Firewall Jobs with Work from Home Options

Firewall
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 84 149
Rank change year-on-year +14 +65 -40
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,326 1,585 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.92% 3.91% 2.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.60% 34.69% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,246 1,439
10th Percentile £33,250 £33,728 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £66,813 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,180 4,569 7,962
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.32% 11.26% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,323 3,394 5,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,717
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firewall trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Firewall.

Firewall salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Firewall over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Firewall salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 141 (10.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (7.84%) SharePoint
3 67 (5.05%) Apache
4 61 (4.60%) IIS
5 16 (1.21%) CMS
6 13 (0.98%) nginx
7 12 (0.90%) WordPress
8 8 (0.60%) Confluence
9 7 (0.53%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.45%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
11 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.30%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
13 3 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.30%) Trello
4 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.23%) SPSS
5 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 614 (46.30%) Azure
2 400 (30.17%) Microsoft 365
3 237 (17.87%) AWS
4 134 (10.11%) Entra ID
5 70 (5.28%) Amazon S3
6 63 (4.75%) GCP
7 55 (4.15%) IaaS
7 55 (4.15%) SaaS
8 47 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (3.17%) PaaS
10 41 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
11 30 (2.26%) OneDrive
12 27 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (2.04%) GitHub
13 20 (1.51%) Azure Storage
14 15 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (0.90%) Serverless
17 11 (0.83%) Google Workspace
18 10 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 392 (29.56%) VPN
2 373 (28.13%) WAN
3 342 (25.79%) DNS
4 304 (22.93%) LAN
5 225 (16.97%) TCP/IP
6 199 (15.01%) DHCP
7 186 (14.03%) Wi-Fi
8 182 (13.73%) Wireless
9 179 (13.50%) Network Security
10 145 (10.94%) Internet
11 142 (10.71%) VLAN
12 138 (10.41%) SD-WAN
13 98 (7.39%) IPsec
14 95 (7.16%) MPLS
15 89 (6.71%) SAN
16 80 (6.03%) Intrusion Detection
17 78 (5.88%) BGP
18 70 (5.28%) SNMP
19 61 (4.60%) SSL
20 59 (4.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 68 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
3 63 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 29 (2.19%) MySQL
5 24 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 9 (0.68%) Power BI
8 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (0.45%) Redis
9 6 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.30%) DB2
11 3 (0.23%) Big Data
11 3 (0.23%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.15%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.15%) OLAP
12 2 (0.15%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (2.64%) Git
2 30 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.04%) JIRA
4 10 (0.75%) GitLab
4 10 (0.75%) Trac
5 7 (0.53%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.30%) Subversion
7 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.15%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.15%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.075%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.075%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.075%) Postman
9 1 (0.075%) Selenium
9 1 (0.075%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.075%) TeamCity
General
1 374 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 191 (14.40%) Finance
3 113 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 54 (4.07%) Law
5 54 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 53 (4.00%) Retail
7 42 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 38 (2.87%) Legal
9 31 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (1.89%) Marketing
12 21 (1.58%) Games
13 20 (1.51%) Banking
14 13 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.83%) Advertising
16 10 (0.75%) Police
17 9 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
18 6 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 214 (16.14%) Network Engineer
2 198 (14.93%) Senior
3 188 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 144 (10.86%) IT Engineer
5 131 (9.88%) Lead
6 112 (8.45%) Support Engineer
7 101 (7.62%) Consultant
8 93 (7.01%) Architect
9 91 (6.86%) Analyst
10 81 (6.11%) IT Support
11 62 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
12 57 (4.30%) Senior Network Engineer
13 54 (4.07%) NetApp Consultant
13 54 (4.07%) Security Engineer
14 51 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
15 50 (3.77%) Team Leader
16 49 (3.70%) IT Manager
17 47 (3.54%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
17 47 (3.54%) Security Analyst
18 44 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.83%) YAML
2 54 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
3 41 (3.09%) REST
4 28 (2.11%) .NET
5 19 (1.43%) AngularJS
5 19 (1.43%) ASP.NET
5 19 (1.43%) ASP.NET MVC
5 19 (1.43%) CSS
5 19 (1.43%) HTML
5 19 (1.43%) jQuery
5 19 (1.43%) React
5 19 (1.43%) Tailwind CSS
