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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 65 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 -32 +50
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 207 319 309
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.45% 3.64% 6.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.13% 28.23% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 163 184 283
10th Percentile £28,800 £31,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £37,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £67,065 £77,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 665 1,130 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.09% 12.90% 20.11%
Number of salaries quoted 476 451 814
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,375 £29,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £45,000 £43,375
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.75% -8.68%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £57,500
90th Percentile £69,375 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,300 £51,500
% change year-on-year -24.95% +3.50% -1.90%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +10 145 £50,000 +5.26% 46
East Midlands +4 62 £37,500 -6.25% 17
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 35 (16.91%) Confluence
2 23 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 21 (10.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.90%) nginx
4 6 (2.90%) WinCC
5 4 (1.93%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.97%) ArchestrA
Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.93%) CATIA
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 91 (43.96%) Azure
2 82 (39.61%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (24.15%) AWS
4 35 (16.91%) Entra ID
5 32 (15.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (14.01%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (14.01%) Amazon ELB
6 29 (14.01%) Amazon S3
6 29 (14.01%) AWS KMS
6 29 (14.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 23 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (4.35%) SaaS
9 7 (3.38%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.90%) iPaaS
10 6 (2.90%) Route 53
11 5 (2.42%) GCP
11 5 (2.42%) IaaS
11 5 (2.42%) Mimecast
11 5 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (35.27%) DNS
2 68 (32.85%) WAN
3 56 (27.05%) LAN
4 49 (23.67%) VPN
5 43 (20.77%) DHCP
6 34 (16.43%) TCP/IP
7 33 (15.94%) VLAN
8 32 (15.46%) SD-WAN
8 32 (15.46%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (10.63%) HTTP
9 22 (10.63%) Network Security
10 21 (10.14%) SSH
11 19 (9.18%) FTP
11 19 (9.18%) SMTP
12 14 (6.76%) SAN
13 11 (5.31%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (4.35%) Modbus
14 9 (4.35%) MPLS
15 8 (3.86%) Cisco ASA
15 8 (3.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.49%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (18.36%) JIRA
2 30 (14.49%) Git
2 30 (14.49%) Jenkins
3 29 (14.01%) Vagrant
4 7 (3.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.49%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.83%) Finance
6 10 (4.83%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.35%) Law
8 7 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.38%) Retail
8 7 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.93%) Back Office
10 3 (1.45%) Billing
10 3 (1.45%) Marketing
10 3 (1.45%) Publishing
11 2 (0.97%) Legal
12 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 62 (29.95%) Support Engineer
2 50 (24.15%) IT Support
3 45 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (17.39%) IT Engineer
5 30 (14.49%) Senior
6 28 (13.53%) IT Support Engineer
7 24 (11.59%) Network Engineer
8 21 (10.14%) Infrastructure Support
8 21 (10.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 19 (9.18%) 2nd Line Support
9 19 (9.18%) Analyst
9 19 (9.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (8.70%) Technical Engineer
11 17 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.28%) Technical Support
12 13 (6.28%) Technical Support Engineer
13 12 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (5.31%) 3rd Line Support
15 10 (4.83%) Architect
15 10 (4.83%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.90%) LDAP
2 3 (1.45%) EDI
3 1 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.98%) Driving Licence
2 26 (12.56%) Data Centre
3 21 (10.14%) Replication
4 16 (7.73%) Operational Technology
5 10 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.83%) SCADA
6 8 (3.86%) Clustering
6 8 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.86%) Security Posture
7 7 (3.38%) CCTV
7 7 (3.38%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.42%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.45%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 124 (59.90%) Windows
2 53 (25.60%) Windows Server
3 48 (23.19%) Linux
4 31 (14.98%) VMS
5 25 (12.08%) Windows 10
6 19 (9.18%) Amazon Linux
7 17 (8.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 16 (7.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (3.38%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.97%) AIX
10 2 (0.97%) Android
10 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.48%) Unix
11 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.39%) DevOps
4 32 (15.46%) Change Management
5 31 (14.98%) ITIL
6 30 (14.49%) Cloud Security
6 30 (14.49%) Configuration Management
6 30 (14.49%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (12.56%) Customer Service
8 23 (11.11%) Patch Management
9 21 (10.14%) SIEM
10 20 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (8.21%) High Availability
13 15 (7.25%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (7.25%) Proactive Monitoring
14 12 (5.80%) Incident Response
14 12 (5.80%) Migration
15 11 (5.31%) Network Design
16 10 (4.83%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.84%) PowerShell
2 34 (16.43%) Python
3 29 (14.01%) Groovy
4 13 (6.28%) Java
4 13 (6.28%) Perl
4 13 (6.28%) SQL
5 3 (1.45%) Bash
6 2 (0.97%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.48%) Bicep
7 1 (0.48%) Go
7 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.48%) VB
7 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (19.81%) SC Cleared
3 39 (18.84%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (16.43%) Degree
5 27 (13.04%) CCNP
6 25 (12.08%) CCNA
7 15 (7.25%) Azure Certification
8 13 (6.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (4.83%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.86%) MCSA
11 7 (3.38%) MCP
11 7 (3.38%) MCSE
12 4 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.45%) CEH
13 3 (1.45%) CISSP
13 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.45%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.45%) HND
13 3 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.97%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.18%) SLA
2 13 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.86%) GDPR
5 6 (2.90%) IEC 61508
5 6 (2.90%) QA
6 5 (2.42%) NIST
7 4 (1.93%) IEC 61131
8 3 (1.45%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (46.86%) Active Directory
2 44 (21.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (18.84%) Hyper-V
4 21 (10.14%) Docker
5 20 (9.66%) DFS Replication
6 6 (2.90%) Dovecot
6 6 (2.90%) Postfix
6 6 (2.90%) Squid
7 5 (2.42%) vSphere
7 5 (2.42%) XenApp
8 3 (1.45%) Firmware
8 3 (1.45%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (18.36%) Terraform
2 29 (14.01%) Grafana
2 29 (14.01%) Prometheus
3 27 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (6.28%) Ansible
5 9 (4.35%) Nessus
6 7 (3.38%) SCCM
7 6 (2.90%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (2.90%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.90%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.45%) Autotask
8 3 (1.45%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.97%) Endace
9 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.48%) Nagios
10 1 (0.48%) Puppet
10 1 (0.48%) QRadar
10 1 (0.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 81 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 77 (37.20%) Cisco
3 53 (25.60%) VMware
4 37 (17.87%) Juniper
5 32 (15.46%) ServiceNow
6 26 (12.56%) Meraki
7 19 (9.18%) Fortinet
8 17 (8.21%) Dell
9 13 (6.28%) McAfee
10 12 (5.80%) Aruba
10 12 (5.80%) Veeam
11 10 (4.83%) HP
11 10 (4.83%) SonicWALL
12 8 (3.86%) WatchGuard
13 7 (3.38%) Draytek
13 7 (3.38%) Mitel
14 6 (2.90%) Jaspersoft
14 6 (2.90%) Rockwell
14 6 (2.90%) Siemens
15 5 (2.42%) Palo Alto