Firewall Jobs with Work from Home Options

Firewall
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 85 148
Rank change year-on-year +14 +63 -43
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,351 1,657 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.00% 3.84% 2.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.63% 34.12% 24.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 1,285 1,416
10th Percentile £32,700 £34,010 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,484 £83,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,272 4,857 7,288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.62% 11.26% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,412 3,588 4,891
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,150
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.40% +6.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,688 £73,675
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall.

Firewall salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firewall over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Firewall salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 155 (11.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (8.07%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.03%) Apache
4 62 (4.59%) IIS
5 16 (1.18%) CMS
6 14 (1.04%) nginx
7 12 (0.89%) WordPress
8 8 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 8 (0.59%) Confluence
9 6 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2000
9 6 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
10 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.22%) SAS
13 1 (0.074%) Gunicorn
13 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.074%) uWSGI
Applications
1 40 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.30%) Trello
3 3 (0.22%) SPSS
4 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 633 (46.85%) Azure
2 412 (30.50%) Microsoft 365
3 246 (18.21%) AWS
4 142 (10.51%) Entra ID
5 71 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 68 (5.03%) GCP
7 58 (4.29%) IaaS
8 55 (4.07%) SaaS
9 48 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
10 43 (3.18%) PaaS
11 30 (2.22%) OneDrive
12 29 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 28 (2.07%) GitHub
14 20 (1.48%) Azure Storage
15 15 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (0.96%) Google Workspace
16 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (0.96%) Mimecast
17 12 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 408 (30.20%) VPN
2 381 (28.20%) WAN
3 348 (25.76%) DNS
4 319 (23.61%) LAN
5 230 (17.02%) TCP/IP
6 212 (15.69%) DHCP
7 193 (14.29%) Wireless
8 188 (13.92%) Wi-Fi
9 173 (12.81%) Network Security
10 149 (11.03%) VLAN
11 148 (10.95%) Internet
12 142 (10.51%) SD-WAN
13 99 (7.33%) MPLS
14 98 (7.25%) IPsec
15 91 (6.74%) SAN
16 85 (6.29%) BGP
17 81 (6.00%) Intrusion Detection
18 71 (5.26%) SNMP
19 66 (4.89%) VoIP
20 62 (4.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 69 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
3 64 (4.74%) MongoDB
4 32 (2.37%) MySQL
5 26 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.74%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.67%) Power BI
8 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.44%) Redis
10 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.30%) DB2
12 3 (0.22%) Big Data
12 3 (0.22%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.15%) OLAP
13 2 (0.15%) OLAP Cube
13 2 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.15%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 32 (2.37%) Git
1 32 (2.37%) Jenkins
2 28 (2.07%) JIRA
3 11 (0.81%) GitLab
4 10 (0.74%) Trac
5 8 (0.59%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.30%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.30%) Subversion
7 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.074%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.074%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.074%) Postman
8 1 (0.074%) Selenium
8 1 (0.074%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.074%) TeamCity
General
1 386 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 190 (14.06%) Finance
3 108 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.15%) Law
5 56 (4.15%) Retail
6 53 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 43 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.03%) Legal
9 34 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (1.92%) Marketing
12 21 (1.55%) Banking
13 20 (1.48%) Games
14 13 (0.96%) Advertising
15 12 (0.89%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.89%) Police
16 11 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.59%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 232 (17.17%) Network Engineer
2 212 (15.69%) Senior
3 184 (13.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 149 (11.03%) IT Engineer
5 128 (9.47%) Lead
6 115 (8.51%) Support Engineer
7 102 (7.55%) Consultant
8 96 (7.11%) Analyst
9 95 (7.03%) Architect
10 81 (6.00%) IT Support
11 63 (4.66%) Senior Network Engineer
12 62 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
13 58 (4.29%) Security Engineer
14 54 (4.00%) NetApp Consultant
15 53 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
16 49 (3.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 49 (3.63%) Security Analyst
17 46 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
17 46 (3.40%) Team Leader
18 45 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.81%) YAML
2 54 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
3 42 (3.11%) REST
4 28 (2.07%) .NET
5 19 (1.41%) AngularJS
5 19 (1.41%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.41%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (1.41%) CSS
5 19 (1.41%) HTML
5 19 (1.41%) jQuery
