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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 64 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 -33 +53
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 176 278 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.28% 3.99% 6.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.88% 27.86% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 136 169 290
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,900 £29,225
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £57,625 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £66,050 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% -

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 1,618 998 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.00% 14.31% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 450 420 819
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,450 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,925 £35,188 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.85% +4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,438 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -30 124 £50,000 +11.11% 56
East Midlands -16 52 £35,000 -12.50% 28
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 24 (13.64%) Confluence
2 22 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 21 (11.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.41%) WinCC
5 5 (2.84%) nginx
6 4 (2.27%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (1.14%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.27%) CATIA
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 81 (46.02%) Azure
2 70 (39.77%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (21.59%) AWS
4 37 (21.02%) Entra ID
5 20 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (9.66%) Amazon ELB
6 17 (9.66%) Amazon S3
6 17 (9.66%) AWS KMS
6 17 (9.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 12 (6.82%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (5.11%) SaaS
9 6 (3.41%) GCP
9 6 (3.41%) iPaaS
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.84%) Route 53
11 4 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (35.80%) WAN
2 59 (33.52%) DNS
3 52 (29.55%) LAN
4 45 (25.57%) VPN
5 36 (20.45%) DHCP
6 32 (18.18%) SD-WAN
7 28 (15.91%) TCP/IP
7 28 (15.91%) VLAN
8 21 (11.93%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (10.23%) HTTP
10 17 (9.66%) Network Security
10 17 (9.66%) SSH
11 15 (8.52%) FTP
11 15 (8.52%) SMTP
12 11 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (5.68%) SAN
14 9 (5.11%) Modbus
14 9 (5.11%) MPLS
15 8 (4.55%) OSPF
15 8 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (14.77%) JIRA
2 18 (10.23%) Git
2 18 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.66%) Vagrant
4 6 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.52%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.11%) Law
6 8 (4.55%) Finance
6 8 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.98%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.27%) Back Office
9 3 (1.70%) Marketing
9 3 (1.70%) Publishing
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (27.84%) Support Engineer
2 45 (25.57%) IT Support
3 33 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (18.18%) IT Engineer
5 29 (16.48%) Senior
6 27 (15.34%) IT Support Engineer
7 20 (11.36%) Network Engineer
8 18 (10.23%) 2nd Line Support
8 18 (10.23%) Technical Engineer
9 16 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Analyst
10 13 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.39%) Infrastructure Support
10 13 (7.39%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 12 (6.82%) Architect
11 12 (6.82%) Technical Support
11 12 (6.82%) Technical Support Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Security Engineer
12 9 (5.11%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.84%) LDAP
2 3 (1.70%) EDI
3 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.77%) Driving Licence
2 25 (14.20%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.39%) Operational Technology
4 12 (6.82%) Replication
5 10 (5.68%) SCADA
6 9 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (5.11%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.98%) CCTV
7 7 (3.98%) Clustering
7 7 (3.98%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.98%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.41%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.14%) PKI
11 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.14%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 98 (55.68%) Windows
2 43 (24.43%) Windows Server
3 30 (17.05%) Linux
4 23 (13.07%) Windows 10
5 19 (10.80%) VMS
6 15 (8.52%) Amazon Linux
7 12 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (3.41%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.57%) Android
11 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 30 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (15.91%) ITIL
5 25 (14.20%) DevOps
6 23 (13.07%) Customer Service
7 21 (11.93%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (11.93%) SIEM
8 20 (11.36%) Change Management
8 20 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
9 19 (10.80%) Patch Management
10 18 (10.23%) Configuration Management
11 16 (9.09%) High Availability
12 15 (8.52%) Proactive Monitoring
13 12 (6.82%) Migration
14 11 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (5.68%) ITSM
15 10 (5.68%) Network Design
15 10 (5.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.50%) Python
3 17 (9.66%) Groovy
4 12 (6.82%) SQL
5 10 (5.68%) Java
5 10 (5.68%) Perl
6 2 (1.14%) Bash
6 2 (1.14%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.57%) Bicep
7 1 (0.57%) Go
7 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.57%) VB
7 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (17.61%) Security Cleared
3 30 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 29 (16.48%) Degree
5 26 (14.77%) CCNP
6 18 (10.23%) CCNA
7 14 (7.95%) Azure Certification
8 12 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (5.11%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.98%) MCP
10 7 (3.98%) MCSA
10 7 (3.98%) MCSE
11 5 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.70%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.70%) HND
13 2 (1.14%) CEH
13 2 (1.14%) CISSP
13 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (1.14%) GSEC
13 2 (1.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.80%) SLA
2 15 (8.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (3.98%) GDPR
4 7 (3.98%) NIST
5 6 (3.41%) IEC 61508
5 6 (3.41%) QA
6 4 (2.27%) IEC 61131
7 3 (1.70%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (42.61%) Active Directory
2 40 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (20.45%) Hyper-V
4 17 (9.66%) Docker
5 11 (6.25%) DFS Replication
6 5 (2.84%) Dovecot
6 5 (2.84%) Postfix
6 5 (2.84%) Squid
6 5 (2.84%) vSphere
7 4 (2.27%) Terminal Services
7 4 (2.27%) XenApp
8 3 (1.70%) Firmware
8 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (15.91%) Terraform
2 24 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (9.66%) Grafana
3 17 (9.66%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.55%) Nessus
5 6 (3.41%) Ansible
5 6 (3.41%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (3.41%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.84%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.70%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.14%) Endace
9 1 (0.57%) CASB
9 1 (0.57%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.57%) Nagios
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) QRadar
9 1 (0.57%) SCCM
9 1 (0.57%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 68 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 64 (36.36%) Cisco
3 48 (27.27%) VMware
4 26 (14.77%) Juniper
5 22 (12.50%) Meraki
6 20 (11.36%) ServiceNow
7 19 (10.80%) Fortinet
8 16 (9.09%) Dell
9 12 (6.82%) McAfee
9 12 (6.82%) Veeam
10 9 (5.11%) Aruba
10 9 (5.11%) SonicWALL
11 7 (3.98%) Draytek
11 7 (3.98%) Mitel
11 7 (3.98%) WatchGuard
12 6 (3.41%) Google
12 6 (3.41%) Palo Alto
12 6 (3.41%) Rockwell
12 6 (3.41%) Siemens
12 6 (3.41%) Zscaler