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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 71 66
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 -28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 257 222 308
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.64% 4.00% 3.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.88% 26.97% 29.42%
Number of salaries quoted 194 174 175
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,225 £31,350
25th Percentile £36,563 £31,313 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £48,800
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.79% +2.74%
75th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £75,750
England median annual salary £51,500 £46,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.96% -10.68% -5.50%

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 860 823 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.50% 14.84% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 619 501 483
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,050
25th Percentile £32,125 £29,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -22.22% +4.05%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,895 £71,250 £72,500
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 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 12 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 12 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -47 138 £55,000 +13.40% 54
East Midlands +21 119 £42,500 +10.39% 31
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 37 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 37 (14.40%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.23%) IIS
3 8 (3.11%) Apache
3 8 (3.11%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.39%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 123 (47.86%) Microsoft 365
2 116 (45.14%) Azure
3 85 (33.07%) Entra ID
4 38 (14.79%) AWS
5 26 (10.12%) Mimecast
6 14 (5.45%) GCP
7 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.50%) OneDrive
8 9 (3.50%) Power Automate
9 8 (3.11%) SaaS
10 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.33%) Cloudflare
11 5 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.78%) GitHub
13 2 (0.78%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 104 (40.47%) VPN
2 88 (34.24%) DNS
3 75 (29.18%) WAN
4 72 (28.02%) LAN
5 69 (26.85%) DHCP
6 54 (21.01%) TCP/IP
7 53 (20.62%) VLAN
8 43 (16.73%) Network Security
9 35 (13.62%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (13.62%) Wireless
10 33 (12.84%) BGP
11 32 (12.45%) OSPF
12 31 (12.06%) EIGRP
13 20 (7.78%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (5.06%) SD-WAN
15 11 (4.28%) IP Telephony
15 11 (4.28%) VoIP
16 10 (3.89%) SAN
17 8 (3.11%) Internet
18 6 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.78%) KNIME
4 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.78%) Power BI
5 1 (0.39%) MySQL
5 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Git
1 6 (2.33%) JIRA
2 5 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.17%) GitLab
General
1 93 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (8.95%) Telecoms
3 18 (7.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (3.11%) Finance
5 7 (2.72%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.33%) Retail
7 5 (1.95%) Aerospace
7 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.95%) Legal
7 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Banking
8 4 (1.56%) Law
8 4 (1.56%) Marketing
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Aviation
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (22.57%) Senior
2 57 (22.18%) IT Engineer
3 48 (18.68%) IT Support
3 48 (18.68%) Network Engineer
4 41 (15.95%) Support Engineer
5 34 (13.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (8.95%) IT Technician
7 22 (8.56%) IT Support Engineer
8 21 (8.17%) Administrator
8 21 (8.17%) IT Support Technician
8 21 (8.17%) Support Technician
9 20 (7.78%) Senior Network Engineer
10 19 (7.39%) Field Engineer
10 19 (7.39%) Field Service Engineer
10 19 (7.39%) Senior Support Engineer
11 18 (7.00%) Lead
12 16 (6.23%) Systems Administrator
13 15 (5.84%) Analyst
14 13 (5.06%) IT Administrator
14 13 (5.06%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.23%) Terraform
2 6 (2.33%) Middleware
3 4 (1.56%) COM
3 4 (1.56%) DCOM
3 4 (1.56%) LDAP
3 4 (1.56%) YAML
4 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.78%) REST
5 1 (0.39%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.45%) Driving Licence
2 18 (7.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.06%) CCTV
4 12 (4.67%) Security Posture
4 12 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.50%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.11%) Clustering
8 7 (2.72%) PKI
8 7 (2.72%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.95%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.95%) IoT
9 5 (1.95%) PMI
9 5 (1.95%) SCADA
9 5 (1.95%) Smartphone
10 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.56%) Smartcard
11 3 (1.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 147 (57.20%) Windows
2 103 (40.08%) Windows Server
3 55 (21.40%) Linux
4 28 (10.89%) Windows 10
5 26 (10.12%) Apple iOS
6 24 (9.34%) Android
7 11 (4.28%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.95%) Solaris
9 4 (1.56%) macOS
9 4 (1.56%) VMS
9 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.78%) Unix
12 1 (0.39%) CentOS
12 1 (0.39%) Debian
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (24.12%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (21.40%) Disaster Recovery
4 55 (21.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 55 (21.40%) ITIL
5 49 (19.07%) Customer Service
6 36 (14.01%) Mentoring
7 34 (13.23%) Migration
8 33 (12.84%) Project Delivery
9 30 (11.67%) Service Delivery
10 28 (10.89%) ITSM
11 25 (9.73%) Vulnerability Management
12 23 (8.95%) Proactive Monitoring
13 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (8.17%) Incident Response
15 20 (7.78%) AI
15 20 (7.78%) Incident Management
16 19 (7.39%) High Availability
16 19 (7.39%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.96%) PowerShell
2 44 (17.12%) SQL
3 26 (10.12%) Python
4 12 (4.67%) VBA
5 9 (3.50%) Bash
6 3 (1.17%) C#
6 3 (1.17%) Java
6 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.78%) Bicep
8 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (18.68%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (14.79%) CCNP
3 29 (11.28%) CCNA
4 27 (10.51%) Degree
5 25 (9.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (8.17%) Security Cleared
7 15 (5.84%) SC Cleared
8 14 (5.45%) Azure Certification
8 14 (5.45%) MCSE
9 11 (4.28%) MCSA
9 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 9 (3.50%) CISSP
11 7 (2.72%) CISM
12 5 (1.95%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.78%) A+ Certification
15 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 29 (11.28%) SLA
3 23 (8.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.11%) GDPR
6 6 (2.33%) NIST
7 4 (1.56%) ISO 9001
8 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.39%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.39%) NCSC
10 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 87 (33.85%) Active Directory
2 71 (27.63%) Hyper-V
3 51 (19.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.72%) Firmware
5 7 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.33%) Docker
6 6 (2.33%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (15.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (3.11%) Ansible
3 7 (2.72%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.72%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.78%) Nessus
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) Galera Cluster
5 1 (0.39%) Podman
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.39%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
5 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (56.81%) Microsoft
2 72 (28.02%) Cisco
3 65 (25.29%) VMware
4 26 (10.12%) Sophos
5 25 (9.73%) Fortinet
6 23 (8.95%) SonicWALL
7 19 (7.39%) Logitech
7 19 (7.39%) TOWER Software
8 18 (7.00%) WatchGuard
9 14 (5.45%) Meraki
10 12 (4.67%) Mitel
10 12 (4.67%) Veeam
11 11 (4.28%) Draytek
12 10 (3.89%) Palo Alto
13 9 (3.50%) Citrix
14 8 (3.11%) Aruba
15 7 (2.72%) Google
15 7 (2.72%) ServiceNow
15 7 (2.72%) Ubiquiti
16 6 (2.33%) HP