Firewall Jobs in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 56 71
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 +10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 226 531 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.35% 3.72% 4.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.31% 31.53% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 185 450 247
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,688 £56,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,625 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%

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 893 1,684 1,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 11.81% 20.32%
Number of salaries quoted 493 1,258 727
10th Percentile £26,886 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.05% -3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,350
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 June 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 16 June 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 -11 162 £46,000 +2.22% 443
East Midlands -34 64 £43,750 +6.06% 351
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 39 (17.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (11.06%) SharePoint
3 24 (10.62%) Confluence
4 8 (3.54%) IIS
5 3 (1.33%) nginx
6 2 (0.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (18.14%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (2.65%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.65%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.00%) Azure
2 94 (41.59%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (22.57%) AWS
4 30 (13.27%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (11.95%) Amazon S3
5 27 (11.95%) AWS KMS
5 27 (11.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 26 (11.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 26 (11.50%) Amazon ELB
7 23 (10.18%) Amazon Glacier
7 23 (10.18%) Entra ID
8 17 (7.52%) Google Workspace
9 15 (6.64%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (4.42%) IaaS
11 9 (3.98%) PaaS
12 7 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.10%) Route 53
12 7 (3.10%) SaaS
13 6 (2.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (2.65%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 96 (42.48%) WAN
2 74 (32.74%) LAN
3 68 (30.09%) DNS
4 55 (24.34%) DHCP
4 55 (24.34%) VPN
5 37 (16.37%) SD-WAN
6 35 (15.49%) VLAN
7 34 (15.04%) TCP/IP
8 33 (14.60%) Wi-Fi
9 31 (13.72%) Network Security
10 18 (7.96%) SAN
11 12 (5.31%) Cisco Firepower
12 11 (4.87%) BGP
12 11 (4.87%) HTTP
12 11 (4.87%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (4.87%) WLAN
13 10 (4.42%) FTP
13 10 (4.42%) OSPF
13 10 (4.42%) SMTP
13 10 (4.42%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.50%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (7.52%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.77%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.77%) MySQL
3 4 (1.77%) Power BI
4 3 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (12.39%) Git
2 27 (11.95%) Jenkins
3 26 (11.50%) Vagrant
4 24 (10.62%) JIRA
5 6 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 78 (34.51%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.96%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.08%) Finance
4 15 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (6.64%) Retail
5 12 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.87%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.42%) Automotive
8 8 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.21%) Billing
10 4 (1.77%) Legal
10 4 (1.77%) Police
11 3 (1.33%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (31.42%) Support Engineer
2 40 (17.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (15.93%) IT Support
4 34 (15.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 32 (14.16%) 3rd Line Support
5 32 (14.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 26 (11.50%) IT Engineer
7 22 (9.73%) Analyst
7 22 (9.73%) Network Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Infrastructure Support
8 18 (7.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 18 (7.96%) Senior
9 15 (6.64%) Lead
10 14 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.19%) Project Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 13 (5.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
12 12 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (4.42%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.77%) LDAP
2 2 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.62%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.85%) Data Centre
2 20 (8.85%) Driving Licence
3 17 (7.52%) Replication
4 15 (6.64%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.42%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.42%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.42%) Smartphone
6 6 (2.65%) PKI
7 5 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.77%) Clustering
8 4 (1.77%) NHS
8 4 (1.77%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 158 (69.91%) Windows
2 91 (40.27%) Windows Server
3 53 (23.45%) Linux
4 37 (16.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 33 (14.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (13.72%) Windows 10
7 26 (11.50%) VMS
8 20 (8.85%) Ubuntu
9 15 (6.64%) Apple iOS
10 10 (4.42%) Amazon Linux
10 10 (4.42%) Mac OS X
11 9 (3.98%) Android
12 7 (3.10%) Mac OS
13 6 (2.65%) Windows 7
14 4 (1.77%) CentOS
15 3 (1.33%) Rocky
16 2 (0.88%) AIX
16 2 (0.88%) Unix
16 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.44%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (19.03%) ITIL
3 42 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (15.93%) DevOps
5 30 (13.27%) Cloud Security
6 29 (12.83%) Customer Service
6 29 (12.83%) Cybersecurity
7 28 (12.39%) Configuration Management
8 27 (11.95%) SIEM
9 26 (11.50%) Change Management
10 25 (11.06%) Information Security
11 23 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (10.18%) Migration
12 22 (9.73%) Data Security
12 22 (9.73%) Security Operations
13 21 (9.29%) Agile
13 21 (9.29%) Infrastructure Management
13 21 (9.29%) Mentoring
14 17 (7.52%) CI/CD
14 17 (7.52%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (38.05%) PowerShell
2 39 (17.26%) Python
3 25 (11.06%) Groovy
4 23 (10.18%) SQL
5 11 (4.87%) Bash
6 10 (4.42%) C#
6 10 (4.42%) Java
6 10 (4.42%) Perl
7 5 (2.21%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.77%) Bicep
9 3 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (19.47%) Degree
2 40 (17.70%) Security Cleared
3 36 (15.93%) SC Cleared
4 27 (11.95%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (11.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (9.29%) Azure Certification
7 16 (7.08%) CCNP
8 14 (6.19%) CCNA
9 12 (5.31%) A+ Certification
9 12 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (4.87%) AWS Certification
11 10 (4.42%) MCSA
12 9 (3.98%) CCIE
12 9 (3.98%) HNC
12 9 (3.98%) HND
12 9 (3.98%) MCSE
13 8 (3.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (2.65%) MCP
16 4 (1.77%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.52%) SLA
3 13 (5.75%) GDPR
4 10 (4.42%) COBIT
5 8 (3.54%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 127 (56.19%) Active Directory
2 51 (22.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (10.18%) Hyper-V
4 17 (7.52%) DFS Replication
5 15 (6.64%) Docker
5 15 (6.64%) XenApp
6 14 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.65%) Terminal Services
7 6 (2.65%) vSphere
8 4 (1.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.33%) Dovecot
9 3 (1.33%) Firmware
9 3 (1.33%) Postfix
9 3 (1.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 36 (15.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (12.39%) Terraform
3 23 (10.18%) Grafana
3 23 (10.18%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.85%) Ansible
5 14 (6.19%) SCCM
6 9 (3.98%) Nessus
7 8 (3.54%) FortiGate
8 7 (3.10%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.65%) Autotask
10 4 (1.77%) Nagios
10 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.88%) QRadar
11 2 (0.88%) SCOM
11 2 (0.88%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.88%) SCSM
12 1 (0.44%) Puppet
12 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 112 (49.56%) Microsoft
2 80 (35.40%) Cisco
3 54 (23.89%) VMware
4 37 (16.37%) Meraki
5 30 (13.27%) Juniper
6 28 (12.39%) HP
7 27 (11.95%) Dell
8 24 (10.62%) Apple
9 23 (10.18%) Fortinet
9 23 (10.18%) ServiceNow
10 20 (8.85%) Google
11 17 (7.52%) CheckPoint
12 16 (7.08%) Aruba
13 15 (6.64%) Citrix
13 15 (6.64%) SonicWALL
14 11 (4.87%) Palo Alto
15 10 (4.42%) Ubiquiti
16 9 (3.98%) McAfee
17 8 (3.54%) SolarWinds
18 7 (3.10%) Sophos