Firewall
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 75 126
Rank change year-on-year +11 +51 -46
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 3,727 4,068 5,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.73% 4.10% 3.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.65% 26.03% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,117 2,809 3,542
10th Percentile £27,400 £31,250 £29,025
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,357 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,750
% change year-on-year -5.56% -1.64% +1.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,478 15,631 21,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.76% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,898 11,750
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,580 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK

Firewall
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +25 3,422 £49,000 -2.00% 748
UK excluding London +13 2,738 £42,500 -5.56% 605
Work from Home +11 1,326 £52,500 -4.55% 306
London +10 878 £65,000 +8.33% 209
South East +21 829 £42,500 -5.56% 159
North of England +10 603 £42,500 -10.53% 155
Midlands +30 519 £45,000 - 114
South West +9 347 £45,000 +6.51% 87
West Midlands +46 342 £45,000 -1.39% 65
Yorkshire +50 269 £45,000 -2.70% 61
North West -15 266 £50,000 - 80
East of England +26 253 £41,500 -2.35% 42
East Midlands 0 173 £41,250 -2.37% 49
Scotland -120 99 £50,000 +7.82% 40
Wales +10 85 £40,500 -10.00% 16
North East +4 80 £40,000 -5.88% 14
Northern Ireland -11 21 £37,500 - 7
Isle of Man -4 16 £46,500 +3.33% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £100,000 - 1

Firewall
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:

Application Platforms
1 539 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 414 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 121 (3.25%) IIS
4 72 (1.93%) Apache
5 38 (1.02%) Confluence
6 26 (0.70%) nginx
7 24 (0.64%) Skype for Business
8 23 (0.62%) WordPress
9 18 (0.48%) CMS
9 18 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
10 17 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
11 12 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
11 12 (0.32%) SharePoint 2013
12 11 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (0.24%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.19%) Apache Spark
14 7 (0.19%) SAS
15 6 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2000
16 5 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 4 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 306 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.11%) Trello
6 3 (0.080%) SPSS
7 1 (0.027%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (0.43%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (0.11%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.080%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.054%) Shopify
5 1 (0.027%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.027%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.027%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1,708 (45.83%) Azure
2 1,371 (36.79%) Microsoft 365
3 566 (15.19%) AWS
4 420 (11.27%) Entra ID
5 171 (4.59%) GCP
6 139 (3.73%) IaaS
7 132 (3.54%) SaaS
8 124 (3.33%) OneDrive
9 122 (3.27%) PaaS
10 92 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
11 83 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
12 79 (2.12%) Amazon S3
13 65 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
14 48 (1.29%) GitHub
14 48 (1.29%) Mimecast
15 41 (1.10%) Power Platform
16 39 (1.05%) Google Workspace
17 29 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 29 (0.78%) Serverless
18 24 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 910 (24.42%) VPN
2 905 (24.28%) WAN
3 857 (22.99%) DNS
4 749 (20.10%) LAN
5 561 (15.05%) DHCP
6 517 (13.87%) TCP/IP
7 453 (12.15%) Wireless
8 449 (12.05%) Network Security
9 402 (10.79%) Wi-Fi
10 385 (10.33%) VLAN
11 292 (7.83%) SD-WAN
12 256 (6.87%) Internet
13 254 (6.82%) SAN
14 203 (5.45%) MPLS
15 189 (5.07%) BGP
16 175 (4.70%) VoIP
17 168 (4.51%) Intrusion Detection
18 160 (4.29%) OSPF
19 149 (4.00%) IPsec
20 123 (3.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 72 (1.93%) MySQL
3 69 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
4 63 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 48 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (0.70%) Power BI
