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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 67 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +1 -30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 260 225 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.65% 3.99% 3.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.59% 26.85% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 197 175 186
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £30,279
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.74% +1.58%
75th Percentile £60,250 £57,350 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £76,875
England median annual salary £51,500 £46,500 £51,251
% change year-on-year +10.75% -9.27% -4.20%

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 850 838 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.40% 14.86% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 622 496 506
10th Percentile £27,852 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,736 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% -22.22% +4.05%
75th Percentile £59,688 £53,547 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,375 £71,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.08% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -45 139 £55,000 +15.79% 69
East Midlands +18 121 £42,500 +10.39% 45
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 (14.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 37 (14.23%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.15%) IIS
3 8 (3.08%) Apache
3 8 (3.08%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.38%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 121 (46.54%) Microsoft 365
2 117 (45.00%) Azure
3 86 (33.08%) Entra ID
4 39 (15.00%) AWS
5 26 (10.00%) Mimecast
6 14 (5.38%) GCP
7 10 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (3.08%) SaaS
10 7 (2.69%) OneDrive
11 6 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (2.31%) Cloudflare
12 5 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (1.54%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.77%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 101 (38.85%) VPN
2 88 (33.85%) DNS
3 74 (28.46%) WAN
4 72 (27.69%) LAN
5 69 (26.54%) DHCP
6 53 (20.38%) TCP/IP
7 50 (19.23%) VLAN
8 41 (15.77%) Network Security
9 35 (13.46%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (13.46%) Wireless
10 31 (11.92%) BGP
11 30 (11.54%) EIGRP
11 30 (11.54%) OSPF
12 20 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (4.62%) SD-WAN
14 11 (4.23%) IP Telephony
14 11 (4.23%) VoIP
15 10 (3.85%) SAN
16 8 (3.08%) Internet
17 5 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.77%) KNIME
4 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.77%) Power BI
5 1 (0.38%) MySQL
5 1 (0.38%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Git
2 5 (1.92%) JIRA
3 4 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.15%) GitLab
General
1 94 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (8.85%) Telecoms
3 18 (6.92%) Manufacturing
4 9 (3.46%) Finance
5 7 (2.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.31%) Retail
7 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.92%) Legal
8 4 (1.54%) Banking
8 4 (1.54%) Law
8 4 (1.54%) Marketing
8 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Aviation
10 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (23.85%) Senior
2 57 (21.92%) IT Engineer
3 50 (19.23%) IT Support
4 46 (17.69%) Network Engineer
5 43 (16.54%) Support Engineer
6 33 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (8.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (8.85%) IT Technician
8 21 (8.08%) Administrator
8 21 (8.08%) IT Support Technician
8 21 (8.08%) Support Technician
9 20 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
10 19 (7.31%) Field Engineer
10 19 (7.31%) Field Service Engineer
10 19 (7.31%) Senior Support Engineer
11 18 (6.92%) Analyst
11 18 (6.92%) Lead
12 16 (6.15%) Systems Administrator
13 14 (5.38%) Technical Support
14 13 (5.00%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.15%) Terraform
2 6 (2.31%) Middleware
3 4 (1.54%) COM
3 4 (1.54%) DCOM
3 4 (1.54%) LDAP
3 4 (1.54%) YAML
4 2 (0.77%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.31%) Driving Licence
2 17 (6.54%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.00%) CCTV
4 12 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.62%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.85%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.08%) Clustering
8 7 (2.69%) PKI
8 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.69%) Smartphone
9 5 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.92%) IoT
9 5 (1.92%) PMI
9 5 (1.92%) SCADA
10 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.54%) Smartcard
11 3 (1.15%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 148 (56.92%) Windows
2 101 (38.85%) Windows Server
3 54 (20.77%) Linux
4 28 (10.77%) Windows 10
5 26 (10.00%) Apple iOS
6 25 (9.62%) Android
7 11 (4.23%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.92%) Solaris
9 4 (1.54%) VMS
10 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.77%) Unix
12 1 (0.38%) CentOS
12 1 (0.38%) Debian
12 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (23.85%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (20.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 53 (20.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (20.00%) ITIL
6 51 (19.62%) Customer Service
7 36 (13.85%) Mentoring
7 36 (13.85%) Migration
8 31 (11.92%) Project Delivery
8 31 (11.92%) Service Delivery
9 29 (11.15%) ITSM
10 24 (9.23%) Proactive Monitoring
10 24 (9.23%) Vulnerability Management
11 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (8.08%) Incident Response
13 20 (7.69%) AI
13 20 (7.69%) Incident Management
14 19 (7.31%) Service Catalogue
15 18 (6.92%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 60 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 44 (16.92%) SQL
3 27 (10.38%) Python
4 12 (4.62%) VBA
5 9 (3.46%) Bash
6 3 (1.15%) C#
6 3 (1.15%) Java
6 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.77%) Bicep
8 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (17.69%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (13.85%) CCNP
3 29 (11.15%) Degree
4 28 (10.77%) CCNA
5 26 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (8.85%) Security Cleared
7 17 (6.54%) SC Cleared
8 14 (5.38%) MCSE
9 13 (5.00%) Azure Certification
10 11 (4.23%) MCSA
10 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 9 (3.46%) CISSP
12 7 (2.69%) CISM
13 5 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.92%) PMI Certification
14 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
15 3 (1.15%) A+ Certification
15 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 31 (11.92%) SLA
2 23 (8.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (3.46%) GDPR
4 6 (2.31%) NIST
5 4 (1.54%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 89 (34.23%) Active Directory
2 72 (27.69%) Hyper-V
3 52 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.69%) Firmware
6 6 (2.31%) Docker
6 6 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.31%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (14.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.69%) Ansible
2 7 (2.69%) FortiGate
2 7 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.77%) Grafana
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (0.77%) Nessus
3 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Galera Cluster
4 1 (0.38%) Podman
4 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.38%) Puppet
4 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 145 (55.77%) Microsoft
2 72 (27.69%) Cisco
3 65 (25.00%) VMware
4 25 (9.62%) Sophos
5 24 (9.23%) Fortinet
6 22 (8.46%) SonicWALL
7 19 (7.31%) Logitech
7 19 (7.31%) TOWER Software
8 17 (6.54%) WatchGuard
9 14 (5.38%) Meraki
10 12 (4.62%) Mitel
10 12 (4.62%) Veeam
11 11 (4.23%) Draytek
12 9 (3.46%) Aruba
12 9 (3.46%) Citrix
12 9 (3.46%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.08%) HP
14 7 (2.69%) Google
14 7 (2.69%) Ubiquiti
15 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow