33%) Meraki
4 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (16.67%) Dell
5 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (16.67%) Rapid7
5 1 (16.67%) Veeam
5 1 (16.67%) Zerto