Firewall Jobs in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 64 72 105
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 -46
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 606 742 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.21% 4.60% 3.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.37% 23.13% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 497 498 474
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,850 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,833 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,316 £68,750
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,214 3,208 2,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.74% 19.88% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 1,201 1,727
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,676 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North of 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
North West -17 273 £50,000 - 80
Yorkshire +36 269 £47,500 +2.70% 55
North East +3 78 £40,000 -5.88% 15
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 73 (12.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (9.24%) SharePoint
3 27 (4.46%) IIS
4 16 (2.64%) Apache
5 4 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.66%) CMS
5 4 (0.66%) Confluence
5 4 (0.66%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (7.26%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 275 (45.38%) Azure
2 201 (33.17%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (15.18%) AWS
4 51 (8.42%) Entra ID
5 37 (6.11%) GCP
6 18 (2.97%) IaaS
6 18 (2.97%) SaaS
7 16 (2.64%) Amazon S3
7 16 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (2.64%) PaaS
8 13 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (2.15%) GitHub
8 13 (2.15%) OneDrive
9 11 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (0.99%) Power Platform
12 5 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 173 (28.55%) WAN
2 138 (22.77%) VPN
3 135 (22.28%) LAN
4 116 (19.14%) DNS
5 90 (14.85%) TCP/IP
6 83 (13.70%) Network Security
7 82 (13.53%) DHCP
8 68 (11.22%) SD-WAN
9 64 (10.56%) Wi-Fi
10 58 (9.57%) Wireless
11 48 (7.92%) VLAN
12 46 (7.59%) SAN
13 43 (7.10%) Internet
14 38 (6.27%) Intrusion Detection
14 38 (6.27%) OSPF
15 35 (5.78%) VoIP
16 34 (5.61%) MPLS
17 33 (5.45%) BGP
18 28 (4.62%) IPsec
18 28 (4.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 20 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (2.48%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.83%) Power BI
5 5 (0.83%) Redis
6 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.17%) MySQL
8 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.82%) JIRA
2 7 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.66%) Git
3 4 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (0.66%) Spinnaker
4 3 (0.50%) GitLab
4 3 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.17%) Postman
6 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 185 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 84 (13.86%) Finance
3 45 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (4.79%) Law
5 25 (4.13%) Retail
6 23 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 20 (3.30%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.14%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.82%) Legal
10 7 (1.16%) Games
10 7 (1.16%) Military
10 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.99%) Banking
11 6 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.66%) Local Government
12 4 (0.66%) Marketing
13 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.33%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 86 (14.19%) Network Engineer
2 84 (13.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 73 (12.05%) IT Support
4 70 (11.55%) IT Engineer
4 70 (11.55%) Lead
5 57 (9.41%) Analyst
6 52 (8.58%) Support Engineer
7 49 (8.09%) Senior
8 42 (6.93%) Team Leader
9 39 (6.44%) IT Manager
10 29 (4.79%) IT Support Engineer
11 28 (4.62%) 3rd Line Support
12 26 (4.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 26 (4.29%) 2nd Line Support
12 26 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
13 25 (4.13%) Architect
14 24 (3.96%) Security Analyst
15 22 (3.63%) Consultant
16 20 (3.30%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (3.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
1 15 (2.48%) YAML
2 10 (1.65%) .NET
3 7 (1.16%) Middleware
4 4 (0.66%) Akka
4 4 (0.66%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.66%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (0.66%) CSS
4 4 (0.66%) HTML
4 4 (0.66%) jQuery
4 4 (0.66%) Kafka
4 4 (0.66%) React
4 4 (0.66%) REST
4 4 (0.66%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 4 (0.66%) Vue
4 4 (0.66%) WPF
5 2 (0.33%) Web Services
6 1 (0.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.06%) Data Centre
2 51 (8.42%) Management Information System
3 26 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 25 (4.13%) Driving Licence
5 20 (3.30%) Security Posture
6 19 (3.14%) PMI
7 16 (2.64%) Clustering
