Firewall Jobs in Manchester

Firewall
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 97 130
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 -33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 143 182 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.54% 3.98% 2.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.74% 20.29% 19.72%
Number of salaries quoted 124 135 104
10th Percentile £28,225 £35,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,573 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% +3.15% +9.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,833 £58,875
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £74,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 578 897 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.28% 19.63% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 444 370 443
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,300 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,084 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% +4.97%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £58,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,125 £72,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Manchester

Firewall
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 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
Salford +16 11 £72,500 +41.46% 2
Stockport - 6 £60,000 - 2
Bolton +2 4 £32,500 -33.33% 5
Cheadle -4 4 £50,000 -28.57%
Bury - 4 £50,000 - 1
Wigan +11 2 £43,500 -3.33% 2
Rochdale +11 1 £60,000 +57.89%
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 17 (11.89%) IIS
2 12 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.50%) Apache
5 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.80%) CMS
5 4 (2.80%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.55%) Azure
2 47 (32.87%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (24.48%) AWS
4 23 (16.08%) GCP
5 11 (7.69%) GitHub
6 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.20%) Entra ID
9 5 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.80%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.10%) IaaS
11 3 (2.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (26.57%) DNS
1 38 (26.57%) WAN
2 26 (18.18%) LAN
3 25 (17.48%) VPN
4 22 (15.38%) DHCP
5 21 (14.69%) Network Security
5 21 (14.69%) SAN
5 21 (14.69%) SD-WAN
5 21 (14.69%) TCP/IP
6 19 (13.29%) Wireless
7 12 (8.39%) iSCSI
8 9 (6.29%) OSPF
8 9 (6.29%) SNMP
8 9 (6.29%) VLAN
9 8 (5.59%) Internet
10 7 (4.90%) IPsec
10 7 (4.90%) NAS
10 7 (4.90%) Remote Desktop
11 6 (4.20%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (4.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.50%) Power BI
3 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.70%) MySQL
4 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Jenkins
1 7 (4.90%) JIRA
2 4 (2.80%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (2.80%) Spinnaker
3 3 (2.10%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.70%) Git
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
General
1 33 (23.08%) Finance
2 30 (20.98%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.20%) Law
4 6 (4.20%) Retail
5 4 (2.80%) Banking
6 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.40%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (24.48%) Network Engineer
2 23 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Manager
5 12 (8.39%) IT Support
5 12 (8.39%) Senior
5 12 (8.39%) Support Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Lead
8 9 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Analyst
9 8 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Consultant
10 6 (4.20%) Field Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.50%) .NET
1 5 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (3.50%) YAML
2 4 (2.80%) Akka
2 4 (2.80%) Kafka
3 2 (1.40%) Web Services
4 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.70%) CSS
4 1 (0.70%) HTML
4 1 (0.70%) jQuery
4 1 (0.70%) React
4 1 (0.70%) REST
4 1 (0.70%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.70%) Vue
4 1 (0.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.49%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.39%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.39%) PMI
3 11 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (4.90%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.20%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (4.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.10%) Smart Energy
9 2 (1.40%) Anti-Spyware
9 2 (1.40%) CCTV
9 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.70%) IoT
10 1 (0.70%) PKI
10 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 59 (41.26%) Windows
2 41 (28.67%) Windows Server
3 37 (25.87%) Linux
4 12 (8.39%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.50%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (2.80%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.80%) VMS
7 4 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.10%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.40%) CentOS
9 2 (1.40%) Unix
9 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.70%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.87%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (25.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (21.68%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 24 (16.78%) ITIL
6 23 (16.08%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (16.08%) Incident Response
7 22 (15.38%) Information Security
8 20 (13.99%) Customer Service
9 19 (13.29%) Project Management
10 18 (12.59%) Agile
10 18 (12.59%) Server Management
11 17 (11.89%) CI/CD
12 15 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.79%) Capacity Planning
13 14 (9.79%) DevOps
14 12 (8.39%) Computer Science
14 12 (8.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 12 (8.39%) Line Management
14 12 (8.39%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.08%) Python
2 16 (11.19%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.69%) Bash
4 6 (4.20%) Java
5 3 (2.10%) Go
5 3 (2.10%) Ruby
6 1 (0.70%) C#
6 1 (0.70%) C++
6 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.70%) Perl
6 1 (0.70%) SQL
6 1 (0.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 33 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (18.88%) Degree
3 21 (14.69%) CCNA
4 18 (12.59%) CCNP
5 12 (8.39%) PMI Certification
6 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.99%) AWS Certification
8 9 (6.29%) CISSP
9 7 (4.90%) CISM
10 6 (4.20%) CCIE
10 6 (4.20%) Security Cleared
11 5 (3.50%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.80%) CCNA CyberOps
12 4 (2.80%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (2.80%) CRISC
12 4 (2.80%) HNC
12 4 (2.80%) HND
12 4 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
13 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (8.39%) NIST
3 9 (6.29%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.50%) SLA
5 4 (2.80%) GDPR
5 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) NCSC
7 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 47 (32.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 22 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.90%) Docker
4 7 (4.90%) VMware NSX
5 6 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.10%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.70%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.70%) Postfix
8 1 (0.70%) Snort
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (9.79%) Kubernetes
1 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 12 (8.39%) Opsgenie
2 12 (8.39%) VxRail
2 12 (8.39%) ZABBIX
3 8 (5.59%) Ansible
4 6 (4.20%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.50%) Terraform
5 5 (3.50%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.10%) SELinux
7 2 (1.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.70%) Grafana
8 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.70%) Nagios
8 1 (0.70%) SCCM
8 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (44.76%) Microsoft
2 58 (40.56%) Cisco
2 58 (40.56%) VMware
3 28 (19.58%) Fortinet
4 17 (11.89%) Dell
4 17 (11.89%) NetApp
5 14 (9.79%) Meraki
5 14 (9.79%) SolarWinds
6 10 (6.99%) Citrix
7 8 (5.59%) Aruba
7 8 (5.59%) Palo Alto
8 7 (4.90%) Extreme Networks
8 7 (4.90%) Juniper
9 6 (4.20%) ESET
9 6 (4.20%) Red Hat
9 6 (4.20%) Sophos
10 5 (3.50%) Databricks
10 5 (3.50%) HP
10 5 (3.50%) SolidFire
10 5 (3.50%) Veeam