NGFW Jobs in Birmingham

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for NGFW skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NGFW over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 125 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 16 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.54% 0.32% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.16% 2.19% -
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 0
10th Percentile £45,000 £65,625 -
25th Percentile £45,938 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £74,375 -
90th Percentile - £76,250 -
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £68,750 -
% change year-on-year -23.64% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

NGFW 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 advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 385 274 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.08% 14.74% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 306 196 335
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £39,563 £41,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,563 £67,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -2.17% -

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in Birmingham

NGFW
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for NGFW in Birmingham

NGFW
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing NGFW in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for NGFW in Birmingham

NGFW
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 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 12 (75.00%) IaaS
3 9 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (50.00%) PaaS
5 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) VPN
2 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 6 (37.50%) Wireless
4 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 4 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
5 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 1 (6.25%) SAN
General
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (6.25%) Police
1 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
1 1 (6.25%) Retail
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Citrix Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Network Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Security Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Security Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 8 (50.00%) JSON
1 8 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 8 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 8 (50.00%) Network Design
1 8 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 8 (50.00%) SDLC
2 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (25.00%) Web Filtering
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Email Filtering
5 1 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
5 1 (6.25%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (6.25%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCIE
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (50.00%) vSphere
3 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) Citrix
3 6 (37.50%) Aruba
3 6 (37.50%) Fortinet
3 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) Barracuda Networks
4 4 (25.00%) Sophos
4 4 (25.00%) Veeam
5 3 (18.75%) Cisco
6 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 2 (12.50%) F5
6 2 (12.50%) Meraki
6 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.25%) Dell
7 1 (6.25%) HP
7 1 (6.25%) NetApp
7 1 (6.25%) Zscaler