Firewall Jobs in the Midlands

Firewall
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 44 75
Rank change year-on-year -48 +31 -5
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 206 523 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.96% 4.41% 4.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.09% 33.33% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 167 469 238
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.10%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,400 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -2.91%

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 892 1,569 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.80% 13.22% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 472 1,287 732
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Firewall in the Midlands

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 May 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 14 May 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 -29 149 £45,000 - 106
East Midlands -44 57 £45,500 +13.75% 60
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (19.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (9.71%) SharePoint
3 12 (5.83%) IIS
4 5 (2.43%) Confluence
5 2 (0.97%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 45 (21.84%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (2.91%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.91%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (53.40%) Azure
2 81 (39.32%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (16.02%) AWS
4 24 (11.65%) Entra ID
5 22 (10.68%) Google Workspace
6 17 (8.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (4.37%) IaaS
8 9 (4.37%) SaaS
9 8 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.88%) AWS KMS
9 8 (3.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (3.88%) PaaS
9 8 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.40%) Amazon ELB
10 7 (3.40%) Amazon Glacier
11 6 (2.91%) Google Docs
12 4 (1.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.94%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 85 (41.26%) WAN
2 64 (31.07%) LAN
3 59 (28.64%) DNS
4 57 (27.67%) DHCP
5 55 (26.70%) VPN
6 39 (18.93%) VLAN
7 35 (16.99%) SD-WAN
8 33 (16.02%) TCP/IP
9 31 (15.05%) Network Security
10 20 (9.71%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (9.22%) SAN
12 16 (7.77%) BGP
13 15 (7.28%) Cisco Firepower
13 15 (7.28%) OSPF
13 15 (7.28%) WLAN
14 13 (6.31%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (4.37%) Wireless
16 6 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
17 5 (2.43%) Internet
17 5 (2.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.94%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.94%) MySQL
3 4 (1.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (4.37%) Git
2 8 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.40%) Vagrant
4 5 (2.43%) JIRA
4 5 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 74 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.25%) Retail
3 15 (7.28%) Automotive
3 15 (7.28%) Finance
4 14 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.88%) Law
6 8 (3.88%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.43%) Legal
7 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.94%) Police
9 1 (0.49%) Billing
9 1 (0.49%) German Language
9 1 (0.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (26.21%) Support Engineer
2 32 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (14.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 29 (14.08%) IT Engineer
4 27 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 27 (13.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 26 (12.62%) IT Support
5 26 (12.62%) Network Engineer
6 19 (9.22%) Senior
7 17 (8.25%) Analyst
8 16 (7.77%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.31%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 13 (6.31%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (6.31%) Lead
9 13 (6.31%) Security Engineer
10 12 (5.83%) Project Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Cisco Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Senior Network Engineer
12 8 (3.88%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (3.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.97%) .NET
1 2 (0.97%) LDAP
2 1 (0.49%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.49%) SAML
2 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.05%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.25%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.77%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.80%) Driving Licence
4 14 (6.80%) Smartphone
5 10 (4.85%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.40%) PKI
7 6 (2.91%) Clustering
8 4 (1.94%) NHS
8 4 (1.94%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.46%) Replication
9 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.97%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.49%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 140 (67.96%) Windows
2 97 (47.09%) Windows Server
3 40 (19.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 35 (16.99%) Linux
4 35 (16.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 34 (16.50%) Windows 10
6 22 (10.68%) Ubuntu
7 15 (7.28%) Mac OS X
8 14 (6.80%) Apple iOS
9 8 (3.88%) Android
10 7 (3.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (3.40%) VMS
11 6 (2.91%) Windows 7
12 4 (1.94%) CentOS
13 3 (1.46%) Rocky
13 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.64%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (20.87%) ITIL
3 33 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (12.62%) Customer Service
5 26 (12.62%) SIEM
6 23 (11.17%) Information Security
6 23 (11.17%) Security Operations
7 22 (10.68%) Data Security
7 22 (10.68%) Infrastructure Management
8 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
9 19 (9.22%) Migration
10 18 (8.74%) Computer Science
10 18 (8.74%) DevOps
11 17 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (8.25%) Network Design
12 16 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (7.77%) Kalman Filter
12 16 (7.77%) Zero Trust
13 14 (6.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.11%) SQL
3 20 (9.71%) Python
4 10 (4.85%) Bash
4 10 (4.85%) C#
5 6 (2.91%) Groovy
6 5 (2.43%) Java
6 5 (2.43%) Perl
6 5 (2.43%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.94%) Bicep
8 3 (1.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (20.39%) Degree
2 30 (14.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (13.59%) Security Cleared
4 23 (11.17%) SC Cleared
5 19 (9.22%) Azure Certification
5 19 (9.22%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.80%) CCNP
7 14 (6.80%) HNC
7 14 (6.80%) HND
7 14 (6.80%) MCSE
8 11 (5.34%) A+ Certification
9 9 (4.37%) CCIE
9 9 (4.37%) MCSA
10 8 (3.88%) AWS Certification
11 7 (3.40%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (2.91%) CCNA
12 6 (2.91%) ISACA
12 6 (2.91%) MCP
12 6 (2.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (6.80%) SLA
3 13 (6.31%) GDPR
4 10 (4.85%) COBIT
5 8 (3.88%) NIST
6 4 (1.94%) GRC
6 4 (1.94%) NCSC
7 3 (1.46%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 112 (54.37%) Active Directory
2 54 (26.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (14.56%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.28%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (7.28%) XenApp
5 7 (3.40%) Docker
6 6 (2.91%) Terminal Services
6 6 (2.91%) vSphere
7 5 (2.43%) Firmware
7 5 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.46%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (16.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (4.85%) Ansible
3 9 (4.37%) FortiGate
3 9 (4.37%) Nessus
3 9 (4.37%) Terraform
4 7 (3.40%) SCCM
5 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.94%) Grafana
6 4 (1.94%) Nagios
6 4 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.94%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.46%) QRadar
7 3 (1.46%) SCOM
8 2 (0.97%) Autotask
8 2 (0.97%) SCOrch
8 2 (0.97%) SCSM
9 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 105 (50.97%) Microsoft
2 80 (38.83%) Cisco
3 56 (27.18%) VMware
4 34 (16.50%) Meraki
5 31 (15.05%) Fortinet
6 29 (14.08%) Apple
6 29 (14.08%) Dell
7 26 (12.62%) Google
8 24 (11.65%) HP
9 17 (8.25%) CheckPoint
10 15 (7.28%) Citrix
10 15 (7.28%) Juniper
10 15 (7.28%) SonicWALL
11 14 (6.80%) Ubiquiti
12 13 (6.31%) Palo Alto
13 12 (5.83%) Aruba
14 11 (5.34%) SolarWinds
15 6 (2.91%) NetApp
15 6 (2.91%) SAP
15 6 (2.91%) Veeam