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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 75 48
Rank change year-on-year -42 -27 +44
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 167 196 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.26% 4.05% 4.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.41% 23.73% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 123 160 467
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,250 £63,000 £62,700
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 1,604 826 1,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.10% 17.05% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 480 445 1,286
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +7.14% -1.75%
75th Percentile £58,525 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -77 85 £56,400 +25.33% 40
East Midlands -8 82 £42,500 -6.59% 24
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 33 (19.76%) SharePoint
2 19 (11.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (1.20%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (41.92%) Microsoft 365
2 67 (40.12%) Azure
3 47 (28.14%) Entra ID
4 16 (9.58%) AWS
5 14 (8.38%) Mimecast
6 8 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (2.99%) GCP
7 5 (2.99%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (2.40%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.40%) IaaS
9 3 (1.80%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.80%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.20%) PaaS
10 2 (1.20%) Pulumi
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (29.34%) WAN
2 47 (28.14%) VPN
3 43 (25.75%) LAN
4 29 (17.37%) Network Security
5 22 (13.17%) DNS
6 18 (10.78%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (9.58%) VLAN
8 14 (8.38%) Internet
9 12 (7.19%) DHCP
9 12 (7.19%) SD-WAN
10 10 (5.99%) SAN
10 10 (5.99%) TCP/IP
10 10 (5.99%) Wireless
11 9 (5.39%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (4.79%) BGP
13 7 (4.19%) MQTT
13 7 (4.19%) OSPF
14 6 (3.59%) EIGRP
14 6 (3.59%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (2.99%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.79%) GIS
3 5 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.80%) MySQL
5 3 (1.80%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.60%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 40 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (8.38%) Finance
3 10 (5.99%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.40%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.40%) Law
6 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Military
7 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) Support Engineer
2 33 (19.76%) Senior
3 29 (17.37%) IT Engineer
3 29 (17.37%) IT Support
4 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (11.98%) Network Engineer
6 18 (10.78%) Analyst
7 16 (9.58%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (9.58%) Technical Engineer
8 15 (8.98%) Technical Support
8 15 (8.98%) Technical Support Engineer
9 14 (8.38%) Administrator
9 14 (8.38%) Network Analyst
10 13 (7.78%) Architect
10 13 (7.78%) Firewall Specialist
10 13 (7.78%) Technical Specialist
11 12 (7.19%) Senior Network Engineer
11 12 (7.19%) Systems Administrator
12 10 (5.99%) 2nd Line Support
12 10 (5.99%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) COM
1 1 (0.60%) DCOM
1 1 (0.60%) LDAP
1 1 (0.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.39%) Clustering
2 9 (5.39%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.19%) IoT
3 7 (4.19%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.59%) Operational Technology
4 6 (3.59%) Smartphone
5 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.40%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.80%) PKI
7 3 (1.80%) Replication
8 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.60%) CCTV
9 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 70 (41.92%) Windows
2 34 (20.36%) Windows Server
3 24 (14.37%) Linux
4 11 (6.59%) Android
4 11 (6.59%) Apple iOS
5 8 (4.79%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.59%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.40%) VMS
8 3 (1.80%) Solaris
9 2 (1.20%) CentOS
9 2 (1.20%) Debian
9 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (20.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (19.76%) ITIL
5 26 (15.57%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (13.17%) Proactive Monitoring
7 20 (11.98%) High Availability
7 20 (11.98%) SIEM
8 19 (11.38%) Migration
9 18 (10.78%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (9.58%) Customer Service
11 14 (8.38%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.78%) Mobile Device Management
13 12 (7.19%) Service Delivery
14 11 (6.59%) Patch Management
14 11 (6.59%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.59%) Vulnerability Management
15 10 (5.99%) Server Management
16 9 (5.39%) Incident Management
17 8 (4.79%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.17%) SQL
2 26 (15.57%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.79%) Bash
3 8 (4.79%) Python
4 5 (2.99%) Bicep
5 4 (2.40%) VBA
6 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 21 (12.57%) Degree
4 15 (8.98%) CCNP
4 15 (8.98%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.79%) A+ Certification
7 6 (3.59%) CISSP
7 6 (3.59%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.99%) CTC Cleared
8 5 (2.99%) MCITP
9 4 (2.40%) CCNA
9 4 (2.40%) CISM
9 4 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.60%) CCIE
11 1 (0.60%) IISP
11 1 (0.60%) ISACA
11 1 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.17%) SLA
2 12 (7.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.40%) NIST
6 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 63 (37.72%) Active Directory
2 41 (24.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.17%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.39%) vSphere
5 4 (2.40%) Docker
5 4 (2.40%) Firmware
6 2 (1.20%) Terminal Services
6 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (8.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.79%) Terraform
3 5 (2.99%) Ansible
3 5 (2.99%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.80%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (1.80%) vCenter Server
5 2 (1.20%) CASB
5 2 (1.20%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.20%) Puppet
5 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.60%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (49.10%) Microsoft
2 53 (31.74%) Cisco
3 44 (26.35%) VMware
4 20 (11.98%) Juniper
5 16 (9.58%) Dell
6 15 (8.98%) HP
7 14 (8.38%) McAfee
8 11 (6.59%) Fortinet
8 11 (6.59%) Veeam
9 8 (4.79%) SonicWALL
10 7 (4.19%) Aruba
11 6 (3.59%) Logitech
11 6 (3.59%) Sophos
11 6 (3.59%) TOWER Software
12 4 (2.40%) Google
12 4 (2.40%) Meraki
12 4 (2.40%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 3 (1.80%) ConnectWise
13 3 (1.80%) Ubiquiti