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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 77 158
Rank change year-on-year +7 +81 -45
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,372 1,549 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.89% 4.10% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.18% 35.65% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,110 1,240 1,472
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £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 £67,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £47,750 £50,250 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.98% -3.37% +4.00%

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 5,241 4,345 8,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.86% 11.51% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,312 3,271 5,173
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

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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 June 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
1 147 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 109 (7.94%) SharePoint
3 67 (4.88%) Apache
4 61 (4.45%) IIS
5 16 (1.17%) CMS
6 13 (0.95%) nginx
7 12 (0.87%) WordPress
8 8 (0.58%) Confluence
9 6 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2000
10 5 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
10 5 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.29%) Umbraco
11 4 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 49 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.22%) SPSS
3 3 (0.22%) Trello
4 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 651 (47.45%) Azure
2 414 (30.17%) Microsoft 365
3 252 (18.37%) AWS
4 144 (10.50%) Entra ID
5 69 (5.03%) Amazon S3
6 60 (4.37%) IaaS
7 58 (4.23%) GCP
8 54 (3.94%) SaaS
9 49 (3.57%) PaaS
10 45 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (2.19%) OneDrive
13 27 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
14 24 (1.75%) Azure Storage
15 23 (1.68%) GitHub
16 18 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
17 13 (0.95%) Mimecast
18 12 (0.87%) Power Platform
19 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
19 11 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 394 (28.72%) VPN
2 391 (28.50%) WAN
3 347 (25.29%) DNS
4 308 (22.45%) LAN
5 228 (16.62%) TCP/IP
6 207 (15.09%) DHCP
7 200 (14.58%) Network Security
8 192 (13.99%) Wi-Fi
9 187 (13.63%) Wireless
10 153 (11.15%) VLAN
11 150 (10.93%) SD-WAN
12 149 (10.86%) Internet
13 104 (7.58%) IPsec
14 103 (7.51%) MPLS
15 90 (6.56%) SAN
16 89 (6.49%) BGP
17 87 (6.34%) Intrusion Detection
18 69 (5.03%) SNMP
19 68 (4.96%) OSPF
20 64 (4.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 67 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
3 62 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 29 (2.11%) MySQL
5 26 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.87%) Power BI
7 10 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 8 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.44%) Redis
10 4 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.29%) DB2
11 3 (0.22%) Big Data
11 3 (0.22%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.15%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.15%) OLAP
12 2 (0.15%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (2.48%) Git
2 26 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.82%) JIRA
4 11 (0.80%) GitLab
5 10 (0.73%) Trac
6 3 (0.22%) Spinnaker
6 3 (0.22%) Subversion
7 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.073%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.073%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.073%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.073%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.073%) Postman
8 1 (0.073%) Selenium
8 1 (0.073%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.073%) TeamCity
General
1 384 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 191 (13.92%) Finance
3 116 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (4.30%) Telecoms
6 55 (4.01%) Retail
7 54 (3.94%) Law
8 43 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 35 (2.55%) Legal
10 30 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.82%) Marketing
12 20 (1.46%) Games
13 18 (1.31%) Banking
14 13 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.87%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.80%) Advertising
16 11 (0.80%) Police
17 10 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 229 (16.69%) Network Engineer
2 209 (15.23%) Senior
3 201 (14.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 147 (10.71%) IT Engineer
5 135 (9.84%) Lead
6 109 (7.94%) Consultant
7 107 (7.80%) Support Engineer
8 98 (7.14%) Architect
9 92 (6.71%) Analyst
10 79 (5.76%) IT Support
11 69 (5.03%) Senior Network Engineer
12 62 (4.52%) Security Engineer
13 59 (4.30%) IT Support Engineer
14 54 (3.94%) NetApp Consultant
15 53 (3.86%) Team Leader
16 49 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 49 (3.57%) IT Manager
16 49 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 48 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
17 48 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.59%) YAML
2 54 (3.94%) RabbitMQ
3 44 (3.21%) REST
4 28 (2.04%) .NET
5 19 (1.38%) AngularJS
5 19 (1.38%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (1.38%) CSS
5 19 (1.38%) HTML
5 19 (1.38%) jQuery
5 19 (1.38%) React
5 19 (1.38%) Tailwind CSS
5 19 (1.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 19 (1.38%) Vue
5 19 (1.38%) WPF
6 18 (1.31%) ARM Templates
6 18 (1.31%) OAuth
6 18 (1.31%) OpenID
6 18 (1.31%) SAML
