Firewall Jobs in Blackburn

Firewall
Lancashire > Blackburn

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Blackburn 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 10 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 3.68% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 47.62% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,000 - -
90th Percentile £56,250 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Blackburn

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 Blackburn.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 21 17 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackburn 7.72% 18.48% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 4
10th Percentile £26,703 £22,489 £23,436
25th Percentile £41,250 £22,614 £23,799
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,000 £24,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.81% +33.33% -52.00%
75th Percentile £53,000 £33,750 £39,875
90th Percentile £54,800 £43,500 £68,450
Lancashire median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -9.00% +25.00% -11.11%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackburn

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Blackburn

Firewall
Salary Trend in Blackburn

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Blackburn

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Blackburn

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Blackburn over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Blackburn

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blackburn 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 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DHCP
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) IPv4
2 6 (60.00%) LAN
2 6 (60.00%) VLAN
3 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (30.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (30.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) BGP
5 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (10.00%) MPLS
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) OSPF
5 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 6 (60.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Unix
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Patch Management
4 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Network Design
5 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCIE
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Veeam
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco
4 3 (30.00%) Meraki
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) Sophos
4 3 (30.00%) Synology
5 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper