Salary for Senior-level / Expert Firewall Engineer during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Firewall Engineer during 2025 is USD 106,117

✏️ This salary info is based on 12 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Firewall Engineer salary lies between USD 75,600 and USD 160,900 globally. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Firewall Engineer
Experience
Senior-level / Expert
Region
global/worldwide
Salary year
2025
Sample size
12
Top 10%
$ 172,000
Top 25%
$ 160,900
Median
$ 106,117
Bottom 25%
$ 75,600
Bottom 10%
$ 75,405

All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Senior-level / Expert Firewall Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with senior-level / expert Firewall Engineer job listings are Firewalls, Monitoring and Network security. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Firewalls | 13 jobs Monitoring | 9 jobs Network security | 8 jobs Cloud | 8 jobs VPN | 8 jobs Automation | 7 jobs Compliance | 7 jobs CCNP | 6 jobs IDS | 5 jobs IPS | 5 jobs AWS | 5 jobs CISSP | 5 jobs VMware | 5 jobs Computer Science | 5 jobs DNS | 4 jobs Azure | 4 jobs Windows | 4 jobs Clearance | 4 jobs Intrusion detection | 4 jobs Audits | 3 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Senior-level / Expert Firewall Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with senior-level / expert Firewall Engineer job listings are Career development, Equity / stock options and Flex hours. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 8 jobs Equity / stock options | 5 jobs Flex hours | 5 jobs Health care | 5 jobs Team events | 3 jobs 401(k) matching | 2 jobs Flex vacation | 2 jobs Transparency | 2 jobs Insurance | 2 jobs Parental leave | 1 jobs Wellness | 1 jobs Startup environment | 1 jobs Competitive pay | 1 jobs Conferences | 1 jobs Medical leave | 1 jobs Salary bonus | 1 jobs

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