Firewall Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 71 84
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 +65
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 520 1,365 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.48% 4.03% 3.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.69% 25.78% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 442 1,133 1,277
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,550 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -

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 2,513 5,294 4,791
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.80% 15.65% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 3,435 3,553
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

Firewall
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Firewall salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Firewall salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall
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 87 (16.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (14.23%) SharePoint
3 22 (4.23%) IIS
4 11 (2.12%) Apache
5 4 (0.77%) Moodle
6 3 (0.58%) Confluence
6 3 (0.58%) nginx
6 3 (0.58%) OpenEdge
7 2 (0.38%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.58%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 258 (49.62%) Azure
2 186 (35.77%) Microsoft 365
3 121 (23.27%) AWS
4 67 (12.88%) Entra ID
5 28 (5.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 27 (5.19%) OneDrive
6 27 (5.19%) SaaS
7 17 (3.27%) GCP
8 12 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (2.31%) IaaS
9 9 (1.73%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
10 8 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
10 8 (1.54%) PaaS
11 7 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 7 (1.35%) GitHub
11 7 (1.35%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 150 (28.85%) VPN
2 129 (24.81%) WAN
3 120 (23.08%) DNS
4 88 (16.92%) LAN
5 81 (15.58%) DHCP
6 71 (13.65%) Wi-Fi
7 67 (12.88%) VLAN
8 66 (12.69%) Network Security
9 63 (12.12%) TCP/IP
10 62 (11.92%) SD-WAN
11 45 (8.65%) BGP
12 40 (7.69%) Wireless
13 37 (7.12%) OSPF
14 35 (6.73%) SAN
15 32 (6.15%) VoIP
16 29 (5.58%) Intrusion Detection
17 26 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
17 26 (5.00%) MPLS
18 25 (4.81%) Cisco ASA
19 21 (4.04%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.27%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (1.73%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.54%) Power BI
5 6 (1.15%) MySQL
6 4 (0.77%) MariaDB
6 4 (0.77%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.38%) EDMS
8 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.15%) JIRA
2 6 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.77%) Spinnaker
4 2 (0.38%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) JMeter
5 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Subversion
5 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 137 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 67 (12.88%) Finance
3 53 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (5.96%) Law
5 25 (4.81%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.46%) Local Government
8 17 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.08%) Retail
10 13 (2.50%) Banking
11 12 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.92%) Legal
12 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.73%) Police
14 6 (1.15%) Automotive
14 6 (1.15%) Games
15 5 (0.96%) Back Office
15 5 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (16.15%) Network Engineer
2 83 (15.96%) Analyst
3 67 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (12.50%) Senior
5 60 (11.54%) Support Engineer
6 58 (11.15%) IT Support
7 52 (10.00%) Security Engineer
8 46 (8.85%) 2nd Line Support
9 42 (8.08%) IT Engineer
10 36 (6.92%) Security Analyst
11 34 (6.54%) Architect
12 33 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (6.35%) Lead
13 31 (5.96%) 3rd Line Support
14 29 (5.58%) Support Analyst
15 26 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 23 (4.42%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 22 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
17 22 (4.23%) IT Analyst
18 21 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.73%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (0.96%) HTML
3 5 (0.96%) JSON
4 4 (0.77%) SOAP
4 4 (0.77%) Web Services
4 4 (0.77%) XML
4 4 (0.77%) XSLT
4 4 (0.77%) YAML
5 3 (0.58%) AWS SAM
6 2 (0.38%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.38%) LDAP
6 2 (0.38%) Middleware
6 2 (0.38%) SAML
7 1 (0.19%) Kafka
7 1 (0.19%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.19%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 90 (17.31%) Data Centre
2 54 (10.38%) Management Information System
3 45 (8.65%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (7.88%) Driving Licence
5 38 (7.31%) Security Posture
6 32 (6.15%) Onboarding
