Firewall Jobs with Work from Home Options

Firewall
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 65 151
Rank change year-on-year -2 +86 -34
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,097 1,506 2,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.93% 4.59% 2.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.18% 38.79% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 854 1,241 1,631
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,938 £41,250 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,750 £73,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £48,800 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.05% - +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,190 3,882 9,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.00% 11.83% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 3,097 5,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.85% +2.65%
75th Percentile £67,968 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +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 26 July 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
1 126 (11.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 100 (9.12%) SharePoint
3 57 (5.20%) IIS
4 54 (4.92%) Apache
5 10 (0.91%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.73%) Confluence
7 4 (0.36%) CMS
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2000
7 4 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.091%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.091%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 53 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.18%) Trello
4 1 (0.091%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 480 (43.76%) Azure
2 325 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
3 162 (14.77%) AWS
4 116 (10.57%) Entra ID
5 60 (5.47%) Amazon S3
6 46 (4.19%) IaaS
7 44 (4.01%) SaaS
8 38 (3.46%) PaaS
9 26 (2.37%) OneDrive
10 22 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 20 (1.82%) GCP
11 20 (1.82%) Mimecast
12 18 (1.64%) Azure Storage
13 17 (1.55%) Power Platform
14 16 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
15 15 (1.37%) GitHub
16 10 (0.91%) Nutanix
17 9 (0.82%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 342 (31.18%) VPN
2 325 (29.63%) WAN
3 276 (25.16%) DNS
4 248 (22.61%) LAN
5 182 (16.59%) Network Security
6 163 (14.86%) Wi-Fi
7 160 (14.59%) DHCP
8 157 (14.31%) TCP/IP
9 143 (13.04%) Wireless
10 135 (12.31%) SD-WAN
11 130 (11.85%) VLAN
12 125 (11.39%) Internet
13 112 (10.21%) IPsec
14 96 (8.75%) MPLS
15 79 (7.20%) BGP
16 72 (6.56%) OSPF
17 64 (5.83%) VoIP
18 62 (5.65%) SNMP
19 58 (5.29%) Intrusion Detection
20 57 (5.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 60 (5.47%) Elasticsearch
3 55 (5.01%) MongoDB
4 23 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (1.28%) Power BI
6 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
6 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (0.55%) MySQL
7 6 (0.55%) Redis
8 4 (0.36%) DB2
8 4 (0.36%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.18%) OLAP
10 2 (0.18%) OLAP Cube
10 2 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.18%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.18%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (2.83%) Git
2 18 (1.64%) JIRA
3 14 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.82%) GitLab
4 9 (0.82%) Trac
5 1 (0.091%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.091%) Subversion
General
1 283 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 141 (12.85%) Finance
3 79 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (4.83%) Telecoms
5 41 (3.74%) Law
6 37 (3.37%) Retail
7 35 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (3.10%) Public Sector
9 24 (2.19%) Legal
10 18 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.37%) Banking
14 13 (1.19%) Games
15 12 (1.09%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.82%) Marketing
17 8 (0.73%) Advertising
18 6 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 6 (0.55%) Police
19 4 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 193 (17.59%) Network Engineer
2 165 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 161 (14.68%) Senior
4 120 (10.94%) Consultant
5 105 (9.57%) Lead
6 87 (7.93%) IT Engineer
7 83 (7.57%) Analyst
8 68 (6.20%) Architect
9 67 (6.11%) Support Engineer
10 58 (5.29%) Senior Network Engineer
11 54 (4.92%) NetApp Consultant
12 50 (4.56%) Security Engineer
13 44 (4.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (4.01%) Team Leader
14 42 (3.83%) IT Support
15 40 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
16 36 (3.28%) 3rd Line Support
17 35 (3.19%) IT Manager
18 34 (3.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 31 (2.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.38%) YAML
2 54 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
3 43 (3.92%) REST
4 27 (2.46%) .NET
5 20 (1.82%) AngularJS
5 20 (1.82%) CSS
5 20 (1.82%) HTML
6 19 (1.73%) ASP.NET
6 19 (1.73%) ASP.NET MVC
6 19 (1.73%) jQuery
6 19 (1.73%) React
6 19 (1.73%) Tailwind CSS
6 19 (1.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 19 (1.73%) Vue
6 19 (1.73%) WPF
7 16 (1.46%) ARM Templates
8 15 (1.37%) OAuth
8 15 (1.37%) OpenID
8 15 (1.37%) SAML
9 10 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 192 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 58 (5.29%) Management Information System
3 57 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (4.56%) Driving Licence
5 36 (3.28%) Replication
6 34 (3.10%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.92%) PKI
8 23 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
8 23 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.37%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.28%) IoT
13 14 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
14 12 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 11 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 7 (0.64%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 471 (42.94%) Windows
2 264 (24.07%) Linux
3 250 (22.79%) Windows Server
4 80 (7.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 68 (6.20%) Windows 10
6 66 (6.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 54 (4.92%) Data ONTAP
8 45 (4.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 36 (3.28%) Ubuntu
10 34 (3.10%) VMS
11 27 (2.46%) Apple iOS
12 26 (2.37%) Android
13 21 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
14 17 (1.55%) Mac OS
15 12 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 12 (1.09%) Unix
16 10 (0.91%) Windows 7
17 7 (0.64%) CentOS
17 7 (0.64%) Debian
18 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 226 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
3 197 (17.96%) Cybersecurity
4 166 (15.13%) Agile
5 145 (13.22%) ITIL
6 122 (11.12%) Project Management
7 105 (9.57%) DevOps
8 100 (9.12%) Information Security
9 97 (8.84%) Actionable Insight
10 95 (8.66%) Customer Service
11 94 (8.57%) Infrastructure Management
12 89 (8.11%) Migration
13 86 (7.84%) SIEM
14 74 (6.75%) Release Management
15 71 (6.47%) Mentoring
16 63 (5.74%) Disaster Recovery
17 62 (5.65%) Storage Management
18 61 (5.56%) CI/CD
19 59 (5.38%) Analytics
20 58 (5.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 130 (11.85%) PowerShell
2 127 (11.58%) Python
3 58 (5.29%) SQL
4 44 (4.01%) C#
5 34 (3.10%) Bash
6 33 (3.01%) Java
7 24 (2.19%) VBScript
8 19 (1.73%) XAML
9 17 (1.55%) Bicep
10 16 (1.46%) VB
11 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.46%) Perl
12 3 (0.27%) Go
12 3 (0.27%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.091%) C
14 1 (0.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 171 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 146 (13.31%) Cisco Certification
3 123 (11.21%) Degree
4 100 (9.12%) SC Cleared
5 92 (8.39%) CCNP
6 76 (6.93%) CCNA
7 71 (6.47%) DV Cleared
8 68 (6.20%) CISSP
9 46 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (4.10%) Azure Certification
11 37 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (3.28%) CCIE
13 30 (2.73%) CISM
14 21 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
14 21 (1.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (1.46%) APMP
15 16 (1.46%) CEH
15 16 (1.46%) CISA
16 15 (1.37%) DBS Check
17 13 (1.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (6.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 56 (5.10%) NIST
4 30 (2.73%) PCI DSS
5 26 (2.37%) SLA
6 17 (1.55%) QA
6 17 (1.55%) SOC 2
7 14 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (1.28%) GRC
8 13 (1.19%) GDPR
9 4 (0.36%) COBIT
10 3 (0.27%) NCSC
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.091%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.091%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.091%) GxP
12 1 (0.091%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.091%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 346 (31.54%) Active Directory
2 220 (20.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 165 (15.04%) Hyper-V
4 104 (9.48%) Docker
5 50 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (3.01%) Virtual Desktop
8 31 (2.83%) vSphere
9 21 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (1.82%) pfSense
11 19 (1.73%) NFS
12 10 (0.91%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.82%) Firmware
13 9 (0.82%) XenApp
14 5 (0.46%) vCloud
15 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
16 3 (0.27%) Ceph
16 3 (0.27%) Terminal Server
16 3 (0.27%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 136 (12.40%) Ansible
2 120 (10.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 112 (10.21%) Kubernetes
4 64 (5.83%) Terraform
5 61 (5.56%) vCenter Server
6 60 (5.47%) Prometheus
7 52 (4.74%) WSUS
8 50 (4.56%) SCCM
9 37 (3.37%) FortiGate
10 27 (2.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (2.28%) SCOM
11 25 (2.28%) ZABBIX
12 22 (2.01%) Grafana
13 19 (1.73%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.91%) Pingdom
16 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 9 (0.82%) SCDPM
17 8 (0.73%) CASB
17 8 (0.73%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 373 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 371 (33.82%) Cisco
3 304 (27.71%) VMware
4 152 (13.86%) Palo Alto
5 139 (12.67%) Fortinet
6 111 (10.12%) Meraki
7 100 (9.12%) Juniper
8 71 (6.47%) Red Hat
9 68 (6.20%) NetApp
10 61 (5.56%) CheckPoint
11 54 (4.92%) SolidFire
12 49 (4.47%) Veeam
13 45 (4.10%) Aruba
14 44 (4.01%) Citrix
14 44 (4.01%) HP
15 42 (3.83%) SolarWinds
16 38 (3.46%) Dell
17 29 (2.64%) Sophos
18 27 (2.46%) F5
19 18 (1.64%) Ubiquiti