Firewall Jobs in the North West

Firewall
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 89 73 118
Rank change year-on-year -16 +45 -60
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 273 356 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.55% 4.83% 2.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.88% 22.29% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 233 246 214
10th Percentile £26,750 £33,875 £27,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £76,250 £70,700
England median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,193 1,597 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.14% 21.67% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 902 632 730
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,313 £37,375 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,875
90th Percentile £70,950 £74,875 £71,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North West.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North West 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
Manchester +2 143 £57,500 +11.49% 42
Cheshire -10 51 £37,500 -21.05% 12
Merseyside -19 41 £48,500 -11.82% 6
Lancashire -20 28 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Cumbria -15 10 £34,250 -23.89% 10
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 19 (6.96%) IIS
2 15 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.03%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.47%) CMS
4 4 (1.47%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 114 (41.76%) Azure
2 84 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (17.58%) AWS
4 27 (9.89%) GCP
5 13 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.03%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.03%) GitHub
7 9 (3.30%) IaaS
8 8 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.93%) PaaS
9 7 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (2.56%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.20%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (26.01%) WAN
2 61 (22.34%) LAN
3 60 (21.98%) DNS
4 54 (19.78%) VPN
5 47 (17.22%) TCP/IP
6 39 (14.29%) DHCP
7 38 (13.92%) Network Security
8 37 (13.55%) SD-WAN
9 33 (12.09%) Wireless
10 24 (8.79%) Internet
10 24 (8.79%) OSPF
11 23 (8.42%) IPsec
11 23 (8.42%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (8.06%) VLAN
13 21 (7.69%) SAN
14 20 (7.33%) BGP
15 17 (6.23%) Intrusion Detection
15 17 (6.23%) SSL
16 16 (5.86%) MPLS
17 14 (5.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.66%) MongoDB
3 5 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.83%) Power BI
4 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) MySQL
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 7 (2.56%) JIRA
2 4 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.47%) Spinnaker
3 3 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.37%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 78 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.85%) Finance
3 28 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.03%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.66%) Law
5 10 (3.66%) Retail
6 8 (2.93%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.56%) Military
8 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.20%) Legal
9 5 (1.83%) Banking
9 5 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (21.25%) Network Engineer
2 35 (12.82%) IT Engineer
3 32 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (11.36%) IT Support
5 30 (10.99%) Senior
6 23 (8.42%) Support Engineer
7 22 (8.06%) IT Manager
8 20 (7.33%) Analyst
8 20 (7.33%) Lead
9 17 (6.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 17 (6.23%) Infrastructure Manager
9 17 (6.23%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (5.49%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (4.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Consultant
12 10 (3.66%) NetApp Consultant
13 9 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.30%) Firewall Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (3.66%) YAML
2 5 (1.83%) .NET
3 4 (1.47%) Akka
3 4 (1.47%) Kafka
4 2 (0.73%) Web Services
5 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.37%) CSS
5 1 (0.37%) HTML
5 1 (0.37%) jQuery
5 1 (0.37%) React
5 1 (0.37%) REST
5 1 (0.37%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.37%) Vue
5 1 (0.37%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 20 (7.33%) Management Information System
3 17 (6.23%) Security Posture
4 14 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 12 (4.40%) PMI
6 11 (4.03%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (4.03%) Cyberattack
7 7 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (2.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.83%) CCTV
9 5 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.47%) PKI
11 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.10%) Smart Energy
12 2 (0.73%) Life Science
12 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 111 (40.66%) Windows
2 75 (27.47%) Windows Server
3 57 (20.88%) Linux
4 17 (6.23%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 11 (4.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (3.66%) Data ONTAP
6 10 (3.66%) VMS
7 7 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.47%) Android
8 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.10%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.73%) CentOS
10 2 (0.73%) Unix
10 2 (0.73%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (24.54%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (19.78%) ITIL
4 52 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 43 (15.75%) Disaster Recovery
6 42 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 34 (12.45%) Incident Response
8 32 (11.72%) Project Management
9 31 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.52%) Agile
11 25 (9.16%) Information Security
12 24 (8.79%) SIEM
13 21 (7.69%) Release Management
14 18 (6.59%) Computer Science
14 18 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (6.59%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 18 (6.59%) Line Management
14 18 (6.59%) Network Monitoring
14 18 (6.59%) Server Management
14 18 (6.59%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.72%) Python
2 18 (6.59%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.03%) Bash
4 8 (2.93%) SQL
5 6 (2.20%) Java
6 3 (1.10%) Go
6 3 (1.10%) Ruby
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
7 1 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 49 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (15.75%) Degree
3 32 (11.72%) CCNA
4 29 (10.62%) CCNP
5 18 (6.59%) CISSP
6 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.40%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.40%) PMI Certification
8 11 (4.03%) MCP
8 11 (4.03%) Security Cleared
9 7 (2.56%) CISM
10 6 (2.20%) CCIE
10 6 (2.20%) CISA
10 6 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.47%) CCNA CyberOps
12 4 (1.47%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (1.47%) CRISC
12 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (8.79%) SLA
3 15 (5.49%) NIST
4 11 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.83%) GDPR
6 5 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.10%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.37%) FISMA
9 1 (0.37%) HITRUST
9 1 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 88 (32.23%) Active Directory
2 75 (27.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (16.48%) Hyper-V
4 12 (4.40%) Docker
5 8 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.10%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.10%) vSphere
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.37%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) Postfix
9 1 (0.37%) Snort
9 1 (0.37%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 19 (6.96%) Kubernetes
1 19 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (4.76%) Ansible
3 12 (4.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (4.40%) Opsgenie
3 12 (4.40%) VxRail
3 12 (4.40%) ZABBIX
4 11 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.66%) Terraform
5 10 (3.66%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.56%) Nessus
7 3 (1.10%) SELinux
8 2 (0.73%) SCCM
8 2 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.73%) vRealize
9 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.37%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.37%) Nagios
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (44.69%) Microsoft
2 98 (35.90%) VMware
3 89 (32.60%) Cisco
4 45 (16.48%) Fortinet
5 24 (8.79%) Dell
6 22 (8.06%) NetApp
7 20 (7.33%) Aruba
7 20 (7.33%) Palo Alto
7 20 (7.33%) SolarWinds
8 15 (5.49%) HP
8 15 (5.49%) Meraki
9 14 (5.13%) Citrix
9 14 (5.13%) Juniper
10 13 (4.76%) Ubiquiti
11 11 (4.03%) Red Hat
12 10 (3.66%) SolidFire
13 9 (3.30%) ESET
13 9 (3.30%) Sophos
14 7 (2.56%) Extreme Networks
14 7 (2.56%) Google