Firewall Jobs in Cumbria

Firewall
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 35 13
Rank change year-on-year -66 -22 +9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 10 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 0.46% 2.14% 12.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.13% 11.11% 61.54%
Number of salaries quoted 9 10 23
10th Percentile £34,179 £24,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £29,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £34,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +54.74% -23.89% -30.77%
75th Percentile £61,250 £37,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £63,500 £40,000 -
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 90 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 2.83% 19.23% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26 46 25
10th Percentile - £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £23,504 £29,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,300 £36,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £50,313 £61,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £59,375 £70,000 -
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Salary Trend in Cumbria

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Cumbria

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Cumbria over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Cumbria

Firewall
Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 16 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
Kendal - 4 £56,250 -
Barrow-in-Furness - 3 £61,250 -
Keswick +2 1 £32,000 - 3
Workington - 1 £35,698 -
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (20.00%) HSRP
2 2 (20.00%) IPsec
2 2 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Junior
1 4 (40.00%) Junior Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Junior Solutions Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Housing Association
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Presales
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (10.00%) Data Security
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (10.00%) Housing Management
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Server Management
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Progress 4GL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNA
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (40.00%) JNCIA
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) cPanel
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (40.00%) Aruba
3 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 4 (40.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (10.00%) Capita
5 1 (10.00%) ConnectWise
5 1 (10.00%) Datto
5 1 (10.00%) ESET
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee
5 1 (10.00%) Meraki
5 1 (10.00%) Progress
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) Sophos
5 1 (10.00%) Tripwire
5 1 (10.00%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (10.00%) Veeam