Firewall Jobs in Merseyside

Firewall
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 57 40
Rank change year-on-year +32 -17 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 27 36 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.43% 2.78% 6.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.42% 20.34% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 28
10th Percentile - £27,750 £41,675
25th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £48,986
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,250 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.34% -11.68% +18.89%
75th Percentile £45,000 £68,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £79,875
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 95 177 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 22.62% 13.67% 22.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61 115 69
10th Percentile £27,000 £24,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - +3.66%
75th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,750 £75,000
North West median annual salary £33,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.26% +3.26%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

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

Salary histogram for Firewall in Merseyside

Firewall
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 6 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
Liverpool +17 12 £42,500 -10.05% 6
Firewall
North West

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 15 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (44.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (40.74%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) Mimecast
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) WAN
2 11 (40.74%) DNS
3 10 (37.04%) VPN
4 5 (18.52%) DHCP
5 4 (14.81%) LAN
5 4 (14.81%) MPLS
5 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
5 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (14.81%) VLAN
5 4 (14.81%) VoIP
6 3 (11.11%) Network Security
6 3 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (11.11%) SNMP
6 3 (11.11%) VSAN
7 2 (7.41%) Internet
7 2 (7.41%) NGFW
7 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Analyst
2 12 (44.44%) IT Support
3 8 (29.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (29.63%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) IT Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) IT Support Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) Support Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) IT Support Specialist
5 4 (14.81%) Junior
5 4 (14.81%) Junior Support Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Junior Technical Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Junior Technical Support
5 4 (14.81%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Support Specialist
5 4 (14.81%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Technical Support
5 4 (14.81%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) FMCG
1 8 (29.63%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.81%) Private Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Replication
4 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 15 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 13 (48.15%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (14.81%) Android
5 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
6 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (22.22%) Migration
4 4 (14.81%) Customer Experience
4 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (11.11%) High Availability
5 3 (11.11%) Information Security
5 3 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (11.11%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) Statistics
6 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.41%) Fault Analysis
7 1 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (3.70%) Decision-Making
7 1 (3.70%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CCNP
2 1 (3.70%) CCSA
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (11.11%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Proxmox
2 3 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Aderant
4 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (7.41%) Apple
5 2 (7.41%) ConnectWise
5 2 (7.41%) Kaseya
6 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto