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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 74 130
Rank change year-on-year +17 +56 -52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,474 3,488 4,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.82% 4.15% 3.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.53% 25.33% 22.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,911 2,525 3,112
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £84,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.96% +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 12,178 13,772 18,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.38% 16.37% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,544 6,977 10,429
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,189
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £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 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +7 887 £65,000 +8.33% 176
South East +18 847 £42,500 -5.56% 151
North of England +8 606 £45,000 -5.26% 150
Midlands +23 529 £45,000 - 89
South West +8 351 £45,000 +5.88% 78
West Midlands +38 345 £45,000 - 50
North West -17 273 £50,000 - 80
Yorkshire +36 269 £47,500 +2.70% 55
East of England +25 262 £41,500 -2.35% 38
East Midlands -18 180 £42,500 - 39
North East +3 78 £40,000 -5.88% 15
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
1 523 (15.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 396 (11.40%) SharePoint
3 112 (3.22%) IIS
4 52 (1.50%) Apache
5 32 (0.92%) Confluence
6 26 (0.75%) nginx
7 23 (0.66%) WordPress
8 18 (0.52%) CMS
9 17 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
9 17 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
10 14 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
10 14 (0.40%) SharePoint 2013
11 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
12 10 (0.29%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.20%) SAS
15 6 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.14%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
17 4 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 291 (8.38%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.086%) SPSS
6 3 (0.086%) Trello
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.086%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.086%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.058%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.058%) Shopify
6 1 (0.029%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.029%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.029%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,624 (46.75%) Azure
2 1,301 (37.45%) Microsoft 365
3 532 (15.31%) AWS
4 398 (11.46%) Entra ID
5 153 (4.40%) GCP
6 118 (3.40%) OneDrive
6 118 (3.40%) SaaS
7 110 (3.17%) IaaS
8 96 (2.76%) PaaS
9 81 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 72 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
11 58 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
12 54 (1.55%) Amazon S3
13 50 (1.44%) Mimecast
14 45 (1.30%) Power Platform
15 44 (1.27%) GitHub
16 34 (0.98%) Google Workspace
17 30 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 26 (0.75%) Azure Storage
19 24 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 833 (23.98%) WAN
2 805 (23.17%) VPN
3 790 (22.74%) DNS
4 681 (19.60%) LAN
5 521 (15.00%) DHCP
6 469 (13.50%) TCP/IP
7 407 (11.72%) Network Security
8 397 (11.43%) Wireless
9 385 (11.08%) Wi-Fi
10 357 (10.28%) VLAN
11 279 (8.03%) SD-WAN
12 238 (6.85%) SAN
13 214 (6.16%) Internet
14 193 (5.56%) MPLS
15 187 (5.38%) BGP
16 172 (4.95%) VoIP
17 160 (4.61%) Intrusion Detection
18 159 (4.58%) OSPF
19 124 (3.57%) SSL
20 118 (3.40%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 67 (1.93%) MySQL
3 48 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
4 43 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
5 42 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 31 (0.89%) Power BI
8 20 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (0.46%) Big Data
10 12 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 11 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.26%) MariaDB
13 8 (0.23%) DB2
13 8 (0.23%) Redis
13 8 (0.23%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.14%) CockroachDB
16 4 (0.12%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 90 (2.59%) JIRA
2 80 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.67%) Git
4 28 (0.81%) GitLab
5 22 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 13 (0.37%) Robot Framework
6 13 (0.37%) Subversion
7 10 (0.29%) GNU Toolchain
7 10 (0.29%) Trac
8 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.14%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.12%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.086%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.058%) git-flow
13 2 (0.058%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,009 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 442 (12.72%) Finance
3 284 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 151 (4.35%) Law
6 126 (3.63%) Retail
7 112 (3.22%) Legal
8 83 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 82 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 81 (2.33%) Public Sector
11 78 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 75 (2.16%) Aerospace
13 65 (1.87%) Banking
14 54 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 54 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (1.41%) Games
16 43 (1.24%) Marketing
17 19 (0.55%) Police
18 17 (0.49%) Local Government
19 16 (0.46%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 595 (17.13%) Network Engineer
2 503 (14.48%) Senior
3 462 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 458 (13.18%) IT Engineer
5 453 (13.04%) Support Engineer
6 409 (11.77%) IT Support
7 403 (11.60%) Analyst
8 267 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
9 232 (6.68%) Lead
10 183 (5.27%) Architect
11 174 (5.01%) 3rd Line Support
11 174 (5.01%) Security Analyst
12 172 (4.95%) Senior Network Engineer
13 161 (4.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 147 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
15 133 (3.83%) IT Manager
16 126 (3.63%) Consultant
17 124 (3.57%) Security Engineer
