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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 62 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 260 239 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.75% 4.13% 3.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.51% 27.89% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 201 182 275
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £43,750 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -5.91% +1.09%
75th Percentile £60,250 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -2.56%

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 776 857 1,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.22% 14.80% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 604 516 722
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,816 £35,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -15.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,625 £68,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -47 131 £55,000 +22.22% 67
East Midlands +33 129 £42,500 +6.25% 32
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 40 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 34 (13.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (5.77%) IIS
4 7 (2.69%) Apache
4 7 (2.69%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.38%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 111 (42.69%) Microsoft 365
2 110 (42.31%) Azure
3 78 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 33 (12.69%) AWS
5 26 (10.00%) Mimecast
6 10 (3.85%) GCP
6 10 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (3.08%) SaaS
8 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (2.31%) Cloudflare
10 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.92%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.92%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.15%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.77%) GitHub
12 2 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (35.77%) VPN
2 80 (30.77%) DNS
3 70 (26.92%) WAN
4 68 (26.15%) LAN
5 57 (21.92%) DHCP
6 45 (17.31%) TCP/IP
6 45 (17.31%) VLAN
7 41 (15.77%) Network Security
8 36 (13.85%) Wireless
9 34 (13.08%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (10.00%) BGP
11 24 (9.23%) EIGRP
11 24 (9.23%) OSPF
12 17 (6.54%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (4.62%) SAN
13 12 (4.62%) SD-WAN
14 11 (4.23%) VoIP
15 10 (3.85%) Internet
16 8 (3.08%) MQTT
17 4 (1.54%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.54%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.54%) MySQL
3 4 (1.54%) Neo4j
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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.92%) JIRA
2 4 (1.54%) Git
3 3 (1.15%) GitLab
4 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (33.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.08%) Manufacturing
4 14 (5.38%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.23%) Finance
6 8 (3.08%) Law
7 7 (2.69%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.54%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (21.15%) Senior
2 47 (18.08%) IT Engineer
3 41 (15.77%) Network Engineer
4 40 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 38 (14.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 38 (14.62%) IT Support
6 23 (8.85%) Analyst
7 22 (8.46%) Administrator
8 20 (7.69%) IT Technician
9 17 (6.54%) Field Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Field Service Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) IT Support Technician
9 17 (6.54%) Network Analyst
9 17 (6.54%) Support Technician
9 17 (6.54%) Systems Administrator
10 16 (6.15%) Firewall Specialist
10 16 (6.15%) Lead
10 16 (6.15%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (6.15%) Technical Specialist
10 16 (6.15%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.77%) Terraform
2 6 (2.31%) Middleware
3 4 (1.54%) COM
3 4 (1.54%) DCOM
3 4 (1.54%) LDAP
4 2 (0.77%) Pulumi
4 2 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.77%) REST
4 2 (0.77%) YAML
5 1 (0.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.85%) Driving Licence
2 19 (7.31%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.62%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.85%) Clustering
5 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.85%) Operational Technology
5 10 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (3.08%) IoT
6 8 (3.08%) Smartphone
7 7 (2.69%) CCTV
7 7 (2.69%) PKI
7 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.31%) Replication
9 5 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.54%) PMI
10 4 (1.54%) SCADA
10 4 (1.54%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 135 (51.92%) Windows
2 85 (32.69%) Windows Server
3 49 (18.85%) Linux
4 25 (9.62%) Android
4 25 (9.62%) Apple iOS
5 24 (9.23%) Windows 10
6 13 (5.00%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.92%) Solaris
8 4 (1.54%) VMS
9 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) CentOS
10 1 (0.38%) Debian
10 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 65 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (21.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (20.77%) Cybersecurity
4 49 (18.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 48 (18.46%) Customer Service
6 46 (17.69%) ITIL
7 35 (13.46%) Mentoring
8 33 (12.69%) Migration
9 30 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 30 (11.54%) Service Delivery
10 25 (9.62%) Proactive Monitoring
11 23 (8.85%) ITSM
11 23 (8.85%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (8.46%) High Availability
13 21 (8.08%) Incident Response
14 19 (7.31%) Patch Management
14 19 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (6.92%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (6.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.69%) PowerShell
2 48 (18.46%) SQL
3 23 (8.85%) Python
4 12 (4.62%) VBA
5 11 (4.23%) Bash
6 6 (2.31%) Bicep
7 3 (1.15%) C#
7 3 (1.15%) Java
7 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (12.31%) Degree
3 29 (11.15%) Security Cleared
4 25 (9.62%) CCNP
5 23 (8.85%) SC Cleared
6 21 (8.08%) CCNA
7 20 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.85%) CISSP
9 9 (3.46%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.69%) CISM
10 7 (2.69%) MCSE
11 6 (2.31%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.54%) A+ Certification
12 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.54%) MCSA
12 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.54%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.38%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.69%) SLA
2 24 (9.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 24 (9.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.46%) GDPR
4 8 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (1.92%) NIST
6 4 (1.54%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (35.38%) Active Directory
2 68 (26.15%) Hyper-V
3 54 (20.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.85%) vSphere
5 9 (3.46%) Firmware
5 9 (3.46%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.31%) Docker
7 5 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (11.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.69%) Ansible
2 7 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.31%) FortiGate
4 4 (1.54%) Galera Cluster
4 4 (1.54%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.77%) Grafana
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.77%) Nessus
5 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) Podman
6 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.38%) Puppet
6 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 142 (54.62%) Microsoft
2 72 (27.69%) Cisco
3 60 (23.08%) VMware
4 23 (8.85%) Fortinet
5 21 (8.08%) SonicWALL
5 21 (8.08%) Sophos
6 17 (6.54%) Logitech
6 17 (6.54%) TOWER Software
7 14 (5.38%) Veeam
8 13 (5.00%) Meraki
9 9 (3.46%) Aruba
9 9 (3.46%) HP
9 9 (3.46%) Palo Alto
10 8 (3.08%) Citrix
10 8 (3.08%) WatchGuard
11 7 (2.69%) Dell
11 7 (2.69%) Ubiquiti
12 6 (2.31%) Juniper
12 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.92%) McAfee