Firewall Jobs in Kent

Firewall
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 38 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 81 59 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.93% 5.94% 5.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 39.51% 18.73% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 74 59 78
10th Percentile £23,000 £32,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £37,875 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +8.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £50,250 £51,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,375 £68,750 £50,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 205 315 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 12.48% 31.69% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 158 162 169
10th Percentile £24,800 £25,750 £27,700
25th Percentile £29,813 £32,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +6.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,375 £56,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Kent over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Kent

Firewall
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 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
Maidstone +24 18 £42,500 +6.25% 5
Gravesend - 18 £55,000 -
Tonbridge - 5 £39,000 - 1
Dartford - 2 £40,000 - 4
Sevenoaks - 1 £40,000 - 1
West Malling - 1 £52,500 - 3
Firewall
South East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 21 (25.93%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (49.38%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (40.74%) Azure
3 11 (13.58%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.23%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 33 (40.74%) DNS
2 25 (30.86%) WAN
3 22 (27.16%) DHCP
4 17 (20.99%) 4G
4 17 (20.99%) 5G
4 17 (20.99%) MPLS
5 16 (19.75%) TCP/IP
6 14 (17.28%) VLAN
7 12 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (11.11%) VPN
9 8 (9.88%) LAN
10 7 (8.64%) FTP
10 7 (8.64%) VoIP
11 6 (7.41%) Internet
12 5 (6.17%) Wireless
13 4 (4.94%) NAS
13 4 (4.94%) Network Security
14 3 (3.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.99%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (35.80%) Analyst
2 18 (22.22%) 1st Line Support
3 16 (19.75%) 3rd Line Support
4 15 (18.52%) Support Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 12 (14.81%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
5 12 (14.81%) First Line Help Desk Support
5 12 (14.81%) Help Desk Analyst
5 12 (14.81%) Help Desk Support
5 12 (14.81%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 12 (14.81%) Support Analyst
6 11 (13.58%) Security Analyst
7 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (11.11%) Senior
8 9 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (8.64%) IT Support
10 6 (7.41%) 1st Line Support Engineer
10 6 (7.41%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.70%) .NET
1 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
1 3 (3.70%) CSS
1 3 (3.70%) HTML
1 3 (3.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.22%) Driving Licence
2 17 (20.99%) IoT
3 12 (14.81%) Management Information System
4 11 (13.58%) Client/Server
5 9 (11.11%) ARM Cortex
6 8 (9.88%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 49 (60.49%) Windows
2 22 (27.16%) Windows Server
3 17 (20.99%) Windows 10
4 7 (8.64%) Linux
5 3 (3.70%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.47%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.23%) Android
7 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.74%) Cybersecurity
1 33 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (25.93%) Customer Service
3 18 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 17 (20.99%) Data Management
5 13 (16.05%) Project Management
6 11 (13.58%) Penetration Testing
6 11 (13.58%) Threat Detection
6 11 (13.58%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 10 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (11.11%) Gamification
9 7 (8.64%) ITIL
10 6 (7.41%) Change Control
10 6 (7.41%) Cloud Security
10 6 (7.41%) Information Security
10 6 (7.41%) Risk Assessment
10 6 (7.41%) Time Management
11 4 (4.94%) Business Continuity
12 3 (3.70%) High Availability
12 3 (3.70%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.70%) C#
1 3 (3.70%) JavaScript
1 3 (3.70%) SQL
1 3 (3.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.81%) Degree
3 10 (12.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (12.35%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.17%) CCSP
4 5 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (14.81%) SLA
3 11 (13.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (12.35%) GDPR
5 9 (11.11%) COSHH
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 27 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (20.99%) FortiGate
2 11 (13.58%) WSUS
3 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 37 (45.68%) Cisco
2 25 (30.86%) Microsoft
3 17 (20.99%) Darktrace
3 17 (20.99%) HP
3 17 (20.99%) NEC
4 12 (14.81%) WatchGuard
5 9 (11.11%) Mitel
5 9 (11.11%) Ribbon
6 8 (9.88%) Veeam
6 8 (9.88%) VMware
7 7 (8.64%) Meraki
8 6 (7.41%) Progress
9 4 (4.94%) Apple