Firewall
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 81 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 -43
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,803 4,091 4,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.86% 3.94% 3.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.91% 25.61% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,199 2,845 3,601
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,920 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.62% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +27 3,492 £49,000 -2.00% 776
UK excluding London +14 2,784 £42,920 -4.62% 625
Work from Home +17 1,367 £52,500 -4.55% 311
London +17 904 £65,000 +8.33% 193
South East +24 831 £42,500 -5.56% 154
North of England +16 610 £42,500 -10.53% 143
Midlands +36 531 £45,000 - 130
South West +9 355 £47,500 +12.43% 93
West Midlands +42 353 £45,000 -0.55% 77
Yorkshire +49 273 £45,000 -5.26% 49
North West -14 268 £50,000 - 78
East of England +36 263 £41,500 -2.35% 62
East Midlands +10 174 £40,000 -5.88% 52
Scotland -109 103 £50,000 +4.71% 41
Wales +6 87 £40,500 -10.00% 15
North East +2 82 £42,500 - 18
Northern Ireland +1 21 £37,500 +1.35% 6
Isle of Man -2 16 £46,500 +3.33% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 - 1

Firewall
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
1 560 (14.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 422 (11.10%) SharePoint
3 127 (3.34%) IIS
4 73 (1.92%) Apache
5 40 (1.05%) Confluence
6 28 (0.74%) nginx
7 24 (0.63%) Skype for Business
7 24 (0.63%) WordPress
8 21 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
9 18 (0.47%) CMS
10 17 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
11 11 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
12 9 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
12 9 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
12 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.18%) Apache Spark
13 7 (0.18%) SAS
14 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
15 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 303 (7.97%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.11%) Trello
6 3 (0.079%) SPSS
7 1 (0.026%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.11%) Sage 200
2 4 (0.11%) Sage X3
3 3 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.079%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.053%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.053%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.053%) Shopify
5 1 (0.026%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.026%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.026%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,743 (45.83%) Azure
2 1,405 (36.94%) Microsoft 365
3 572 (15.04%) AWS
4 429 (11.28%) Entra ID
5 170 (4.47%) GCP
6 142 (3.73%) IaaS
7 134 (3.52%) SaaS
8 125 (3.29%) OneDrive
9 123 (3.23%) PaaS
10 93 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
11 80 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 77 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
13 66 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
14 54 (1.42%) Mimecast
15 47 (1.24%) GitHub
16 44 (1.16%) Google Workspace
17 42 (1.10%) Power Platform
18 29 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 28 (0.74%) Serverless
20 24 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 936 (24.61%) VPN
2 930 (24.45%) WAN
3 881 (23.17%) DNS
4 782 (20.56%) LAN
5 584 (15.36%) DHCP
6 524 (13.78%) TCP/IP
7 469 (12.33%) Wireless
8 455 (11.96%) Network Security
9 409 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
10 400 (10.52%) VLAN
11 286 (7.52%) SD-WAN
12 270 (7.10%) SAN
13 259 (6.81%) Internet
14 204 (5.36%) MPLS
15 199 (5.23%) BGP
16 184 (4.84%) VoIP
17 177 (4.65%) Intrusion Detection
18 164 (4.31%) OSPF
19 147 (3.87%) IPsec
20 126 (3.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 79 (2.08%) MySQL
3 70 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
4 64 (1.68%) MongoDB
5 51 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (0.74%) Power BI
8 20 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (0.47%) Big Data
10 12 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 9 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.21%) CockroachDB
12 8 (0.21%) DB2
12 8 (0.21%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.21%) Redis
12 8 (0.21%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.11%) Metabase
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 101 (2.66%) JIRA
2 92 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 59 (1.55%) Git
4 29 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 27 (0.71%) GitLab
6 15 (0.39%) Subversion
7 11 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.26%) GNU Toolchain
8 10 (0.26%) Trac
9 9 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 8 (0.21%) Jaeger
11 7 (0.18%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.18%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.13%) Burp Suite
14 4 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
15 3 (0.079%) Maven
15 3 (0.079%) Metasploit
General
1 1,077 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 494 (12.99%) Finance
3 299 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
4 209 (5.50%) Telecoms
5 155 (4.08%) Law
6 124 (3.26%) Retail
7 121 (3.18%) Legal
8 113 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 104 (2.73%) Public Sector
10 88 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 81 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
12 62 (1.63%) Aerospace
13 61 (1.60%) Banking
14 59 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
14 59 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (1.42%) Games
16 43 (1.13%) Marketing
17 32 (0.84%) Police
18 22 (0.58%) Local Government
19 18 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 676 (17.78%) Network Engineer
2 604 (15.88%) Senior
3 497 (13.07%) IT Engineer
4 478 (12.57%) Support Engineer
5 473 (12.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 443 (11.65%) Analyst
7 433 (11.39%) IT Support
8 274 (7.20%) IT Support Engineer
9 243 (6.39%) Lead
10 212 (5.57%) Senior Network Engineer
11 207 (5.44%) Architect
12 190 (5.00%) Security Analyst
13 179 (4.71%) 3rd Line Support
14 172 (4.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 161 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
16 158 (4.15%) Consultant
17 150 (3.94%) IT Manager
18 140 (3.68%) Security Engineer
