Firewall Jobs in Cheshire

Firewall
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 50 72
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 -38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 50 45 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.18% 4.97% 2.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.46% 19.82% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43 25 21
10th Percentile £26,750 £37,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £96,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £64,974 £100,000 £60,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 189 227 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.03% 25.08% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 153 112 72
10th Percentile £24,840 £25,420 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £62,250
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +3.33%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington -20 16 £31,250 -35.90% 3
Chester +9 10 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Knutsford -5 6 £35,000 -63.64%
Northwich - 5 £37,500 - 2
Winsford - 2 £37,750 -
Crewe +5 1 £50,000 +17.65%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 13 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.00%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (14.00%) DHCP
2 7 (14.00%) DNS
2 7 (14.00%) VPN
3 6 (12.00%) BGP
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (12.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (12.00%) LAN
3 6 (12.00%) Network Security
3 6 (12.00%) OSPF
3 6 (12.00%) WAN
4 5 (10.00%) SSL
4 5 (10.00%) VLAN
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (8.00%) DMVPN
5 4 (8.00%) EIGRP
5 4 (8.00%) IPsec
6 1 (2.00%) DMZ
6 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 32 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.00%) Retail
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Network Engineer
1 11 (22.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) IT Support
3 8 (16.00%) IT Manager
4 7 (14.00%) Vulnerability Manager
5 6 (12.00%) IT Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (8.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
7 4 (8.00%) Project Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Support
8 2 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Compliance Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (8.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.00%) Life Science
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.00%) VMS
4 4 (8.00%) Linux
5 1 (2.00%) Android
5 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Cybersecurity
1 19 (38.00%) ITIL
2 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 8 (16.00%) Penetration Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (14.00%) Patch Management
5 7 (14.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 7 (14.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 6 (12.00%) Business Continuity
6 6 (12.00%) Project Management
6 6 (12.00%) Release Management
6 6 (12.00%) SIEM
6 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (10.00%) Agile
7 5 (10.00%) IT Audit
7 5 (10.00%) Network Design
7 5 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (10.00%) Secure Coding
7 5 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) MCP
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (12.00%) CCNP
3 6 (12.00%) CISA
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.00%) CISSP
3 6 (12.00%) Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CCNA
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) JNCIA
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) SLA
2 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (10.00%) SOC 2
4 2 (4.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.00%) FISMA
5 1 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) HITRUST
5 1 (2.00%) NIST
5 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 14 (28.00%) Hyper-V
3 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) Terminal Server
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (58.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (36.00%) VMware
3 14 (28.00%) Cisco
4 6 (12.00%) Juniper
5 5 (10.00%) Aruba
5 5 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 4 (8.00%) Google
7 2 (4.00%) Facebook
8 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.00%) HP