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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 73 129
Rank change year-on-year +11 +56 -45
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,738 4,056 5,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.68% 4.14% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.71% 26.13% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 2,788 3,523
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,919 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £81,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% -2.17% +2.22%

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 13,491 15,522 21,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.27% 15.86% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9,400 7,791 11,762
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,718 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,746 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.79% -5.26% +5.56%

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 25 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 25 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 +21 3,431 £49,000 -2.00% 868
UK excluding London +14 2,747 £42,500 -5.56% 704
Work from Home +9 1,336 £52,500 -4.55% 334
London +7 879 £65,000 +8.33% 308
South East +20 836 £42,500 -5.56% 249
North of England +12 603 £44,250 -6.84% 145
Midlands +25 522 £45,000 - 97
South West +1 347 £45,000 +6.51% 102
West Midlands +47 340 £45,000 -0.83% 51
Yorkshire +40 269 £45,000 -1.37% 59
North West -19 268 £50,000 - 75
East of England +30 254 £41,500 -2.35% 58
East Midlands -9 178 £42,500 - 45
Scotland -116 101 £50,000 +11.11% 47
Wales +12 84 £40,500 -10.00% 17
North East +2 79 £40,000 -5.88% 11
Northern Ireland -14 21 £37,500 - 5
Isle of Man -2 16 £46,500 +3.33% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 -

