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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 58 34
Rank change year-on-year -33 -24 +43
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 158 268 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.04% 4.18% 5.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.96% 28.09% 32.22%
Number of salaries quoted 128 162 299
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £29,960
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% +2.11%
75th Percentile £58,250 £55,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £65,695 £67,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% -

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 1,587 954 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.44% 14.86% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 421 397 883
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £36,250 £29,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £49,008 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.72% +8.91% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £69,910
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -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 11 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 11 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 -23 109 £52,250 +12.97% 43
East Midlands -25 49 £37,500 -6.25% 30
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 21 (13.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (13.29%) SharePoint
2 14 (8.86%) Confluence
3 6 (3.80%) WinCC
4 4 (2.53%) FactoryTalk
4 4 (2.53%) nginx
5 2 (1.27%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 4 (2.53%) CATIA
1 4 (2.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 76 (48.10%) Azure
2 66 (41.77%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (25.95%) Entra ID
4 28 (17.72%) AWS
5 10 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (5.70%) SaaS
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon ELB
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.43%) AWS KMS
7 7 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.80%) GCP
8 6 (3.80%) IaaS
8 6 (3.80%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (36.08%) WAN
2 50 (31.65%) LAN
3 43 (27.22%) DNS
4 38 (24.05%) VPN
5 32 (20.25%) SD-WAN
6 28 (17.72%) DHCP
7 23 (14.56%) TCP/IP
8 22 (13.92%) VLAN
9 18 (11.39%) Network Security
10 16 (10.13%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (6.96%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (6.33%) HTTP
12 10 (6.33%) SAN
13 9 (5.70%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (5.70%) Modbus
13 9 (5.70%) MPLS
13 9 (5.70%) SSH
14 8 (5.06%) BGP
14 8 (5.06%) OSPF
14 8 (5.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (2.53%) GIS
2 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) JIRA
2 8 (5.06%) Git
2 8 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.43%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.13%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.49%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.96%) Finance
5 7 (4.43%) Law
5 7 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (4.43%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.90%) Marketing
7 3 (1.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 42 (26.58%) Support Engineer
2 39 (24.68%) IT Support
3 30 (18.99%) Senior
4 29 (18.35%) IT Engineer
5 26 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (16.46%) IT Support Engineer
6 22 (13.92%) Network Engineer
7 17 (10.76%) 2nd Line Support
7 17 (10.76%) Architect
8 14 (8.86%) Technical Engineer
9 12 (7.59%) Senior Network Engineer
10 11 (6.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 11 (6.96%) Cisco Engineer
10 11 (6.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 11 (6.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.96%) Security Engineer
11 10 (6.33%) Firewall Engineer
11 10 (6.33%) WAN Engineer
12 9 (5.70%) Analyst
13 8 (5.06%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.53%) LDAP
2 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Driving Licence
2 20 (12.66%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.96%) Operational Technology
4 10 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (6.33%) SCADA
5 9 (5.70%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.43%) CCTV
6 7 (4.43%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.80%) Clustering
8 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.16%) Replication
9 4 (2.53%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.90%) PKI
11 2 (1.27%) Cyber Security Posture
11 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.27%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 82 (51.90%) Windows
2 43 (27.22%) Windows Server
3 22 (13.92%) Linux
4 18 (11.39%) Windows 10
5 9 (5.70%) VMS
5 9 (5.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.43%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (3.16%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.63%) Android
10 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (19.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (19.62%) ITIL
3 29 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (12.66%) Customer Service
5 18 (11.39%) SIEM
6 16 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (10.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (9.49%) DevOps
7 15 (9.49%) High Availability
8 12 (7.59%) Migration
9 11 (6.96%) Patch Management
9 11 (6.96%) Presales
9 11 (6.96%) Proactive Monitoring
10 10 (6.33%) Cloud Security
10 10 (6.33%) Network Design
10 10 (6.33%) Service Delivery
11 9 (5.70%) Change Management
11 9 (5.70%) ITSM
11 9 (5.70%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.86%) PowerShell
2 12 (7.59%) Python
3 11 (6.96%) SQL
4 7 (4.43%) Groovy
5 3 (1.90%) Java
5 3 (1.90%) Perl
6 2 (1.27%) Bash
6 2 (1.27%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.63%) Bicep
7 1 (0.63%) Go
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.63%) VB
7 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (22.78%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (19.62%) Security Cleared
3 30 (18.99%) SC Cleared
4 29 (18.35%) CCNP
5 20 (12.66%) Degree
6 18 (11.39%) CCNA
7 12 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.70%) Azure Certification
9 7 (4.43%) MCP
9 7 (4.43%) MCSA
9 7 (4.43%) MCSE
10 6 (3.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.53%) CTC Cleared
11 4 (2.53%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.90%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.90%) HND
13 2 (1.27%) CEH
13 2 (1.27%) CISSP
13 2 (1.27%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (9.49%) SLA
3 13 (8.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (5.70%) NIST
5 7 (4.43%) GDPR
6 6 (3.80%) IEC 61508
6 6 (3.80%) QA
7 4 (2.53%) IEC 61131
8 3 (1.90%) NIST 800
8 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (38.61%) Active Directory
2 40 (25.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (22.15%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.70%) Docker
5 7 (4.43%) vSphere
6 4 (2.53%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.53%) Dovecot
6 4 (2.53%) Postfix
6 4 (2.53%) Squid
6 4 (2.53%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.53%) XenApp
7 3 (1.90%) Firmware
7 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (14.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (11.39%) Terraform
3 7 (4.43%) Grafana
3 7 (4.43%) Nessus
3 7 (4.43%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.80%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (3.80%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.53%) Ansible
5 4 (2.53%) Proxmox
5 4 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.90%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (1.27%) CASB
7 2 (1.27%) Endace
8 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.63%) Nagios
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.63%) QRadar
8 1 (0.63%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 65 (41.14%) Microsoft
2 64 (40.51%) Cisco
3 48 (30.38%) VMware
4 24 (15.19%) Juniper
5 20 (12.66%) Meraki
6 19 (12.03%) Fortinet
7 12 (7.59%) Dell
8 11 (6.96%) Veeam
9 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.06%) Aruba
10 8 (5.06%) Google
10 8 (5.06%) HP
10 8 (5.06%) McAfee
10 8 (5.06%) SonicWALL
11 7 (4.43%) Draytek
11 7 (4.43%) Mitel
11 7 (4.43%) WatchGuard
12 6 (3.80%) Palo Alto
12 6 (3.80%) Rockwell
12 6 (3.80%) Siemens