Firewall Job Trends in Leicester

Firewall
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 10 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 2.96% 1.08% 5.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.26% 20.00% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 16
10th Percentile - - £35,860
25th Percentile £25,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.65% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,125 - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 31 10 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 9.17% 5.38% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 23 3 35
10th Percentile £25,750 £44,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £27,750 £48,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £57,500
90th Percentile £48,500 - £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £35,000 £47,500 £49,990
% change year-on-year -26.32% -4.98% +26.85%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Leicester

Firewall
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Leicester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Leicester

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) IaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Break/Fix
1 6 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Presales
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Change Control
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNA
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (30.00%) vSphere
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
1 6 (60.00%) Meraki
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam