Firewall Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firewall
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 61 74 77
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2,785 2,536 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.67% 4.49% 3.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.15% 23.58% 25.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,337 1,692 2,159
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,894 10,757 11,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.02% 19.03% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,118 4,590 6,556
10th Percentile £25,756 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -109 104 £50,000 +11.11% 47
Wales +14 87 £40,500 -10.00% 15
North East +3 78 £40,000 -5.88% 15
Northern Ireland -11 21 £37,500 +1.35% 5
Isle of Man -5 16 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 454 (16.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 360 (12.93%) SharePoint
3 102 (3.66%) IIS
4 63 (2.26%) Apache
5 22 (0.79%) nginx
6 19 (0.68%) Confluence
7 18 (0.65%) CMS
7 18 (0.65%) WordPress
8 16 (0.57%) Skype for Business
9 15 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
10 12 (0.43%) Exchange Server 2013
11 9 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
12 7 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
12 7 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
13 6 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2000
14 4 (0.14%) Apache Spark
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.14%) SAS
14 4 (0.14%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 261 (9.37%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.11%) Trello
7 1 (0.036%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.14%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.11%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.072%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.072%) Shopify
4 1 (0.036%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.036%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (47.25%) Azure
2 1,103 (39.61%) Microsoft 365
3 381 (13.68%) AWS
4 356 (12.78%) Entra ID
5 110 (3.95%) OneDrive
6 109 (3.91%) GCP
7 92 (3.30%) SaaS
8 85 (3.05%) IaaS
9 80 (2.87%) PaaS
10 56 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
11 55 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 45 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
14 39 (1.40%) Mimecast
15 28 (1.01%) Power Platform
16 27 (0.97%) GitHub
17 25 (0.90%) Azure Storage
18 23 (0.83%) Google Workspace
19 21 (0.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
20 20 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 627 (22.51%) VPN
2 624 (22.41%) DNS
3 617 (22.15%) WAN
4 489 (17.56%) LAN
5 416 (14.94%) DHCP
6 395 (14.18%) TCP/IP
7 308 (11.06%) Wireless
8 304 (10.92%) Network Security
9 295 (10.59%) VLAN
10 254 (9.12%) Wi-Fi
11 211 (7.58%) SD-WAN
12 197 (7.07%) SAN
13 156 (5.60%) Internet
14 138 (4.96%) VoIP
15 112 (4.02%) MPLS
16 107 (3.84%) Intrusion Detection
17 104 (3.73%) BGP
17 104 (3.73%) IPsec
18 101 (3.63%) OSPF
19 85 (3.05%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 54 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
3 49 (1.76%) MongoDB
4 44 (1.58%) MySQL
5 39 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (0.61%) Big Data
8 15 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (0.54%) Power BI
9 10 (0.36%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.32%) MariaDB
11 5 (0.18%) Redis
11 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.14%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.11%) Metabase
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.11%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.072%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 63 (2.26%) JIRA
2 51 (1.83%) Git
3 35 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.47%) Robot Framework
5 10 (0.36%) GNU Toolchain
5 10 (0.36%) Subversion
5 10 (0.36%) Trac
6 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.18%) GitLab
8 4 (0.14%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (0.14%) Spinnaker
9 3 (0.11%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.072%) Hudson
10 2 (0.072%) Selenium
10 2 (0.072%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.036%) Gradle
11 1 (0.036%) Metasploit
General
1 793 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 267 (9.59%) Finance
3 190 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 190 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 85 (3.05%) Law
5 82 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 82 (2.94%) Retail
6 76 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (2.69%) Aerospace
8 61 (2.19%) Public Sector
9 56 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (1.87%) Legal
11 42 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.22%) Games
13 30 (1.08%) Marketing
14 21 (0.75%) Police
15 20 (0.72%) Local Government
15 20 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.57%) Back Office
17 13 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 480 (17.24%) Network Engineer
2 431 (15.48%) IT Engineer
3 428 (15.37%) Support Engineer
4 398 (14.29%) IT Support
5 387 (13.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 354 (12.71%) Senior
7 279 (10.02%) Analyst
8 255 (9.16%) IT Support Engineer
9 173 (6.21%) Lead
10 169 (6.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 163 (5.85%) 3rd Line Support
12 139 (4.99%) Senior Network Engineer
13 129 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
14 126 (4.52%) IT Manager
15 117 (4.20%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 115 (4.13%) Consultant
17 100 (3.59%) Architect
18 97 (3.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
19 91 (3.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
20 90 (3.23%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (2.01%) YAML
2 55 (1.97%) REST
3 49 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
4 36 (1.29%) 802.1X
5 35 (1.26%) HTML
6 33 (1.18%) .NET
7 25 (0.90%) SAML
8 22 (0.79%) ASP.NET
8 22 (0.79%) CSS
8 22 (0.79%) jQuery
9 20 (0.72%) ARM Templates
