Firewall Jobs in England

Firewall
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 56 81 121
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 -45
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,420 3,548 4,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.95% 4.01% 3.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.38% 25.27% 23.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,902 2,560 3,142
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,328
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,051 14,043 18,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.93% 15.87% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,513 7,209 10,451
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £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 £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Firewall in England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in England

Firewall
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +8 877 £65,000 +8.33% 244
South East +20 830 £42,500 -5.56% 179
North of England +13 602 £42,500 -10.53% 165
Midlands +28 519 £45,000 - 116
South West +6 347 £45,000 +6.51% 86
West Midlands +47 341 £45,000 -1.39% 66
Yorkshire +42 267 £45,000 -2.70% 65
North West -20 267 £50,000 - 86
East of England +26 253 £41,500 -2.35% 40
East Midlands -5 174 £42,500 +1.19% 50
North East +7 80 £40,000 -5.88% 14
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 513 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 396 (11.58%) SharePoint
3 117 (3.42%) IIS
4 52 (1.52%) Apache
5 33 (0.96%) Confluence
6 26 (0.76%) nginx
7 23 (0.67%) WordPress
8 18 (0.53%) CMS
8 18 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2010
9 17 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
10 12 (0.35%) SharePoint 2010
10 12 (0.35%) SharePoint 2013
11 11 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
12 10 (0.29%) Skype for Business
13 9 (0.26%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.20%) Apache Spark
14 7 (0.20%) SAS
15 6 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.15%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 284 (8.30%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.12%) Trello
6 3 (0.088%) SPSS
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (0.47%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.088%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.088%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.058%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.058%) Shopify
5 1 (0.029%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.029%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,586 (46.37%) Azure
2 1,296 (37.89%) Microsoft 365
3 521 (15.23%) AWS
4 393 (11.49%) Entra ID
5 150 (4.39%) GCP
6 119 (3.48%) OneDrive
7 118 (3.45%) SaaS
8 104 (3.04%) IaaS
9 90 (2.63%) PaaS
10 79 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
12 56 (1.64%) Amazon S3
13 55 (1.61%) Azure Sentinel
14 49 (1.43%) Mimecast
15 48 (1.40%) GitHub
16 39 (1.14%) Power Platform
17 34 (0.99%) Google Workspace
18 29 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 25 (0.73%) Serverless
20 24 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 809 (23.65%) WAN
2 802 (23.45%) VPN
3 790 (23.10%) DNS
4 677 (19.80%) LAN
5 518 (15.15%) DHCP
6 464 (13.57%) TCP/IP
7 393 (11.49%) Wireless
8 391 (11.43%) Network Security
9 385 (11.26%) Wi-Fi
10 352 (10.29%) VLAN
11 257 (7.51%) SD-WAN
12 242 (7.08%) SAN
13 212 (6.20%) Internet
14 185 (5.41%) MPLS
15 177 (5.18%) BGP
16 168 (4.91%) VoIP
17 153 (4.47%) Intrusion Detection
18 149 (4.36%) OSPF
19 124 (3.63%) SSL
20 111 (3.25%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (6.81%) SQL Server
2 71 (2.08%) MySQL
3 49 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 44 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
5 43 (1.26%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 25 (0.73%) Power BI
8 20 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (0.47%) Big Data
10 12 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 10 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.23%) DB2
12 8 (0.23%) MariaDB
12 8 (0.23%) Redis
12 8 (0.23%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.15%) CockroachDB
15 4 (0.12%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 94 (2.75%) JIRA
2 86 (2.51%) Jenkins
3 58 (1.70%) Git
4 27 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 27 (0.79%) GitLab
5 15 (0.44%) Subversion
6 13 (0.38%) Robot Framework
7 10 (0.29%) GNU Toolchain
7 10 (0.29%) Trac
8 8 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.20%) Katalon Studio
9 7 (0.20%) Spinnaker
9 7 (0.20%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.15%) Jaeger
11 4 (0.12%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.058%) Hudson
12 2 (0.058%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.058%) Selenium
General
1 1,008 (29.47%) Social Skills
2 438 (12.81%) Finance
3 284 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (5.35%) Telecoms
5 151 (4.42%) Law
6 122 (3.57%) Retail
7 117 (3.42%) Legal
8 85 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 82 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 78 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 78 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 72 (2.11%) Aerospace
12 65 (1.90%) Banking
13 55 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 55 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (1.43%) Games
15 44 (1.29%) Marketing
16 18 (0.53%) Police
17 17 (0.50%) Local Government
18 15 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 579 (16.93%) Network Engineer
2 495 (14.47%) Senior
3 463 (13.54%) IT Engineer
4 454 (13.27%) Support Engineer
5 450 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 412 (12.05%) IT Support
7 391 (11.43%) Analyst
8 271 (7.92%) IT Support Engineer
9 224 (6.55%) Lead
10 179 (5.23%) Architect
11 175 (5.12%) Security Analyst
12 173 (5.06%) 3rd Line Support
13 167 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
14 157 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 145 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
16 138 (4.04%) IT Manager
17 119 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
18 118 (3.45%) Consultant
