Firewall Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Firewall Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Firewall Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 635 854
Rank change year-on-year +64 +219 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 14 17 15
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.043% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.045% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 14
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,250 £33,775
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +18.95% -8.65%
75th Percentile £69,688 £65,000 £50,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,750 £58,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +22.22% +2.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,036 38,142 71,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.90% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25,238 27,095 42,472
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Firewall Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall Engineer.

Firewall Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firewall Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Firewall Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Firewall Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (50.00%) Network Security
4 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 6 (42.86%) DNS
4 6 (42.86%) SD-WAN
5 5 (35.71%) LAN
5 5 (35.71%) WLAN
5 5 (35.71%) WAN
5 5 (35.71%) CCNA
5 5 (35.71%) Palo Alto
6 4 (28.57%) Terraform
6 4 (28.57%) Azure
7 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
7 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (21.43%) AWS
7 3 (21.43%) SIEM
7 3 (21.43%) Reverse Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
7 3 (21.43%) Forcepoint
7 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
7 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (21.43%) Presales
7 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
7 3 (21.43%) DMZ
7 3 (21.43%) MPLS
7 3 (21.43%) OSPF
7 3 (21.43%) Sophos

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) Network Security
3 6 (42.86%) DNS
3 6 (42.86%) SD-WAN
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) LAN
4 5 (35.71%) WAN
4 5 (35.71%) WLAN
5 3 (21.43%) BGP
5 3 (21.43%) DMZ
5 3 (21.43%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (21.43%) IPsec
5 3 (21.43%) MPLS
5 3 (21.43%) OSPF
5 3 (21.43%) SSL
5 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 2 (14.29%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Security Posture
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
2 3 (21.43%) Presales
2 3 (21.43%) Reverse Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM
2 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (14.29%) Change Control
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
4 1 (7.14%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco
2 5 (35.71%) Palo Alto
3 3 (21.43%) Forcepoint
3 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
3 3 (21.43%) Meraki
3 3 (21.43%) Sophos
3 3 (21.43%) WatchGuard
4 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 2 (14.29%) Snow
4 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 2 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (7.14%) Zscaler