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
1 540 (14.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 413 (11.05%) SharePoint
3 120 (3.21%) IIS
4 72 (1.93%) Apache
5 36 (0.96%) Confluence
6 26 (0.70%) nginx
7 24 (0.64%) Skype for Business
8 23 (0.62%) WordPress
9 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 18 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
10 17 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2013
11 13 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
11 13 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
12 11 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) SAS
15 6 (0.16%) Apache Spark
15 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 308 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.080%) SPSS
6 3 (0.080%) Trello
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.11%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.080%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.054%) Shopify
6 1 (0.027%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.027%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.027%) Misys Opics
6 1 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,711 (45.77%) Azure
2 1,363 (36.46%) Microsoft 365
3 571 (15.28%) AWS
4 417 (11.16%) Entra ID
5 172 (4.60%) GCP
6 142 (3.80%) IaaS
7 134 (3.58%) SaaS
8 124 (3.32%) OneDrive
9 123 (3.29%) PaaS
10 90 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
12 78 (2.09%) Amazon S3
13 64 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
14 49 (1.31%) Mimecast
15 46 (1.23%) GitHub
16 43 (1.15%) Power Platform
17 39 (1.04%) Google Workspace
18 30 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 28 (0.75%) Serverless
20 24 (0.64%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 916 (24.51%) VPN
2 910 (24.34%) WAN
3 852 (22.79%) DNS
4 744 (19.90%) LAN
5 557 (14.90%) DHCP
6 519 (13.88%) TCP/IP
7 454 (12.15%) Wireless
8 451 (12.07%) Network Security
9 403 (10.78%) Wi-Fi
10 385 (10.30%) VLAN
11 302 (8.08%) SD-WAN
12 259 (6.93%) Internet
13 251 (6.71%) SAN
14 211 (5.64%) MPLS
15 194 (5.19%) BGP
16 174 (4.65%) VoIP
17 168 (4.49%) Intrusion Detection
18 166 (4.44%) OSPF
19 157 (4.20%) IPsec
20 125 (3.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 70 (1.87%) MySQL
3 69 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 63 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 47 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (0.75%) Power BI
8 20 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (0.54%) Big Data
9 12 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.24%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.21%) CockroachDB
12 8 (0.21%) DB2
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 99 (2.65%) JIRA
2 91 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 59 (1.58%) Git
4 28 (0.75%) GitLab
5 25 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 14 (0.37%) Subversion
7 13 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.27%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (0.27%) Trac
10 8 (0.21%) Jaeger
11 7 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
11 7 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.16%) Spinnaker
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.11%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (0.080%) Maven
15 2 (0.054%) Hudson
General
1 1,066 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 499 (13.35%) Finance
3 303 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (5.75%) Telecoms
5 154 (4.12%) Law
6 127 (3.40%) Retail
7 115 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 115 (3.08%) Legal
8 95 (2.54%) Public Sector
9 92 (2.46%) Manufacturing
10 83 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
11 76 (2.03%) Aerospace
12 66 (1.77%) Banking
13 58 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
14 53 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.28%) Games
16 43 (1.15%) Marketing
17 28 (0.75%) Police
18 22 (0.59%) Local Government
19 16 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 643 (17.20%) Network Engineer
2 571 (15.28%) Senior
3 482 (12.89%) IT Engineer
4 480 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 479 (12.81%) Support Engineer
6 433 (11.58%) IT Support
7 428 (11.45%) Analyst
8 275 (7.36%) IT Support Engineer
9 248 (6.63%) Lead
10 207 (5.54%) Architect
11 194 (5.19%) Senior Network Engineer
12 182 (4.87%) Security Analyst
13 179 (4.79%) 3rd Line Support
14 172 (4.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 163 (4.36%) Consultant
16 158 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
17 149 (3.99%) IT Manager
18 133 (3.56%) Security Engineer
19 120 (3.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
19 120 (3.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (2.06%) YAML
2 63 (1.69%) 802.1X
3 59 (1.58%) REST
4 54 (1.44%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (1.12%) HTML
6 38 (1.02%) .NET
7 37 (0.99%) SAML
8 30 (0.80%) OAuth
9 22 (0.59%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.59%) CSS
9 22 (0.59%) jQuery
10 20 (0.54%) ARM Templates
10 20 (0.54%) XML
11 19 (0.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 19 (0.51%) Kafka
11 19 (0.51%) OpenID
11 19 (0.51%) React
11 19 (0.51%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (0.51%) Vue
11 19 (0.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 478 (12.79%) Data Centre
2 281 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 219 (5.86%) Driving Licence
4 128 (3.42%) Replication
5 126 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 126 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 94 (2.51%) PKI
7 85 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 84 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
9 77 (2.06%) Clustering
10 72 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 68 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
12 52 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
13 49 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 48 (1.28%) Client/Server
15 43 (1.15%) IoT
15 43 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
16 39 (1.04%) CCTV
17 38 (1.02%) Cyberattack
18 36 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1,729 (46.25%) Windows
2 1,014 (27.13%) Windows Server
3 792 (21.19%) Linux
4 281 (7.52%) Windows 10
5 217 (5.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 187 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 177 (4.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 99 (2.65%) Mac OS
9 93 (2.49%) Ubuntu
10 80 (2.14%) Unix
11 79 (2.11%) VMS
12 74 (1.98%) Apple iOS
13 61 (1.63%) Android
14 54 (1.44%) Data ONTAP
15 53 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
16 37 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 36 (0.96%) CentOS
18 27 (0.72%) Windows 7
19 19 (0.51%) Windows XP
20 17 (0.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
2 824 (22.04%) Cybersecurity
3 615 (16.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 513 (13.72%) ITIL
5 444 (11.88%) Customer Service
6 341 (9.12%) Agile
7 340 (9.10%) Information Security
8 326 (8.72%) Disaster Recovery
9 315 (8.43%) SIEM
10 291 (7.78%) DevOps
11 275 (7.36%) Mentoring
12 262 (7.01%) Project Management
13 240 (6.42%) Incident Response
14 209 (5.59%) Migration
15 189 (5.06%) Actionable Insight
15 189 (5.06%) Cloud Security
15 189 (5.06%) Service Delivery
16 186 (4.98%) Project Delivery
17 164 (4.39%) Security Operations
18 162 (4.33%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 452 (12.09%) PowerShell
2 330 (8.83%) Python
3 324 (8.67%) SQL
4 184 (4.92%) Bash
5 65 (1.74%) C#
6 62 (1.66%) Java
7 46 (1.23%) Perl
8 33 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 27 (0.72%) Bicep
9 27 (0.72%) VBScript
10 21 (0.56%) Ruby
11 19 (0.51%) XAML
12 16 (0.43%) C
13 15 (0.40%) C++
13 15 (0.40%) VB
14 12 (0.32%) PHP
14 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.27%) RPG
16 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 528 (14.13%) Cisco Certification
2 515 (13.78%) Degree
3 496 (13.27%) Security Cleared
4 361 (9.66%) CCNA
5 288 (7.70%) SC Cleared
6 271 (7.25%) CISSP
7 224 (5.99%) CCNP
8 220 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 164 (4.39%) DV Cleared
10 119 (3.18%) Azure Certification
10 119 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 107 (2.86%) CISM
12 105 (2.81%) MCSE
13 70 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
13 70 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
14 62 (1.66%) CISA
15 60 (1.61%) MCSA
16 58 (1.55%) AWS Certification
16 58 (1.55%) GIAC
17 54 (1.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 166 (4.44%) NIST
3 164 (4.39%) SLA
4 162 (4.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 141 (3.77%) GDPR
6 101 (2.70%) PCI DSS
7 47 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 46 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 31 (0.83%) QA
10 30 (0.80%) GRC
11 23 (0.62%) NCSC
12 21 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 20 (0.54%) COBIT
14 11 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.24%) COSHH
15 9 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 8 (0.21%) ISO 22301
17 7 (0.19%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1,273 (34.06%) Active Directory
2 762 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 608 (16.27%) Hyper-V
4 167 (4.47%) VMware ESXi
5 154 (4.12%) Docker
6 113 (3.02%) vSphere
7 103 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
8 85 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 45 (1.20%) VMware NSX
10 41 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
11 33 (0.88%) Firmware
11 33 (0.88%) XenApp
12 31 (0.83%) XenDesktop
13 29 (0.78%) Terminal Services
14 25 (0.67%) pfSense
15 19 (0.51%) NFS
16 15 (0.40%) vCloud
17 12 (0.32%) KVM
18 7 (0.19%) VMware Server
19 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 428 (11.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 282 (7.54%) Ansible
3 196 (5.24%) Terraform
4 194 (5.19%) Kubernetes
5 161 (4.31%) SCCM
6 137 (3.67%) FortiGate
7 103 (2.76%) WSUS
8 97 (2.59%) vCenter Server
9 71 (1.90%) Prometheus
9 71 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 59 (1.58%) SCOM
11 43 (1.15%) Puppet
12 38 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 37 (0.99%) ZABBIX
14 35 (0.94%) Nagios
15 33 (0.88%) Grafana
16 29 (0.78%) Progress Chef
17 26 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
18 25 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
19 19 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,592 (42.59%) Microsoft
2 1,082 (28.95%) VMware
3 1,058 (28.30%) Cisco
4 329 (8.80%) Palo Alto
5 293 (7.84%) Veeam
6 267 (7.14%) Fortinet
7 264 (7.06%) Juniper
8 226 (6.05%) Meraki
9 209 (5.59%) Citrix
10 180 (4.82%) Aruba
11 179 (4.79%) CheckPoint
12 172 (4.60%) HP
13 136 (3.64%) Dell
14 119 (3.18%) NetApp
15 116 (3.10%) Red Hat
16 115 (3.08%) Google
17 98 (2.62%) SolarWinds
18 91 (2.43%) Sophos
19 80 (2.14%) Oracle
20 73 (1.95%) Apple