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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 68 50
Rank change year-on-year -37 -18 +37
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 180 207 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 4.16% 4.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.22% 24.47% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 134 168 464
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,985 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,625 £67,500 £63,375
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% -2.00%

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 1,604 846 1,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.11% 16.99% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 494 459 1,280
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,700 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,313 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +9.09% -4.62%
75th Percentile £58,400 £57,500 £54,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -68 92 £56,400 +22.61% 39
East Midlands +8 88 £42,500 -5.56% 22
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 34 (18.89%) SharePoint
2 20 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.11%) Confluence
3 2 (1.11%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (42.78%) Microsoft 365
2 73 (40.56%) Azure
3 48 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.00%) AWS
5 15 (8.33%) Mimecast
6 8 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.78%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.22%) GCP
8 4 (2.22%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.67%) IaaS
9 3 (1.67%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.67%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.67%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.11%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.56%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.56%) PaaS
11 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (30.00%) VPN
2 51 (28.33%) WAN
3 45 (25.00%) LAN
4 32 (17.78%) Network Security
5 26 (14.44%) DNS
6 20 (11.11%) VLAN
6 20 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (8.89%) DHCP
8 14 (7.78%) Internet
9 13 (7.22%) TCP/IP
10 12 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
10 12 (6.67%) SD-WAN
11 11 (6.11%) BGP
11 11 (6.11%) Wireless
12 10 (5.56%) OSPF
13 9 (5.00%) EIGRP
13 9 (5.00%) SAN
14 8 (4.44%) MQTT
15 5 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (2.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.44%) GIS
3 4 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.22%) MySQL
3 4 (2.22%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.56%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 45 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.33%) Finance
3 13 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.11%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.78%) Law
8 4 (2.22%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (22.78%) Support Engineer
2 35 (19.44%) Senior
3 33 (18.33%) IT Engineer
4 32 (17.78%) IT Support
5 30 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (13.89%) Network Engineer
7 19 (10.56%) Analyst
8 17 (9.44%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (8.33%) Administrator
9 15 (8.33%) Network Analyst
9 15 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
10 14 (7.78%) Technical Support
10 14 (7.78%) Technical Support Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Architect
11 13 (7.22%) Firewall Specialist
11 13 (7.22%) Senior Network Engineer
11 13 (7.22%) Technical Specialist
12 12 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
13 10 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
13 10 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.56%) COM
1 1 (0.56%) DCOM
1 1 (0.56%) LDAP
1 1 (0.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.67%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.56%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.00%) Clustering
4 8 (4.44%) IoT
5 7 (3.89%) Operational Technology
5 7 (3.89%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.89%) Smartphone
6 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (2.22%) Replication
8 4 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.67%) PKI
10 2 (1.11%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.56%) CCTV
11 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 77 (42.78%) Windows
2 40 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 25 (13.89%) Linux
4 12 (6.67%) Android
4 12 (6.67%) Apple iOS
5 10 (5.56%) Windows 10
6 7 (3.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.22%) VMS
8 3 (1.67%) Solaris
9 2 (1.11%) CentOS
9 2 (1.11%) Debian
9 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (19.44%) ITIL
5 27 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (12.22%) High Availability
6 22 (12.22%) Migration
6 22 (12.22%) Proactive Monitoring
7 20 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (11.11%) SIEM
8 19 (10.56%) Mentoring
9 18 (10.00%) Customer Service
10 14 (7.78%) Service Delivery
11 13 (7.22%) Mobile Device Management
12 12 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
13 11 (6.11%) Patch Management
13 11 (6.11%) Project Delivery
13 11 (6.11%) Roadmaps
14 9 (5.00%) Server Management
14 9 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.11%) SQL
2 26 (14.44%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.44%) Bash
3 8 (4.44%) Python
4 6 (3.33%) VBA
5 5 (2.78%) Bicep
6 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.11%) Degree
4 18 (10.00%) CCNP
4 18 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.44%) A+ Certification
7 7 (3.89%) CISSP
8 6 (3.33%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.78%) CCNA
9 5 (2.78%) CISM
9 5 (2.78%) CTC Cleared
9 5 (2.78%) MCITP
10 4 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.56%) CCIE
12 1 (0.56%) IISP
12 1 (0.56%) ISACA
12 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.78%) SLA
2 13 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (2.78%) NIST
5 3 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (38.33%) Active Directory
2 44 (24.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (17.78%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.11%) vSphere
5 4 (2.22%) Docker
5 4 (2.22%) Firmware
6 2 (1.11%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.89%) Terraform
3 5 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.22%) Ansible
4 4 (2.22%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (2.22%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.11%) CASB
5 2 (1.11%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.11%) Puppet
5 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 89 (49.44%) Microsoft
2 58 (32.22%) Cisco
3 48 (26.67%) VMware
4 19 (10.56%) Juniper
5 16 (8.89%) HP
6 15 (8.33%) Dell
7 14 (7.78%) Fortinet
8 13 (7.22%) McAfee
8 13 (7.22%) Veeam
9 9 (5.00%) Aruba
9 9 (5.00%) SonicWALL
10 8 (4.44%) Sophos
11 7 (3.89%) Logitech
11 7 (3.89%) TOWER Software
12 6 (3.33%) Meraki
13 4 (2.22%) Google
14 3 (1.67%) CheckPoint
14 3 (1.67%) ConnectWise
14 3 (1.67%) Palo Alto
14 3 (1.67%) Ubiquiti