Firewall Jobs with Work from Home Options

Firewall
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 73 86 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +66 -47
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,335 1,587 1,795
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.95% 3.83% 2.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.55% 34.07% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,109 1,242 1,402
10th Percentile £33,200 £33,775 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,225 4,658 7,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.47% 11.23% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,372 3,460 4,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,562 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Firewall
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

Firewall salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firewall over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Firewall salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 150 (11.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 108 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 67 (5.02%) Apache
4 62 (4.64%) IIS
5 16 (1.20%) CMS
6 13 (0.97%) nginx
7 12 (0.90%) WordPress
8 8 (0.60%) Confluence
9 7 (0.52%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
11 5 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.30%) Trello
4 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.22%) SPSS
5 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 623 (46.67%) Azure
2 408 (30.56%) Microsoft 365
3 243 (18.20%) AWS
4 140 (10.49%) Entra ID
5 71 (5.32%) Amazon S3
6 65 (4.87%) GCP
7 57 (4.27%) IaaS
8 54 (4.04%) SaaS
9 48 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (3.22%) PaaS
11 42 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (2.25%) OneDrive
13 27 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
13 27 (2.02%) GitHub
14 20 (1.50%) Azure Storage
15 15 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (1.05%) Google Workspace
17 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
18 11 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 397 (29.74%) VPN
2 376 (28.16%) WAN
3 345 (25.84%) DNS
4 308 (23.07%) LAN
5 225 (16.85%) TCP/IP
6 203 (15.21%) DHCP
7 189 (14.16%) Wireless
8 184 (13.78%) Wi-Fi
9 178 (13.33%) Network Security
10 143 (10.71%) Internet
10 143 (10.71%) VLAN
11 139 (10.41%) SD-WAN
12 97 (7.27%) IPsec
13 95 (7.12%) MPLS
14 91 (6.82%) SAN
15 80 (5.99%) Intrusion Detection
16 79 (5.92%) BGP
17 71 (5.32%) SNMP
18 63 (4.72%) VoIP
19 60 (4.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 69 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
3 64 (4.79%) MongoDB
4 31 (2.32%) MySQL
5 25 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.67%) Power BI
8 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.45%) Redis
10 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.30%) DB2
12 3 (0.22%) Big Data
12 3 (0.22%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
13 2 (0.15%) OLAP
13 2 (0.15%) OLAP Cube
13 2 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (2.55%) Git
2 31 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.10%) JIRA
4 11 (0.82%) GitLab
5 10 (0.75%) Trac
6 7 (0.52%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.30%) Subversion
8 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.15%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.15%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.075%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.075%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.075%) Postman
10 1 (0.075%) Selenium
10 1 (0.075%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.075%) TeamCity
General
1 374 (28.01%) Social Skills
2 190 (14.23%) Finance
3 111 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (4.04%) Retail
6 53 (3.97%) Law
6 53 (3.97%) Telecoms
7 41 (3.07%) Public Sector
8 39 (2.92%) Legal
9 31 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (1.87%) Marketing
12 21 (1.57%) Games
13 20 (1.50%) Banking
14 13 (0.97%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.90%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.82%) Advertising
17 10 (0.75%) Police
18 9 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 220 (16.48%) Network Engineer
2 208 (15.58%) Senior
3 186 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 147 (11.01%) IT Engineer
5 129 (9.66%) Lead
6 115 (8.61%) Support Engineer
7 104 (7.79%) Consultant
8 93 (6.97%) Analyst
9 91 (6.82%) Architect
10 81 (6.07%) IT Support
11 63 (4.72%) IT Support Engineer
12 59 (4.42%) Senior Network Engineer
13 54 (4.04%) NetApp Consultant
14 53 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 53 (3.97%) Security Engineer
15 49 (3.67%) IT Manager
16 47 (3.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 47 (3.52%) Security Analyst
17 46 (3.45%) Team Leader
18 45 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.87%) YAML
2 54 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
3 41 (3.07%) REST
4 28 (2.10%) .NET
5 19 (1.42%) AngularJS
5 19 (1.42%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.42%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (1.42%) CSS
5 19 (1.42%) HTML
5 19 (1.42%) jQuery
5 19 (1.42%) React
5 19 (1.42%) Tailwind CSS
5 19 (1.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 19 (1.42%) Vue
5 19 (1.42%) WPF
6 15 (1.12%) OAuth
6 15 (1.12%) OpenID
6 15 (1.12%) SAML
7 14 (1.05%) ARM Templates
8 13 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 205 (15.36%) Data Centre
2 93 (6.97%) Management Information System
3 71 (5.32%) Driving Licence
4 65 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
5 40 (3.00%) Public Cloud
6 34 (2.55%) PKI
7 33 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (2.10%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.02%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.42%) Client/Server
13 16 (1.20%) Cloud Native
14 15 (1.12%) Clustering
14 15 (1.12%) Replication
15 12 (0.90%) PMI
16 11 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 10 (0.75%) iPad
18 9 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 585 (43.82%) Windows
2 329 (24.64%) Windows Server
3 318 (23.82%) Linux
4 78 (5.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 71 (5.32%) Windows 10
6 56 (4.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 54 (4.04%) Data ONTAP
7 54 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 45 (3.37%) Ubuntu
9 42 (3.15%) VMS
10 33 (2.47%) Apple iOS
11 32 (2.40%) Android
12 30 (2.25%) Unix
13 24 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
14 22 (1.65%) Mac OS
15 11 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 8 (0.60%) CentOS
17 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
18 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
18 3 (0.22%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
2 279 (20.90%) Cybersecurity
3 265 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 186 (13.93%) Agile
5 175 (13.11%) ITIL
6 147 (11.01%) DevOps
7 143 (10.71%) Information Security
8 134 (10.04%) SIEM
9 129 (9.66%) Project Management
10 120 (8.99%) Actionable Insight
11 104 (7.79%) Customer Service
12 103 (7.72%) Infrastructure Management
12 103 (7.72%) Migration
13 98 (7.34%) Disaster Recovery
14 88 (6.59%) Mentoring
15 86 (6.44%) CI/CD
16 82 (6.14%) Cloud Security
17 79 (5.92%) Release Management
18 75 (5.62%) Security Operations
19 72 (5.39%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 159 (11.91%) PowerShell
2 140 (10.49%) Python
3 73 (5.47%) SQL
4 52 (3.90%) Bash
5 47 (3.52%) C#
6 39 (2.92%) Java
7 25 (1.87%) VBScript
8 19 (1.42%) XAML
9 18 (1.35%) Bicep
10 14 (1.05%) VB
11 12 (0.90%) PHP
12 11 (0.82%) Perl
13 6 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.075%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.075%) C
15 1 (0.075%) Go
15 1 (0.075%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 192 (14.38%) Cisco Certification
2 168 (12.58%) Security Cleared
3 144 (10.79%) Degree
4 119 (8.91%) CCNA
5 100 (7.49%) CISSP
6 89 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 80 (5.99%) CCNP
8 73 (5.47%) DV Cleared
9 46 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 42 (3.15%) Azure Certification
11 34 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (2.17%) CCSP
13 28 (2.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 27 (2.02%) MCSE
14 27 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
15 26 (1.95%) CCIE
16 25 (1.87%) SSCP
17 22 (1.65%) CISM
18 21 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
18 21 (1.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (5.84%) NIST
3 65 (4.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 60 (4.49%) PCI DSS
5 45 (3.37%) SLA
6 30 (2.25%) GDPR
7 27 (2.02%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.65%) GRC
9 20 (1.50%) QA
10 17 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.67%) NCSC
12 6 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.30%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) GLBA
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.075%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.075%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 402 (30.11%) Active Directory
2 275 (20.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 217 (16.25%) Hyper-V
4 118 (8.84%) Docker
5 58 (4.34%) VMware ESXi
6 56 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 31 (2.32%) vSphere
9 23 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (1.27%) NFS
11 16 (1.20%) pfSense
12 5 (0.37%) vCloud
12 5 (0.37%) VMware Server
13 4 (0.30%) KVM
13 4 (0.30%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.22%) Firmware
14 3 (0.22%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.22%) XenApp
15 2 (0.15%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 167 (12.51%) Ansible
2 150 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 117 (8.76%) Kubernetes
4 97 (7.27%) Terraform
5 68 (5.09%) vCenter Server
6 59 (4.42%) Prometheus
7 55 (4.12%) WSUS
8 48 (3.60%) FortiGate
9 44 (3.30%) SCCM
10 32 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (2.32%) Grafana
12 30 (2.25%) ZABBIX
13 23 (1.72%) SCOM
13 23 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
14 20 (1.50%) Nagios
15 18 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
16 15 (1.12%) HAProxy
16 15 (1.12%) Nmap
17 14 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
17 14 (1.05%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 454 (34.01%) Microsoft
2 418 (31.31%) Cisco
3 393 (29.44%) VMware
4 166 (12.43%) Palo Alto
5 134 (10.04%) Fortinet
6 132 (9.89%) Meraki
7 108 (8.09%) Juniper
8 78 (5.84%) CheckPoint
9 73 (5.47%) NetApp
10 68 (5.09%) Aruba
10 68 (5.09%) Red Hat
11 61 (4.57%) Veeam
12 54 (4.04%) SolidFire
13 49 (3.67%) HP
14 40 (3.00%) SolarWinds
15 37 (2.77%) Citrix
16 31 (2.32%) Dell
17 28 (2.10%) Sophos
18 25 (1.87%) Rapid7
19 24 (1.80%) F5