Firewall Job Trends in the North East

Firewall
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 44 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 +32
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 31 44 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.04% 4.73% 7.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.80% 45.36% 40.14%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 49
10th Percentile - £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £35,250 £52,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £43,875 £65,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +2.86% -

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 125 97 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 12.27% 10.42% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 105 50 136
10th Percentile £21,620 £35,250 £28,204
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £33,250 £67,438 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £74,730 £80,625
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Firewall job vacancy trend in the North East

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 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
Tyne and Wear -2 21 £29,000 -27.50% 9
Durham +9 10 £31,500 -37.00% 2
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 15 (48.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (51.61%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (45.16%) Wireless
2 13 (41.94%) VLAN
3 11 (35.48%) TCP/IP
4 6 (19.35%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (19.35%) LAN
4 6 (19.35%) PSTN
4 6 (19.35%) VoIP
5 5 (16.13%) BGP
5 5 (16.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (16.13%) OSPF
5 5 (16.13%) VPN
5 5 (16.13%) WAN
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (12.90%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (12.90%) EIGRP
6 4 (12.90%) Network Security
6 4 (12.90%) SNMP
6 4 (12.90%) WAAS
6 4 (12.90%) Wireless Security
7 2 (6.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (74.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Telecoms
4 6 (19.35%) Finance
5 4 (12.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Support Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Technical Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Technical Support
2 9 (29.03%) Technical Support Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) IT Support
4 6 (19.35%) Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) IT Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Support Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Support Specialist
5 4 (12.90%) Network Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.23%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Client/Server
2 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
1 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Collaborative Working
2 11 (35.48%) Customer Service
3 10 (32.26%) Computer Science
4 9 (29.03%) Customer-Centricity
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (19.35%) ITIL
6 6 (19.35%) Task Automation
7 4 (12.90%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (12.90%) Load Balancing
7 4 (12.90%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (12.90%) WAN Optimisation
8 3 (9.68%) High Availability
9 2 (6.45%) Continuous Delivery
9 2 (6.45%) Static Code Analysis
9 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) CCNP
1 12 (38.71%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (32.26%) Degree
3 6 (19.35%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (19.35%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (12.90%) CCIE
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (48.39%) Hyper-V
2 15 (48.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) ProxySG
4 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) FortiGate
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (67.74%) Cisco
2 17 (54.84%) Microsoft
3 16 (51.61%) VMware
4 9 (29.03%) SonicWALL
4 9 (29.03%) Veeam
4 9 (29.03%) WatchGuard
5 4 (12.90%) Blue Coat
5 4 (12.90%) CheckPoint
5 4 (12.90%) F5
5 4 (12.90%) Infoblox
5 4 (12.90%) Motorola
5 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (12.90%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.45%) Aruba
6 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto