Firewall Engineer Jobs

Firewall Engineer
UK

The median Firewall Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 916 1221
Rank change year-on-year +29 +305 -312
Permanent jobs requiring a Firewall Engineer 20 31 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.033% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.036% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 19 21 38
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 -
25th Percentile £50,625 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +15.79% +8.32%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,750 £54,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,500 £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +76.67% +7.14% -21.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Firewall Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Firewall Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall Engineer in the UK

Firewall Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London -29 19 £66,250 +76.67%
England +23 16 £62,500 +13.64% 5
Work from Home +44 14 £62,500 +10.62%
North of England +33 9 £75,000 +51.52%
North West -1 9 £75,000 +36.36%
Yorkshire +70 8 £75,000 +172.73%
East of England +6 8 £75,000 +100.00%
Midlands -13 7 £62,500 +66.67%
West Midlands -14 7 £62,500 +66.67%
South East -2 5 £62,500 -
North East -9 3 £62,500 +73.61%
South West - 3 £32,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 -

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Firewall Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Firewall Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) SD-WAN
3 10 (50.00%) LAN
3 10 (50.00%) WLAN
3 10 (50.00%) WAN
4 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (40.00%) Presales
5 8 (40.00%) Cisco
6 7 (35.00%) Network Security
6 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (30.00%) VPN
7 6 (30.00%) DNS
8 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (25.00%) Business Development
8 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
8 5 (25.00%) CCNA
9 4 (20.00%) ITIL
9 4 (20.00%) Finance
9 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
9 4 (20.00%) Azure
9 4 (20.00%) Terraform
10 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
10 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (15.00%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 3 (15.00%) AWS
10 3 (15.00%) Reverse Engineering
10 3 (15.00%) SIEM
10 3 (15.00%) Forcepoint
10 3 (15.00%) WatchGuard

Firewall Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) SD-WAN
3 10 (50.00%) LAN
3 10 (50.00%) WAN
3 10 (50.00%) WLAN
4 7 (35.00%) Network Security
5 6 (30.00%) DNS
5 6 (30.00%) VPN
6 3 (15.00%) BGP
6 3 (15.00%) DMZ
6 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (15.00%) IPsec
6 3 (15.00%) MPLS
6 3 (15.00%) OSPF
6 3 (15.00%) SSL
6 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (10.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 3 (15.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Presales
3 5 (25.00%) Business Development
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Patch Management
5 3 (15.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) SIEM
5 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Change Control
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
6 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity
7 1 (5.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) CCNA
3 2 (10.00%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Cisco
2 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (15.00%) Forcepoint
4 3 (15.00%) Meraki
4 3 (15.00%) Sophos
4 3 (15.00%) WatchGuard
5 2 (10.00%) Juniper
5 2 (10.00%) Snow
5 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) Zscaler