Firewall Job Trends in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -34 +51
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 199 311 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.24% 3.70% 6.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.34% 27.94% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 155 183 283
10th Percentile £28,850 £31,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £37,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,210 £77,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 656 1,113 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.69% 13.23% 20.01%
Number of salaries quoted 466 451 815
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,375 £29,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% -8.42%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Firewall
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
West Midlands +3 139 £50,000 +6.38% 50
East Midlands -2 60 £37,500 -6.25% 17
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 32 (16.08%) Confluence
2 23 (11.56%) SharePoint
3 21 (10.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.02%) nginx
4 6 (3.02%) WinCC
5 4 (2.01%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (1.01%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.01%) CATIA
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.23%) Azure
2 80 (40.20%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (23.62%) AWS
4 35 (17.59%) Entra ID
5 29 (14.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (13.07%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (13.07%) Amazon ELB
6 26 (13.07%) Amazon S3
6 26 (13.07%) AWS KMS
6 26 (13.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 20 (10.05%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (4.52%) SaaS
9 6 (3.02%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.02%) iPaaS
9 6 (3.02%) Nutanix
9 6 (3.02%) Route 53
10 5 (2.51%) GCP
10 5 (2.51%) IaaS
10 5 (2.51%) PaaS
11 4 (2.01%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 69 (34.67%) DNS
2 66 (33.17%) WAN
3 54 (27.14%) LAN
4 48 (24.12%) VPN
5 40 (20.10%) DHCP
6 32 (16.08%) SD-WAN
6 32 (16.08%) TCP/IP
6 32 (16.08%) VLAN
7 28 (14.07%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (10.55%) HTTP
8 21 (10.55%) Network Security
9 20 (10.05%) SSH
10 18 (9.05%) FTP
10 18 (9.05%) SMTP
11 14 (7.04%) SAN
12 11 (5.53%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (4.52%) Modbus
13 9 (4.52%) MPLS
14 8 (4.02%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (4.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.57%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (17.59%) JIRA
2 27 (13.57%) Git
2 27 (13.57%) Jenkins
3 26 (13.07%) Vagrant
4 7 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (33.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.57%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.54%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.03%) Finance
7 9 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.52%) Law
8 8 (4.02%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 6 (3.02%) Retail
11 4 (2.01%) Back Office
12 3 (1.51%) Billing
12 3 (1.51%) Marketing
12 3 (1.51%) Publishing
13 2 (1.01%) Legal
14 1 (0.50%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (29.15%) Support Engineer
2 50 (25.13%) IT Support
3 43 (21.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (17.59%) IT Engineer
5 30 (15.08%) Senior
6 28 (14.07%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (11.06%) Network Engineer
8 19 (9.55%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Support
8 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 19 (9.55%) Technical Engineer
9 18 (9.05%) Analyst
9 18 (9.05%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (8.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (7.04%) Technical Support
11 14 (7.04%) Technical Support Engineer
12 11 (5.53%) Architect
13 10 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (5.03%) Lead
14 9 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) LDAP
2 3 (1.51%) EDI
3 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Driving Licence
2 28 (14.07%) Data Centre
3 19 (9.55%) Replication
4 15 (7.54%) Operational Technology
5 10 (5.03%) SCADA
6 9 (4.52%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.02%) Clustering
7 8 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (4.02%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.52%) CCTV
8 7 (3.52%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.51%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.01%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 119 (59.80%) Windows
2 50 (25.13%) Windows Server
3 43 (21.61%) Linux
4 28 (14.07%) VMS
5 25 (12.56%) Windows 10
6 18 (9.05%) Amazon Linux
7 15 (7.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.52%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.01%) AIX
10 2 (1.01%) Android
10 2 (1.01%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.50%) Unix
11 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (25.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (16.58%) DevOps
4 31 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (15.08%) ITIL
6 29 (14.57%) Change Management
7 27 (13.57%) Cloud Security
7 27 (13.57%) Configuration Management
8 26 (13.07%) Customer Service
9 22 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.06%) Patch Management
9 22 (11.06%) SIEM
10 21 (10.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (8.54%) High Availability
12 16 (8.04%) Proactive Monitoring
13 14 (7.04%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (6.53%) Migration
15 12 (6.03%) Incident Response
16 10 (5.03%) ITSM
16 10 (5.03%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.59%) PowerShell
2 31 (15.58%) Python
3 26 (13.07%) Groovy
4 13 (6.53%) SQL
5 12 (6.03%) Java
5 12 (6.03%) Perl
6 3 (1.51%) Bash
7 2 (1.01%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) Go
8 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.50%) VB
8 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 38 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 36 (18.09%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (16.58%) Degree
5 25 (12.56%) CCNP
6 22 (11.06%) CCNA
7 15 (7.54%) Azure Certification
8 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (5.03%) AWS Certification
10 8 (4.02%) MCSA
11 7 (3.52%) MCP
11 7 (3.52%) MCSE
12 4 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.51%) CEH
13 3 (1.51%) CISSP
13 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.51%) HND
14 2 (1.01%) A+ Certification
14 2 (1.01%) GSEC
14 2 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.05%) SLA
2 13 (6.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.02%) GDPR
5 6 (3.02%) IEC 61508
5 6 (3.02%) QA
6 5 (2.51%) NIST
7 4 (2.01%) IEC 61131
8 3 (1.51%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (46.23%) Active Directory
2 44 (22.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (19.60%) Hyper-V
4 20 (10.05%) Docker
5 18 (9.05%) DFS Replication
6 6 (3.02%) Dovecot
6 6 (3.02%) Postfix
6 6 (3.02%) Squid
7 5 (2.51%) vSphere
8 4 (2.01%) XenApp
9 3 (1.51%) Firmware
9 3 (1.51%) Terminal Services
9 3 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (18.09%) Terraform
2 27 (13.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (13.07%) Grafana
3 26 (13.07%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.53%) Ansible
5 9 (4.52%) Nessus
6 6 (3.02%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (3.02%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.02%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.02%) SCCM
7 3 (1.51%) Autotask
7 3 (1.51%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.01%) Endace
8 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.50%) Nagios
9 1 (0.50%) Puppet
9 1 (0.50%) QRadar
9 1 (0.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 78 (39.20%) Microsoft
2 72 (36.18%) Cisco
3 52 (26.13%) VMware
4 34 (17.09%) Juniper
5 29 (14.57%) ServiceNow
6 24 (12.06%) Meraki
7 19 (9.55%) Fortinet
8 18 (9.05%) Dell
9 14 (7.04%) McAfee
10 12 (6.03%) Aruba
10 12 (6.03%) Veeam
11 9 (4.52%) HP
11 9 (4.52%) SonicWALL
12 7 (3.52%) Draytek
12 7 (3.52%) Mitel
12 7 (3.52%) WatchGuard
13 6 (3.02%) Jaspersoft
13 6 (3.02%) Palo Alto
13 6 (3.02%) Rockwell
13 6 (3.02%) Siemens