8 20 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (0.54%) Big Data
9 12 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 10 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.21%) CockroachDB
11 8 (0.21%) DB2
11 8 (0.21%) MariaDB
11 8 (0.21%) Redis
11 8 (0.21%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.11%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.11%) Metabase
Development Applications
1 100 (2.68%) JIRA
2 94 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 59 (1.58%) Git
4 28 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 27 (0.72%) GitLab
6 15 (0.40%) Subversion
7 13 (0.35%) Robot Framework
8 11 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (0.27%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (0.27%) Trac
10 8 (0.21%) Jaeger
11 7 (0.19%) Katalon Studio
11 7 (0.19%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.11%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.11%) Rational DOORS
14 3 (0.080%) Maven
15 2 (0.054%) Selenium
General
1 1,066 (28.60%) Social Skills
2 490 (13.15%) Finance
3 300 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 155 (4.16%) Law
6 125 (3.35%) Retail
7 117 (3.14%) Legal
8 112 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 97 (2.60%) Public Sector
10 90 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 81 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
12 74 (1.99%) Aerospace
13 65 (1.74%) Banking
14 58 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 55 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
16 49 (1.31%) Games
17 44 (1.18%) Marketing
18 30 (0.80%) Police
19 22 (0.59%) Local Government
20 17 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 646 (17.33%) Network Engineer
2 572 (15.35%) Senior
3 487 (13.07%) IT Engineer
4 478 (12.83%) Support Engineer
5 469 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 434 (11.64%) IT Support
7 427 (11.46%) Analyst
8 276 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
9 242 (6.49%) Lead
10 203 (5.45%) Architect
11 195 (5.23%) Senior Network Engineer
12 184 (4.94%) Security Analyst
13 180 (4.83%) 3rd Line Support
14 171 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 161 (4.32%) Consultant
16 158 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support
17 150 (4.02%) IT Manager
18 130 (3.49%) Security Engineer
19 122 (3.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
20 120 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (2.07%) YAML
2 63 (1.69%) 802.1X
3 58 (1.56%) REST
4 54 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
5 42 (1.13%) HTML
6 38 (1.02%) .NET
7 36 (0.97%) SAML
8 29 (0.78%) OAuth
9 22 (0.59%) ASP.NET
9 22 (0.59%) CSS
9 22 (0.59%) jQuery
10 20 (0.54%) Kafka
10 20 (0.54%) XML
11 19 (0.51%) AngularJS
11 19 (0.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 19 (0.51%) React
11 19 (0.51%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (0.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 19 (0.51%) Vue
11 19 (0.51%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 482 (12.93%) Data Centre
2 282 (7.57%) Management Information System
3 220 (5.90%) Driving Licence
4 129 (3.46%) Replication
5 128 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 126 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 90 (2.41%) PKI
8 89 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
9 84 (2.25%) Security Posture
10 73 (1.96%) Clustering
11 72 (1.93%) Onboarding
12 67 (1.80%) Security Operations Centre
13 52 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
14 49 (1.31%) Client/Server
15 46 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
16 43 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
17 41 (1.10%) IoT
18 39 (1.05%) CCTV
18 39 (1.05%) Cyberattack
19 34 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1,730 (46.42%) Windows
2 1,015 (27.23%) Windows Server
3 786 (21.09%) Linux
4 280 (7.51%) Windows 10
5 217 (5.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 184 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 182 (4.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 101 (2.71%) Mac OS
9 91 (2.44%) Ubuntu
10 78 (2.09%) Unix
11 77 (2.07%) VMS
12 75 (2.01%) Apple iOS
13 61 (1.64%) Android
14 55 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
15 54 (1.45%) Data ONTAP
