Salary for Senior-level / Expert Firewall Engineer during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Senior-level / Expert Firewall Engineer during 2025 is USD 111,417

✏️ This salary info is based on 28 individual salaries reported during 2025

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Salary details

The average senior-level / expert Firewall Engineer salary lies between USD 82,969 and USD 143,700 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
28
Top 10%
$ 184,392
Top 25%
$ 143,700
Median
$ 111,417
Bottom 25%
$ 82,969
Bottom 10%
$ 68,400

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, Network security and VPN. 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 | 34 jobs Network security | 26 jobs VPN | 22 jobs Monitoring | 20 jobs Cloud | 17 jobs Compliance | 16 jobs Computer Science | 15 jobs IDS | 14 jobs Automation | 14 jobs CCNP | 13 jobs CISSP | 12 jobs Clearance | 12 jobs IPS | 11 jobs AWS | 11 jobs VMware | 11 jobs Incident response | 10 jobs Intrusion detection | 10 jobs Azure | 8 jobs Windows | 8 jobs Ansible | 8 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, Flex hours and Health care. 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 | 24 jobs Flex hours | 10 jobs Health care | 10 jobs Team events | 10 jobs Startup environment | 7 jobs Wellness | 6 jobs Equity / stock options | 5 jobs Flex vacation | 5 jobs Competitive pay | 5 jobs Insurance | 4 jobs 401(k) matching | 3 jobs Transparency | 3 jobs Parental leave | 2 jobs Conferences | 2 jobs Relocation support | 2 jobs Medical leave | 2 jobs Salary bonus | 2 jobs

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