Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for NGFW skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NGFW over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 833 757 1192
Rank change year-on-year -76 +435 -325
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 70 199 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.21% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.51% 1.30% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 56 69 56
10th Percentile £41,000 £34,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,438 £36,250 £39,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -26.53% -7.20%
75th Percentile £72,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £73,000 £71,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

NGFW 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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,702 15,312 22,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.81% 16.31% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,415 7,633 11,891
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,345 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.46% -5.26% +5.56%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in the UK

NGFW
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NGFW.

Salary trend for NGFW in the UK

NGFW
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing NGFW over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for NGFW in the UK

NGFW
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England -51 66 £53,625 +19.17% 15
UK excluding London -165 51 £52,500 +16.67% 11
Work from Home +29 31 £57,500 -14.81% 9
Midlands -10 21 £52,500 -22.22% 1
West Midlands -13 21 £52,500 -22.22% 1
South East -3 15 £52,500 +45.83% 7
London +88 14 £65,000 -10.34% 4
North of England -46 12 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North West -45 11 £50,000 +3.09% 1
Scotland -90 2 £39,500 - 1
East of England -20 1 £55,000 +7.32%
North East -27 1 £39,000 +4.00%

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) Azure
2 11 (15.71%) IaaS
3 10 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (10.00%) PaaS
5 4 (5.71%) AWS
5 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.29%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 51 (72.86%) Firewall
2 31 (44.29%) Wireless
3 27 (38.57%) Network Security
3 27 (38.57%) WAN
4 26 (37.14%) Cisco Firepower
5 22 (31.43%) LAN
5 22 (31.43%) VPN
6 16 (22.86%) OSPF
6 16 (22.86%) SD-WAN
7 15 (21.43%) BGP
8 9 (12.86%) DNS
8 9 (12.86%) TCP/IP
9 8 (11.43%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (10.00%) DHCP
10 7 (10.00%) IPsec
10 7 (10.00%) VLAN
10 7 (10.00%) WLAN
11 6 (8.57%) EIGRP
11 6 (8.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Legal
4 2 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.43%) Local Government
5 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Police
5 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (44.29%) Network Engineer
2 22 (31.43%) Senior
3 13 (18.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Consultant
5 9 (12.86%) Security Consultant
6 8 (11.43%) Architect
6 8 (11.43%) Network Consultant
6 8 (11.43%) Network Security Consultant
7 7 (10.00%) Citrix Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (10.00%) DevOps Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Network Consultant
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Network Security Consultant
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Security Consultant
8 5 (7.14%) Lead
9 3 (4.29%) IT Infrastructure Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 7 (10.00%) JSON
1 7 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 7 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 5 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.71%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.43%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.43%) NHS
7 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 5 (7.14%) Android
2 5 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 5 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.43%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (17.14%) Network Design
3 11 (15.71%) Project Delivery
4 10 (14.29%) Agile
4 10 (14.29%) ITIL
4 10 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 9 (12.86%) Network Architecture
6 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security
6 8 (11.43%) Data Centre Operations
6 8 (11.43%) Information Security
6 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 7 (10.00%) DevOps
7 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.00%) Migration
7 7 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 7 (10.00%) Project Management
7 7 (10.00%) SDLC
8 6 (8.57%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 33 (47.14%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (38.57%) CCNP
3 12 (17.14%) CCIE
4 7 (10.00%) CCNA
4 7 (10.00%) Degree
5 6 (8.57%) JNCIS
5 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.14%) JNCIE
7 4 (5.71%) MCSA
7 4 (5.71%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.71%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.86%) CISSP
8 2 (2.86%) OSCP
9 1 (1.43%) CISM
9 1 (1.43%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.43%) GxP
2 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
1 10 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.86%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (10.00%) vSphere
4 5 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (24.29%) FortiGate
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Ansible
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.43%) CASB
Vendors
1 37 (52.86%) Cisco
2 33 (47.14%) Palo Alto
3 18 (25.71%) Fortinet
3 18 (25.71%) VMware
4 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 12 (17.14%) Meraki
6 11 (15.71%) Aruba
7 10 (14.29%) CheckPoint
8 9 (12.86%) F5
9 8 (11.43%) Juniper
10 7 (10.00%) Citrix
11 5 (7.14%) Veeam
12 4 (5.71%) Barracuda Networks
12 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
12 4 (5.71%) Sophos
13 3 (4.29%) Dell
13 3 (4.29%) Zscaler
14 2 (2.86%) ConnectWise
14 2 (2.86%) Ruckus Wireless
15 1 (1.43%) Riverbed