NGFW Jobs in the West Midlands

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for NGFW skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited NGFW over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 264 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 20 10 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.15% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.01% 0.87% -
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 0
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,788 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £63,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £74,375 -
90th Percentile - £75,250 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +8.25% -20.82% -23.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

NGFW 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 996 1,153 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.78% 17.14% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 826 530 717
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,863 £26,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing NGFW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for NGFW in the West Midlands

NGFW
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing NGFW in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for NGFW in the West Midlands

NGFW
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing NGFW in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for NGFW in the West Midlands

NGFW
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Birmingham +4 15 £110,000 +57.14% 1
Worcestershire - 5 £52,500 - 1
NGFW
England

NGFW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 14 (70.00%) IaaS
3 11 (55.00%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (50.00%) PaaS
5 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
1 10 (50.00%) VPN
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (20.00%) DHCP
3 4 (20.00%) DNS
3 4 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (5.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (5.00%) Finance
1 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (5.00%) Police
1 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.00%) Retail
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
1 10 (50.00%) Citrix Architect
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 10 (50.00%) JSON
1 10 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 10 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
1 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 10 (50.00%) Network Design
1 10 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 10 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (20.00%) Web Filtering
3 1 (5.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (5.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (50.00%) vSphere
3 5 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Citrix
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco
4 5 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 4 (20.00%) Aruba
5 4 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
5 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (20.00%) Sophos
5 4 (20.00%) Veeam
6 1 (5.00%) Dell
6 1 (5.00%) HP
6 1 (5.00%) NetApp