5 19 (1.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 19 (1.43%) Vue
5 19 (1.43%) WPF
6 15 (1.13%) OAuth
6 15 (1.13%) OpenID
6 15 (1.13%) SAML
7 14 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 12 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 205 (15.46%) Data Centre
2 93 (7.01%) Management Information System
3 70 (5.28%) Driving Licence
4 65 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
6 34 (2.56%) PKI
6 34 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 28 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
12 19 (1.43%) Client/Server
13 17 (1.28%) Cloud Native
13 17 (1.28%) Replication
14 15 (1.13%) Clustering
15 12 (0.90%) PMI
16 11 (0.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 11 (0.83%) IoT
17 10 (0.75%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 577 (43.51%) Windows
2 320 (24.13%) Linux
3 314 (23.68%) Windows Server
4 78 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 72 (5.43%) Windows 10
6 58 (4.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (4.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 54 (4.07%) Data ONTAP
9 46 (3.47%) Ubuntu
10 43 (3.24%) VMS
11 35 (2.64%) Apple iOS
12 34 (2.56%) Android
13 30 (2.26%) Unix
14 24 (1.81%) Windows Server 2008
15 19 (1.43%) Mac OS
16 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 8 (0.60%) CentOS
18 5 (0.38%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
19 3 (0.23%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
2 278 (20.97%) Cybersecurity
3 268 (20.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 191 (14.40%) Agile
5 169 (12.75%) ITIL
6 148 (11.16%) DevOps
7 145 (10.94%) Information Security
8 132 (9.95%) SIEM
9 129 (9.73%) Project Management
10 119 (8.97%) Actionable Insight
11 104 (7.84%) Infrastructure Management
12 102 (7.69%) Migration
13 100 (7.54%) Customer Service
14 97 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
15 89 (6.71%) Mentoring
16 85 (6.41%) CI/CD
17 82 (6.18%) Cloud Security
18 78 (5.88%) Release Management
19 75 (5.66%) Security Operations
20 72 (5.43%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 139 (10.48%) Python
3 68 (5.13%) SQL
4 48 (3.62%) Bash
5 47 (3.54%) C#
6 38 (2.87%) Java
7 26 (1.96%) VBScript
8 19 (1.43%) XAML
9 18 (1.36%) Bicep
10 14 (1.06%) VB
11 12 (0.90%) PHP
12 10 (0.75%) Perl
13 6 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.075%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.075%) C
15 1 (0.075%) Go
15 1 (0.075%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 184 (13.88%) Cisco Certification
2 170 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 144 (10.86%) Degree
4 116 (8.75%) CCNA
5 101 (7.62%) CISSP
6 90 (6.79%) SC Cleared
7 76 (5.73%) CCNP
8 74 (5.58%) DV Cleared
9 47 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 44 (3.32%) Azure Certification
11 35 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (2.11%) CCSP
13 27 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 26 (1.96%) CCIE
14 26 (1.96%) MCSE
15 25 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
15 25 (1.89%) SSCP
16 24 (1.81%) CISM
17 21 (1.58%) GIAC
17 21 (1.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (8.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 79 (5.96%) NIST
3 67 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 61 (4.60%) PCI DSS
5 43 (3.24%) SLA
6 31 (2.34%) GDPR
7 26 (1.96%) SOC 2
8 23 (1.73%) GRC
9 22 (1.66%) QA
10 16 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (0.75%) NCSC
12 6 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.30%) COBIT
14 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.15%) GLBA
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.075%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.075%) GxP
16 1 (0.075%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 396 (29.86%) Active Directory
2 272 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 215 (16.21%) Hyper-V
4 118 (8.90%) Docker
5 59 (4.45%) VMware ESXi
6 58 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
7 49 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 30 (2.26%) vSphere
9 22 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
10 18 (1.36%) NFS
11 16 (1.21%) pfSense
12 5 (0.38%) vCloud
12 5 (0.38%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.38%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.30%) KVM
13 4 (0.30%) XenApp
14 3 (0.23%) Firmware
14 3 (0.23%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.15%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 166 (12.52%) Ansible
2 147 (11.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 117 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 96 (7.24%) Terraform
5 68 (5.13%) vCenter Server
6 59 (4.45%) Prometheus
7 54 (4.07%) WSUS
8 48 (3.62%) FortiGate
9 44 (3.32%) SCCM
10 32 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 30 (2.26%) Grafana
11 30 (2.26%) ZABBIX
12 23 (1.73%) SCOM
12 23 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
13 19 (1.43%) Nagios
14 15 (1.13%) HAProxy
14 15 (1.13%) Nmap
15 14 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
15 14 (1.06%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 449 (33.86%) Microsoft
2 414 (31.22%) Cisco
3 387 (29.19%) VMware
4 166 (12.52%) Palo Alto
5 136 (10.26%) Fortinet
6 125 (9.43%) Meraki
7 109 (8.22%) Juniper
8 75 (5.66%) CheckPoint
9 73 (5.51%) NetApp
10 69 (5.20%) Red Hat
11 64 (4.83%) Aruba
12 61 (4.60%) Veeam
13 54 (4.07%) SolidFire
14 48 (3.62%) HP
15 40 (3.02%) SolarWinds
16 36 (2.71%) Citrix
17 32 (2.41%) Dell
18 29 (2.19%) Sophos
19 25 (1.89%) Rapid7
20 23 (1.73%) F5