Firewall Job Trends in the East Midlands

Firewall
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 54 52
Rank change year-on-year -48 -2 +38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 63 53 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.47% 3.57% 4.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.49% 25.85% 30.78%
Number of salaries quoted 45 47 156
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +3.03% -2.94%
75th Percentile £45,000 £55,944 £56,250
90th Percentile £51,600 £67,500 £59,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 382 205 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.91% 13.80% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 174 154 446
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -1.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,125 £59,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Firewall
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the East Midlands

Firewall
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Leicestershire -24 26 £40,000 - 7
Nottinghamshire -6 14 £27,500 -17.29% 4
Northamptonshire -28 13 £42,500 -15.00% 8
Derbyshire -20 8 £30,000 -14.29% 2
Lincolnshire -30 2 £62,500 +95.31% 1
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (15.87%) SharePoint
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 30 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (28.57%) Azure
3 17 (26.98%) Entra ID
4 9 (14.29%) Mimecast
5 7 (11.11%) AWS
6 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.76%) IaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) GCP
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.05%) LAN
1 12 (19.05%) WAN
2 10 (15.87%) VPN
3 8 (12.70%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (11.11%) DNS
4 7 (11.11%) Internet
5 6 (9.52%) DHCP
5 6 (9.52%) Network Security
6 5 (7.94%) SAN
7 4 (6.35%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (6.35%) IP Telephony
7 4 (6.35%) MQTT
7 4 (6.35%) PBX
7 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
7 4 (6.35%) VoIP
8 3 (4.76%) BGP
8 3 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (4.76%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (4.76%) Wireless
9 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) MySQL
2 3 (4.76%) Neo4j
3 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (6.35%) Law
3 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Back Office
6 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Firewall Specialist
3 10 (15.87%) Technical Specialist
4 9 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 9 (14.29%) IT Support
5 8 (12.70%) Network Analyst
5 8 (12.70%) Senior
6 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (9.52%) Network Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Administrator
8 5 (7.94%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 5 (7.94%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
8 5 (7.94%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (6.35%) Field Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Field Service Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.94%) Clustering
3 4 (6.35%) CCTV
3 4 (6.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Windows
2 17 (26.98%) Windows Server
3 13 (20.63%) Linux
4 10 (15.87%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.35%) Android
5 4 (6.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) ITIL
2 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (17.46%) Customer Service
4 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (11.11%) High Availability
4 7 (11.11%) ITSM
4 7 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 7 (11.11%) Time Management
5 6 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
5 6 (9.52%) Server Management
5 6 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 5 (7.94%) Mentoring
6 5 (7.94%) Migration
6 5 (7.94%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (7.94%) Storage Management
7 4 (6.35%) Change Control
7 4 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.35%) Service Management
7 4 (6.35%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (15.87%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (12.70%) CCNA
3 7 (11.11%) CCNP
4 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (6.35%) MCSA
5 4 (6.35%) MCSE
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (4.76%) Degree
7 2 (3.17%) HND
8 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) SLA
2 4 (6.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (41.27%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.40%) Hyper-V
3 8 (12.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.70%) vSphere
4 4 (6.35%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.17%) Firmware
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.76%) Galera Cluster
2 3 (4.76%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.22%) VMware
3 12 (19.05%) Cisco
4 8 (12.70%) Veeam
5 5 (7.94%) SonicWALL
6 4 (6.35%) Draytek
6 4 (6.35%) Logitech
6 4 (6.35%) Mitel
6 4 (6.35%) Sophos
6 4 (6.35%) TOWER Software
6 4 (6.35%) WatchGuard
7 3 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.76%) HP
7 3 (4.76%) Meraki
8 2 (3.17%) ESET
8 2 (3.17%) Progress
8 2 (3.17%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.59%) F5