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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 33
Rank change year-on-year +10 -36 +54
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 232 296 311
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 4.09% 3.32% 6.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.14% 28.41% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 179 164 282
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,325 £30,100
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £37,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,800 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +2.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,750 £57,500 £60,000
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 642 1,042 983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.31% 11.69% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 499 428 807
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,705 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £53,625 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,450 £72,875 £68,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -25.23% +2.88% -0.95%

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 7 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 7 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 +21 166 £50,000 +2.02% 93
East Midlands +5 66 £37,500 -16.67% 47
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 45 (19.40%) Confluence
2 26 (11.21%) SharePoint
3 24 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.45%) nginx
5 6 (2.59%) WinCC
6 4 (1.72%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.86%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 8 (3.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.72%) CATIA
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 107 (46.12%) Azure
2 94 (40.52%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (26.72%) AWS
4 41 (17.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 39 (16.81%) Amazon EC2
5 39 (16.81%) Amazon ELB
5 39 (16.81%) Amazon S3
5 39 (16.81%) AWS KMS
5 39 (16.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 35 (15.09%) Entra ID
7 31 (13.36%) Amazon Glacier
8 12 (5.17%) SaaS
9 8 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.45%) IaaS
9 8 (3.45%) Nutanix
9 8 (3.45%) PaaS
9 8 (3.45%) Route 53
10 6 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.59%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (34.91%) DNS
2 75 (32.33%) WAN
3 59 (25.43%) LAN
4 55 (23.71%) VPN
5 41 (17.67%) DHCP
6 39 (16.81%) Wi-Fi
7 35 (15.09%) VLAN
8 34 (14.66%) SD-WAN
9 31 (13.36%) TCP/IP
10 27 (11.64%) HTTP
11 26 (11.21%) Network Security
11 26 (11.21%) SSH
12 25 (10.78%) FTP
12 25 (10.78%) SMTP
13 16 (6.90%) SAN
14 11 (4.74%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (4.31%) MPLS
16 9 (3.88%) Modbus
17 8 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
17 8 (3.45%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.72%) MySQL
4 4 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (20.26%) JIRA
2 44 (18.97%) Git
3 40 (17.24%) Jenkins
4 39 (16.81%) Vagrant
5 10 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.38%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.33%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (6.47%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.31%) Finance
6 10 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.88%) Law
8 8 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.59%) Retail
11 5 (2.16%) Billing
12 4 (1.72%) Back Office
13 3 (1.29%) Marketing
13 3 (1.29%) Publishing
14 2 (0.86%) Legal
15 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (28.88%) Support Engineer
2 54 (23.28%) IT Support
3 51 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (15.52%) IT Engineer
5 34 (14.66%) Senior
6 27 (11.64%) IT Support Engineer
7 24 (10.34%) Network Engineer
8 23 (9.91%) 2nd Line Support
8 23 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (9.91%) Infrastructure Support
8 23 (9.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 22 (9.48%) Analyst
10 19 (8.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (6.47%) 3rd Line Support
12 15 (6.47%) Technical Engineer
13 14 (6.03%) Architect
14 13 (5.60%) Technical Support
14 13 (5.60%) Technical Support Engineer
15 12 (5.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.45%) LDAP
2 3 (1.29%) EDI
3 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.66%) Driving Licence
2 30 (12.93%) Data Centre
3 29 (12.50%) Replication
4 20 (8.62%) Operational Technology
5 13 (5.60%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.74%) Clustering
6 11 (4.74%) Security Posture
7 10 (4.31%) SCADA
8 8 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (3.02%) CCTV
9 7 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.72%) NHS
11 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.86%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (59.91%) Windows
2 58 (25.00%) Linux
3 55 (23.71%) Windows Server
4 41 (17.67%) VMS
5 25 (10.78%) Amazon Linux
6 24 (10.34%) Windows 10
7 21 (9.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (8.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 9 (3.88%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.86%) AIX
10 2 (0.86%) Android
10 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.86%) Unix
10 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (21.55%) DevOps
4 42 (18.10%) Change Management
5 40 (17.24%) Cloud Security
5 40 (17.24%) Configuration Management
6 38 (16.38%) ITIL
7 34 (14.66%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (12.93%) Customer Service
9 29 (12.50%) Patch Management
10 24 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (9.05%) SIEM
12 20 (8.62%) Agile
13 19 (8.19%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (7.76%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (7.76%) Migration
15 17 (7.33%) High Availability
16 15 (6.47%) Incident Response
16 15 (6.47%) Proactive Monitoring
17 14 (6.03%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 58 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 44 (18.97%) Python
3 39 (16.81%) Groovy
4 22 (9.48%) SQL
5 17 (7.33%) Java
5 17 (7.33%) Perl
6 5 (2.16%) Bicep
7 3 (1.29%) Bash
8 2 (0.86%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.43%) Go
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.43%) VB
9 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 51 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 41 (17.67%) Cisco Certification
4 38 (16.38%) Degree
5 28 (12.07%) CCNA
6 27 (11.64%) CCNP
7 23 (9.91%) Azure Certification
8 14 (6.03%) AWS Certification
9 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (3.45%) MCSA
11 7 (3.02%) MCP
11 7 (3.02%) MCSE
12 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.29%) HND
13 3 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.86%) CEH
14 2 (0.86%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.90%) SLA
2 10 (4.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (3.88%) GDPR
3 9 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.59%) IEC 61508
4 6 (2.59%) QA
5 5 (2.16%) NIST
6 4 (1.72%) IEC 61131
7 3 (1.29%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 112 (48.28%) Active Directory
2 50 (21.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (17.24%) Hyper-V
4 28 (12.07%) DFS Replication
5 27 (11.64%) Docker
6 8 (3.45%) Dovecot
6 8 (3.45%) Postfix
6 8 (3.45%) Squid
6 8 (3.45%) XenApp
7 6 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.16%) vSphere
9 3 (1.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (20.69%) Terraform
2 39 (16.81%) Grafana
2 39 (16.81%) Prometheus
3 35 (15.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (7.33%) Ansible
5 10 (4.31%) Nessus
5 10 (4.31%) SCCM
6 8 (3.45%) Proxmox
7 6 (2.59%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (2.59%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.16%) Autotask
8 5 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.86%) Endace
10 2 (0.86%) Nagios
11 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.43%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) QRadar
11 1 (0.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 84 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 83 (35.78%) Cisco
3 59 (25.43%) VMware
4 41 (17.67%) ServiceNow
5 39 (16.81%) Juniper
6 35 (15.09%) Meraki
7 18 (7.76%) Dell
8 17 (7.33%) Fortinet
9 13 (5.60%) HP
9 13 (5.60%) McAfee
9 13 (5.60%) SonicWALL
9 13 (5.60%) Veeam
10 12 (5.17%) Aruba
11 8 (3.45%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.45%) Citrix
11 8 (3.45%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (3.45%) WatchGuard
12 7 (3.02%) Draytek
12 7 (3.02%) Mitel
13 6 (2.59%) SolarWinds