16 37 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 36 (0.97%) CentOS
18 26 (0.70%) Windows 7
19 18 (0.48%) Windows XP
20 17 (0.46%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
2 828 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 604 (16.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 523 (14.03%) ITIL
5 444 (11.91%) Customer Service
6 339 (9.10%) Information Security
7 333 (8.93%) Agile
8 329 (8.83%) Disaster Recovery
9 311 (8.34%) SIEM
10 291 (7.81%) DevOps
11 278 (7.46%) Mentoring
12 266 (7.14%) Project Management
13 241 (6.47%) Incident Response
14 208 (5.58%) Migration
15 196 (5.26%) Service Delivery
16 189 (5.07%) Actionable Insight
16 189 (5.07%) Cloud Security
16 189 (5.07%) Project Delivery
17 166 (4.45%) Security Operations
18 164 (4.40%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 447 (11.99%) PowerShell
2 329 (8.83%) SQL
3 323 (8.67%) Python
4 183 (4.91%) Bash
5 64 (1.72%) C#
6 61 (1.64%) Java
7 46 (1.23%) Perl
8 32 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 26 (0.70%) Bicep
9 26 (0.70%) VBScript
10 20 (0.54%) Ruby
11 19 (0.51%) XAML
12 16 (0.43%) C
13 14 (0.38%) C++
13 14 (0.38%) VB
14 12 (0.32%) PHP
14 12 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.27%) RPG
16 6 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 536 (14.38%) Cisco Certification
2 508 (13.63%) Degree
3 497 (13.34%) Security Cleared
4 360 (9.66%) CCNA
5 286 (7.67%) SC Cleared
6 267 (7.16%) CISSP
7 225 (6.04%) CCNP
8 218 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 163 (4.37%) DV Cleared
10 118 (3.17%) Azure Certification
11 117 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 105 (2.82%) CISM
12 105 (2.82%) MCSE
13 74 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
14 72 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
15 62 (1.66%) CISA
16 60 (1.61%) MCSA
17 59 (1.58%) GIAC
18 58 (1.56%) AWS Certification
19 56 (1.50%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 282 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 166 (4.45%) SLA
3 163 (4.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 163 (4.37%) NIST
4 141 (3.78%) GDPR
5 101 (2.71%) PCI DSS
6 48 (1.29%) SOC 2
7 46 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 29 (0.78%) GRC
8 29 (0.78%) QA
9 23 (0.62%) NCSC
10 21 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.54%) COBIT
12 11 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 9 (0.24%) COSHH
13 9 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 8 (0.21%) ISO 22301
15 7 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.16%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,277 (34.26%) Active Directory
2 767 (20.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 603 (16.18%) Hyper-V
4 170 (4.56%) VMware ESXi
5 152 (4.08%) Docker
6 115 (3.09%) vSphere
7 103 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
8 85 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 45 (1.21%) VMware NSX
10 41 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
11 32 (0.86%) Firmware
11 32 (0.86%) XenApp
12 30 (0.80%) Terminal Services
12 30 (0.80%) XenDesktop
13 24 (0.64%) pfSense
14 18 (0.48%) NFS
15 16 (0.43%) vCloud
16 12 (0.32%) KVM
17 7 (0.19%) VMware Server
18 6 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 427 (11.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 280 (7.51%) Ansible
3 195 (5.23%) Terraform
4 191 (5.12%) Kubernetes
5 157 (4.21%) SCCM
6 139 (3.73%) FortiGate
7 101 (2.71%) WSUS
8 97 (2.60%) vCenter Server
9 73 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
10 71 (1.91%) Prometheus
11 59 (1.58%) SCOM
12 44 (1.18%) Puppet
13 38 (1.02%) ZABBIX
14 37 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 35 (0.94%) Nagios
16 33 (0.89%) Grafana
17 29 (0.78%) Progress Chef
18 25 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
19 23 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
20 19 (0.51%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 1,597 (42.85%) Microsoft
2 1,092 (29.30%) VMware
3 1,058 (28.39%) Cisco
4 325 (8.72%) Palo Alto
5 290 (7.78%) Veeam
6 262 (7.03%) Fortinet
6 262 (7.03%) Juniper
7 227 (6.09%) Meraki
8 207 (5.55%) Citrix
9 179 (4.80%) Aruba
10 177 (4.75%) CheckPoint
11 171 (4.59%) HP
12 131 (3.51%) Dell
13 118 (3.17%) NetApp
14 115 (3.09%) Google
14 115 (3.09%) Red Hat
15 93 (2.50%) SolarWinds
16 92 (2.47%) Sophos
17 79 (2.12%) Oracle
18 73 (1.96%) Apple