Firewall Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 50 41 81
Rank change year-on-year -9 +40 -27
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 52 56 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.51% 6.15% 1.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.89% 25.23% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 48 54 17
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,699 £23,700
25th Percentile £36,500 £36,813 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year - +34.92% -35.71%
75th Percentile £55,313 £48,750 £41,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,250 £42,700
North East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -15.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 174 222 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.73% 24.40% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 162 92 65
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,750 £23,550
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,938 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -8.05%
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £53,658
90th Percentile £72,047 £63,750 £75,000
North East median annual salary £42,500 £40,865 £40,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.16% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

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

Salary histogram for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 46 £42,500 - 4
Gateshead +2 3 £40,000 +70.21% 1
Sunderland - 3 £50,000 -
Firewall
North East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.85%) Slack
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Dropbox
6 1 (1.92%) Google Drive
6 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.92%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) VPN
1 10 (19.23%) WAN
2 9 (17.31%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (15.38%) LAN
4 6 (11.54%) DNS
4 6 (11.54%) Network Security
5 5 (9.62%) SSL
5 5 (9.62%) VoIP
5 5 (9.62%) Wireless
6 3 (5.77%) BGP
6 3 (5.77%) DMZ
6 3 (5.77%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (5.77%) IPsec
6 3 (5.77%) MPLS
6 3 (5.77%) OSPF
6 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.85%) HTTPS
7 2 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.92%) DHCP
8 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) GitLab
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 26 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.62%) Legal
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Retail
5 3 (5.77%) Law
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Analyst
1 12 (23.08%) Security Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) Lead
2 9 (17.31%) Network Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Team Leader
3 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 7 (13.46%) Network Infrastructure Team Leader
3 7 (13.46%) Network Specialist
3 7 (13.46%) Network Team Leader
3 7 (13.46%) Project Leader
4 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (7.69%) IT Support
4 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Help Desk Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Presales Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Presales Network Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Service Desk Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Management Information System
2 8 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) PKI
4 2 (3.85%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) IoT
4 2 (3.85%) Robotics
4 2 (3.85%) Tandem
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (42.31%) Windows
2 18 (34.62%) Windows Server
3 8 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Unix
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Network Architecture
2 13 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (23.08%) SIEM
4 11 (21.15%) Cloud Security
5 9 (17.31%) Document Management
5 9 (17.31%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.38%) Security Management
6 8 (15.38%) User Experience
6 8 (15.38%) Web Filtering
6 8 (15.38%) Zero Trust
7 7 (13.46%) Business Case
7 7 (13.46%) Cloud Operations
7 7 (13.46%) Information Security
7 7 (13.46%) Migration
7 7 (13.46%) Project Delivery
7 7 (13.46%) Threat Analysis
8 6 (11.54%) Threat Intelligence
9 5 (9.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) Bash
1 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.77%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 4 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.77%) CCNA
2 3 (5.77%) CCNP
2 3 (5.77%) CISSP
2 3 (5.77%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (5.77%) DV Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) CISA
3 2 (3.85%) CISMP
3 2 (3.85%) GIAC
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.85%) SANS
3 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.92%) CISM
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) GSEC
4 1 (1.92%) SSCP
4 1 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (21.15%) NIST
2 9 (17.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (7.69%) SLA
4 2 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Autotask
Vendors
1 21 (40.38%) Cisco
2 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (23.08%) VMware
4 9 (17.31%) Aruba
5 8 (15.38%) Palo Alto
6 7 (13.46%) Juniper
7 6 (11.54%) CheckPoint
8 5 (9.62%) Intel
9 3 (5.77%) Fortinet
9 3 (5.77%) Meraki
10 2 (3.85%) Forcepoint
11 1 (1.92%) Citrix
11 1 (1.92%) Draytek
11 1 (1.92%) Google
11 1 (1.92%) iManage
11 1 (1.92%) LogRhythm
11 1 (1.92%) Rapid7
11 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.92%) Splunk
11 1 (1.92%) Synology