Firewall Job Trends in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 68 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 -13 +52
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 298 363 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.11% 2.91% 5.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.36% 31.84% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 212 207 335
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £38,375 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £60,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,000 £81,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,464 1,140 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.27% 9.13% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 888 597 951
10th Percentile - £29,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,688 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,500 £77,542
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -25.23% +2.88% -0.95%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Yorkshire +9 173 £36,500 -30.48% 47
North West -34 90 £38,250 -23.50% 93
North East +3 35 £31,500 -21.25% 30
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 71 (23.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (7.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (7.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 144 (48.32%) Azure
2 132 (44.30%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (19.13%) Entra ID
4 38 (12.75%) AWS
5 13 (4.36%) SaaS
6 11 (3.69%) GCP
7 10 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.36%) IaaS
7 10 (3.36%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.68%) PaaS
9 7 (2.35%) OCI
10 6 (2.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (1.68%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.68%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.34%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (1.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (1.34%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
14 1 (0.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 83 (27.85%) VLAN
2 78 (26.17%) VPN
3 65 (21.81%) WAN
4 61 (20.47%) DNS
5 60 (20.13%) TCP/IP
6 55 (18.46%) LAN
7 49 (16.44%) DHCP
8 44 (14.77%) VoIP
8 44 (14.77%) Wireless
9 41 (13.76%) Network Security
10 23 (7.72%) BGP
10 23 (7.72%) SAN
11 19 (6.38%) SD-WAN
12 16 (5.37%) OSPF
13 14 (4.70%) WLAN
14 10 (3.36%) Remote Desktop
14 10 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (2.68%) Intrusion Detection
15 8 (2.68%) MPLS
16 6 (2.01%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.36%) Power BI
3 9 (3.02%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.01%) MySQL
5 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Git
2 2 (0.67%) GitLab
3 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 112 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.05%) Manufacturing
4 16 (5.37%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.36%) Finance
6 9 (3.02%) Retail
7 5 (1.68%) Legal
7 5 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Banking
9 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
9 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (23.83%) IT Engineer
2 57 (19.13%) Support Engineer
3 48 (16.11%) IT Support
4 46 (15.44%) Technical Support
5 44 (14.77%) Technical Engineer
6 40 (13.42%) Technical Support Engineer
7 32 (10.74%) Network Engineer
8 28 (9.40%) Support Technician
9 27 (9.06%) Analyst
10 21 (7.05%) Senior
11 19 (6.38%) Instrumentation Engineer
12 18 (6.04%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (6.04%) Support Analyst
13 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (5.37%) IT Manager
14 12 (4.03%) Security Engineer
15 11 (3.69%) Security Specialist
16 10 (3.36%) 3rd Line Support
16 10 (3.36%) IT Support Technician
16 10 (3.36%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.01%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (0.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.34%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.47%) Operational Technology
2 31 (10.40%) Driving Licence
3 27 (9.06%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.36%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.36%) Clustering
6 12 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.69%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.69%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.01%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.01%) FMCG
8 6 (2.01%) Handset
8 6 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.68%) EPoS
10 4 (1.34%) NHS
11 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 178 (59.73%) Windows
2 76 (25.50%) Windows Server
3 37 (12.42%) Linux
4 19 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (2.35%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.34%) Unix
10 3 (1.01%) VMS
10 3 (1.01%) Windows 7
10 3 (1.01%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.67%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (31.54%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (23.83%) Network Management
3 66 (22.15%) Network Design
4 61 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (20.13%) Customer Service
6 44 (14.77%) ITIL
7 35 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (7.05%) Incident Response
11 19 (6.38%) Agile
11 19 (6.38%) DevOps
11 19 (6.38%) SIEM
12 18 (6.04%) Project Delivery
13 17 (5.70%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (5.03%) Customer-Centricity
15 15 (5.03%) Penetration Testing
15 15 (5.03%) Vulnerability Management
16 14 (4.70%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (9.06%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.72%) SQL
3 20 (6.71%) Python
4 11 (3.69%) Bash
5 8 (2.68%) Bicep
6 4 (1.34%) VBA
7 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 41 (13.76%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (8.05%) CCNA
3 23 (7.72%) Degree
4 17 (5.70%) CCNP
5 15 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.36%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (3.36%) CISSP
7 10 (3.36%) DBS Check
8 9 (3.02%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (2.01%) CISMP
10 6 (2.01%) GSEC
10 6 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (2.01%) SC Cleared
10 6 (2.01%) Security Cleared
11 4 (1.34%) CCIE
11 4 (1.34%) CISM
11 4 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.67%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.70%) GDPR
3 12 (4.03%) NIST
4 5 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.68%) NCSC
5 3 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.01%) GRC
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 169 (56.71%) Active Directory
2 76 (25.50%) Hyper-V
3 58 (19.46%) Virtual Servers
4 48 (16.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.01%) vSphere
7 2 (0.67%) Docker
7 2 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (23.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (8.05%) FortiGate
3 10 (3.36%) Terraform
4 9 (3.02%) Ansible
5 8 (2.68%) Autotask
6 5 (1.68%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.67%) Plesk
8 2 (0.67%) SCCM
8 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 150 (50.34%) Microsoft
2 70 (23.49%) Cisco
3 56 (18.79%) VMware
4 37 (12.42%) SonicWALL
5 28 (9.40%) Veeam
6 21 (7.05%) Meraki
7 19 (6.38%) Fortinet
8 15 (5.03%) HP
8 15 (5.03%) Sophos
8 15 (5.03%) WatchGuard
9 13 (4.36%) Aruba
9 13 (4.36%) Dell
9 13 (4.36%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.36%) Sage
9 13 (4.36%) Supermicro
10 10 (3.36%) Apple
10 10 (3.36%) Citrix
10 10 (3.36%) ESET
11 7 (2.35%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.35%) Huawei