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 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 33 57 39
Rank change year-on-year +24 -18 -3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 26 39 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 5.88% 2.99% 6.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.37% 21.31% 28.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 30
10th Percentile - £29,850 £42,725
25th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £50,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £46,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.96% -13.49% +26.47%
75th Percentile £43,750 £70,000 £58,938
90th Percentile £59,975 £71,500 £78,750
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
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 95 183 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 21.49% 14.02% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 53 121 70
10th Percentile £26,400 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -0.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £35,750 £54,000 £55,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £72,750
North West median annual salary £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% -

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 16 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 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
Liverpool +18 10 £40,000 -13.98% 3
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 11 (42.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (38.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (15.38%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.69%) IaaS
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.85%) Mimecast
6 1 (3.85%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) VPN
1 11 (42.31%) WAN
2 10 (38.46%) DNS
3 6 (23.08%) MPLS
4 3 (11.54%) Network Security
4 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.69%) DHCP
5 2 (7.69%) LAN
5 2 (7.69%) NGFW
5 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.69%) VLAN
5 2 (7.69%) VoIP
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (3.85%) Internet
6 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (3.85%) SNMP
6 1 (3.85%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Legal
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) IT Support
2 11 (42.31%) Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support
3 8 (30.77%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) IT Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) IT Support Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) Support Analyst
4 7 (26.92%) Support Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Junior
5 6 (23.08%) Junior Support Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Junior Technical Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Junior Technical Support
5 6 (23.08%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Technical Support
5 6 (23.08%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (15.38%) IT Support Specialist
6 4 (15.38%) Support Specialist
7 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) FMCG
1 8 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (23.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 16 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (15.38%) Android
4 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Customer Service
2 8 (30.77%) ITIL
3 6 (23.08%) Customer Experience
3 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Project Management
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.85%) Agile
6 1 (3.85%) B2B
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.85%) Fault Analysis
6 1 (3.85%) Information Security
6 1 (3.85%) Service Management
6 1 (3.85%) TOGAF
6 1 (3.85%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.85%) Bicep
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.85%) CCNP
1 1 (3.85%) CCSA
1 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
3 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Proxmox
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) VMware
3 7 (26.92%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Aderant
4 1 (3.85%) Apple
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) ConnectWise
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Kaseya
4 1 (3.85%) Meraki
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds