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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 65 64
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 263 236 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.73% 4.14% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.00% 28.23% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 203 181 230
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £27,950
25th Percentile £36,875 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -3.23% +1.09%
75th Percentile £60,250 £53,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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 797 836 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.25% 14.67% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 613 499 615
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £55,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £69,500
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 9 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 9 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 -46 136 £55,000 +22.22% 59
East Midlands +25 127 £42,500 +6.25% 29
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 41 (15.59%) SharePoint
2 34 (12.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (6.08%) IIS
4 8 (3.04%) Apache
4 8 (3.04%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.38%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 114 (43.35%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (42.97%) Azure
3 81 (30.80%) Entra ID
4 34 (12.93%) AWS
5 25 (9.51%) Mimecast
6 11 (4.18%) GCP
6 11 (4.18%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (3.04%) SaaS
8 6 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.28%) Cloudflare
9 5 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.90%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.14%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.76%) GitHub
11 2 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.38%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 96 (36.50%) VPN
2 85 (32.32%) DNS
3 72 (27.38%) WAN
4 70 (26.62%) LAN
5 61 (23.19%) DHCP
6 48 (18.25%) TCP/IP
6 48 (18.25%) VLAN
7 40 (15.21%) Network Security
8 36 (13.69%) Wireless
9 35 (13.31%) Wi-Fi
10 29 (11.03%) BGP
11 27 (10.27%) EIGRP
11 27 (10.27%) OSPF
12 18 (6.84%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (4.56%) SD-WAN
14 11 (4.18%) SAN
14 11 (4.18%) VoIP
15 9 (3.42%) Internet
16 8 (3.04%) MQTT
17 5 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.32%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.52%) MySQL
3 4 (1.52%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.76%) KNIME
4 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.76%) Power BI
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Git
2 5 (1.90%) JIRA
3 4 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 90 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.98%) Manufacturing
4 17 (6.46%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.18%) Finance
6 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.04%) Law
8 6 (2.28%) Retail
9 5 (1.90%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.52%) Banking
10 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.52%) Marketing
11 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Legal
12 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (22.43%) Senior
2 49 (18.63%) IT Engineer
3 44 (16.73%) Network Engineer
4 42 (15.97%) Support Engineer
5 40 (15.21%) IT Support
6 38 (14.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (8.37%) Analyst
8 21 (7.98%) Administrator
9 20 (7.60%) IT Technician
10 19 (7.22%) Senior Network Engineer
11 17 (6.46%) Field Engineer
11 17 (6.46%) Field Service Engineer
11 17 (6.46%) IT Support Engineer
11 17 (6.46%) IT Support Technician
11 17 (6.46%) Lead
11 17 (6.46%) Support Technician
12 16 (6.08%) Network Analyst
12 16 (6.08%) Systems Administrator
12 16 (6.08%) Technical Support
13 15 (5.70%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.46%) Terraform
2 6 (2.28%) Middleware
3 4 (1.52%) COM
3 4 (1.52%) DCOM
3 4 (1.52%) LDAP
3 4 (1.52%) YAML
4 2 (0.76%) Pulumi
4 2 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.76%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.13%) Driving Licence
2 20 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.56%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.56%) Security Posture
4 10 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (3.80%) Operational Technology
4 10 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.42%) Clustering
6 8 (3.04%) CCTV
6 8 (3.04%) IoT
6 8 (3.04%) Smartphone
7 7 (2.66%) PKI
7 7 (2.66%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.28%) Replication
9 5 (1.90%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.52%) PMI
10 4 (1.52%) SCADA
10 4 (1.52%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 138 (52.47%) Windows
2 89 (33.84%) Windows Server
3 51 (19.39%) Linux
4 25 (9.51%) Android
4 25 (9.51%) Apple iOS
4 25 (9.51%) Windows 10
5 14 (5.32%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.90%) Solaris
7 4 (1.52%) VMS
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Debian
9 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.10%) Continuous Improvement
2 65 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (22.05%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (22.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 50 (19.01%) Disaster Recovery
5 48 (18.25%) Customer Service
6 47 (17.87%) ITIL
7 36 (13.69%) Mentoring
7 36 (13.69%) Migration
8 32 (12.17%) Service Delivery
9 30 (11.41%) Project Delivery
10 24 (9.13%) ITSM
10 24 (9.13%) Proactive Monitoring
11 23 (8.75%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (8.37%) High Availability
13 21 (7.98%) Incident Response
14 20 (7.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (7.22%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (6.84%) AI
16 18 (6.84%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (22.81%) PowerShell
2 47 (17.87%) SQL
3 25 (9.51%) Python
4 12 (4.56%) VBA
5 11 (4.18%) Bash
6 6 (2.28%) Bicep
7 3 (1.14%) C#
7 3 (1.14%) Java
7 3 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (14.07%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (12.17%) Degree
3 29 (11.03%) Security Cleared
4 27 (10.27%) CCNP
5 23 (8.75%) SC Cleared
6 22 (8.37%) CCNA
7 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.80%) CISSP
9 9 (3.42%) Azure Certification
10 8 (3.04%) MCSE
11 7 (2.66%) CISM
12 6 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (1.90%) MCSA
13 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (1.52%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
15 3 (1.14%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.38%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.55%) SLA
2 25 (9.51%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (9.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.42%) GDPR
5 8 (3.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.90%) NIST
7 4 (1.52%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 93 (35.36%) Active Directory
2 69 (26.24%) Hyper-V
3 55 (20.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.80%) vSphere
5 9 (3.42%) Firmware
5 9 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.28%) Docker
7 5 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (11.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.42%) Ansible
3 7 (2.66%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.28%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.52%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.76%) Grafana
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.76%) Nessus
6 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (54.75%) Microsoft
2 74 (28.14%) Cisco
3 62 (23.57%) VMware
4 23 (8.75%) Fortinet
5 21 (7.98%) SonicWALL
5 21 (7.98%) Sophos
6 17 (6.46%) Logitech
6 17 (6.46%) TOWER Software
7 13 (4.94%) Meraki
7 13 (4.94%) Veeam
8 9 (3.42%) Aruba
8 9 (3.42%) Citrix
8 9 (3.42%) HP
8 9 (3.42%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.42%) WatchGuard
9 7 (2.66%) Ubiquiti
10 6 (2.28%) Dell
10 6 (2.28%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.90%) Draytek
11 5 (1.90%) Juniper