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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 56 65
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 236 516 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.46% 3.70% 4.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.79% 30.81% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 188 439 257
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,950
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -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 881 1,675 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.92% 12.01% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 508 1,228 733
10th Percentile £26,675 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,243 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £40,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -9.09% -4.58%
75th Percentile £57,000 £53,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £71,885 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -4 168 £46,000 +2.22% 210
East Midlands -40 68 £40,000 - 118
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 40 (16.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (13.56%) Confluence
3 27 (11.44%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.97%) IIS
5 4 (1.69%) nginx
6 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 38 (16.10%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (2.54%) NetSuite
1 6 (2.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (47.88%) Azure
2 98 (41.53%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (24.58%) AWS
4 38 (16.10%) Amazon EC2
5 35 (14.83%) Amazon S3
5 35 (14.83%) AWS KMS
5 35 (14.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 34 (14.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 34 (14.41%) Amazon ELB
7 30 (12.71%) Amazon Glacier
8 25 (10.59%) Entra ID
9 15 (6.36%) Google Workspace
10 13 (5.51%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (4.24%) IaaS
12 9 (3.81%) PaaS
13 8 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (3.39%) Route 53
14 7 (2.97%) SaaS
15 6 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (2.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 98 (41.53%) WAN
2 79 (33.47%) DNS
3 74 (31.36%) LAN
4 64 (27.12%) VPN
5 60 (25.42%) DHCP
6 36 (15.25%) SD-WAN
6 36 (15.25%) TCP/IP
6 36 (15.25%) VLAN
7 34 (14.41%) Network Security
7 34 (14.41%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (7.63%) SAN
9 17 (7.20%) HTTP
10 16 (6.78%) FTP
10 16 (6.78%) SMTP
10 16 (6.78%) SSH
11 10 (4.24%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (3.81%) BGP
12 9 (3.81%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (3.81%) OSPF
12 9 (3.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.41%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (6.78%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.69%) MySQL
3 4 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (15.25%) Git
2 35 (14.83%) Jenkins
3 34 (14.41%) Vagrant
4 32 (13.56%) JIRA
5 9 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.42%) Maven
General
1 82 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.75%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (5.93%) Finance
5 13 (5.51%) Retail
6 12 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.66%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.39%) Automotive
8 8 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.12%) Billing
9 5 (2.12%) Law
9 5 (2.12%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) Back Office
10 2 (0.85%) Police
10 2 (0.85%) Publishing
11 1 (0.42%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 73 (30.93%) Support Engineer
2 48 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (17.37%) IT Support
4 32 (13.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 29 (12.29%) 3rd Line Support
5 29 (12.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 27 (11.44%) IT Engineer
7 25 (10.59%) Analyst
8 22 (9.32%) Infrastructure Support
8 22 (9.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 21 (8.90%) Network Engineer
10 19 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (7.63%) Senior
12 15 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) IT Analyst
13 13 (5.51%) Lead
13 13 (5.51%) Project Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (5.51%) Technical Support
13 13 (5.51%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.12%) LDAP
2 2 (0.85%) EDI
3 1 (0.42%) .NET
3 1 (0.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.75%) Data Centre
1 23 (9.75%) Replication
2 20 (8.47%) Driving Licence
3 18 (7.63%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.51%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.66%) Operational Technology
6 9 (3.81%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.39%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.39%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.69%) Clustering
8 4 (1.69%) NHS
8 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 166 (70.34%) Windows
2 90 (38.14%) Windows Server
3 57 (24.15%) Linux
4 37 (15.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (14.41%) VMS
6 33 (13.98%) Windows 10
6 33 (13.98%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (8.05%) Ubuntu
8 16 (6.78%) Amazon Linux
9 15 (6.36%) Apple iOS
10 9 (3.81%) Android
11 8 (3.39%) Mac OS X
12 7 (2.97%) Mac OS
13 6 (2.54%) Windows 7
14 4 (1.69%) CentOS
15 3 (1.27%) Rocky
16 2 (0.85%) AIX
16 2 (0.85%) Unix
16 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 44 (18.64%) ITIL
4 43 (18.22%) DevOps
5 38 (16.10%) Cloud Security
6 36 (15.25%) Configuration Management
7 35 (14.83%) Change Management
8 31 (13.14%) Customer Service
9 30 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (12.29%) SIEM
11 26 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.59%) Agile
13 23 (9.75%) Migration
13 23 (9.75%) Patch Management
14 22 (9.32%) Data Security
15 21 (8.90%) Information Security
16 19 (8.05%) Infrastructure Management
16 19 (8.05%) Mentoring
17 18 (7.63%) Security Operations
18 17 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 88 (37.29%) PowerShell
2 45 (19.07%) Python
3 33 (13.98%) Groovy
4 22 (9.32%) SQL
5 15 (6.36%) Java
5 15 (6.36%) Perl
6 9 (3.81%) Bash
7 8 (3.39%) C#
8 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.69%) Bicep
10 3 (1.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (19.49%) Degree
2 44 (18.64%) Security Cleared
3 40 (16.95%) SC Cleared
4 25 (10.59%) Azure Certification
5 24 (10.17%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (8.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.93%) AWS Certification
7 14 (5.93%) CCNP
8 13 (5.51%) CCNA
9 11 (4.66%) A+ Certification
10 10 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.81%) MCSA
12 8 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (2.97%) CCIE
13 7 (2.97%) HNC
13 7 (2.97%) HND
13 7 (2.97%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (2.97%) MCSE
14 6 (2.54%) MCP
15 4 (1.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (8.47%) SLA
2 13 (5.51%) GDPR
3 8 (3.39%) COBIT
4 6 (2.54%) NIST
5 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 138 (58.47%) Active Directory
2 52 (22.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (9.75%) DFS Replication
3 23 (9.75%) Hyper-V
4 21 (8.90%) Docker
5 14 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (5.51%) XenApp
7 6 (2.54%) Terminal Services
7 6 (2.54%) vSphere
8 4 (1.69%) Dovecot
8 4 (1.69%) Postfix
8 4 (1.69%) Squid
8 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (15.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 36 (15.25%) Terraform
2 31 (13.14%) Grafana
2 31 (13.14%) Prometheus
3 22 (9.32%) Ansible
4 14 (5.93%) SCCM
5 9 (3.81%) Nessus
6 8 (3.39%) FortiGate
6 8 (3.39%) Proxmox
7 6 (2.54%) Autotask
8 4 (1.69%) Nagios
8 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.85%) QRadar
9 2 (0.85%) SCOM
9 2 (0.85%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.85%) SCSM
10 1 (0.42%) Puppet
10 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 113 (47.88%) Microsoft
2 78 (33.05%) Cisco
3 55 (23.31%) VMware
4 35 (14.83%) Juniper
4 35 (14.83%) Meraki
5 31 (13.14%) ServiceNow
6 28 (11.86%) Dell
7 27 (11.44%) HP
8 22 (9.32%) Apple
9 19 (8.05%) Fortinet
10 18 (7.63%) Google
11 15 (6.36%) Aruba
11 15 (6.36%) CheckPoint
12 14 (5.93%) SonicWALL
13 13 (5.51%) Citrix
14 12 (5.08%) McAfee
15 9 (3.81%) Palo Alto
16 8 (3.39%) Ubiquiti
17 7 (2.97%) SolarWinds
17 7 (2.97%) Sophos