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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 67 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -29 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 220 305 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.98% 3.35% 5.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.76% 28.45% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 173 173 283
10th Percentile £29,150 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £38,272
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £48,070
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.02% -3.86%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,285 £52,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.74% -3.67% +3.81%

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 822 1,072 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.85% 11.77% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 503 456 822
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £43,125
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +4.35% -9.21%
75th Percentile £53,594 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,050 £73,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +18 157 £49,000 -2.00% 63
East Midlands -11 63 £37,500 -16.67% 23
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 (20.45%) Confluence
2 29 (13.18%) SharePoint
3 26 (11.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.64%) nginx
5 6 (2.73%) WinCC
6 4 (1.82%) FactoryTalk
7 2 (0.91%) ArchestrA
7 2 (0.91%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.82%) CATIA
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.82%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (47.27%) Azure
2 96 (43.64%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (26.36%) AWS
4 40 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 40 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 40 (18.18%) Amazon ELB
4 40 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 40 (18.18%) AWS KMS
4 40 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 32 (14.55%) Amazon Glacier
6 26 (11.82%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.55%) SaaS
8 9 (4.09%) Nutanix
9 8 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.64%) Route 53
10 7 (3.18%) IaaS
11 6 (2.73%) iPaaS
11 6 (2.73%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (38.18%) DNS
2 74 (33.64%) WAN
3 59 (26.82%) LAN
4 55 (25.00%) VPN
5 51 (23.18%) DHCP
6 40 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
7 38 (17.27%) TCP/IP
8 36 (16.36%) VLAN
9 30 (13.64%) SD-WAN
10 27 (12.27%) Network Security
11 26 (11.82%) HTTP
12 25 (11.36%) FTP
12 25 (11.36%) SMTP
12 25 (11.36%) SSH
13 19 (8.64%) SAN
14 8 (3.64%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (3.64%) IMAP
14 8 (3.64%) MPLS
14 8 (3.64%) OpenLDAP
15 6 (2.73%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (18.64%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.18%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.82%) MySQL
4 4 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (20.45%) Git
1 45 (20.45%) JIRA
2 40 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 40 (18.18%) Vagrant
3 11 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 38 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (5.00%) Law
6 11 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.64%) Finance
9 7 (3.18%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.27%) Billing
11 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.82%) Retail
12 3 (1.36%) Back Office
12 3 (1.36%) Publishing
13 2 (0.91%) Legal
14 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
14 1 (0.45%) Local Government
14 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (26.82%) Support Engineer
2 52 (23.64%) IT Support
3 50 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (14.55%) IT Engineer
5 30 (13.64%) Senior
6 24 (10.91%) Network Engineer
7 23 (10.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 23 (10.45%) Analyst
7 23 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
8 22 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 22 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 18 (8.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (6.36%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (6.36%) Architect
12 12 (5.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) Technical Engineer
13 11 (5.00%) IT Analyst
14 10 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.64%) LDAP
2 3 (1.36%) EDI
3 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.09%) Driving Licence
2 29 (13.18%) Replication
3 26 (11.82%) Data Centre
4 17 (7.73%) Operational Technology
5 13 (5.91%) Onboarding
6 11 (5.00%) Clustering
7 10 (4.55%) Security Posture
8 7 (3.18%) SCADA
9 6 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.82%) NHS
11 4 (1.82%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.36%) CCTV
12 3 (1.36%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 138 (62.73%) Windows
2 58 (26.36%) Windows Server
3 54 (24.55%) Linux
4 42 (19.09%) VMS
5 25 (11.36%) Amazon Linux
6 22 (10.00%) Windows 10
7 20 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (8.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (4.55%) Ubuntu
10 6 (2.73%) Apple iOS
11 5 (2.27%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.91%) AIX
12 2 (0.91%) Android
12 2 (0.91%) Unix
12 2 (0.91%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.45%) CentOS
13 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (25.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 56 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (23.18%) DevOps
4 43 (19.55%) Change Management
5 42 (19.09%) Cloud Security
6 41 (18.64%) Configuration Management
7 35 (15.91%) ITIL
8 34 (15.45%) Customer Service
9 31 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
10 27 (12.27%) Patch Management
11 20 (9.09%) Agile
11 20 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (8.18%) Migration
14 17 (7.73%) SIEM
15 16 (7.27%) High Availability
16 14 (6.36%) CI/CD
16 14 (6.36%) Incident Response
17 12 (5.45%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 63 (28.64%) PowerShell
2 45 (20.45%) Python
3 39 (17.73%) Groovy
4 23 (10.45%) SQL
5 17 (7.73%) Java
5 17 (7.73%) Perl
6 5 (2.27%) Bicep
7 3 (1.36%) Bash
8 2 (0.91%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.45%) Go
9 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (23.18%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 39 (17.73%) Degree
4 33 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (11.36%) Azure Certification
6 23 (10.45%) CCNP
7 20 (9.09%) CCNA
8 14 (6.36%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.82%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.82%) MCSA
12 3 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.36%) MCP
12 3 (1.36%) MCSE
12 3 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.91%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.91%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) SLA
2 12 (5.45%) GDPR
3 6 (2.73%) IEC 61508
3 6 (2.73%) QA
4 5 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.82%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.91%) NIST
6 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 116 (52.73%) Active Directory
2 46 (20.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (16.82%) Hyper-V
4 28 (12.73%) DFS Replication
5 27 (12.27%) Docker
6 8 (3.64%) Dovecot
6 8 (3.64%) Postfix
6 8 (3.64%) Squid
7 6 (2.73%) XenApp
8 4 (1.82%) Firmware
8 4 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (22.27%) Terraform
2 40 (18.18%) Grafana
2 40 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 31 (14.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (8.64%) Ansible
5 13 (5.91%) SCCM
6 9 (4.09%) Nessus
7 8 (3.64%) Proxmox
8 6 (2.73%) Failover Clustering
8 6 (2.73%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.27%) Autotask
10 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.91%) Endace
12 2 (0.91%) Nagios
12 2 (0.91%) SCOM
12 2 (0.91%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.91%) SCSM
13 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
13 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 87 (39.55%) Microsoft
2 72 (32.73%) Cisco
3 51 (23.18%) VMware
4 40 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 35 (15.91%) Juniper
6 33 (15.00%) Meraki
7 14 (6.36%) Dell
7 14 (6.36%) Fortinet
8 11 (5.00%) HP
8 11 (5.00%) SonicWALL
9 10 (4.55%) McAfee
9 10 (4.55%) Veeam
10 9 (4.09%) Aruba
11 8 (3.64%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (2.73%) Citrix
12 6 (2.73%) Nasuni
12 6 (2.73%) Rapid7
12 6 (2.73%) Rockwell
12 6 (2.73%) Siemens
12 6 (2.73%) SolarWinds