19 114 (3.33%) Security Engineer
20 112 (3.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (1.84%) 802.1X
2 58 (1.70%) REST
3 56 (1.64%) YAML
4 42 (1.23%) HTML
5 38 (1.11%) .NET
6 34 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
7 33 (0.96%) SAML
8 29 (0.85%) OAuth
9 22 (0.64%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.64%) CSS
9 22 (0.64%) jQuery
10 20 (0.58%) XML
11 19 (0.56%) AngularJS
11 19 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
11 19 (0.56%) React
11 19 (0.56%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (0.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 19 (0.56%) Vue
11 19 (0.56%) WPF
12 18 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 385 (11.26%) Data Centre
2 262 (7.66%) Management Information System
3 204 (5.96%) Driving Licence
4 119 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
5 107 (3.13%) Public Cloud
6 106 (3.10%) Replication
7 89 (2.60%) PKI
8 82 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 81 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
10 70 (2.05%) Clustering
11 65 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
12 64 (1.87%) Onboarding
13 50 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
14 49 (1.43%) Client/Server
15 47 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
16 40 (1.17%) IoT
17 39 (1.14%) CCTV
17 39 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
18 36 (1.05%) Cyberattack
19 26 (0.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1,600 (46.78%) Windows
2 926 (27.08%) Windows Server
3 704 (20.58%) Linux
4 273 (7.98%) Windows 10
5 209 (6.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 169 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 167 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 88 (2.57%) Mac OS
9 86 (2.51%) Ubuntu
10 74 (2.16%) VMS
11 71 (2.08%) Unix
12 66 (1.93%) Apple iOS
13 56 (1.64%) Android
14 51 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
15 37 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 34 (0.99%) Data ONTAP
17 28 (0.82%) CentOS
18 21 (0.61%) Windows 7
19 18 (0.53%) Windows XP
20 17 (0.50%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (22.49%) Cybersecurity
2 762 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
3 576 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 477 (13.95%) ITIL
5 404 (11.81%) Customer Service
6 325 (9.50%) Agile
7 322 (9.42%) Information Security
8 298 (8.71%) SIEM
9 284 (8.30%) Disaster Recovery
10 253 (7.40%) DevOps
11 246 (7.19%) Mentoring
12 235 (6.87%) Project Management
13 221 (6.46%) Incident Response
14 183 (5.35%) Service Delivery
15 179 (5.23%) Migration
16 172 (5.03%) Project Delivery
17 168 (4.91%) Cloud Security
18 160 (4.68%) Kalman Filter
19 156 (4.56%) Security Operations
20 143 (4.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 437 (12.78%) PowerShell
2 306 (8.95%) SQL
3 296 (8.65%) Python
4 175 (5.12%) Bash
5 64 (1.87%) C#
6 58 (1.70%) Java
7 45 (1.32%) Perl
8 32 (0.94%) JavaScript
9 26 (0.76%) VBScript
10 25 (0.73%) Bicep
11 19 (0.56%) Ruby
11 19 (0.56%) XAML
12 16 (0.47%) C
13 14 (0.41%) C++
13 14 (0.41%) VB
14 12 (0.35%) PHP
15 11 (0.32%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.29%) RPG
17 6 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 455 (13.30%) Degree
2 453 (13.25%) Cisco Certification
3 429 (12.54%) Security Cleared
4 302 (8.83%) CCNA
5 246 (7.19%) CISSP
6 225 (6.58%) SC Cleared
7 202 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 194 (5.67%) CCNP
9 160 (4.68%) DV Cleared
10 107 (3.13%) Azure Certification
11 100 (2.92%) MCSE
12 98 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
13 93 (2.72%) CISM
14 70 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
15 66 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
16 62 (1.81%) CISA
17 58 (1.70%) MCSA
18 57 (1.67%) GIAC
19 50 (1.46%) AWS Certification
20 48 (1.40%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 158 (4.62%) SLA
3 152 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 149 (4.36%) NIST
5 136 (3.98%) GDPR
6 97 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 47 (1.37%) SOC 2
8 40 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (0.88%) QA
10 29 (0.85%) GRC
11 23 (0.67%) NCSC
12 21 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 20 (0.58%) COBIT
14 11 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 9 (0.26%) COSHH
15 9 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.15%) Accessibility
17 5 (0.15%) SOC 1
System Software
1 1,210 (35.38%) Active Directory
2 695 (20.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 584 (17.08%) Hyper-V
4 164 (4.80%) VMware ESXi
5 128 (3.74%) Docker
6 110 (3.22%) vSphere
7 94 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
8 77 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 41 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
10 32 (0.94%) XenApp
11 31 (0.91%) Firmware
11 31 (0.91%) VMware NSX
12 30 (0.88%) XenDesktop
13 26 (0.76%) Terminal Services
14 24 (0.70%) pfSense
15 18 (0.53%) NFS
16 16 (0.47%) vCloud
17 12 (0.35%) KVM
18 7 (0.20%) VMware Server
19 6 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 408 (11.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 233 (6.81%) Ansible
3 161 (4.71%) Kubernetes
4 158 (4.62%) SCCM
5 152 (4.44%) Terraform
6 123 (3.60%) FortiGate
7 100 (2.92%) WSUS
8 77 (2.25%) vCenter Server
9 70 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
10 59 (1.73%) SCOM
11 51 (1.49%) Prometheus
12 42 (1.23%) Puppet
13 38 (1.11%) ZABBIX
14 37 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 35 (1.02%) Nagios
16 33 (0.96%) Grafana
17 29 (0.85%) Progress Chef
18 25 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
19 22 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
20 19 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,482 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 1,003 (29.33%) VMware
3 917 (26.81%) Cisco
4 276 (8.07%) Veeam
5 269 (7.87%) Palo Alto
6 237 (6.93%) Juniper
7 225 (6.58%) Fortinet
8 199 (5.82%) Citrix
9 195 (5.70%) Meraki
10 178 (5.20%) Aruba
11 170 (4.97%) HP
12 153 (4.47%) CheckPoint
13 130 (3.80%) Dell
14 106 (3.10%) Google
15 95 (2.78%) Red Hat
16 91 (2.66%) SolarWinds
17 87 (2.54%) Sophos
18 85 (2.49%) NetApp
19 73 (2.13%) Apple
20 64 (1.87%) Oracle