Firewall Jobs in Manchester

Firewall
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 67 103
Rank change year-on-year -21 +36 +2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 109 135 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.64% 4.42% 3.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.16% 29.87% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 59 93 159
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £57,442
90th Percentile £65,250 £79,543 £66,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 310 452 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.52% 14.80% 12.39%
Number of salaries quoted 167 286 472
10th Percentile £30,100 £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,813 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,542 £69,375
North West median annual salary £45,000 £51,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.62% +14.44% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Rochdale - 6 £45,000 -
Wigan - 5 £40,500 - 2
Salford -11 2 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Bolton - 2 £27,750 -
Stockport -8 1 £60,000 +84.62% 3
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (7.34%) Apache
2 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.59%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.67%) CMS
4 4 (3.67%) IIS
4 4 (3.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 44 (40.37%) Azure
2 19 (17.43%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (11.93%) AWS
4 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.34%) Amazon S3
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.59%) IaaS
6 5 (4.59%) OneDrive
6 5 (4.59%) PaaS
6 5 (4.59%) SaaS
6 5 (4.59%) Serverless
7 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.67%) GitHub
7 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.67%) Route 53
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (35.78%) VPN
2 29 (26.61%) BGP
3 27 (24.77%) DNS
4 25 (22.94%) TCP/IP
5 24 (22.02%) MPLS
5 24 (22.02%) OSPF
6 23 (21.10%) Network Security
6 23 (21.10%) WAN
7 19 (17.43%) VLAN
8 18 (16.51%) LAN
9 15 (13.76%) DHCP
10 12 (11.01%) Internet
10 12 (11.01%) IPsec
11 10 (9.17%) NetScaler
11 10 (9.17%) SNMP
12 9 (8.26%) EIGRP
12 9 (8.26%) SD-WAN
12 9 (8.26%) Wireless
13 7 (6.42%) IPv6
13 7 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.75%) Power BI
4 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Git
2 1 (0.92%) JIRA
General
1 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.26%) Finance
3 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.50%) Law
5 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Retail
6 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.92%) Military
7 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (44.04%) Network Engineer
2 18 (16.51%) Senior
3 14 (12.84%) Analyst
4 11 (10.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) IT Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Operations Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) Security Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) Network Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) Network Operations Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) Project Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Security Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) .NET
1 4 (3.67%) LAPP Stack
2 3 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (2.75%) YAML
3 1 (0.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.42%) Security Posture
3 6 (5.50%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.59%) PKI
4 5 (4.59%) Replication
5 4 (3.67%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.75%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.83%) Anti-Spyware
7 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) CSOC
8 1 (0.92%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.92%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (32.11%) Windows
2 26 (23.85%) Windows Server
3 17 (15.60%) Linux
4 4 (3.67%) VMS
5 3 (2.75%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.83%) CentOS
6 2 (1.83%) Unix
6 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.92%) Debian
7 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.92%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (22.02%) Mentoring
1 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (15.60%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (14.68%) Customer Service
4 15 (13.76%) ITIL
4 15 (13.76%) Network Management
5 14 (12.84%) Coaching
5 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (11.93%) DevOps
6 13 (11.93%) ITSM
7 12 (11.01%) Computer Science
8 11 (10.09%) Incident Response
8 11 (10.09%) Information Security
9 10 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (9.17%) Migration
10 9 (8.26%) Network Monitoring
11 8 (7.34%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (7.34%) Load Balancing
11 8 (7.34%) Project Delivery
12 7 (6.42%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.94%) Python
2 8 (7.34%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.42%) SQL
4 6 (5.50%) Perl
4 6 (5.50%) PHP
5 3 (2.75%) Bash
6 1 (0.92%) C++
6 1 (0.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (34.86%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (26.61%) CCNP
3 17 (15.60%) CCNA
4 15 (13.76%) Degree
4 15 (13.76%) Security Cleared
5 13 (11.93%) CISSP
6 11 (10.09%) JNCIS
6 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
7 10 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (8.26%) CISM
9 6 (5.50%) CCIE
10 5 (4.59%) CEH
10 5 (4.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (3.67%) CCNA CyberOps
11 4 (3.67%) CRISC
11 4 (3.67%) Master's Degree
12 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
13 2 (1.83%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.83%) GIAC
13 2 (1.83%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.34%) NIST
3 7 (6.42%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.50%) SLA
5 4 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.67%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.92%) GDPR
7 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.92%) NCSC
7 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (12.84%) Hyper-V
4 8 (7.34%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (6.42%) VMware NSX
6 6 (5.50%) vSphere
7 5 (4.59%) Docker
8 1 (0.92%) Snort
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (18.35%) Ansible
2 11 (10.09%) vCenter Server
3 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.50%) Terraform
5 5 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.67%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.67%) Puppet
7 2 (1.83%) Grafana
7 2 (1.83%) Nagios
7 2 (1.83%) Nessus
8 1 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.92%) SCCM
8 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (39.45%) Cisco
2 34 (31.19%) VMware
3 22 (20.18%) Microsoft
4 14 (12.84%) Palo Alto
5 12 (11.01%) Juniper
5 12 (11.01%) Meraki
5 12 (11.01%) Veeam
6 10 (9.17%) Fortinet
7 9 (8.26%) Citrix
8 7 (6.42%) SolarWinds
9 6 (5.50%) Dell
9 6 (5.50%) Openreach
10 5 (4.59%) CheckPoint
10 5 (4.59%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (4.59%) Red Hat
10 5 (4.59%) Zerto
11 4 (3.67%) Arista
11 4 (3.67%) Aruba
11 4 (3.67%) NetScout
11 4 (3.67%) SonicWALL