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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 86 148
Rank change year-on-year +15 +62 -41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,356 1,619 1,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.01% 3.82% 2.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.74% 34.05% 24.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 1,266 1,414
10th Percentile £32,850 £33,875 £31,250
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 £65,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £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 5,268 4,755 7,428
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.60% 11.21% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,409 3,529 4,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.70% +8.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,500 £73,675
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,970 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 4 May 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
1 154 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 111 (8.19%) SharePoint
3 68 (5.01%) Apache
4 62 (4.57%) IIS
5 16 (1.18%) CMS
6 14 (1.03%) nginx
7 12 (0.88%) WordPress
8 8 (0.59%) Confluence
9 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
11 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
11 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.29%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.29%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.22%) SAS
14 1 (0.074%) Gunicorn
14 1 (0.074%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.074%) uWSGI
Applications
1 40 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.29%) Trello
4 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.22%) SPSS
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
1 635 (46.83%) Azure
2 416 (30.68%) Microsoft 365
3 245 (18.07%) AWS
4 142 (10.47%) Entra ID
5 71 (5.24%) Amazon S3
6 66 (4.87%) GCP
7 58 (4.28%) IaaS
8 57 (4.20%) SaaS
9 48 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (3.24%) PaaS
11 42 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (2.21%) OneDrive
13 28 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
14 27 (1.99%) GitHub
15 20 (1.47%) Azure Storage
16 15 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (1.03%) Google Workspace
18 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
19 12 (0.88%) Mimecast
20 11 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 406 (29.94%) VPN
2 383 (28.24%) WAN
3 350 (25.81%) DNS
4 319 (23.53%) LAN
5 227 (16.74%) TCP/IP
6 209 (15.41%) DHCP
7 194 (14.31%) Wireless
8 189 (13.94%) Wi-Fi
9 180 (13.27%) Network Security
10 148 (10.91%) Internet
10 148 (10.91%) VLAN
11 141 (10.40%) SD-WAN
12 98 (7.23%) IPsec
12 98 (7.23%) MPLS
13 92 (6.78%) SAN
14 84 (6.19%) BGP
15 81 (5.97%) Intrusion Detection
16 71 (5.24%) SNMP
17 67 (4.94%) VoIP
18 61 (4.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 69 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
3 64 (4.72%) MongoDB
4 31 (2.29%) MySQL
5 25 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.74%) Power BI
7 8 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.44%) Redis
9 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.29%) DB2
11 3 (0.22%) Big Data
11 3 (0.22%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.15%) OLAP
12 2 (0.15%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (2.43%) Git
2 31 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.06%) JIRA
4 11 (0.81%) GitLab
5 10 (0.74%) Trac
6 7 (0.52%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.29%) Subversion
8 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.074%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.074%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.074%) Postman
9 1 (0.074%) Selenium
9 1 (0.074%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.074%) TeamCity
General
1 384 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 191 (14.09%) Finance
3 110 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.13%) Retail
6 55 (4.06%) Law
6 55 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 43 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.02%) Legal
9 32 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (1.92%) Marketing
12 21 (1.55%) Games
13 20 (1.47%) Banking
14 13 (0.96%) Advertising
15 12 (0.88%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.88%) Police
16 10 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 226 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 214 (15.78%) Senior
3 189 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 151 (11.14%) IT Engineer
5 130 (9.59%) Lead
6 115 (8.48%) Support Engineer
7 103 (7.60%) Consultant
8 95 (7.01%) Analyst
9 94 (6.93%) Architect
10 82 (6.05%) IT Support
11 63 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
11 63 (4.65%) Senior Network Engineer
12 56 (4.13%) Security Engineer
13 54 (3.98%) NetApp Consultant
14 53 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 49 (3.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 48 (3.54%) IT Manager
17 47 (3.47%) Security Analyst
17 47 (3.47%) Team Leader
18 46 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.79%) YAML
2 54 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
3 41 (3.02%) REST
4 28 (2.06%) .NET
5 19 (1.40%) AngularJS
