Firewall Jobs in Birmingham

Firewall
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 34 55
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 +22
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 46 149 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.28% 5.40% 4.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.72% 39.31% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40 135 70
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £41,125
25th Percentile £38,313 £36,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -25.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £69,375
90th Percentile - £78,250 £82,625
West Midlands median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £45,375
% change year-on-year -1.11% -0.83% +0.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 222 379 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.85% 13.75% 14.82%
Number of salaries quoted 133 309 202
10th Percentile £34,100 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,250 £32,750 £34,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -15.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £80,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £46,000 £43,227 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.41% -3.94% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Birmingham

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 20 (43.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Azure
2 27 (58.70%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (26.09%) AWS
4 8 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.87%) AWS KMS
6 5 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (8.70%) Route 53
7 4 (8.70%) Serverless
8 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (69.57%) WAN
2 26 (56.52%) LAN
3 14 (30.43%) VPN
4 11 (23.91%) DNS
5 9 (19.57%) DHCP
5 9 (19.57%) VLAN
6 7 (15.22%) SD-WAN
7 6 (13.04%) Network Security
8 4 (8.70%) HTTPS
8 4 (8.70%) SSL
8 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
8 4 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (8.70%) Wireless
9 2 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.17%) BGP
10 1 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.17%) MPLS
10 1 (2.17%) NAS
10 1 (2.17%) SAN
10 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (8.70%) Vagrant
3 2 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.17%) Finance
3 1 (2.17%) German Language
3 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Support Engineer
2 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 12 (26.09%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 12 (26.09%) 3rd Line Support
3 12 (26.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Network Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.17%) NHS
2 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Replication
2 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 34 (73.91%) Windows
2 29 (63.04%) Windows Server
3 20 (43.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (15.22%) Linux
6 6 (13.04%) Windows 10
7 4 (8.70%) Ubuntu
7 4 (8.70%) VMS
8 1 (2.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Infrastructure Management
2 17 (36.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (32.61%) Mentoring
4 14 (30.43%) Data Security
4 14 (30.43%) Network Design
5 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) Agile
7 7 (15.22%) DevOps
8 6 (13.04%) Cloud Security
8 6 (13.04%) Customer Service
8 6 (13.04%) Logistics
9 5 (10.87%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (10.87%) ITIL
9 5 (10.87%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (10.87%) Patch Management
10 4 (8.70%) Capacity Management
10 4 (8.70%) Privileged Identity Management
10 4 (8.70%) Security Operations
10 4 (8.70%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 4 (8.70%) Groovy
3 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.52%) Java
4 3 (6.52%) Perl
4 3 (6.52%) Ruby
5 1 (2.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (13.04%) A+ Certification
2 6 (13.04%) MCP
2 6 (13.04%) MCSA
3 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.35%) CCNA
6 2 (4.35%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) CCNP
7 1 (2.17%) CCSA
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.17%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (82.61%) Active Directory
2 18 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (30.43%) XenApp
4 9 (19.57%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (8.70%) Docker
5 4 (8.70%) Hyper-V
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.17%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.04%) Ansible
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 4 (8.70%) Nagios
3 4 (8.70%) Nessus
3 4 (8.70%) Proxmox
4 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Cisco
2 19 (41.30%) Meraki
2 19 (41.30%) Microsoft
3 18 (39.13%) VMware
4 15 (32.61%) CheckPoint
5 14 (30.43%) Citrix
5 14 (30.43%) SonicWALL
6 7 (15.22%) Juniper
7 5 (10.87%) Acronis
8 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
8 3 (6.52%) HP
8 3 (6.52%) WatchGuard
9 2 (4.35%) Okta
9 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.17%) Aruba
10 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (2.17%) Databricks
10 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.17%) Veeam