9 20 (0.72%) OAuth
9 20 (0.72%) OpenID
10 19 (0.68%) AngularJS
10 19 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (0.68%) React
10 19 (0.68%) Tailwind CSS
10 19 (0.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 19 (0.68%) Vue
10 19 (0.68%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 335 (12.03%) Data Centre
2 216 (7.76%) Driving Licence
3 178 (6.39%) Management Information System
4 98 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 97 (3.48%) Replication
6 80 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 63 (2.26%) Clustering
8 57 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
9 49 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 45 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
11 44 (1.58%) PKI
12 42 (1.51%) IoT
12 42 (1.51%) Security Posture
13 38 (1.36%) CCTV
13 38 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
14 33 (1.18%) Client/Server
15 30 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
17 24 (0.86%) Cyberattack
17 24 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1,361 (48.87%) Windows
2 849 (30.48%) Windows Server
3 564 (20.25%) Linux
4 231 (8.29%) Windows 10
5 189 (6.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 158 (5.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 146 (5.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 63 (2.26%) Mac OS
9 49 (1.76%) Data ONTAP
10 45 (1.62%) Apple iOS
11 43 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
12 42 (1.51%) Unix
13 38 (1.36%) Android
14 34 (1.22%) VMS
15 28 (1.01%) Ubuntu
16 27 (0.97%) Windows 7
17 16 (0.57%) Windows XP
18 14 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
19 13 (0.47%) CentOS
20 12 (0.43%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
2 538 (19.32%) Cybersecurity
3 496 (17.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 405 (14.54%) Customer Service
5 361 (12.96%) ITIL
6 218 (7.83%) Agile
7 216 (7.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 192 (6.89%) Mentoring
9 185 (6.64%) Project Management
10 183 (6.57%) DevOps
11 167 (6.00%) Incident Response
12 161 (5.78%) Service Delivery
13 152 (5.46%) Information Security
13 152 (5.46%) Migration
14 147 (5.28%) Project Delivery
14 147 (5.28%) SIEM
15 136 (4.88%) Actionable Insight
16 134 (4.81%) Computer Science
17 123 (4.42%) Kalman Filter
18 116 (4.17%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 321 (11.53%) PowerShell
2 237 (8.51%) SQL
3 195 (7.00%) Python
4 95 (3.41%) Bash
5 53 (1.90%) C#
6 37 (1.33%) Java
7 27 (0.97%) Bicep
7 27 (0.97%) VBScript
8 19 (0.68%) XAML
9 17 (0.61%) VB
10 14 (0.50%) C
10 14 (0.50%) C++
11 12 (0.43%) Perl
11 12 (0.43%) PHP
12 10 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.25%) JavaScript
14 6 (0.22%) Go
15 5 (0.18%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.14%) Ruby
17 3 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 404 (14.51%) Degree
2 394 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 377 (13.54%) Cisco Certification
4 277 (9.95%) CCNA
5 247 (8.87%) SC Cleared
6 170 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 157 (5.64%) CCNP
8 123 (4.42%) CISSP
9 112 (4.02%) DV Cleared
10 107 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 90 (3.23%) Azure Certification
12 81 (2.91%) MCSE
13 60 (2.15%) Network+ Certification
14 56 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
15 47 (1.69%) MCP
16 39 (1.40%) MCSA
17 38 (1.36%) CISM
18 37 (1.33%) CCIE
19 33 (1.18%) AWS Certification
20 28 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (5.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 140 (5.03%) SLA
3 98 (3.52%) GDPR
4 97 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 78 (2.80%) NIST
6 43 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 28 (1.01%) QA
8 25 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 21 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.32%) COSHH
10 9 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 8 (0.29%) NCSC
12 6 (0.22%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.18%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.18%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.14%) Accessibility
15 3 (0.11%) COBIT
15 3 (0.11%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,000 (35.91%) Active Directory
2 620 (22.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 549 (19.71%) Hyper-V
4 107 (3.84%) Docker
5 105 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
6 93 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
7 82 (2.94%) vSphere
8 64 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 46 (1.65%) VMware NSX
10 36 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
11 26 (0.93%) XenApp
12 25 (0.90%) pfSense
12 25 (0.90%) XenDesktop
13 22 (0.79%) Firmware
14 18 (0.65%) Terminal Services
15 17 (0.61%) NFS
16 7 (0.25%) VMware Server
17 6 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
18 4 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 4 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 377 (13.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 162 (5.82%) Ansible
3 144 (5.17%) Kubernetes
4 137 (4.92%) SCCM
5 105 (3.77%) FortiGate
6 86 (3.09%) Terraform
7 84 (3.02%) vCenter Server
8 81 (2.91%) WSUS
9 59 (2.12%) Prometheus
10 50 (1.80%) SCOM
11 37 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 34 (1.22%) ZABBIX
13 26 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
13 26 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (0.83%) Nagios
15 22 (0.79%) Grafana
16 19 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
16 19 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
17 18 (0.65%) SmoothWall
18 16 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,239 (44.49%) Microsoft
2 884 (31.74%) VMware
3 792 (28.44%) Cisco
4 250 (8.98%) Veeam
5 226 (8.11%) Palo Alto
6 204 (7.32%) Juniper
7 198 (7.11%) Fortinet
8 163 (5.85%) Meraki
9 153 (5.49%) Citrix
10 151 (5.42%) Aruba
11 135 (4.85%) HP
12 112 (4.02%) CheckPoint
13 102 (3.66%) Dell
14 94 (3.38%) NetApp
15 86 (3.09%) Sophos
16 64 (2.30%) Red Hat
17 59 (2.12%) Google
18 52 (1.87%) SolarWinds
19 50 (1.80%) Apple
20 49 (1.76%) SolidFire