Firewall Job Trends in Belfast

Firewall
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 32 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 12 16 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 3.54% 5.57% 9.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.67% 42.11% 50.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 23
10th Percentile - - £30,300
25th Percentile £30,750 £55,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,625 £60,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.63% +60.00% -12.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £52,750
90th Percentile £59,425 - £69,300
County Antrim median annual salary £32,625 £60,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -45.63% +60.00% -12.79%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Belfast

Firewall falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 45 38 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 13.27% 13.24% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 36 6 45
10th Percentile £30,750 £46,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,219 £57,368 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,077 £69,308 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% +54.02% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £84,161 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £69,845
County Antrim median annual salary £44,077 £69,308 £42,500
% change year-on-year -36.40% +63.08% -7.61%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Belfast

Firewall
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Belfast over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Belfast

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) LAN
2 8 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (33.33%) MPLS
3 4 (33.33%) WLAN
4 3 (25.00%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (25.00%) Wireless
5 2 (16.67%) Internet
5 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 2 (16.67%) SNA
6 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
3 4 (33.33%) Change Control
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Network Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CCSP
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (66.67%) Juniper
3 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Aruba