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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 69 32
Rank change year-on-year -13 -37 +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 189 295 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.65% 3.74% 6.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.12% 27.44% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 147 176 290
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £29,980
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% -1.04%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £59,313
90th Percentile £73,750 £66,050 £77,625
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 1,339 1,075 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.79% 13.62% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 456 437 837
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,900 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,313 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 13 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 13 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 -14 132 £50,000 +8.11% 89
East Midlands -8 57 £37,500 -6.25% 37
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 26 (13.76%) Confluence
2 23 (12.17%) SharePoint
3 21 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (3.17%) WinCC
5 5 (2.65%) nginx
6 4 (2.12%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (1.06%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (2.12%) CATIA
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.50%) Azure
2 74 (39.15%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (21.69%) AWS
4 36 (19.05%) Entra ID
5 23 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (10.58%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (10.58%) Amazon ELB
6 20 (10.58%) Amazon S3
6 20 (10.58%) AWS KMS
6 20 (10.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (7.94%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (4.76%) SaaS
9 6 (3.17%) GCP
9 6 (3.17%) iPaaS
10 5 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.65%) IaaS
10 5 (2.65%) Nutanix
10 5 (2.65%) PaaS
10 5 (2.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 65 (34.39%) WAN
2 64 (33.86%) DNS
3 54 (28.57%) LAN
4 47 (24.87%) VPN
5 38 (20.11%) DHCP
6 31 (16.40%) SD-WAN
7 30 (15.87%) TCP/IP
7 30 (15.87%) VLAN
8 25 (13.23%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (10.58%) Network Security
10 19 (10.05%) HTTP
11 18 (9.52%) SSH
12 16 (8.47%) FTP
12 16 (8.47%) SMTP
13 13 (6.88%) SAN
14 11 (5.82%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (4.76%) Modbus
15 9 (4.76%) MPLS
16 8 (4.23%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (4.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 29 (15.34%) JIRA
2 21 (11.11%) Git
2 21 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.58%) Vagrant
4 6 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.17%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
4 12 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.29%) Finance
5 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.76%) Law
7 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.65%) Retail
10 4 (2.12%) Back Office
11 3 (1.59%) Marketing
11 3 (1.59%) Publishing
12 2 (1.06%) Billing
12 2 (1.06%) Legal
13 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 48 (25.40%) IT Support
3 39 (20.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (18.52%) IT Engineer
5 30 (15.87%) Senior
6 28 (14.81%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (11.64%) Network Engineer
8 19 (10.05%) Technical Engineer
9 18 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
9 18 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (8.99%) Analyst
11 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure Support
11 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 14 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (7.41%) Technical Support
12 14 (7.41%) Technical Support Engineer
13 10 (5.29%) Architect
13 10 (5.29%) Lead
14 9 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.65%) LDAP
2 3 (1.59%) EDI
3 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.34%) Driving Licence
2 27 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.94%) Operational Technology
4 14 (7.41%) Replication
5 10 (5.29%) SCADA
6 9 (4.76%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.23%) Clustering
7 8 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (4.23%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.70%) CCTV
8 7 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
12 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
12 2 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (1.06%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 109 (57.67%) Windows
2 47 (24.87%) Windows Server
3 36 (19.05%) Linux
4 23 (12.17%) Windows 10
5 22 (11.64%) VMS
6 16 (8.47%) Amazon Linux
7 14 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (6.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (3.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.53%) AIX
11 1 (0.53%) Android
11 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.53%) Unix
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (24.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (16.93%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (15.34%) ITIL
5 28 (14.81%) DevOps
6 24 (12.70%) Customer Service
7 23 (12.17%) Change Management
7 23 (12.17%) SIEM
8 22 (11.64%) Cloud Security
8 22 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (11.11%) Configuration Management
9 21 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (10.58%) Patch Management
11 17 (8.99%) High Availability
12 16 (8.47%) Proactive Monitoring
13 12 (6.35%) Incident Response
13 12 (6.35%) Migration
13 12 (6.35%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (5.29%) ITSM
14 10 (5.29%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.34%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.23%) Python
3 20 (10.58%) Groovy
4 13 (6.88%) SQL
5 11 (5.82%) Java
5 11 (5.82%) Perl
6 3 (1.59%) Bash
7 2 (1.06%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.53%) Bicep
8 1 (0.53%) Go
8 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.53%) VB
8 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (17.46%) Security Cleared
3 32 (16.93%) SC Cleared
4 31 (16.40%) Degree
5 25 (13.23%) CCNP
6 21 (11.11%) CCNA
7 14 (7.41%) Azure Certification
8 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (4.76%) AWS Certification
10 7 (3.70%) MCP
10 7 (3.70%) MCSA
10 7 (3.70%) MCSE
11 4 (2.12%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.59%) CEH
12 3 (1.59%) CISSP
12 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.59%) HND
13 2 (1.06%) GSEC
13 2 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (1.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.58%) SLA
2 14 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (4.23%) GDPR
5 6 (3.17%) IEC 61508
5 6 (3.17%) NIST
5 6 (3.17%) QA
6 4 (2.12%) IEC 61131
7 3 (1.59%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (43.92%) Active Directory
2 43 (22.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (20.11%) Hyper-V
4 18 (9.52%) Docker
5 13 (6.88%) DFS Replication
6 5 (2.65%) Dovecot
6 5 (2.65%) Postfix
6 5 (2.65%) Squid
6 5 (2.65%) vSphere
7 4 (2.12%) XenApp
8 3 (1.59%) Firmware
8 3 (1.59%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (16.40%) Terraform
2 27 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (10.58%) Grafana
3 20 (10.58%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.23%) Ansible
4 8 (4.23%) Nessus
5 6 (3.17%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (3.17%) FortiGate
6 5 (2.65%) Proxmox
7 4 (2.12%) SCCM
8 3 (1.59%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (1.06%) Autotask
9 2 (1.06%) Endace
9 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.53%) Nagios
10 1 (0.53%) Puppet
10 1 (0.53%) QRadar
10 1 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 74 (39.15%) Microsoft
2 70 (37.04%) Cisco
3 51 (26.98%) VMware
4 30 (15.87%) Juniper
5 23 (12.17%) Meraki
5 23 (12.17%) ServiceNow
6 19 (10.05%) Fortinet
7 18 (9.52%) Dell
8 14 (7.41%) McAfee
9 12 (6.35%) Veeam
10 11 (5.82%) Aruba
11 9 (4.76%) SonicWALL
12 7 (3.70%) Draytek
12 7 (3.70%) HP
12 7 (3.70%) Mitel
12 7 (3.70%) WatchGuard
13 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto
13 6 (3.17%) Rockwell
13 6 (3.17%) Siemens
13 6 (3.17%) Zscaler