7 16 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
8 14 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (2.15%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.82%) Cyberattack
10 11 (1.82%) IoT
11 8 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (1.16%) Product Ownership
13 6 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 5 (0.83%) CCTV
14 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.66%) PKI
15 4 (0.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 286 (47.19%) Windows
2 181 (29.87%) Windows Server
3 129 (21.29%) Linux
4 40 (6.60%) Windows 10
5 39 (6.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 36 (5.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (3.47%) Mac OS
8 16 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (2.48%) Data ONTAP
10 13 (2.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (1.82%) VMS
12 10 (1.65%) Android
12 10 (1.65%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.99%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.66%) Unix
14 4 (0.66%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.33%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
2 148 (24.42%) Cybersecurity
3 127 (20.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 101 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 88 (14.52%) ITIL
6 73 (12.05%) SIEM
7 67 (11.06%) Incident Response
8 56 (9.24%) Disaster Recovery
9 47 (7.76%) Kalman Filter
10 46 (7.59%) Agile
10 46 (7.59%) Mentoring
11 45 (7.43%) Information Security
11 45 (7.43%) Migration
12 42 (6.93%) Project Management
13 40 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (5.78%) Computer Science
15 34 (5.61%) DevOps
16 33 (5.45%) Service Delivery
17 31 (5.12%) Cloud Security
17 31 (5.12%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.70%) PowerShell
2 53 (8.75%) Python
3 47 (7.76%) SQL
4 24 (3.96%) Bash
5 10 (1.65%) VBScript
6 7 (1.16%) Java
7 4 (0.66%) C#
7 4 (0.66%) XAML
8 3 (0.50%) Go
8 3 (0.50%) Ruby
9 2 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.17%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.17%) Bicep
10 1 (0.17%) C++
10 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 93 (15.35%) Cisco Certification
2 81 (13.37%) Degree
3 54 (8.91%) CCNA
4 53 (8.75%) CCNP
5 52 (8.58%) CISSP
6 37 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (5.94%) Security Cleared
8 30 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (3.47%) CCIE
9 21 (3.47%) MCSE
10 20 (3.30%) SC Cleared
11 19 (3.14%) PMI Certification
12 18 (2.97%) MCP
13 17 (2.81%) Azure Certification
13 17 (2.81%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (2.31%) AWS Certification
14 14 (2.31%) CISA
14 14 (2.31%) SANS
15 11 (1.82%) CEH
15 11 (1.82%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (7.76%) SLA
3 38 (6.27%) NIST
4 20 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 20 (3.30%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.49%) GDPR
6 6 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.50%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.50%) QA
8 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.33%) COBIT
9 2 (0.33%) GLBA
9 2 (0.33%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) FISMA
10 1 (0.17%) HITRUST
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 220 (36.30%) Active Directory
2 143 (23.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (19.80%) Hyper-V
4 23 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (3.47%) Docker
5 21 (3.47%) vSphere
6 13 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.49%) Terminal Services
8 8 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.16%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.83%) XenApp
10 5 (0.83%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.66%) vCloud
12 3 (0.50%) Firmware
12 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.33%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.17%) Dovecot
14 1 (0.17%) Postfix
14 1 (0.17%) Snort
14 1 (0.17%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 90 (14.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (6.44%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.46%) SCCM
4 21 (3.47%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.30%) Ansible
5 20 (3.30%) vCenter Server
6 19 (3.14%) FortiGate
7 16 (2.64%) Failover Clustering
8 15 (2.48%) Terraform
8 15 (2.48%) ZABBIX
9 12 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (1.98%) Opsgenie
9 12 (1.98%) VxRail
10 10 (1.65%) Autotask
11 9 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (1.32%) WSUS
13 7 (1.16%) Nagios
13 7 (1.16%) Nessus
14 6 (0.99%) Nmap
Vendors
1 274 (45.21%) Microsoft
2 231 (38.12%) VMware
3 170 (28.05%) Cisco
4 65 (10.73%) Fortinet
5 45 (7.43%) Palo Alto
6 39 (6.44%) Aruba
7 35 (5.78%) Meraki
8 31 (5.12%) Juniper
9 29 (4.79%) NetApp
9 29 (4.79%) SolarWinds
10 28 (4.62%) Citrix
10 28 (4.62%) Veeam
11 24 (3.96%) Dell
12 17 (2.81%) Datto
12 17 (2.81%) Sophos
13 16 (2.64%) CheckPoint
13 16 (2.64%) Red Hat
13 16 (2.64%) Ubiquiti
14 15 (2.48%) HP
14 15 (2.48%) SolidFire