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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 231 236 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.69% 4.17% 3.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.58% 27.90% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 179 184 375
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +1.11% -
75th Percentile £59,375 £52,797 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.92%

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 688 846 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.04% 14.96% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 559 515 982
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,350 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -4.87%

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 25 July 2026.

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 25 July 2026. 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 -48 117 £55,000 +19.57% 25
East Midlands +5 114 £44,472 +11.18% 18
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 (16.02%) SharePoint
2 25 (10.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.03%) IIS
4 2 (0.87%) Apache
4 2 (0.87%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 93 (40.26%) Azure
2 91 (39.39%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (24.24%) Entra ID
4 26 (11.26%) AWS
5 21 (9.09%) Mimecast
6 9 (3.90%) GCP
7 7 (3.03%) OneDrive
8 5 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.16%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.16%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.16%) SaaS
9 4 (1.73%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.30%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.87%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 77 (33.33%) VPN
2 67 (29.00%) WAN
3 63 (27.27%) LAN
4 51 (22.08%) DNS
5 36 (15.58%) DHCP
6 35 (15.15%) Network Security
7 34 (14.72%) VLAN
8 33 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (12.55%) TCP/IP
10 22 (9.52%) BGP
10 22 (9.52%) Wireless
11 20 (8.66%) EIGRP
11 20 (8.66%) OSPF
12 17 (7.36%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (5.19%) Internet
13 12 (5.19%) SAN
14 10 (4.33%) SD-WAN
15 8 (3.46%) MQTT
16 7 (3.03%) VoIP
17 4 (1.73%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (1.73%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.73%) MySQL
2 4 (1.73%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.30%) GIS
4 2 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.87%) KNIME
4 2 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.87%) Power BI
5 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.30%) JIRA
2 2 (0.87%) Git
3 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 70 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.79%) Manufacturing
3 16 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.76%) Finance
5 8 (3.46%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.60%) Law
6 6 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (18.18%) Senior
2 41 (17.75%) Support Engineer
3 39 (16.88%) Network Engineer
4 38 (16.45%) IT Engineer
5 37 (16.02%) IT Support
6 35 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (9.96%) Analyst
8 18 (7.79%) Administrator
8 18 (7.79%) IT Technician
8 18 (7.79%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (7.36%) Technical Support
9 17 (7.36%) Technical Support Engineer
10 16 (6.93%) Firewall Specialist
10 16 (6.93%) Network Analyst
10 16 (6.93%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (6.49%) IT Support Technician
11 15 (6.49%) Support Technician
12 14 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (6.06%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.60%) Middleware
2 4 (1.73%) COM
2 4 (1.73%) DCOM
2 4 (1.73%) LDAP
3 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.87%) REST
4 1 (0.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.76%) Clustering
2 11 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 11 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 8 (3.46%) IoT
3 8 (3.46%) Operational Technology
3 8 (3.46%) Smartphone
4 7 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.16%) Cyber Security Posture
6 5 (2.16%) PKI
6 5 (2.16%) Replication
7 4 (1.73%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.73%) Smartcard
8 3 (1.30%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) CCTV
9 2 (0.87%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 110 (47.62%) Windows
2 62 (26.84%) Windows Server
3 35 (15.15%) Linux
4 16 (6.93%) Android
4 16 (6.93%) Apple iOS
4 16 (6.93%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.90%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.16%) Solaris
7 4 (1.73%) VMS
8 2 (0.87%) CentOS
8 2 (0.87%) Debian
9 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (20.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (16.02%) ITIL
5 35 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
6 33 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (12.55%) Customer Service
8 28 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 25 (10.82%) Proactive Monitoring
10 24 (10.39%) High Availability
11 23 (9.96%) Migration
12 21 (9.09%) Service Delivery
13 20 (8.66%) Project Delivery
14 19 (8.23%) Vulnerability Management
15 17 (7.36%) SIEM
16 16 (6.93%) Mobile Device Management
16 16 (6.93%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (6.49%) Patch Management
18 14 (6.06%) Incident Response
18 14 (6.06%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.35%) SQL
2 42 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.93%) Python
4 12 (5.19%) VBA
5 11 (4.76%) Bash
6 6 (2.60%) Bicep
7 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.43%) C#
8 1 (0.43%) Java
8 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.26%) Degree
3 25 (10.82%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (9.96%) SC Cleared
5 22 (9.52%) CCNP
6 13 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.76%) CISSP
8 10 (4.33%) CCNA
9 9 (3.90%) A+ Certification
10 7 (3.03%) CISM
11 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.16%) MCITP
11 5 (2.16%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.43%) IISP
14 1 (0.43%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.55%) SLA
2 15 (6.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.30%) GDPR
5 3 (1.30%) NIST
6 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 56 (24.24%) Hyper-V
3 50 (21.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.33%) vSphere
5 7 (3.03%) Docker
6 5 (2.16%) Firmware
6 5 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.33%) Terraform
3 8 (3.46%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.60%) Ansible
5 4 (1.73%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.73%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.30%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.87%) Grafana
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.87%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) Nessus
8 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 116 (50.22%) Microsoft
2 74 (32.03%) Cisco
3 54 (23.38%) VMware
4 18 (7.79%) Fortinet
5 16 (6.93%) Veeam
6 13 (5.63%) Dell
7 12 (5.19%) HP
7 12 (5.19%) Juniper
7 12 (5.19%) Meraki
7 12 (5.19%) Sophos
8 11 (4.76%) Logitech
8 11 (4.76%) McAfee
8 11 (4.76%) SonicWALL
8 11 (4.76%) TOWER Software
9 9 (3.90%) Aruba
10 6 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.16%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.73%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.73%) Ubiquiti