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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 75 32
Rank change year-on-year +16 -43 +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 213 301 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.67% 3.43% 6.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.89% 27.44% 31.34%
Number of salaries quoted 168 171 286
10th Percentile £28,925 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,875 £37,022
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58,063 £55,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £77,500
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 668 1,097 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.53% 12.49% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 480 425 817
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £46,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.26% +6.98% -9.47%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,875 £72,500 £67,500
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 18 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 18 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 +14 150 £50,000 +2.24% 66
East Midlands -1 63 £37,500 -11.76% 21
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 37 (17.37%) Confluence
2 24 (11.27%) SharePoint
3 22 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.29%) nginx
5 6 (2.82%) WinCC
6 4 (1.88%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.94%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.88%) CATIA
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 95 (44.60%) Azure
2 85 (39.91%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (24.41%) AWS
4 34 (15.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 33 (15.49%) Entra ID
6 31 (14.55%) Amazon EC2
6 31 (14.55%) Amazon ELB
6 31 (14.55%) Amazon S3
6 31 (14.55%) AWS KMS
6 31 (14.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (11.27%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (4.23%) SaaS
9 7 (3.29%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.29%) Nutanix
9 7 (3.29%) Route 53
10 6 (2.82%) iPaaS
11 5 (2.35%) GCP
11 5 (2.35%) IaaS
11 5 (2.35%) Mimecast
11 5 (2.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (34.27%) DNS
2 68 (31.92%) WAN
3 56 (26.29%) LAN
4 50 (23.47%) VPN
5 41 (19.25%) DHCP
6 33 (15.49%) VLAN
6 33 (15.49%) Wi-Fi
7 32 (15.02%) TCP/IP
8 31 (14.55%) SD-WAN
9 25 (11.74%) Network Security
10 23 (10.80%) HTTP
11 22 (10.33%) SSH
12 20 (9.39%) FTP
12 20 (9.39%) SMTP
13 15 (7.04%) SAN
14 11 (5.16%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (4.23%) Modbus
15 9 (4.23%) MPLS
16 8 (3.76%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (3.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.02%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (18.78%) JIRA
2 32 (15.02%) Git
2 32 (15.02%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.55%) Vagrant
4 7 (3.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.02%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.16%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.69%) Finance
7 9 (4.23%) Law
8 8 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.29%) Retail
9 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.88%) Back Office
10 4 (1.88%) Billing
11 3 (1.41%) Marketing
11 3 (1.41%) Publishing
12 2 (0.94%) Legal
13 1 (0.47%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (29.58%) Support Engineer
2 52 (24.41%) IT Support
3 46 (21.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (16.43%) IT Engineer
5 32 (15.02%) Senior
6 27 (12.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (10.80%) Network Engineer
8 22 (10.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 22 (10.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 21 (9.86%) Analyst
10 20 (9.39%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (8.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (7.98%) Technical Engineer
14 13 (6.10%) 3rd Line Support
14 13 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (6.10%) Technical Support
14 13 (6.10%) Technical Support Engineer
15 11 (5.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 11 (5.16%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.29%) LDAP
2 3 (1.41%) EDI
3 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.02%) Driving Licence
2 26 (12.21%) Data Centre
3 23 (10.80%) Replication
4 17 (7.98%) Operational Technology
5 11 (5.16%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.16%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.69%) SCADA
7 9 (4.23%) Clustering
8 8 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (3.29%) CCTV
9 7 (3.29%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (2.35%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
12 2 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 127 (59.62%) Windows
2 52 (24.41%) Windows Server
3 50 (23.47%) Linux
4 33 (15.49%) VMS
5 24 (11.27%) Windows 10
6 20 (9.39%) Amazon Linux
7 18 (8.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 17 (7.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (3.76%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.94%) AIX
10 2 (0.94%) Android
10 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.47%) Unix
11 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (24.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (17.84%) DevOps
4 34 (15.96%) Change Management
5 33 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (15.49%) ITIL
6 32 (15.02%) Cloud Security
6 32 (15.02%) Configuration Management
7 28 (13.15%) Customer Service
8 24 (11.27%) Patch Management
9 22 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (10.33%) SIEM
10 18 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (7.98%) High Availability
12 16 (7.51%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (7.51%) Proactive Monitoring
13 15 (7.04%) Incident Response
14 13 (6.10%) Agile
14 13 (6.10%) Migration
15 12 (5.63%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 43 (20.19%) PowerShell
2 36 (16.90%) Python
3 31 (14.55%) Groovy
4 15 (7.04%) SQL
5 13 (6.10%) Java
5 13 (6.10%) Perl
6 3 (1.41%) Bash
7 2 (0.94%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.47%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) Go
8 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.47%) VB
8 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 40 (18.78%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (16.43%) Degree
5 27 (12.68%) CCNP
6 26 (12.21%) CCNA
7 16 (7.51%) Azure Certification
8 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (5.16%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.76%) MCSA
11 7 (3.29%) MCP
11 7 (3.29%) MCSE
12 4 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.41%) CEH
13 3 (1.41%) CISSP
13 3 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.41%) HND
13 3 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.94%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) SLA
2 12 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.76%) GDPR
5 6 (2.82%) IEC 61508
5 6 (2.82%) QA
6 5 (2.35%) NIST
7 4 (1.88%) IEC 61131
8 3 (1.41%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (46.48%) Active Directory
2 45 (21.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (18.31%) Hyper-V
4 22 (10.33%) DFS Replication
4 22 (10.33%) Docker
5 7 (3.29%) Dovecot
5 7 (3.29%) Postfix
5 7 (3.29%) Squid
6 6 (2.82%) XenApp
7 5 (2.35%) vSphere
8 3 (1.41%) Firmware
8 3 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.94%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 40 (18.78%) Terraform
2 31 (14.55%) Grafana
2 31 (14.55%) Prometheus
3 30 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (6.57%) Ansible
5 10 (4.69%) Nessus
6 8 (3.76%) SCCM
7 7 (3.29%) Proxmox
8 6 (2.82%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (2.82%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.88%) Autotask
10 3 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.94%) Endace
11 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
12 1 (0.47%) Nagios
12 1 (0.47%) Puppet
12 1 (0.47%) QRadar
12 1 (0.47%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 81 (38.03%) Microsoft
2 79 (37.09%) Cisco
3 54 (25.35%) VMware
4 38 (17.84%) Juniper
5 34 (15.96%) ServiceNow
6 27 (12.68%) Meraki
7 19 (8.92%) Fortinet
8 17 (7.98%) Dell
9 13 (6.10%) Aruba
9 13 (6.10%) McAfee
10 12 (5.63%) Veeam
11 11 (5.16%) HP
11 11 (5.16%) SonicWALL
12 8 (3.76%) WatchGuard
13 7 (3.29%) Draytek
13 7 (3.29%) Jaspersoft
13 7 (3.29%) Mitel
14 6 (2.82%) Citrix
14 6 (2.82%) Rockwell
14 6 (2.82%) Siemens