Firewall Jobs in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 46 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 24 78 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.35% 3.64% 5.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.07% 29.77% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 24 64 62
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,325 £32,748
25th Percentile £31,900 £33,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £52,969 £46,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £53,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 473 262 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 46.33% 12.24% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 250 236 108
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £30,750
25th Percentile - £31,250 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.97% - +6.25%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North East

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North East.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North East

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North East over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North East

Firewall
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North East region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Tyne and Wear +9 17 £48,750 +14.71% 19
Durham -3 6 £32,000 -5.88% 6
Northumberland +2 1 £37,500 +38.89% 1
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 10 (41.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) VPN
2 8 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 8 (33.33%) Network Security
3 5 (20.83%) DHCP
3 5 (20.83%) DNS
3 5 (20.83%) VLAN
3 5 (20.83%) Wireless
4 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (12.50%) VoIP
4 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (8.33%) Internet
5 2 (8.33%) NAS
5 2 (8.33%) SAN
5 2 (8.33%) Unified Communications
6 1 (4.17%) LAN
6 1 (4.17%) PSTN
6 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) EDMS
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 8 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Security Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (16.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Support
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Applications Support
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) IT Support
7 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Housing Association
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (4.17%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (41.67%) Customer Service
3 9 (37.50%) Business Continuity
3 9 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (29.17%) BCP
5 7 (29.17%) Business Continuity Planning
5 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (29.17%) SIEM
6 6 (25.00%) Process Improvement
7 5 (20.83%) Patch Management
8 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (12.50%) Project Management
9 2 (8.33%) Change Control
9 2 (8.33%) Information Security
9 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) CCNA
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) MCSE
3 1 (4.17%) CCDA
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) GIAC
3 1 (4.17%) MCSA
3 1 (4.17%) MCSD
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (33.33%) GDPR
2 8 (33.33%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 11 (45.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (41.67%) Hyper-V
4 5 (20.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) VMware
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 4 (16.67%) Veeam
5 3 (12.50%) SonicWALL
5 3 (12.50%) WatchGuard
6 2 (8.33%) Capita
6 2 (8.33%) Progress
6 2 (8.33%) Sun