19 123 (3.23%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
20 122 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (2.02%) YAML
2 64 (1.68%) 802.1X
3 62 (1.63%) REST
4 54 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
5 38 (1.00%) .NET
5 38 (1.00%) HTML
6 37 (0.97%) SAML
7 30 (0.79%) OAuth
8 22 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 22 (0.58%) CSS
8 22 (0.58%) jQuery
9 20 (0.53%) Kafka
10 19 (0.50%) AngularJS
10 19 (0.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 19 (0.50%) OpenID
10 19 (0.50%) React
10 19 (0.50%) Tailwind CSS
10 19 (0.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 19 (0.50%) Vue
10 19 (0.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 484 (12.73%) Data Centre
2 282 (7.42%) Management Information System
3 225 (5.92%) Driving Licence
4 135 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 131 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 129 (3.39%) Replication
7 100 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
8 90 (2.37%) PKI
9 82 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 76 (2.00%) Clustering
11 75 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 68 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
13 49 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
14 48 (1.26%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 43 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
16 41 (1.08%) CCTV
17 40 (1.05%) Cyberattack
17 40 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 38 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1,770 (46.54%) Windows
2 1,055 (27.74%) Windows Server
3 789 (20.75%) Linux
4 284 (7.47%) Windows 10
5 224 (5.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 192 (5.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 189 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 110 (2.89%) Mac OS
9 95 (2.50%) Ubuntu
10 79 (2.08%) VMS
11 77 (2.02%) Apple iOS
12 75 (1.97%) Unix
13 60 (1.58%) Windows Server 2008
14 58 (1.53%) Android
15 54 (1.42%) Data ONTAP
16 37 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 33 (0.87%) CentOS
18 26 (0.68%) Windows 7
19 16 (0.42%) Mac OS X
19 16 (0.42%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (22.56%) Cybersecurity
2 843 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
3 604 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 529 (13.91%) ITIL
5 444 (11.67%) Customer Service
6 341 (8.97%) Information Security
7 330 (8.68%) Disaster Recovery
8 320 (8.41%) SIEM
9 317 (8.34%) Agile
10 286 (7.52%) DevOps
11 280 (7.36%) Mentoring
12 272 (7.15%) Project Management
13 245 (6.44%) Incident Response
14 214 (5.63%) Migration
15 197 (5.18%) Project Delivery
15 197 (5.18%) Service Delivery
16 195 (5.13%) Cloud Security
17 194 (5.10%) Actionable Insight
18 175 (4.60%) Security Operations
19 170 (4.47%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 461 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 346 (9.10%) SQL
3 325 (8.55%) Python
4 190 (5.00%) Bash
5 65 (1.71%) C#
6 63 (1.66%) Java
7 45 (1.18%) Perl
8 31 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 26 (0.68%) Bicep
9 26 (0.68%) VBScript
10 19 (0.50%) Ruby
10 19 (0.50%) XAML
11 15 (0.39%) C
12 14 (0.37%) C++
12 14 (0.37%) VB
13 12 (0.32%) PHP
13 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.26%) RPG
15 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 562 (14.78%) Cisco Certification
2 521 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 512 (13.46%) Degree
4 369 (9.70%) CCNA
5 297 (7.81%) SC Cleared
6 265 (6.97%) CISSP
7 234 (6.15%) CCNP
8 220 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 177 (4.65%) DV Cleared
10 119 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 116 (3.05%) Azure Certification
12 105 (2.76%) MCSE
13 96 (2.52%) CISM
14 83 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
15 78 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
16 62 (1.63%) MCSA
17 59 (1.55%) CCIE
17 59 (1.55%) CCSP
17 59 (1.55%) CISA
18 58 (1.53%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 176 (4.63%) SLA
3 167 (4.39%) NIST
4 159 (4.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 138 (3.63%) GDPR
6 97 (2.55%) PCI DSS
7 57 (1.50%) SOC 2
8 46 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 27 (0.71%) GRC
9 27 (0.71%) QA
10 24 (0.63%) NCSC
11 21 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 19 (0.50%) COBIT
13 10 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 10 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 9 (0.24%) COSHH
15 7 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.16%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,318 (34.66%) Active Directory
2 788 (20.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 620 (16.30%) Hyper-V
4 171 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
5 153 (4.02%) Docker
6 121 (3.18%) vSphere
7 102 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
8 85 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 43 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
10 41 (1.08%) VMware NSX
11 31 (0.82%) Firmware
12 30 (0.79%) Terminal Services
13 27 (0.71%) XenApp
14 25 (0.66%) XenDesktop
15 24 (0.63%) pfSense
16 18 (0.47%) NFS
16 18 (0.47%) vCloud
17 12 (0.32%) KVM
18 8 (0.21%) VMware Server
19 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 440 (11.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 281 (7.39%) Ansible
3 200 (5.26%) Terraform
4 186 (4.89%) Kubernetes
5 154 (4.05%) SCCM
6 145 (3.81%) FortiGate
7 105 (2.76%) WSUS
8 98 (2.58%) vCenter Server
9 72 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 70 (1.84%) Prometheus
11 61 (1.60%) SCOM
12 44 (1.16%) Puppet
13 38 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 36 (0.95%) ZABBIX
15 35 (0.92%) Grafana
16 34 (0.89%) Nagios
17 31 (0.82%) Progress Chef
18 30 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
19 23 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
20 20 (0.53%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,622 (42.65%) Microsoft
2 1,125 (29.58%) VMware
3 1,087 (28.58%) Cisco
4 333 (8.76%) Palo Alto
5 290 (7.63%) Veeam
6 269 (7.07%) Juniper
7 261 (6.86%) Fortinet
8 238 (6.26%) Meraki
9 206 (5.42%) Citrix
10 189 (4.97%) Aruba
11 186 (4.89%) CheckPoint
12 173 (4.55%) HP
13 123 (3.23%) Dell
14 119 (3.13%) NetApp
15 118 (3.10%) Google
16 115 (3.02%) Red Hat
17 95 (2.50%) SolarWinds
18 91 (2.39%) Sophos
19 77 (2.02%) Oracle
20 75 (1.97%) Apple