Firewall Jobs in Cheshire

Firewall
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -29 -2 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 16 50 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.08% 3.18% 4.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.64% 26.32% 19.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16 43 25
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £38,750 £62,500 £96,250
90th Percentile - £64,974 £100,000
North West median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 345 190 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.86% 12.09% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 147 154 112
10th Percentile £20,280 £24,840 £25,420
25th Percentile - £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,504 £37,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.74% -11.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £24,002 £53,438 £55,000
90th Percentile £40,000 £62,500 £75,000
North West median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% +2.15%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Cheshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington +14 4 £35,000 +12.00% 37
Middlewich - 2 £37,500 -
Knutsford +8 1 £80,000 +128.57% 1
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (62.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DHCP
1 9 (56.25%) DNS
2 6 (37.50%) LAN
2 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (37.50%) WAN
3 3 (18.75%) VoIP
General
1 14 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Automotive
3 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Technical Support
2 9 (56.25%) Support Specialist
3 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 7 (43.75%) Senior Technical Support
4 6 (37.50%) Technical Specialist
4 6 (37.50%) Technical Support Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) IT Support
5 3 (18.75%) IT Support Specialist
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Technical Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (37.50%) Time Management
4 3 (18.75%) Coaching
4 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (18.75%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (18.75%) Server Management
5 1 (6.25%) Application Security
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
5 1 (6.25%) Presales
5 1 (6.25%) Product Management
5 1 (6.25%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) MCSE
2 3 (18.75%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
1 9 (56.25%) Fortinet
1 9 (56.25%) Meraki
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
1 9 (56.25%) SonicWALL
1 9 (56.25%) WatchGuard
2 3 (18.75%) Acronis
2 3 (18.75%) Kaseya
2 3 (18.75%) Sage
2 3 (18.75%) VMware