18 120 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 109 (3.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (1.81%) 802.1X
2 59 (1.70%) REST
3 57 (1.64%) YAML
4 42 (1.21%) HTML
5 38 (1.09%) .NET
6 35 (1.01%) SAML
7 34 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
8 31 (0.89%) OAuth
9 22 (0.63%) ARM Templates
9 22 (0.63%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.63%) CSS
9 22 (0.63%) jQuery
10 20 (0.58%) OpenID
10 20 (0.58%) XML
11 19 (0.55%) AngularJS
11 19 (0.55%) ASP.NET MVC
11 19 (0.55%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (0.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 19 (0.55%) Vue
11 19 (0.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 382 (11.00%) Data Centre
2 268 (7.71%) Management Information System
3 208 (5.99%) Driving Licence
4 118 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
5 107 (3.08%) Replication
6 106 (3.05%) Public Cloud
7 95 (2.73%) PKI
8 81 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 73 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
10 71 (2.04%) Clustering
11 68 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
12 65 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 51 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
14 49 (1.41%) Client/Server
14 49 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
15 42 (1.21%) IoT
16 40 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
17 39 (1.12%) CCTV
18 34 (0.98%) Cyberattack
19 29 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,606 (46.23%) Windows
2 944 (27.17%) Windows Server
3 706 (20.32%) Linux
4 274 (7.89%) Windows 10
5 212 (6.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 175 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 160 (4.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 88 (2.53%) Ubuntu
9 85 (2.45%) Mac OS
10 78 (2.25%) VMS
11 70 (2.01%) Unix
12 67 (1.93%) Apple iOS
13 58 (1.67%) Android
14 49 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
15 38 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.98%) Data ONTAP
17 32 (0.92%) CentOS
18 21 (0.60%) Windows 7
19 20 (0.58%) Windows XP
20 17 (0.49%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 763 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
3 589 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 471 (13.56%) ITIL
5 408 (11.74%) Customer Service
6 335 (9.64%) Agile
7 328 (9.44%) Information Security
8 306 (8.81%) SIEM
9 282 (8.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 257 (7.40%) DevOps
11 246 (7.08%) Mentoring
12 229 (6.59%) Project Management
13 224 (6.45%) Incident Response
14 183 (5.27%) Migration
15 177 (5.09%) Service Delivery
16 172 (4.95%) Cloud Security
16 172 (4.95%) Project Delivery
17 159 (4.58%) Kalman Filter
18 153 (4.40%) Security Operations
19 148 (4.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 450 (12.95%) PowerShell
2 306 (8.81%) Python
3 301 (8.66%) SQL
4 173 (4.98%) Bash
5 67 (1.93%) C#
6 59 (1.70%) Java
7 45 (1.30%) Perl
8 33 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 29 (0.83%) VBScript
10 28 (0.81%) Bicep
11 20 (0.58%) Ruby
12 19 (0.55%) XAML
13 17 (0.49%) C++
13 17 (0.49%) VB
14 15 (0.43%) C
15 12 (0.35%) PHP
15 12 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.29%) RPG
17 7 (0.20%) Go
18 6 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 467 (13.44%) Degree
2 451 (12.98%) Cisco Certification
3 440 (12.67%) Security Cleared
4 300 (8.64%) CCNA
5 255 (7.34%) CISSP
6 235 (6.76%) SC Cleared
7 207 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 204 (5.87%) CCNP
9 162 (4.66%) DV Cleared
10 107 (3.08%) Azure Certification
11 102 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 101 (2.91%) CISM
13 100 (2.88%) MCSE
14 68 (1.96%) CISA
15 65 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
16 63 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
17 59 (1.70%) MCSA
18 58 (1.67%) GIAC
19 50 (1.44%) AWS Certification
20 49 (1.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (4.55%) SLA
3 155 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 147 (4.23%) NIST
5 137 (3.94%) GDPR
6 96 (2.76%) PCI DSS
7 43 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 43 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 31 (0.89%) GRC
9 30 (0.86%) QA
10 24 (0.69%) NCSC
11 22 (0.63%) HIPAA
12 19 (0.55%) COBIT
13 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.26%) COSHH
14 9 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.20%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.14%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.14%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1,218 (35.06%) Active Directory
2 696 (20.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 594 (17.10%) Hyper-V
4 158 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 128 (3.68%) Docker
6 110 (3.17%) vSphere
7 95 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
8 79 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 42 (1.21%) Virtual Servers
10 35 (1.01%) XenApp
11 33 (0.95%) VMware NSX
11 33 (0.95%) XenDesktop
12 32 (0.92%) Firmware
13 25 (0.72%) pfSense
14 24 (0.69%) Terminal Services
15 19 (0.55%) NFS
16 14 (0.40%) vCloud
17 12 (0.35%) KVM
18 7 (0.20%) VMware Server
18 7 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 417 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 238 (6.85%) Ansible
3 165 (4.75%) SCCM
4 164 (4.72%) Kubernetes
5 158 (4.55%) Terraform
6 127 (3.66%) FortiGate
7 103 (2.96%) WSUS
8 79 (2.27%) vCenter Server
9 68 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (1.73%) SCOM
11 52 (1.50%) Prometheus
12 40 (1.15%) Puppet
13 39 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 39 (1.12%) ZABBIX
14 34 (0.98%) Nagios
15 33 (0.95%) Grafana
16 29 (0.83%) Progress Chef
17 25 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
17 25 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
18 19 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,491 (42.92%) Microsoft
2 1,003 (28.87%) VMware
3 938 (27.00%) Cisco
4 279 (8.03%) Veeam
5 272 (7.83%) Palo Alto
6 241 (6.94%) Fortinet
7 239 (6.88%) Juniper
8 207 (5.96%) Citrix
9 203 (5.84%) Meraki
10 181 (5.21%) Aruba
11 176 (5.07%) HP
12 151 (4.35%) CheckPoint
13 136 (3.91%) Dell
14 108 (3.11%) Google
15 100 (2.88%) Red Hat
16 96 (2.76%) SolarWinds
17 87 (2.50%) NetApp
18 86 (2.48%) Sophos
19 73 (2.10%) Apple
20 66 (1.90%) Oracle