NGFW Job Trends in Blackpool

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Lancashire > Blackpool

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Blackpool 1.53% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,446 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - -
75th Percentile £55,180 - -
90th Percentile £63,706 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £42,972 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Blackpool

NGFW 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 Blackpool.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 9 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Blackpool 4.96% 11.39% 13.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 16
10th Percentile £34,089 - £41,250
25th Percentile £46,446 £53,250 £41,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £57,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% +26.67% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £75,939 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £32,250 £25,472 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.61% -49.06% +14.29%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Blackpool

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in Blackpool

NGFW
Salary Histogram in Blackpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing NGFW in Blackpool over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for NGFW in Blackpool

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blackpool 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Network Operations Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) Aruba
2 3 (75.00%) NetScout
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto