Firewall Jobs in Birmingham

Firewall
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 59 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 144 74 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.59% 4.12% 3.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.73% 27.51% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 123 66 107
10th Percentile £27,200 £40,625 £35,050
25th Percentile £37,150 £50,625 £41,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% +13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,004 £66,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £79,375 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 392 269 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.49% 14.97% 14.06%
Number of salaries quoted 298 193 336
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,550 £30,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,238 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,375 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,125 £77,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 19 (13.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (9.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.08%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 70 (48.61%) Azure
2 42 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (5.56%) OneDrive
6 4 (2.78%) IaaS
7 3 (2.08%) AWS
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.39%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.39%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.39%) OpenDNS
9 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.69%) GCP
9 1 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 52 (36.11%) WAN
2 35 (24.31%) DNS
3 33 (22.92%) LAN
4 31 (21.53%) Network Security
5 28 (19.44%) DHCP
6 24 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 24 (16.67%) TCP/IP
7 22 (15.28%) VPN
8 16 (11.11%) Wireless
9 14 (9.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 13 (9.03%) PBX
10 13 (9.03%) VLAN
10 13 (9.03%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (6.94%) iSCSI
11 10 (6.94%) MPLS
11 10 (6.94%) SAN
12 8 (5.56%) WLAN
13 7 (4.86%) IPsec
13 7 (4.86%) NGFW
14 6 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 46 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Telecoms
3 14 (9.72%) Finance
4 12 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.86%) Law
7 6 (4.17%) Police
8 5 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.78%) Retail
10 2 (1.39%) Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Legal
11 1 (0.69%) Back Office
11 1 (0.69%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (23.61%) Network Engineer
2 27 (18.75%) Senior
3 25 (17.36%) Support Engineer
4 17 (11.81%) IT Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) Architect
6 13 (9.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 12 (8.33%) IT Support
7 12 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.25%) Administrator
9 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) IP Architect
9 9 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 8 (5.56%) IT Administrator
10 8 (5.56%) IT Manager
10 8 (5.56%) IT Systems Administrator
11 7 (4.86%) Senior Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.08%) .NET
2 3 (2.08%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.08%) ASP.NET
2 3 (2.08%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (2.08%) CSS
2 3 (2.08%) EDI
2 3 (2.08%) HTML
2 3 (2.08%) jQuery
2 3 (2.08%) React
2 3 (2.08%) REST
2 3 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (2.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (2.08%) Vue
2 3 (2.08%) WPF
3 2 (1.39%) LAMP
3 2 (1.39%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.19%) Replication
2 10 (6.94%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.94%) Wiki
3 7 (4.86%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.47%) IoT
5 5 (3.47%) PKI
6 4 (2.78%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (42.36%) Windows
2 43 (29.86%) Windows Server
3 26 (18.06%) Windows Server 2012
4 23 (15.97%) Windows 10
5 9 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.78%) Linux
7 4 (2.78%) VMS
8 2 (1.39%) SUSE
8 2 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (21.53%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (16.67%) ITIL
4 21 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (9.03%) Change Management
6 13 (9.03%) Customer Service
7 12 (8.33%) Agile
7 12 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 12 (8.33%) Fault Management
7 12 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 12 (8.33%) Patch Management
8 11 (7.64%) Project Delivery
8 11 (7.64%) Service Delivery
9 10 (6.94%) Proactive Monitoring
10 9 (6.25%) Business Development
10 9 (6.25%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.56%) Decision-Making
11 8 (5.56%) Network Management
11 8 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.03%) PowerShell
2 10 (6.94%) SQL
3 9 (6.25%) Perl
3 9 (6.25%) Python
4 3 (2.08%) C#
4 3 (2.08%) XAML
Qualifications
1 29 (20.14%) SC Cleared
1 29 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.03%) Azure Certification
3 11 (7.64%) CCNP
3 11 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (6.25%) Degree
5 8 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.17%) CCNA
7 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.78%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.39%) CCDA
9 2 (1.39%) CCIE
9 2 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.69%) CWNA
10 1 (0.69%) MCSA
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.47%) SLA
2 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.39%) GDPR
3 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (34.03%) Active Directory
2 39 (27.08%) Hyper-V
3 33 (22.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (13.19%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.17%) pfSense
6 4 (2.78%) NFS
7 2 (1.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.39%) Docker
7 2 (1.39%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (11.81%) SCCM
3 2 (1.39%) Backup Exec
3 2 (1.39%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.39%) Terraform
3 2 (1.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 51 (35.42%) Cisco
2 43 (29.86%) VMware
3 36 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 32 (22.22%) Juniper
5 29 (20.14%) Veeam
6 25 (17.36%) Aruba
7 23 (15.97%) Fortinet
8 11 (7.64%) Meraki
9 9 (6.25%) CheckPoint
10 8 (5.56%) Sophos
11 6 (4.17%) Palo Alto
12 5 (3.47%) Dell
13 4 (2.78%) BroadSoft
13 4 (2.78%) Brocade
13 4 (2.78%) Citrix
13 4 (2.78%) F5
13 4 (2.78%) HP
13 4 (2.78%) QNAP
13 4 (2.78%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.78%) Zerto