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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 -20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 269 240 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.73% 4.28% 3.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.76% 28.30% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 205 184 222
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £27,550
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -4.26% +2.17%
75th Percentile £60,250 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,625
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 821 848 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.29% 15.13% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 616 507 588
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £29,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £36,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.84% -14.12% -2.30%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £55,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,409 £41,355 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.06% -17.29% -3.85%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -54 143 £55,000 +20.88% 75
East Midlands +12 126 £42,500 +6.25% 34
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 41 (15.24%) SharePoint
2 36 (13.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (5.95%) IIS
4 8 (2.97%) Apache
4 8 (2.97%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.37%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 120 (44.61%) Azure
1 120 (44.61%) Microsoft 365
2 86 (31.97%) Entra ID
3 39 (14.50%) AWS
4 26 (9.67%) Mimecast
5 14 (5.20%) GCP
6 11 (4.09%) Power Automate
7 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (2.97%) SaaS
8 6 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.23%) Cloudflare
9 5 (1.86%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.86%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.74%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 100 (37.17%) VPN
2 88 (32.71%) DNS
3 73 (27.14%) WAN
4 70 (26.02%) LAN
5 65 (24.16%) DHCP
6 50 (18.59%) TCP/IP
7 49 (18.22%) VLAN
8 42 (15.61%) Network Security
9 36 (13.38%) Wireless
10 35 (13.01%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (10.78%) BGP
12 27 (10.04%) EIGRP
12 27 (10.04%) OSPF
13 18 (6.69%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (4.83%) SD-WAN
15 12 (4.46%) VoIP
16 11 (4.09%) SAN
17 9 (3.35%) Internet
18 8 (2.97%) IP Telephony
19 7 (2.60%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.12%) MySQL
4 3 (1.12%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (0.74%) KNIME
5 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Git
2 5 (1.86%) JIRA
3 4 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 93 (34.57%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.81%) Manufacturing
4 20 (7.43%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.09%) Finance
6 9 (3.35%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.60%) Law
8 6 (2.23%) Retail
9 5 (1.86%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.49%) Banking
10 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.49%) Legal
10 4 (1.49%) Marketing
11 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
13 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (23.05%) Senior
2 54 (20.07%) IT Engineer
3 46 (17.10%) IT Support
4 45 (16.73%) Network Engineer
4 45 (16.73%) Support Engineer
5 37 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (7.81%) Administrator
6 21 (7.81%) IT Support Engineer
6 21 (7.81%) IT Technician
7 20 (7.43%) Analyst
8 19 (7.06%) Senior Network Engineer
9 18 (6.69%) Field Engineer
9 18 (6.69%) Field Service Engineer
9 18 (6.69%) IT Support Technician
9 18 (6.69%) Lead
9 18 (6.69%) Support Technician
10 17 (6.32%) Senior Support Engineer
11 16 (5.95%) Systems Administrator
12 15 (5.58%) Technical Support
13 14 (5.20%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.06%) Terraform
2 6 (2.23%) Middleware
3 4 (1.49%) COM
3 4 (1.49%) DCOM
3 4 (1.49%) LDAP
3 4 (1.49%) YAML
4 2 (0.74%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.74%) Pulumi
4 2 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.74%) REST
5 1 (0.37%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.78%) Driving Licence
2 19 (7.06%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.46%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.09%) CCTV
5 11 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.09%) Operational Technology
6 9 (3.35%) Clustering
6 9 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.97%) Smartphone
8 7 (2.60%) IoT
8 7 (2.60%) PKI
8 7 (2.60%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.86%) Cyber Security Posture
9 5 (1.86%) Replication
9 5 (1.86%) SCADA
10 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.49%) PMI
10 4 (1.49%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 146 (54.28%) Windows
2 97 (36.06%) Windows Server
3 55 (20.45%) Linux
4 27 (10.04%) Windows 10
5 26 (9.67%) Android
5 26 (9.67%) Apple iOS
6 13 (4.83%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.86%) Solaris
8 4 (1.49%) VMS
9 2 (0.74%) Unix
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.37%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Debian
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
1 66 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (23.42%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (21.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 52 (19.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 50 (18.59%) ITIL
6 49 (18.22%) Customer Service
7 38 (14.13%) Mentoring
8 37 (13.75%) Migration
9 33 (12.27%) Service Delivery
10 30 (11.15%) Project Delivery
11 27 (10.04%) ITSM
12 24 (8.92%) Proactive Monitoring
13 23 (8.55%) Vulnerability Management
14 21 (7.81%) High Availability
14 21 (7.81%) Incident Response
14 21 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (7.43%) Technical Leadership
16 19 (7.06%) AI
16 19 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 63 (23.42%) PowerShell
2 47 (17.47%) SQL
3 27 (10.04%) Python
4 12 (4.46%) Bash
4 12 (4.46%) VBA
5 5 (1.86%) Bicep
6 3 (1.12%) C#
6 3 (1.12%) Java
6 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (14.87%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (11.52%) Degree
3 30 (11.15%) CCNP
4 28 (10.41%) Security Cleared
5 25 (9.29%) CCNA
6 24 (8.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (8.18%) SC Cleared
8 12 (4.46%) Azure Certification
9 11 (4.09%) MCSE
10 10 (3.72%) CISSP
11 8 (2.97%) MCSA
11 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 7 (2.60%) CISM
13 6 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (1.49%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.49%) PMI Certification
15 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
16 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.90%) SLA
2 28 (10.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 24 (8.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.35%) GDPR
5 8 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.23%) NIST
7 4 (1.49%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 95 (35.32%) Active Directory
2 74 (27.51%) Hyper-V
3 55 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.35%) vSphere
5 8 (2.97%) Firmware
6 6 (2.23%) Docker
7 5 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.37%) FreeRADIUS
8 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (13.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.97%) Ansible
3 7 (2.60%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.12%) Galera Cluster
4 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.74%) Grafana
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.74%) Nessus
5 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.37%) Podman
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 147 (54.65%) Microsoft
2 75 (27.88%) Cisco
3 65 (24.16%) VMware
4 24 (8.92%) Fortinet
5 22 (8.18%) Sophos
6 21 (7.81%) SonicWALL
7 18 (6.69%) Logitech
7 18 (6.69%) TOWER Software
8 14 (5.20%) Meraki
9 13 (4.83%) Veeam
10 12 (4.46%) WatchGuard
11 10 (3.72%) Aruba
12 9 (3.35%) Citrix
12 9 (3.35%) HP
12 9 (3.35%) Mitel
12 9 (3.35%) Palo Alto
13 8 (2.97%) Draytek
14 7 (2.60%) Google
14 7 (2.60%) Ubiquiti
15 6 (2.23%) ServiceNow