7 24 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
8 20 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
9 18 (3.46%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.92%) Replication
12 9 (1.73%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.73%) Hedge funds
12 9 (1.73%) Podcast
13 8 (1.54%) FMCG
14 7 (1.35%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.35%) Clustering
14 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 258 (49.62%) Windows
2 151 (29.04%) Windows Server
3 95 (18.27%) Linux
4 34 (6.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 33 (6.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 18 (3.46%) Windows 10
7 13 (2.50%) Mac OS
8 12 (2.31%) Android
9 10 (1.92%) CentOS
9 10 (1.92%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.92%) Unix
10 9 (1.73%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.35%) Debian
12 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.58%) Solaris
14 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (27.69%) Cybersecurity
2 134 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (15.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 72 (13.85%) SIEM
5 63 (12.12%) Information Security
6 62 (11.92%) ITIL
7 58 (11.15%) Cloud Security
8 55 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (10.19%) Mentoring
10 51 (9.81%) Security Operations
11 50 (9.62%) Customer Service
11 50 (9.62%) Infrastructure Management
12 49 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
13 45 (8.65%) DevOps
14 43 (8.27%) Incident Response
15 37 (7.12%) Change Management
15 37 (7.12%) Network Design
16 36 (6.92%) Vulnerability Management
17 34 (6.54%) Project Delivery
18 31 (5.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (16.73%) PowerShell
2 55 (10.58%) Python
3 38 (7.31%) SQL
4 20 (3.85%) Bash
5 13 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.15%) Perl
7 6 (1.15%) Progress 4GL
8 4 (0.77%) C
8 4 (0.77%) Jython
9 3 (0.58%) Go
9 3 (0.58%) Java
10 1 (0.19%) Bicep
10 1 (0.19%) C#
10 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) VBA
10 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (14.81%) Degree
2 73 (14.04%) Cisco Certification
3 52 (10.00%) CISSP
4 49 (9.42%) CCNP
5 35 (6.73%) CCNA
5 35 (6.73%) Security Cleared
6 29 (5.58%) CompTIA Security+
7 26 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 26 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (4.62%) CISM
9 24 (4.62%) SC Cleared
10 16 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 16 (3.08%) Network+ Certification
10 16 (3.08%) SANS
11 14 (2.69%) CEH
12 13 (2.50%) A+ Certification
12 13 (2.50%) CCIE
12 13 (2.50%) GCIA
13 11 (2.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (5.96%) NIST
3 29 (5.58%) GDPR
4 25 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 14 (2.69%) PCI DSS
7 11 (2.12%) QA
8 8 (1.54%) SLA
9 6 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.96%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.96%) NCSC
11 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.58%) COBIT
12 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.38%) GRC
13 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 183 (35.19%) Active Directory
2 98 (18.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (13.65%) Hyper-V
4 22 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (3.85%) Firmware
5 20 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (3.27%) Docker
6 17 (3.27%) XenApp
7 14 (2.69%) vSphere
8 8 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (1.35%) pfSense
10 6 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.58%) Squid
12 2 (0.38%) KVM
12 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.38%) NFS
12 2 (0.38%) SRDF
12 2 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.38%) Xen
12 2 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 73 (14.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (4.81%) Ansible
3 23 (4.42%) Terraform
4 18 (3.46%) Kubernetes
5 14 (2.69%) FortiGate
5 14 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.31%) SCCM
7 5 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (0.96%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.96%) Puppet
7 5 (0.96%) ZABBIX
8 4 (0.77%) ZENworks
9 3 (0.58%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.58%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.58%) SCOM
10 2 (0.38%) Nessus
10 2 (0.38%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.38%) SCSM
10 2 (0.38%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 191 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 144 (27.69%) Cisco
3 128 (24.62%) VMware
4 67 (12.88%) Meraki
5 56 (10.77%) CheckPoint
6 46 (8.85%) Fortinet
7 37 (7.12%) Palo Alto
8 36 (6.92%) SolarWinds
9 27 (5.19%) SonicWALL
10 22 (4.23%) Citrix
11 18 (3.46%) Dell
12 17 (3.27%) HP
12 17 (3.27%) Juniper
13 13 (2.50%) Aruba
13 13 (2.50%) Veeam
13 13 (2.50%) WatchGuard
14 12 (2.31%) Google
15 11 (2.12%) F5
15 11 (2.12%) Tenable
16 10 (1.92%) CrowdStrike