Firewall Jobs in England

Firewall
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 82 116
Rank change year-on-year +26 +34 -42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,446 3,520 4,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.02% 3.90% 3.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.52% 24.92% 23.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,935 2,548 3,132
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,450
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -0.89% +0.90%
75th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,548 £81,250
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,083 14,127 17,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.09% 15.65% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 7,282 10,297
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,012 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +13 885 £65,000 +8.33% 176
South East +20 826 £42,500 -5.56% 140
North of England +17 604 £42,500 -10.53% 128
Midlands +35 525 £45,000 - 121
South West +8 351 £45,000 +6.51% 85
West Midlands +43 348 £45,000 - 65
Yorkshire +48 270 £45,000 -2.70% 42
North West -20 265 £50,000 - 70
East of England +32 260 £41,500 -2.35% 50
East Midlands +1 173 £41,250 -1.79% 56
North East +1 80 £42,155 -0.81% 16
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 527 (15.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 403 (11.69%) SharePoint
3 119 (3.45%) IIS
4 52 (1.51%) Apache
5 35 (1.02%) Confluence
6 27 (0.78%) nginx
7 23 (0.67%) WordPress
8 18 (0.52%) CMS
8 18 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
9 17 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
10 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
10 11 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
11 10 (0.29%) Skype for Business
12 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
13 7 (0.20%) SAS
14 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 284 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Trello
6 3 (0.087%) SPSS
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (0.46%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.12%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.058%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.058%) Shopify
5 1 (0.029%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.029%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,603 (46.52%) Azure
2 1,314 (38.13%) Microsoft 365
3 525 (15.24%) AWS
4 402 (11.67%) Entra ID
5 151 (4.38%) GCP
6 119 (3.45%) OneDrive
7 118 (3.42%) SaaS
8 105 (3.05%) IaaS
9 91 (2.64%) PaaS
10 80 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
12 57 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 56 (1.63%) Azure Sentinel
14 51 (1.48%) Mimecast
15 48 (1.39%) GitHub
16 40 (1.16%) Power Platform
17 37 (1.07%) Google Workspace
18 29 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 25 (0.73%) Serverless
20 23 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 819 (23.77%) WAN
2 809 (23.48%) VPN
3 800 (23.22%) DNS
4 690 (20.02%) LAN
5 528 (15.32%) DHCP
6 468 (13.58%) TCP/IP
7 398 (11.55%) Wireless
8 390 (11.32%) Network Security
9 381 (11.06%) Wi-Fi
10 356 (10.33%) VLAN
11 252 (7.31%) SD-WAN
12 251 (7.28%) SAN
13 209 (6.07%) Internet
14 181 (5.25%) MPLS
15 178 (5.17%) BGP
16 175 (5.08%) VoIP
17 161 (4.67%) Intrusion Detection
18 149 (4.32%) OSPF
19 123 (3.57%) SSL
20 108 (3.13%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 78 (2.26%) MySQL
3 50 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
4 46 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 38 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.75%) Power BI
8 20 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (0.44%) Big Data
10 12 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.23%) DB2
12 8 (0.23%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.23%) Redis
12 8 (0.23%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.15%) CockroachDB
15 4 (0.12%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 96 (2.79%) JIRA
2 87 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 59 (1.71%) Git
4 28 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 27 (0.78%) GitLab
6 15 (0.44%) Subversion
7 11 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 10 (0.29%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (0.29%) Trac
9 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
10 7 (0.20%) Spinnaker
10 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.15%) Jaeger
12 4 (0.12%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.058%) Hudson
13 2 (0.058%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.058%) TeamCity
General
1 1,007 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 439 (12.74%) Finance
3 281 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (5.17%) Telecoms
5 149 (4.32%) Law
6 120 (3.48%) Retail
7 119 (3.45%) Legal
8 87 (2.52%) Public Sector
9 82 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 78 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 74 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 65 (1.89%) Aerospace
13 62 (1.80%) Banking
14 56 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
15 55 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
16 50 (1.45%) Games
17 42 (1.22%) Marketing
18 20 (0.58%) Police
19 17 (0.49%) Local Government
20 16 (0.46%) Billing
Job Titles
1 589 (17.09%) Network Engineer
2 513 (14.89%) Senior
3 467 (13.55%) IT Engineer
4 453 (13.15%) Support Engineer
5 445 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 412 (11.96%) IT Support
7 403 (11.69%) Analyst
8 272 (7.89%) IT Support Engineer
9 226 (6.56%) Lead
10 184 (5.34%) Security Analyst
11 177 (5.14%) Architect
12 174 (5.05%) Senior Network Engineer
13 172 (4.99%) 3rd Line Support
14 155 (4.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 148 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
16 137 (3.98%) IT Manager
17 120 (3.48%) Security Engineer
18 119 (3.45%) Consultant
19 117 (3.40%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
20 111 (3.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (1.83%) 802.1X
2 60 (1.74%) REST
3 57 (1.65%) YAML
4 40 (1.16%) HTML
5 38 (1.10%) .NET
6 34 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