5 19 (1.41%) React
5 19 (1.41%) Tailwind CSS
5 19 (1.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 19 (1.41%) Vue
5 19 (1.41%) WPF
6 17 (1.26%) OAuth
7 16 (1.18%) OpenID
7 16 (1.18%) SAML
8 14 (1.04%) ARM Templates
9 13 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 206 (15.25%) Data Centre
2 97 (7.18%) Management Information System
3 72 (5.33%) Driving Licence
4 66 (4.89%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
6 42 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 34 (2.52%) PKI
8 31 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 26 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 25 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 20 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.41%) Client/Server
13 15 (1.11%) Cloud Native
13 15 (1.11%) Clustering
14 12 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 12 (0.89%) PMI
14 12 (0.89%) Replication
15 10 (0.74%) iPad
16 9 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 588 (43.52%) Windows
2 328 (24.28%) Windows Server
3 322 (23.83%) Linux
4 79 (5.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 70 (5.18%) Windows 10
6 58 (4.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 56 (4.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 54 (4.00%) Data ONTAP
9 46 (3.40%) Ubuntu
10 43 (3.18%) VMS
11 32 (2.37%) Apple iOS
11 32 (2.37%) Unix
12 30 (2.22%) Android
13 25 (1.85%) Windows Server 2008
14 21 (1.55%) Mac OS
15 11 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.52%) CentOS
17 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
18 4 (0.30%) Kali Linux
19 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (21.91%) Cybersecurity
2 293 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
3 259 (19.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 184 (13.62%) Agile
5 173 (12.81%) ITIL
6 145 (10.73%) DevOps
7 142 (10.51%) Information Security
8 140 (10.36%) SIEM
9 125 (9.25%) Project Management
10 122 (9.03%) Actionable Insight
11 104 (7.70%) Customer Service
12 103 (7.62%) Migration
13 100 (7.40%) Infrastructure Management
14 95 (7.03%) Disaster Recovery
15 88 (6.51%) Mentoring
16 85 (6.29%) CI/CD
16 85 (6.29%) Cloud Security
17 81 (6.00%) Security Operations
18 79 (5.85%) Release Management
19 75 (5.55%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 155 (11.47%) PowerShell
2 144 (10.66%) Python
3 77 (5.70%) SQL
4 54 (4.00%) Bash
5 49 (3.63%) C#
6 41 (3.03%) Java
7 24 (1.78%) VBScript
8 19 (1.41%) XAML
9 18 (1.33%) Bicep
10 14 (1.04%) VB
11 12 (0.89%) PHP
12 11 (0.81%) Perl
13 6 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.074%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.074%) C
15 1 (0.074%) Go
15 1 (0.074%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 197 (14.58%) Cisco Certification
2 170 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 148 (10.95%) Degree
4 122 (9.03%) CCNA
5 98 (7.25%) CISSP
6 94 (6.96%) SC Cleared
7 83 (6.14%) CCNP
8 70 (5.18%) DV Cleared
9 45 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (3.11%) Azure Certification
11 36 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
12 31 (2.29%) CCSP
13 30 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 30 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
14 26 (1.92%) CCIE
14 26 (1.92%) MCSE
15 25 (1.85%) SSCP
16 23 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
17 21 (1.55%) GIAC
17 21 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (8.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (6.00%) NIST
3 64 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 60 (4.44%) PCI DSS
5 47 (3.48%) SLA
6 30 (2.22%) GDPR
7 27 (2.00%) SOC 2
8 19 (1.41%) GRC
9 17 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 16 (1.18%) QA
11 9 (0.67%) NCSC
12 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.30%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) GLBA
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.074%) Accessibility
16 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.074%) ISO 22301
16 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 406 (30.05%) Active Directory
2 276 (20.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 217 (16.06%) Hyper-V
4 117 (8.66%) Docker
5 59 (4.37%) VMware ESXi
6 55 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
7 47 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 31 (2.29%) vSphere
9 24 (1.78%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.18%) NFS
10 16 (1.18%) pfSense
11 5 (0.37%) vCloud
11 5 (0.37%) VMware Server
12 4 (0.30%) KVM
13 3 (0.22%) Firmware
13 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
14 2 (0.15%) Terminal Server
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 167 (12.36%) Ansible
2 150 (11.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 118 (8.73%) Kubernetes
4 98 (7.25%) Terraform
5 67 (4.96%) vCenter Server
6 59 (4.37%) Prometheus
7 57 (4.22%) WSUS
8 50 (3.70%) FortiGate
9 44 (3.26%) SCCM
10 33 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (2.29%) Grafana
12 30 (2.22%) ZABBIX
13 23 (1.70%) SCOM
14 22 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
15 20 (1.48%) Nagios
16 17 (1.26%) Nmap
17 15 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
18 14 (1.04%) HAProxy
18 14 (1.04%) Puppet
18 14 (1.04%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 462 (34.20%) Microsoft
2 426 (31.53%) Cisco
3 395 (29.24%) VMware
4 164 (12.14%) Palo Alto
5 135 (9.99%) Meraki
6 129 (9.55%) Fortinet
7 104 (7.70%) Juniper
8 73 (5.40%) CheckPoint
8 73 (5.40%) NetApp
9 69 (5.11%) Aruba
10 66 (4.89%) Red Hat
11 60 (4.44%) Veeam
12 54 (4.00%) SolidFire
13 47 (3.48%) HP
14 39 (2.89%) SolarWinds
15 35 (2.59%) Citrix
16 29 (2.15%) Dell
16 29 (2.15%) Sophos
17 24 (1.78%) F5
17 24 (1.78%) Rapid7