Firewall Job Trends in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands citing Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	90	60	69
Rank change year-on-year	-30	+9	-32
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	258	224	304
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands	1.62%	4.04%	3.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	29.72%	27.59%	28.49%
Number of salaries quoted	197	172	171
10^th Percentile	£29,900	£29,000	£31,500
25^th Percentile	£38,000	£31,250	£35,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£50,000	£45,000	£49,008
Median % change year-on-year	+11.11%	-8.18%	+1.27%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£57,625	£58,750
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£73,750	£75,000
England median annual salary	£51,731	£45,285	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+14.24%	-13.74%	-2.78%

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in the Midlands.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	868	812	1,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands	5.44%	14.63%	11.90%
Number of salaries quoted	616	489	449
10^th Percentile	£28,000	£25,750	£29,000
25^th Percentile	£32,625	£29,000	£35,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£45,000	£35,000	£45,000
Median % change year-on-year	+28.57%	-22.22%	+4.05%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£53,750	£58,750
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£72,300	£73,750
England median annual salary	£50,000	£40,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-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 Salary Trend in the Midlands

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 24 October 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 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Midlands	-42	145	£55,000	+12.24%	70
East Midlands	-2	113	£42,500	+13.33%	30
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Firewall Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, job vacancies citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region citing Firewall.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	56.2%	145
2	Windows	55.8%	144
3	Microsoft 365	48.4%	125
4	Azure	45.0%	116
5	VPN	43.4%	112
6	Windows Server	41.5%	107
7	Entra ID	34.9%	90
8	Active Directory	34.1%	88
9	DNS	33.7%	87
10	Cisco	29.8%	77
11	WAN	29.5%	76
12	Hyper-V	28.7%	74
13	Cybersecurity	27.9%	72
13	LAN	27.9%	72
15	DHCP	27.5%	71
16	VMware	25.6%	66
17	Problem-Solving	24.4%	63
18	Continuous Improvement	23.3%	60
19	PowerShell	22.1%	57
20	Cisco Certification	21.3%	55
21	Infrastructure Engineering	20.9%	54
21	ITIL	20.9%	54
23	TCP/IP	20.5%	53
23	VLAN	20.5%	53
25	Disaster Recovery	20.2%	52
26	VMware Infrastructure	19.8%	51
27	Linux	19.0%	49
28	Customer Service	17.8%	46
29	Network Security	17.1%	44
30	Microsoft Intune	16.7%	43

Firewall Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	VPN	43.4%	112
2	DNS	33.7%	87
3	WAN	29.5%	76
4	LAN	27.9%	72
5	DHCP	27.5%	71
6	TCP/IP	20.5%	53
6	VLAN	20.5%	53
8	Network Security	17.1%	44
9	Wi-Fi	14.7%	38
10	BGP	14.0%	36
11	OSPF	13.6%	35
11	Wireless	13.6%	35
13	EIGRP	13.2%	34
14	Cisco ASA	8.9%	23
15	SD-WAN	5.8%	15
16	VoIP	5.0%	13
17	IP Telephony	4.7%	12
18	SAN	3.5%	9
19	Cisco Nexus	2.3%	6
20	Ethernet VPN	1.9%	5