5 19 (1.40%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (1.40%) CSS
5 19 (1.40%) HTML
5 19 (1.40%) jQuery
5 19 (1.40%) React
5 19 (1.40%) Tailwind CSS
5 19 (1.40%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 19 (1.40%) Vue
5 19 (1.40%) WPF
6 16 (1.18%) OAuth
7 15 (1.11%) OpenID
7 15 (1.11%) SAML
8 14 (1.03%) ARM Templates
9 13 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 206 (15.19%) Data Centre
2 96 (7.08%) Management Information System
3 70 (5.16%) Driving Licence
4 66 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
5 42 (3.10%) Public Cloud
6 34 (2.51%) PKI
7 32 (2.36%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 27 (1.99%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.40%) Client/Server
13 16 (1.18%) Cloud Native
14 15 (1.11%) Clustering
15 13 (0.96%) Replication
16 12 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 12 (0.88%) PMI
17 10 (0.74%) iPad
18 9 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 594 (43.81%) Windows
2 333 (24.56%) Windows Server
3 322 (23.75%) Linux
4 82 (6.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 72 (5.31%) Windows 10
6 61 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 57 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 54 (3.98%) Data ONTAP
9 47 (3.47%) Ubuntu
10 44 (3.24%) VMS
11 33 (2.43%) Apple iOS
12 31 (2.29%) Android
12 31 (2.29%) Unix
13 25 (1.84%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (1.62%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.52%) CentOS
17 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
2 289 (21.31%) Cybersecurity
3 266 (19.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 187 (13.79%) Agile
5 177 (13.05%) ITIL
6 147 (10.84%) DevOps
7 146 (10.77%) Information Security
8 137 (10.10%) SIEM
9 132 (9.73%) Project Management
10 122 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
11 106 (7.82%) Customer Service
12 104 (7.67%) Migration
13 102 (7.52%) Infrastructure Management
14 98 (7.23%) Disaster Recovery
15 89 (6.56%) Mentoring
16 85 (6.27%) CI/CD
17 84 (6.19%) Cloud Security
18 79 (5.83%) Release Management
19 78 (5.75%) Security Operations
20 72 (5.31%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 158 (11.65%) PowerShell
2 142 (10.47%) Python
3 75 (5.53%) SQL
4 53 (3.91%) Bash
5 48 (3.54%) C#
6 39 (2.88%) Java
7 25 (1.84%) VBScript
8 19 (1.40%) XAML
9 18 (1.33%) Bicep
10 14 (1.03%) VB
11 12 (0.88%) 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
1 193 (14.23%) Cisco Certification
2 173 (12.76%) Security Cleared
3 147 (10.84%) Degree
4 120 (8.85%) CCNA
5 100 (7.37%) CISSP
6 93 (6.86%) SC Cleared
7 80 (5.90%) CCNP
8 75 (5.53%) DV Cleared
9 46 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (3.17%) Azure Certification
11 35 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (2.21%) CCSP
13 29 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 28 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
15 26 (1.92%) CCIE
15 26 (1.92%) MCSE
16 25 (1.84%) SSCP
17 22 (1.62%) CompTIA Security+
18 21 (1.55%) CISM
18 21 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.90%) NIST
3 65 (4.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 60 (4.42%) PCI DSS
5 46 (3.39%) SLA
6 30 (2.21%) GDPR
7 28 (2.06%) SOC 2
8 21 (1.55%) GRC
9 19 (1.40%) QA
10 17 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.66%) NCSC
12 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.29%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) GLBA
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.074%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.074%) ISO 22301
16 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 412 (30.38%) Active Directory
2 282 (20.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 221 (16.30%) Hyper-V
4 118 (8.70%) Docker
5 60 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
6 56 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (3.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 32 (2.36%) vSphere
9 23 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (1.25%) NFS
11 16 (1.18%) pfSense
12 5 (0.37%) vCloud
12 5 (0.37%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.29%) KVM
14 3 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.22%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.15%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 169 (12.46%) Ansible
2 151 (11.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 117 (8.63%) Kubernetes
4 100 (7.37%) Terraform
5 68 (5.01%) vCenter Server
6 59 (4.35%) Prometheus
7 57 (4.20%) WSUS
8 49 (3.61%) FortiGate
9 44 (3.24%) SCCM
10 32 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (2.29%) Grafana
12 30 (2.21%) ZABBIX
13 23 (1.70%) SCOM
13 23 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
14 20 (1.47%) Nagios
15 17 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
16 16 (1.18%) Nmap
17 15 (1.11%) HAProxy
18 14 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
18 14 (1.03%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 463 (34.14%) Microsoft
2 426 (31.42%) Cisco
3 402 (29.65%) VMware
4 168 (12.39%) Palo Alto
5 133 (9.81%) Fortinet
6 132 (9.73%) Meraki
7 108 (7.96%) Juniper
8 78 (5.75%) CheckPoint
9 73 (5.38%) NetApp
10 69 (5.09%) Aruba
11 67 (4.94%) Red Hat
12 60 (4.42%) Veeam
13 54 (3.98%) SolidFire
14 48 (3.54%) HP
15 40 (2.95%) SolarWinds
16 36 (2.65%) Citrix
17 29 (2.14%) Dell
17 29 (2.14%) Sophos
18 25 (1.84%) F5
18 25 (1.84%) Rapid7