Firewall Jobs in Lancashire

Firewall
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 62 45
Rank change year-on-year -55 -17 +51
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 34 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.48% 2.00% 4.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.88% 21.49% 20.48%
Number of salaries quoted 34 23 32
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,350 -
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £52,000 £51,000
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
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 578 121 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 25.15% 9.29% 23.55%
Number of salaries quoted 76 114 63
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,300 £23,750
25th Percentile £24,500 £32,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £50,919
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% +0.53%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Lancashire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Lancashire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Lancashire

Firewall
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Blackburn - 10 £42,500 -
Preston -27 5 £55,000 +10.00% 2
Blackpool -37 4 £56,250 +32.35% 2
Lancaster - 4 £56,250 -
Nelson - 1 £45,000 -
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (76.47%) LAN
2 21 (61.76%) WAN
3 9 (26.47%) DHCP
3 9 (26.47%) DNS
4 6 (17.65%) IPv4
4 6 (17.65%) VLAN
5 4 (11.76%) SD-WAN
6 3 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (8.82%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (8.82%) SAN
7 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.94%) BGP
8 1 (2.94%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.94%) MPLS
8 1 (2.94%) Network Security
8 1 (2.94%) OSPF
8 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 20 (58.82%) Presentation Skills
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Retail
3 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Electronics
4 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Architect
1 18 (52.94%) Junior
1 18 (52.94%) Junior Architect
1 18 (52.94%) Junior Solutions Architect
1 18 (52.94%) Solutions Architect
2 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco Presales Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Firewall Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Juniper Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Juniper Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Presales Solution Architect
5 2 (5.88%) WAN Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Unix
3 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) Presales
2 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.82%) Patch Management
5 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.82%) Roadmaps
6 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (2.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.94%) Mentoring
7 1 (2.94%) Network Architecture
7 1 (2.94%) Open Source
7 1 (2.94%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (2.94%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (2.94%) Security Architecture
7 1 (2.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Bash
2 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (58.82%) CCNA
2 20 (58.82%) JNCIA
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.94%) CCIE
3 1 (2.94%) CCNP
3 1 (2.94%) JNCIE
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (73.53%) Cisco
2 22 (64.71%) Juniper
3 21 (61.76%) Fortinet
3 21 (61.76%) Palo Alto
4 20 (58.82%) Aruba
5 9 (26.47%) Veeam
6 5 (14.71%) VMware
7 3 (8.82%) Meraki
7 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
7 3 (8.82%) Sophos
7 3 (8.82%) Synology
8 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.94%) Symantec