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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 +17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 238 241 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.70% 4.21% 3.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.57% 27.96% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 184 186 357
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £60,063 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -1.93%

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 709 862 1,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.07% 15.06% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 575 522 917
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,525 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -8.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -13.27% -3.89%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -47 120 £55,000 +19.57% 37
East Midlands +17 118 £44,472 +11.18% 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 36 (15.13%) SharePoint
2 25 (10.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.36%) IIS
4 3 (1.26%) Apache
4 3 (1.26%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.84%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.42%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.18%) Azure
2 94 (39.50%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (25.21%) Entra ID
4 27 (11.34%) AWS
5 22 (9.24%) Mimecast
6 9 (3.78%) GCP
7 7 (2.94%) OneDrive
7 7 (2.94%) SaaS
8 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.52%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.10%) Cloudflare
9 5 (2.10%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.84%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 81 (34.03%) VPN
2 67 (28.15%) WAN
3 64 (26.89%) LAN
4 57 (23.95%) DNS
5 39 (16.39%) DHCP
5 39 (16.39%) Network Security
6 36 (15.13%) VLAN
7 33 (13.87%) Wi-Fi
8 32 (13.45%) TCP/IP
9 27 (11.34%) Wireless
10 23 (9.66%) BGP
11 21 (8.82%) EIGRP
11 21 (8.82%) OSPF
12 17 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (5.04%) Internet
13 12 (5.04%) SAN
14 10 (4.20%) SD-WAN
15 8 (3.36%) MQTT
16 7 (2.94%) VoIP
17 4 (1.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (1.68%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.68%) MySQL
2 4 (1.68%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.26%) GIS
4 2 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.84%) KNIME
4 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.84%) Power BI
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.26%) JIRA
2 2 (0.84%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) GitLab
General
1 72 (30.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (7.98%) Manufacturing
3 18 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.62%) Finance
5 8 (3.36%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.52%) Law
7 5 (2.10%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.10%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (18.07%) Senior
2 40 (16.81%) Network Engineer
2 40 (16.81%) Support Engineer
3 38 (15.97%) IT Engineer
4 36 (15.13%) IT Support
5 35 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (9.66%) Analyst
7 20 (8.40%) Administrator
8 18 (7.56%) IT Technician
8 18 (7.56%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (7.14%) Network Analyst
9 17 (7.14%) Technical Support
9 17 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
10 16 (6.72%) Firewall Specialist
10 16 (6.72%) Systems Administrator
10 16 (6.72%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (6.30%) IT Support Technician
11 15 (6.30%) Support Technician
12 13 (5.46%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (5.46%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.52%) Middleware
2 4 (1.68%) COM
2 4 (1.68%) DCOM
2 4 (1.68%) LDAP
3 2 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.84%) REST
4 1 (0.42%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.04%) Security Posture
3 11 (4.62%) Clustering
4 10 (4.20%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.36%) IoT
5 8 (3.36%) Operational Technology
5 8 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.36%) Smartphone
6 7 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.10%) Cyber Security Posture
8 5 (2.10%) PKI
8 5 (2.10%) Replication
9 4 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.68%) Smartcard
10 3 (1.26%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 113 (47.48%) Windows
2 65 (27.31%) Windows Server
3 36 (15.13%) Linux
4 17 (7.14%) Android
4 17 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 17 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 10 (4.20%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.10%) Solaris
7 4 (1.68%) VMS
8 2 (0.84%) CentOS
8 2 (0.84%) Debian
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (23.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (20.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (16.39%) ITIL
5 37 (15.55%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (15.55%) Disaster Recovery
6 32 (13.45%) Customer Service
7 29 (12.18%) Mentoring
8 26 (10.92%) Migration
9 25 (10.50%) Proactive Monitoring
10 24 (10.08%) High Availability
11 22 (9.24%) Project Delivery
11 22 (9.24%) Vulnerability Management
12 21 (8.82%) Service Delivery
13 18 (7.56%) Patch Management
13 18 (7.56%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (6.72%) Incident Response
14 16 (6.72%) ITSM
14 16 (6.72%) SIEM
15 15 (6.30%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.17%) SQL
2 44 (18.49%) PowerShell
3 17 (7.14%) Python
4 12 (5.04%) VBA
5 11 (4.62%) Bash
6 6 (2.52%) Bicep
7 2 (0.84%) C#
7 2 (0.84%) Java
7 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.34%) Degree
3 25 (10.50%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (9.24%) SC Cleared
5 21 (8.82%) CCNP
6 13 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.62%) CCNA
7 11 (4.62%) CISSP
8 8 (3.36%) A+ Certification
9 7 (2.94%) CISM
10 6 (2.52%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.10%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.68%) MCITP
13 3 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.42%) IISP
14 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.42%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.18%) SLA
2 18 (7.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.68%) GDPR
5 4 (1.68%) NIST
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (36.13%) Active Directory
2 56 (23.53%) Hyper-V
3 50 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.20%) vSphere
5 7 (2.94%) Docker
6 6 (2.52%) Firmware
7 5 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.42%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.62%) Terraform
3 8 (3.36%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.52%) Ansible
5 4 (1.68%) Galera Cluster
5 4 (1.68%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.26%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.84%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.84%) Grafana
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.84%) Nessus
7 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.84%) Puppet
8 1 (0.42%) Podman
Vendors
1 122 (51.26%) Microsoft
2 75 (31.51%) Cisco
3 54 (22.69%) VMware
4 20 (8.40%) Fortinet
5 16 (6.72%) Veeam
6 14 (5.88%) Meraki
6 14 (5.88%) Sophos
7 13 (5.46%) SonicWALL
8 12 (5.04%) Dell
8 12 (5.04%) HP
8 12 (5.04%) Logitech
8 12 (5.04%) TOWER Software
9 11 (4.62%) Juniper
10 10 (4.20%) McAfee
11 9 (3.78%) Aruba
12 8 (3.36%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.10%) CheckPoint
13 5 (2.10%) ServiceNow
14 4 (1.68%) Citrix
14 4 (1.68%) Salesforce