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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 35 63
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 +9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 54 149 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.10% 5.16% 4.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.89% 39.31% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 46 135 67
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,188 £36,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £46,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% -25.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £68,002
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £80,250
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year - -1.10% -4.21%

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 226 379 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.15% 13.12% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 135 306 198
10th Percentile £33,000 £26,750 £27,675
25th Percentile £43,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £45,988 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -16.39% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £80,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -2.08%

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 28 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 21 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (16.67%) Confluence
3 2 (3.70%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 28 (51.85%) Azure
2 26 (48.15%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (38.89%) AWS
4 16 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (24.07%) Amazon S3
5 13 (24.07%) AWS KMS
5 13 (24.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 12 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (22.22%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (18.52%) Amazon Glacier
8 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 6 (11.11%) Route 53
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (7.41%) Serverless
10 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (61.11%) WAN
2 27 (50.00%) LAN
3 16 (29.63%) DNS
4 14 (25.93%) VPN
5 9 (16.67%) DHCP
6 8 (14.81%) Network Security
7 7 (12.96%) SD-WAN
8 6 (11.11%) VLAN
9 5 (9.26%) FTP
9 5 (9.26%) HTTP
9 5 (9.26%) SMTP
9 5 (9.26%) SSH
10 4 (7.41%) HTTPS
10 4 (7.41%) SSL
10 4 (7.41%) TCP/IP
11 2 (3.70%) IMAP
11 2 (3.70%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (3.70%) Wireless
12 1 (1.85%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) MySQL
3 1 (1.85%) Power BI
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 12 (22.22%) Vagrant
3 10 (18.52%) Git
4 9 (16.67%) JIRA
5 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
5 1 (1.85%) German Language
Job Titles
1 26 (48.15%) Support Engineer
2 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 13 (24.07%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) 3rd Line Support
3 13 (24.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 6 (11.11%) Replication
3 4 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 41 (75.93%) Windows
2 27 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (27.78%) Linux
4 15 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (22.22%) VMS
6 6 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 6 (11.11%) Windows 10
7 5 (9.26%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.85%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure Management
2 18 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (29.63%) Mentoring
4 15 (27.78%) Data Security
4 15 (27.78%) Network Design
5 14 (25.93%) DevOps
6 13 (24.07%) Cloud Security
7 12 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) Agile
9 10 (18.52%) Patch Management
10 9 (16.67%) Change Management
11 8 (14.81%) ITIL
11 8 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (11.11%) Customer Service
12 6 (11.11%) Logistics
13 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (9.26%) Security Operations
14 4 (7.41%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) PowerShell
2 13 (24.07%) Python
3 12 (22.22%) Groovy
4 6 (11.11%) Java
4 6 (11.11%) Perl
5 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.56%) Ruby
6 3 (5.56%) SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) Azure Certification
4 6 (11.11%) A+ Certification
4 6 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 6 (11.11%) MCP
4 6 (11.11%) MCSA
5 4 (7.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (7.41%) Degree
6 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.70%) CCNA
8 1 (1.85%) CCNP
8 1 (1.85%) CCSA
8 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.85%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.85%) NIST
1 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (74.07%) Active Directory
2 17 (31.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (27.78%) XenApp
4 9 (16.67%) Docker
4 9 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (11.11%) DFS Replication
6 4 (7.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.70%) Dovecot
7 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.70%) Postfix
7 2 (3.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 19 (35.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (24.07%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) Grafana
3 9 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 8 (14.81%) Ansible
5 6 (11.11%) Nessus
5 6 (11.11%) Proxmox
6 4 (7.41%) Nagios
7 1 (1.85%) SCCM
7 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (38.89%) Cisco
2 18 (33.33%) Meraki
3 17 (31.48%) VMware
4 16 (29.63%) CheckPoint
4 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
5 15 (27.78%) Citrix
5 15 (27.78%) SonicWALL
6 10 (18.52%) Juniper
7 9 (16.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (5.56%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (1.85%) Aruba
10 1 (1.85%) Avaya
10 1 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.85%) Databricks
10 1 (1.85%) HP
10 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.85%) Veeam