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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 59 31
Rank change year-on-year -34 -28 +46
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 161 272 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.06% 4.18% 6.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.06% 28.25% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 130 166 293
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,750 £29,840
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £37,090
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £48,837
Median % change year-on-year - -7.86% +2.81%
75th Percentile £58,250 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £66,050 £74,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.21% +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 1,600 963 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.47% 14.80% 18.71%
Number of salaries quoted 432 400 854
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,450 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £35,625 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £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 6 January 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 January 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 -29 112 £52,000 +14.29% 37
East Midlands -17 49 £37,500 -6.25% 8
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 22 (13.66%) SharePoint
2 21 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (8.70%) Confluence
4 6 (3.73%) WinCC
5 4 (2.48%) FactoryTalk
5 4 (2.48%) nginx
6 2 (1.24%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 4 (2.48%) CATIA
1 4 (2.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 77 (47.83%) Azure
2 68 (42.24%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (26.09%) Entra ID
4 28 (17.39%) AWS
5 10 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (5.59%) SaaS
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.35%) AWS KMS
7 7 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.73%) GCP
8 6 (3.73%) IaaS
8 6 (3.73%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (37.27%) WAN
2 52 (32.30%) LAN
3 44 (27.33%) DNS
4 40 (24.84%) VPN
5 32 (19.88%) SD-WAN
6 29 (18.01%) DHCP
7 24 (14.91%) TCP/IP
8 23 (14.29%) VLAN
9 18 (11.18%) Network Security
10 17 (10.56%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (6.83%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (6.21%) HTTP
12 10 (6.21%) SAN
13 9 (5.59%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (5.59%) Modbus
13 9 (5.59%) MPLS
13 9 (5.59%) SSH
14 8 (4.97%) BGP
14 8 (4.97%) OSPF
14 8 (4.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (2.48%) GIS
2 4 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (9.94%) JIRA
2 8 (4.97%) Git
2 8 (4.97%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.35%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.94%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.32%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.83%) Finance
5 7 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.35%) Law
5 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.86%) Marketing
6 3 (1.86%) Retail
7 2 (1.24%) Back Office
8 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.33%) Support Engineer
2 40 (24.84%) IT Support
3 30 (18.63%) IT Engineer
3 30 (18.63%) Senior
4 27 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (16.77%) IT Support Engineer
5 22 (13.66%) Network Engineer
6 17 (10.56%) 2nd Line Support
6 17 (10.56%) Architect
7 15 (9.32%) Technical Engineer
8 12 (7.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (7.45%) Senior Network Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Cisco Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Security Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Firewall Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) WAN Engineer
11 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (5.59%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.48%) LDAP
2 1 (0.62%) EDI
2 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Driving Licence
2 21 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 12 (7.45%) Operational Technology
4 10 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (6.21%) SCADA
5 9 (5.59%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.35%) CCTV
6 7 (4.35%) Clustering
6 7 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (3.73%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.11%) Replication
8 5 (3.11%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.86%) PKI
10 2 (1.24%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.24%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 83 (51.55%) Windows
2 43 (26.71%) Windows Server
3 22 (13.66%) Linux
4 18 (11.18%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.59%) VMS
5 9 (5.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (3.11%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.62%) Android
10 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (19.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 31 (19.25%) Cybersecurity
3 31 (19.25%) ITIL
4 20 (12.42%) Customer Service
5 19 (11.80%) SIEM
6 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (10.56%) Disaster Recovery
7 16 (9.94%) High Availability
8 15 (9.32%) DevOps
9 12 (7.45%) Migration
9 12 (7.45%) Proactive Monitoring
10 11 (6.83%) Patch Management
10 11 (6.83%) Presales
11 10 (6.21%) Cloud Security
11 10 (6.21%) Network Design
11 10 (6.21%) Service Delivery
12 9 (5.59%) Change Management
12 9 (5.59%) Risk Management
12 9 (5.59%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.45%) Python
3 11 (6.83%) SQL
4 7 (4.35%) Groovy
5 3 (1.86%) Java
5 3 (1.86%) Perl
6 2 (1.24%) Bash
6 2 (1.24%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.62%) Bicep
7 1 (0.62%) Go
7 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.62%) VB
7 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (22.36%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (19.25%) Security Cleared
3 30 (18.63%) SC Cleared
4 29 (18.01%) CCNP
5 21 (13.04%) Degree
6 18 (11.18%) CCNA
7 12 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.59%) Azure Certification
9 7 (4.35%) MCP
9 7 (4.35%) MCSA
9 7 (4.35%) MCSE
10 6 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.48%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (2.48%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.86%) HND
13 2 (1.24%) CEH
13 2 (1.24%) CISSP
13 2 (1.24%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (9.94%) SLA
3 13 (8.07%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (5.59%) NIST
5 7 (4.35%) GDPR
6 6 (3.73%) IEC 61508
6 6 (3.73%) QA
7 4 (2.48%) IEC 61131
8 3 (1.86%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 42 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (21.74%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.59%) Docker
5 7 (4.35%) vSphere
6 4 (2.48%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.48%) Dovecot
6 4 (2.48%) Postfix
6 4 (2.48%) Squid
6 4 (2.48%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.48%) XenApp
7 3 (1.86%) Firmware
7 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (14.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (11.18%) Terraform
3 7 (4.35%) Grafana
3 7 (4.35%) Nessus
3 7 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.73%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.73%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.48%) Ansible
5 4 (2.48%) Proxmox
5 4 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.86%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.24%) CASB
7 2 (1.24%) Endace
8 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.62%) Nagios
8 1 (0.62%) Puppet
8 1 (0.62%) QRadar
8 1 (0.62%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 67 (41.61%) Microsoft
2 65 (40.37%) Cisco
3 50 (31.06%) VMware
4 25 (15.53%) Juniper
5 20 (12.42%) Meraki
6 19 (11.80%) Fortinet
7 13 (8.07%) Dell
8 11 (6.83%) Veeam
9 10 (6.21%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.59%) McAfee
11 8 (4.97%) Aruba
11 8 (4.97%) Google
11 8 (4.97%) HP
11 8 (4.97%) SonicWALL
12 7 (4.35%) Draytek
12 7 (4.35%) Mitel
12 7 (4.35%) WatchGuard
13 6 (3.73%) Palo Alto
13 6 (3.73%) Rockwell
13 6 (3.73%) Siemens