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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 61 37
Rank change year-on-year -58 -24 +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 140 202 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.33% 4.17% 4.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.84% 27.71% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 173 458
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,438 £53,688 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,125 £62,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +7.07% -1.00%

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 1,584 729 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.06% 15.07% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 418 437 1,264
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £29,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,188 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +9.38% -4.24%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -43 87 £55,000 +22.22% 37
East Midlands -36 53 £31,500 -30.00% 25
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 29 (20.71%) SharePoint
2 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) CATIA
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 63 (45.00%) Azure
2 62 (44.29%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (36.43%) Entra ID
4 18 (12.86%) AWS
5 8 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.29%) IaaS
6 6 (4.29%) OneDrive
7 5 (3.57%) GCP
8 4 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.86%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.86%) PaaS
8 4 (2.86%) SaaS
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.14%) Datadog
9 3 (2.14%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.43%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 55 (39.29%) WAN
2 47 (33.57%) LAN
3 40 (28.57%) VPN
4 23 (16.43%) SD-WAN
5 19 (13.57%) DNS
6 18 (12.86%) Network Security
7 12 (8.57%) Wireless
8 11 (7.86%) TCP/IP
8 11 (7.86%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (7.14%) DHCP
10 9 (6.43%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (6.43%) VoIP
11 8 (5.71%) VLAN
12 7 (5.00%) IP Telephony
13 6 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (4.29%) Internet
13 6 (4.29%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (4.29%) WebEx
14 5 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (2.86%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.71%) GIS
2 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.43%) MySQL
3 2 (1.43%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 29 (20.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.71%) Finance
3 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.29%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Law
6 3 (2.14%) Marketing
6 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Retail
7 1 (0.71%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 47 (33.57%) Support Engineer
2 35 (25.00%) IT Support
3 28 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 28 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 21 (15.00%) Senior
5 20 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (13.57%) Technical Engineer
7 16 (11.43%) Analyst
8 15 (10.71%) Technical Support
8 15 (10.71%) Technical Support Engineer
9 14 (10.00%) Architect
9 14 (10.00%) Network Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) Security Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 8 (5.71%) Digital Architect
11 8 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Data Centre
2 18 (12.86%) Driving Licence
3 8 (5.71%) CCTV
3 8 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.14%) Clustering
6 3 (2.14%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.14%) PKI
6 3 (2.14%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.14%) SCADA
7 2 (1.43%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.43%) Replication
8 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (43.57%) Windows
2 39 (27.86%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.43%) Linux
4 8 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.86%) Android
7 4 (2.86%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.71%) CentOS
9 1 (0.71%) Debian
9 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.00%) ITIL
2 33 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (18.57%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (15.71%) SIEM
6 17 (12.14%) Proactive Monitoring
7 12 (8.57%) Migration
8 11 (7.86%) Customer Service
8 11 (7.86%) High Availability
8 11 (7.86%) Mentoring
9 10 (7.14%) ITSM
9 10 (7.14%) Service Delivery
10 9 (6.43%) Mobile Device Management
11 8 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (5.71%) Impact Assessments
11 8 (5.71%) Incident Management
11 8 (5.71%) Time Management
11 8 (5.71%) TOGAF
12 7 (5.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.57%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.00%) SQL
3 3 (2.14%) Bash
4 2 (1.43%) Bicep
5 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.71%) VB
5 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (15.00%) Degree
3 18 (12.86%) CCNP
3 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.86%) Security Cleared
4 17 (12.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (10.71%) CCNA
6 7 (5.00%) MCSA
6 7 (5.00%) MCSE
6 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 6 (4.29%) A+ Certification
7 6 (4.29%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (4.29%) MCITP
8 5 (3.57%) CTC Cleared
8 5 (3.57%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.86%) CISSP
10 3 (2.14%) HND
11 2 (1.43%) CEH
11 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.43%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.71%) SLA
2 14 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (6.43%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.71%) GDPR
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 57 (40.71%) Active Directory
2 41 (29.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (17.86%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.43%) vSphere
5 4 (2.86%) Terminal Services
5 4 (2.86%) XenApp
6 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.71%) Docker
8 1 (0.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.29%) Terraform
3 4 (2.86%) Ansible
3 4 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.43%) CASB
5 2 (1.43%) Galera Cluster
5 2 (1.43%) Nessus
5 2 (1.43%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.71%) Puppet
6 1 (0.71%) QRadar
6 1 (0.71%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 63 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 61 (43.57%) Cisco
3 50 (35.71%) VMware
4 25 (17.86%) Juniper
5 16 (11.43%) Dell
5 16 (11.43%) Meraki
6 15 (10.71%) McAfee
7 11 (7.86%) HP
8 10 (7.14%) Fortinet
8 10 (7.14%) Veeam
9 8 (5.71%) Google
10 7 (5.00%) Draytek
10 7 (5.00%) Mitel
10 7 (5.00%) SonicWALL
10 7 (5.00%) WatchGuard
11 6 (4.29%) Aruba
12 5 (3.57%) CheckPoint
13 4 (2.86%) Citrix
13 4 (2.86%) IBM
13 4 (2.86%) Zscaler