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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 65 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 -21
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 269 235 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.72% 4.20% 3.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.10% 27.65% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 207 181 209
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £27,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £60,250 £54,388 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £75,250
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 838 850 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.34% 15.19% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 620 507 559
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,813 £29,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,472 £35,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -20.45% +1.15%
75th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.29% -18.00% -4.76%

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 24 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 24 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 -56 144 £55,000 +15.79% 74
East Midlands +19 125 £42,500 +8.28% 39
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
1 122 (45.35%) Azure
2 120 (44.61%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (32.34%) Entra ID
4 40 (14.87%) AWS
5 26 (9.67%) Mimecast
6 14 (5.20%) GCP
7 11 (4.09%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 8 (2.97%) SaaS
9 6 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (2.23%) Cloudflare
9 6 (2.23%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.86%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.12%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.74%) GitHub
12 2 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.74%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 101 (37.55%) VPN
2 89 (33.09%) DNS
3 75 (27.88%) WAN
4 72 (26.77%) LAN
5 67 (24.91%) DHCP
6 52 (19.33%) TCP/IP
7 50 (18.59%) VLAN
8 42 (15.61%) Network Security
9 36 (13.38%) Wireless
10 35 (13.01%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (11.15%) BGP
12 28 (10.41%) EIGRP
12 28 (10.41%) OSPF
13 19 (7.06%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (4.83%) SD-WAN
15 11 (4.09%) SAN
15 11 (4.09%) VoIP
16 9 (3.35%) Internet
16 9 (3.35%) IP Telephony
17 6 (2.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.83%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.74%) KNIME
4 2 (0.74%) MySQL
4 2 (0.74%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.74%) Power BI
5 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 94 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.81%) Telecoms
4 20 (7.43%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.72%) Finance
6 9 (3.35%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.23%) Law
7 6 (2.23%) Retail
8 5 (1.86%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.86%) Legal
9 4 (1.49%) Banking
9 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.49%) Marketing
10 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (23.05%) Senior
2 54 (20.07%) IT Engineer
3 47 (17.47%) IT Support
4 46 (17.10%) Network Engineer
5 45 (16.73%) Support Engineer
6 36 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (8.18%) Administrator
7 22 (8.18%) IT Technician
8 21 (7.81%) IT Support Engineer
9 20 (7.43%) Analyst
9 20 (7.43%) Senior Network Engineer
10 19 (7.06%) IT Support Technician
10 19 (7.06%) Support Technician
11 18 (6.69%) Field Engineer
11 18 (6.69%) Field Service Engineer
11 18 (6.69%) Lead
12 17 (6.32%) Senior Support Engineer
12 17 (6.32%) Systems Administrator
13 15 (5.58%) Technical Support
14 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 10 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.35%) Clustering
8 8 (2.97%) Smartphone
9 7 (2.60%) PKI
9 7 (2.60%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.23%) IoT
11 5 (1.86%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (1.86%) PMI
11 5 (1.86%) SCADA
12 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.49%) Replication
12 4 (1.49%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 147 (54.65%) Windows
2 99 (36.80%) Windows Server
3 54 (20.07%) Linux
4 27 (10.04%) Windows 10
5 25 (9.29%) Android
5 25 (9.29%) Apple iOS
6 12 (4.46%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.86%) Solaris
8 4 (1.49%) VMS
9 2 (0.74%) Unix
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
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 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.16%) Continuous Improvement
1 65 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (23.05%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (21.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 51 (18.96%) Disaster Recovery
4 51 (18.96%) ITIL
5 49 (18.22%) Customer Service
6 37 (13.75%) Mentoring
6 37 (13.75%) Migration
7 32 (11.90%) Service Delivery
8 31 (11.52%) Project Delivery
9 28 (10.41%) ITSM
10 24 (8.92%) Proactive Monitoring
11 23 (8.55%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (7.81%) Incident Response
14 20 (7.43%) High Availability
15 19 (7.06%) AI
15 19 (7.06%) Incident Management
15 19 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.05%) 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 42 (15.61%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (11.90%) CCNP
3 31 (11.52%) Degree
4 28 (10.41%) Security Cleared
5 26 (9.67%) CCNA
6 25 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (8.18%) SC Cleared
8 12 (4.46%) Azure Certification
8 12 (4.46%) MCSE
9 9 (3.35%) CISSP
9 9 (3.35%) MCSA
9 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (2.60%) CISM
11 6 (2.23%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.86%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.49%) A+ Certification
13 4 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.90%) SLA
2 28 (10.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (8.55%) 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 94 (34.94%) Active Directory
2 74 (27.51%) Hyper-V
3 53 (19.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.97%) Firmware
5 8 (2.97%) vSphere
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 36 (13.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.97%) Ansible
3 7 (2.60%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.60%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.74%) Galera Cluster
4 2 (0.74%) Grafana
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.74%) Nessus
4 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.37%) Podman
5 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 147 (54.65%) Microsoft
2 74 (27.51%) Cisco
3 64 (23.79%) VMware
4 25 (9.29%) Fortinet
5 23 (8.55%) Sophos
6 22 (8.18%) SonicWALL
7 18 (6.69%) Logitech
7 18 (6.69%) TOWER Software
8 14 (5.20%) Meraki
8 14 (5.20%) WatchGuard
9 13 (4.83%) Veeam
10 10 (3.72%) Aruba
10 10 (3.72%) Mitel
11 9 (3.35%) Citrix
11 9 (3.35%) Draytek
11 9 (3.35%) HP
11 9 (3.35%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.60%) Google
12 7 (2.60%) Ubiquiti
13 6 (2.23%) ServiceNow