Firewall Job Trends in Chester

Firewall
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 0.42% - 2.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.11% - 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £41,500
25th Percentile £46,250 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.32%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - £65,000
Cheshire median annual salary £42,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -21.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 3 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 3.77% 3.90% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile - £24,400 £35,175
25th Percentile - £25,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £24,000 £28,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -53.33% -
75th Percentile £45,000 - £62,500
90th Percentile £45,750 - £70,500
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £26,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +44.23% -38.82% -9.57%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Chester

Firewall
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware