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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 63 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 234 345 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.18% 3.44% 5.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.09% 31.22% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 179 224 274
10th Percentile £28,750 £27,650 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +2.17% -8.00%
75th Percentile £54,069 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £70,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -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 833 1,105 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.89% 11.02% 19.47%
Number of salaries quoted 496 594 765
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £42,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -2.30% -11.22%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -2.91% -1.90%

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

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +27 176 £45,000 -9.09% 59
East Midlands -25 58 £40,000 -7.75% 37
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 42 (17.95%) Confluence
2 33 (14.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (12.39%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.42%) nginx
5 6 (2.56%) WinCC
6 4 (1.71%) FactoryTalk
6 4 (1.71%) IIS
7 2 (0.85%) ArchestrA
7 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (10.68%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.43%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (2.56%) SAP ERP
2 5 (2.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 107 (45.73%) Microsoft 365
2 100 (42.74%) Azure
3 61 (26.07%) AWS
4 45 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
5 44 (18.80%) Amazon S3
5 44 (18.80%) AWS KMS
5 44 (18.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 43 (18.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 43 (18.38%) Amazon ELB
7 35 (14.96%) Amazon Glacier
8 25 (10.68%) Entra ID
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (4.27%) Route 53
10 10 (4.27%) SaaS
11 8 (3.42%) IaaS
12 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.99%) Google Workspace
12 7 (2.99%) Nutanix
12 7 (2.99%) PaaS
13 6 (2.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 86 (36.75%) DNS
2 84 (35.90%) WAN
3 68 (29.06%) LAN
4 64 (27.35%) VPN
5 57 (24.36%) DHCP
6 38 (16.24%) Wi-Fi
7 33 (14.10%) TCP/IP
8 30 (12.82%) VLAN
9 29 (12.39%) Network Security
10 28 (11.97%) SD-WAN
11 26 (11.11%) HTTP
12 25 (10.68%) FTP
12 25 (10.68%) SMTP
12 25 (10.68%) SSH
13 20 (8.55%) SAN
14 8 (3.42%) IMAP
14 8 (3.42%) OpenLDAP
15 7 (2.99%) Wireless
16 6 (2.56%) Modbus
17 5 (2.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.80%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.71%) MySQL
4 4 (1.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (19.23%) Git
2 44 (18.80%) Jenkins
3 43 (18.38%) Vagrant
4 42 (17.95%) JIRA
5 11 (4.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 79 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (5.98%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.42%) Law
8 7 (2.99%) Finance
8 7 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.14%) Billing
9 5 (2.14%) Retail
10 3 (1.28%) Back Office
10 3 (1.28%) Publishing
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
12 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.43%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (26.07%) Support Engineer
2 55 (23.50%) IT Support
3 51 (21.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (11.97%) IT Engineer
5 24 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (9.83%) Infrastructure Support
6 23 (9.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 23 (9.83%) Network Engineer
7 22 (9.40%) Analyst
7 22 (9.40%) Senior
8 20 (8.55%) 2nd Line Support
9 17 (7.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 17 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (6.84%) 3rd Line Support
11 15 (6.41%) Architect
11 15 (6.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (6.41%) IT Support Engineer
12 14 (5.98%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 14 (5.98%) Technical Engineer
13 13 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.42%) LDAP
2 3 (1.28%) EDI
3 1 (0.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.39%) Data Centre
1 29 (12.39%) Replication
2 27 (11.54%) Driving Licence
3 20 (8.55%) Operational Technology
4 10 (4.27%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.42%) Clustering
7 7 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.99%) SCADA
8 4 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.71%) NHS
8 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.85%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 159 (67.95%) Windows
2 72 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 56 (23.93%) Linux
4 43 (18.38%) VMS
5 33 (14.10%) Windows 10
6 25 (10.68%) Amazon Linux
7 24 (10.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (8.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 15 (6.41%) Ubuntu
10 12 (5.13%) Apple iOS
11 7 (2.99%) Mac OS
12 6 (2.56%) Android
12 6 (2.56%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.85%) AIX
13 2 (0.85%) CentOS
13 2 (0.85%) Rocky
13 2 (0.85%) Unix
13 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (23.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 52 (22.22%) DevOps
4 46 (19.66%) Cloud Security
5 44 (18.80%) Configuration Management
6 43 (18.38%) Change Management
7 39 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 36 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (13.68%) ITIL
9 32 (13.68%) Patch Management
10 24 (10.26%) Agile
10 24 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (8.97%) Migration
13 19 (8.12%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (8.12%) SIEM
14 16 (6.84%) Data Security
15 14 (5.98%) CI/CD
15 14 (5.98%) High Availability
15 14 (5.98%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.91%) PowerShell
2 49 (20.94%) Python
3 42 (17.95%) Groovy
4 20 (8.55%) Java
4 20 (8.55%) Perl
4 20 (8.55%) SQL
5 5 (2.14%) Bicep
5 5 (2.14%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.28%) Bash
6 3 (1.28%) Ruby
7 2 (0.85%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 52 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 48 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 42 (17.95%) Degree
4 29 (12.39%) Azure Certification
5 24 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (7.26%) CCNP
7 16 (6.84%) AWS Certification
8 13 (5.56%) CCNA
9 7 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.56%) A+ Certification
11 5 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 5 (2.14%) MCSA
12 4 (1.71%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.71%) MCP
13 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.85%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.26%) SLA
2 14 (5.98%) GDPR
3 10 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.99%) QA
5 6 (2.56%) IEC 61508
6 5 (2.14%) NIST
7 4 (1.71%) IEC 61131
8 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 131 (55.98%) Active Directory
2 51 (21.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (14.10%) Hyper-V
4 31 (13.25%) Docker
5 28 (11.97%) DFS Replication
6 10 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (3.42%) Dovecot
7 8 (3.42%) Postfix
7 8 (3.42%) Squid
8 6 (2.56%) XenApp
9 5 (2.14%) vSphere
10 4 (1.71%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (1.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 50 (21.37%) Terraform
2 40 (17.09%) Grafana
2 40 (17.09%) Prometheus
3 29 (12.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (9.40%) Ansible
5 13 (5.56%) Nessus
5 13 (5.56%) SCCM
6 12 (5.13%) Proxmox
7 7 (2.99%) FortiGate
8 6 (2.56%) Autotask
9 5 (2.14%) Nagios
10 4 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.28%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.85%) Endace
12 2 (0.85%) SCOM
12 2 (0.85%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.85%) SCSM
13 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
13 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 102 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 62 (26.50%) Cisco
3 53 (22.65%) VMware
4 40 (17.09%) ServiceNow
5 39 (16.67%) Juniper
6 26 (11.11%) Meraki
7 20 (8.55%) Dell
8 16 (6.84%) HP
9 14 (5.98%) Apple
10 12 (5.13%) Fortinet
11 11 (4.70%) McAfee
12 8 (3.42%) Aruba
12 8 (3.42%) Google
12 8 (3.42%) Jaspersoft
12 8 (3.42%) SonicWALL
13 7 (2.99%) Veeam
14 6 (2.56%) CheckPoint
14 6 (2.56%) Rapid7
14 6 (2.56%) Rockwell
14 6 (2.56%) Sophos