7 11 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 211 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 91 (6.63%) Management Information System
3 74 (5.39%) Driving Licence
4 66 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (2.70%) PKI
6 35 (2.55%) Public Cloud
7 32 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
9 29 (2.11%) Onboarding
10 25 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 23 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 23 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
12 22 (1.60%) Replication
13 20 (1.46%) Client/Server
13 20 (1.46%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 14 (1.02%) Clustering
15 14 (1.02%) IoT
16 12 (0.87%) PMI
17 11 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 591 (43.08%) Windows
2 340 (24.78%) Linux
3 326 (23.76%) Windows Server
4 90 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 76 (5.54%) Windows 10
6 69 (5.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (4.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 54 (3.94%) Data ONTAP
9 51 (3.72%) Ubuntu
10 46 (3.35%) VMS
11 36 (2.62%) Apple iOS
12 35 (2.55%) Android
13 24 (1.75%) Unix
14 23 (1.68%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (1.38%) Mac OS
16 12 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 9 (0.66%) CentOS
18 7 (0.51%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.36%) Debian
20 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
2 281 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 276 (20.12%) Cybersecurity
4 199 (14.50%) Agile
5 175 (12.76%) ITIL
6 149 (10.86%) Information Security
7 148 (10.79%) DevOps
8 132 (9.62%) Project Management
9 130 (9.48%) SIEM
10 119 (8.67%) Actionable Insight
11 109 (7.94%) Migration
12 105 (7.65%) Infrastructure Management
13 102 (7.43%) Customer Service
14 97 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
15 92 (6.71%) Mentoring
16 86 (6.27%) CI/CD
17 82 (5.98%) Cloud Security
17 82 (5.98%) Release Management
18 74 (5.39%) Analytics
19 73 (5.32%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 160 (11.66%) PowerShell
2 145 (10.57%) Python
3 65 (4.74%) SQL
4 51 (3.72%) C#
5 46 (3.35%) Bash
6 37 (2.70%) Java
7 30 (2.19%) VBScript
8 22 (1.60%) Bicep
9 19 (1.38%) XAML
10 18 (1.31%) VB
11 12 (0.87%) PHP
12 9 (0.66%) Perl
13 6 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) Go
14 2 (0.15%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.073%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.073%) C
15 1 (0.073%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 188 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 185 (13.48%) Cisco Certification
3 156 (11.37%) Degree
4 115 (8.38%) CCNA
5 104 (7.58%) SC Cleared
6 97 (7.07%) CISSP
7 85 (6.20%) CCNP
8 83 (6.05%) DV Cleared
9 51 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 48 (3.50%) Azure Certification
11 44 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (2.19%) CCIE
13 28 (2.04%) CISM
14 25 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 25 (1.82%) MCSE
15 22 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
15 22 (1.60%) SSCP
16 21 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
17 20 (1.46%) CCSP
17 20 (1.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (8.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (5.47%) NIST
3 74 (5.39%) Cyber Essentials
4 59 (4.30%) PCI DSS
5 39 (2.84%) SLA
6 29 (2.11%) GDPR
7 23 (1.68%) GRC
7 23 (1.68%) SOC 2
8 22 (1.60%) QA
9 19 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 10 (0.73%) NCSC
11 6 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.29%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.15%) GLBA
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.073%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.073%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.073%) GxP
15 1 (0.073%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 414 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 279 (20.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 220 (16.03%) Hyper-V
4 120 (8.75%) Docker
5 60 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
6 56 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (4.01%) Virtual Desktop
8 34 (2.48%) vSphere
9 25 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (1.46%) NFS
11 18 (1.31%) pfSense
12 7 (0.51%) Firmware
12 7 (0.51%) XenDesktop
13 6 (0.44%) XenApp
14 5 (0.36%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.36%) vCloud
14 5 (0.36%) VMware Server
15 4 (0.29%) KVM
15 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 171 (12.46%) Ansible
2 152 (11.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 120 (8.75%) Kubernetes
4 100 (7.29%) Terraform
5 69 (5.03%) vCenter Server
6 60 (4.37%) Prometheus
7 57 (4.15%) WSUS
8 54 (3.94%) SCCM
9 52 (3.79%) FortiGate
10 36 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (2.26%) ZABBIX
12 30 (2.19%) Grafana
13 27 (1.97%) SCOM
14 21 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
15 19 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
15 19 (1.38%) Nagios
16 14 (1.02%) Cisco CUCM
16 14 (1.02%) HAProxy
16 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 14 (1.02%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 467 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 433 (31.56%) Cisco
3 397 (28.94%) VMware
4 167 (12.17%) Palo Alto
5 150 (10.93%) Fortinet
6 133 (9.69%) Meraki
7 110 (8.02%) Juniper
8 74 (5.39%) CheckPoint
8 74 (5.39%) NetApp
9 71 (5.17%) Red Hat
10 68 (4.96%) Veeam
11 66 (4.81%) Aruba
12 54 (3.94%) SolidFire
13 50 (3.64%) HP
14 43 (3.13%) Citrix
14 43 (3.13%) SolarWinds
15 36 (2.62%) Dell
16 30 (2.19%) Sophos
17 25 (1.82%) F5
18 24 (1.75%) Rapid7