7 33 (0.96%) SAML
8 28 (0.81%) OAuth
9 22 (0.64%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.64%) CSS
9 22 (0.64%) jQuery
10 19 (0.55%) AngularJS
10 19 (0.55%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (0.55%) React
10 19 (0.55%) Tailwind CSS
10 19 (0.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 19 (0.55%) Vue
10 19 (0.55%) WPF
11 18 (0.52%) ARM Templates
11 18 (0.52%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 382 (11.09%) Data Centre
2 263 (7.63%) Management Information System
3 206 (5.98%) Driving Licence
4 121 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 113 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 107 (3.11%) Replication
7 88 (2.55%) PKI
8 86 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
9 82 (2.38%) Security Posture
10 71 (2.06%) Clustering
11 67 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 64 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
13 49 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
14 48 (1.39%) Client/Server
15 45 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
16 41 (1.19%) CCTV
17 39 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
18 37 (1.07%) Cyberattack
18 37 (1.07%) IoT
19 30 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1,617 (46.92%) Windows
2 950 (27.57%) Windows Server
3 696 (20.20%) Linux
4 270 (7.84%) Windows 10
5 210 (6.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 171 (4.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 167 (4.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 95 (2.76%) Mac OS
9 87 (2.52%) Ubuntu
10 73 (2.12%) VMS
11 68 (1.97%) Unix
12 65 (1.89%) Apple iOS
13 55 (1.60%) Android
14 53 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
15 36 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
17 28 (0.81%) CentOS
18 21 (0.61%) Windows 7
19 16 (0.46%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.46%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (22.69%) Cybersecurity
2 768 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
3 570 (16.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 482 (13.99%) ITIL
5 405 (11.75%) Customer Service
6 321 (9.32%) Information Security
7 311 (9.02%) Agile
8 304 (8.82%) SIEM
9 285 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
10 250 (7.25%) DevOps
11 246 (7.14%) Mentoring
12 236 (6.85%) Project Management
13 222 (6.44%) Incident Response
14 186 (5.40%) Service Delivery
15 181 (5.25%) Migration
16 175 (5.08%) Project Delivery
17 172 (4.99%) Cloud Security
18 167 (4.85%) Kalman Filter
19 165 (4.79%) Security Operations
20 146 (4.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 449 (13.03%) PowerShell
2 319 (9.26%) SQL
3 297 (8.62%) Python
4 179 (5.19%) Bash
5 64 (1.86%) C#
6 59 (1.71%) Java
7 46 (1.33%) Perl
8 32 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 26 (0.75%) VBScript
10 25 (0.73%) Bicep
11 19 (0.55%) Ruby
11 19 (0.55%) XAML
12 15 (0.44%) C
13 14 (0.41%) C++
13 14 (0.41%) VB
14 12 (0.35%) PHP
15 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.29%) RPG
17 6 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 468 (13.58%) Cisco Certification
2 458 (13.29%) Degree
3 438 (12.71%) Security Cleared
4 307 (8.91%) CCNA
5 248 (7.20%) CISSP
6 226 (6.56%) SC Cleared
7 202 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 196 (5.69%) CCNP
9 165 (4.79%) DV Cleared
10 105 (3.05%) Azure Certification
11 101 (2.93%) MCSE
12 99 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 89 (2.58%) CISM
14 76 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
15 73 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
16 61 (1.77%) CISA
17 59 (1.71%) GIAC
17 59 (1.71%) MCSA
18 51 (1.48%) CCSP
19 50 (1.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (7.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 162 (4.70%) SLA
3 150 (4.35%) NIST
4 148 (4.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 134 (3.89%) GDPR
6 96 (2.79%) PCI DSS
7 52 (1.51%) SOC 2
8 40 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 28 (0.81%) GRC
10 27 (0.78%) QA
11 24 (0.70%) NCSC
12 21 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.55%) COBIT
14 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 10 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 9 (0.26%) COSHH
17 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.17%) NIST 800
18 5 (0.15%) Accessibility
18 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1,233 (35.78%) Active Directory
2 707 (20.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 591 (17.15%) Hyper-V
4 164 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
5 127 (3.69%) Docker
6 114 (3.31%) vSphere
7 92 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
8 78 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
10 30 (0.87%) XenApp
11 29 (0.84%) Firmware
12 28 (0.81%) VMware NSX
12 28 (0.81%) XenDesktop
13 26 (0.75%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.70%) pfSense
15 17 (0.49%) NFS
15 17 (0.49%) vCloud
16 12 (0.35%) KVM
17 8 (0.23%) VMware Server
18 6 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 417 (12.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 231 (6.70%) Ansible
3 158 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 158 (4.59%) SCCM
4 155 (4.50%) Terraform
5 122 (3.54%) FortiGate
6 102 (2.96%) WSUS
7 77 (2.23%) vCenter Server
8 69 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
9 60 (1.74%) SCOM
10 50 (1.45%) Prometheus
11 42 (1.22%) Puppet
12 37 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 37 (1.07%) ZABBIX
13 35 (1.02%) Grafana
13 35 (1.02%) Nagios
14 29 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 28 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
16 22 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
17 19 (0.55%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,494 (43.35%) Microsoft
2 1,022 (29.66%) VMware
3 922 (26.76%) Cisco
4 275 (7.98%) Veeam
5 270 (7.84%) Palo Alto
6 239 (6.94%) Juniper
7 223 (6.47%) Fortinet
8 203 (5.89%) Meraki
9 200 (5.80%) Citrix
10 182 (5.28%) Aruba
11 172 (4.99%) HP
12 157 (4.56%) CheckPoint
13 125 (3.63%) Dell
14 108 (3.13%) Google
15 95 (2.76%) Red Hat
16 89 (2.58%) SolarWinds
17 85 (2.47%) NetApp
17 85 (2.47%) Sophos
18 76 (2.21%) Apple
19 63 (1.83%) Oracle