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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 70 65
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -25
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 256 226 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.64% 4.01% 3.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.84% 26.94% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 195 177 182
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,450 £31,275
25th Percentile £36,875 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £48,650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.50% +2.42%
75th Percentile £61,142 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,375
England median annual salary £51,500 £46,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.96% -10.68% -6.36%

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 858 839 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.49% 14.87% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 622 502 496
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,063 £29,000 £33,188
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 £53,641 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,375 £72,150 £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 9 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 9 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 -44 138 £55,000 +13.40% 62
East Midlands +7 118 £42,500 +10.39% 33
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 (14.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 37 (14.45%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.25%) IIS
3 8 (3.13%) Apache
3 8 (3.13%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.52%) 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
1 121 (47.27%) Microsoft 365
2 115 (44.92%) Azure
3 85 (33.20%) Entra ID
4 38 (14.84%) AWS
5 26 (10.16%) Mimecast
6 14 (5.47%) GCP
7 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
7 9 (3.52%) Power Automate
8 8 (3.13%) OneDrive
8 8 (3.13%) SaaS
9 6 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.34%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.34%) Cloudflare
10 5 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.78%) GitHub
12 2 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.78%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 101 (39.45%) VPN
2 87 (33.98%) DNS
3 74 (28.91%) WAN
4 72 (28.13%) LAN
5 68 (26.56%) DHCP
6 53 (20.70%) TCP/IP
7 50 (19.53%) VLAN
8 42 (16.41%) Network Security
9 35 (13.67%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (13.28%) Wireless
11 31 (12.11%) BGP
12 30 (11.72%) EIGRP
12 30 (11.72%) OSPF
13 20 (7.81%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (4.69%) SD-WAN
15 11 (4.30%) IP Telephony
15 11 (4.30%) VoIP
16 10 (3.91%) SAN
17 8 (3.13%) Internet
18 5 (1.95%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.34%) 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 (2.34%) Git
2 5 (1.95%) JIRA
3 4 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.17%) GitLab
General
1 92 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (8.98%) Telecoms
3 17 (6.64%) Manufacturing
4 7 (2.73%) Finance
4 7 (2.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.34%) Retail
6 5 (1.95%) Aerospace
6 5 (1.95%) Legal
7 4 (1.56%) Banking
7 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.56%) Law
7 4 (1.56%) Marketing
7 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Aviation
9 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (23.44%) Senior
2 56 (21.88%) IT Engineer
3 48 (18.75%) IT Support
4 46 (17.97%) Network Engineer
5 42 (16.41%) Support Engineer
6 33 (12.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (8.98%) IT Technician
8 22 (8.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 21 (8.20%) Administrator
9 21 (8.20%) IT Support Technician
9 21 (8.20%) Support Technician
10 20 (7.81%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (7.42%) Field Engineer
11 19 (7.42%) Field Service Engineer
11 19 (7.42%) Senior Support Engineer
12 18 (7.03%) Lead
13 16 (6.25%) Analyst
13 16 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
14 14 (5.47%) Technical Support
15 13 (5.08%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.25%) Terraform
2 6 (2.34%) 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 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 17 (6.64%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.08%) CCTV
4 12 (4.69%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.52%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.13%) Clustering
8 7 (2.73%) PKI
8 7 (2.73%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.34%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.95%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (1.95%) IoT
10 5 (1.95%) PMI
10 5 (1.95%) SCADA
11 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.56%) Smartcard
12 3 (1.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 146 (57.03%) Windows
2 101 (39.45%) Windows Server
3 54 (21.09%) Linux
4 28 (10.94%) Windows 10
5 26 (10.16%) Apple iOS
6 25 (9.77%) Android
7 11 (4.30%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.95%) Solaris
9 4 (1.56%) VMS
10 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.78%) Unix
12 1 (0.39%) CentOS
12 1 (0.39%) Debian
12 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (25.39%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (24.22%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (21.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 53 (20.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 53 (20.70%) ITIL
6 49 (19.14%) Customer Service
7 36 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 35 (13.67%) Migration
9 31 (12.11%) Project Delivery
9 31 (12.11%) Service Delivery
10 28 (10.94%) ITSM
11 25 (9.77%) Vulnerability Management
12 24 (9.38%) Proactive Monitoring
13 22 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (8.20%) Incident Response
15 20 (7.81%) Incident Management
16 19 (7.42%) AI
16 19 (7.42%) Service Catalogue
17 18 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.05%) PowerShell
2 44 (17.19%) SQL
3 26 (10.16%) Python
4 12 (4.69%) VBA
5 9 (3.52%) 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 46 (17.97%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (14.06%) CCNP
3 28 (10.94%) CCNA
3 28 (10.94%) Degree
4 25 (9.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (8.59%) Security Cleared
6 16 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 14 (5.47%) MCSE
8 13 (5.08%) Azure Certification
9 11 (4.30%) MCSA
9 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 9 (3.52%) CISSP
11 7 (2.73%) 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 31 (12.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 30 (11.72%) SLA
3 23 (8.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.13%) GDPR
6 6 (2.34%) NIST
7 4 (1.56%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.39%) NCSC
9 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 88 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 72 (28.13%) Hyper-V
3 53 (20.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.73%) Firmware
6 6 (2.34%) Docker
6 6 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (2.34%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) FreeRADIUS
7 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (14.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.73%) Ansible
2 7 (2.73%) FortiGate
2 7 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (0.78%) Grafana
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (0.78%) Nessus
3 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) Galera Cluster
4 1 (0.39%) Podman
4 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.39%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.39%) Puppet
4 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 144 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 72 (28.13%) Cisco
3 66 (25.78%) VMware
4 25 (9.77%) Sophos
5 24 (9.38%) Fortinet
6 22 (8.59%) SonicWALL
7 19 (7.42%) Logitech
7 19 (7.42%) TOWER Software
8 17 (6.64%) WatchGuard
9 14 (5.47%) Meraki
10 12 (4.69%) Mitel
10 12 (4.69%) Veeam
11 11 (4.30%) Draytek
12 9 (3.52%) Citrix
12 9 (3.52%) Palo Alto
13 8 (3.13%) Aruba
14 7 (2.73%) Google
14 7 (2.73%) HP
14 7 (2.73%) Ubiquiti
15 6 (2.34%) ServiceNow