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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 78 57
Rank change year-on-year -32 -21 +32
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 279 262 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.61% 3.83% 3.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.06% 23.04% 30.30%
Number of salaries quoted 242 229 516
10th Percentile £28,025 £31,950 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%

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 2,772 1,137 2,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.95% 16.62% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 799 656 1,660
10th Percentile £25,800 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,188 £60,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 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
North West -17 145 £43,000 -14.00% 43
Yorkshire -51 98 £45,000 - 28
North East -20 36 £45,000 +20.00% 26
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 58 (20.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (14.34%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 138 (49.46%) Azure
2 124 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (30.47%) Entra ID
4 58 (20.79%) AWS
5 25 (8.96%) GitHub
5 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (8.60%) GCP
7 20 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.30%) OCI
10 11 (3.94%) SaaS
11 10 (3.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (3.58%) Google Workspace
11 10 (3.58%) IaaS
12 9 (3.23%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.79%) Intacct
14 4 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 95 (34.05%) VPN
2 83 (29.75%) WAN
3 82 (29.39%) DNS
4 71 (25.45%) VLAN
5 68 (24.37%) LAN
6 62 (22.22%) DHCP
7 58 (20.79%) TCP/IP
8 35 (12.54%) Network Security
9 32 (11.47%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (10.04%) Wireless
11 25 (8.96%) SD-WAN
12 20 (7.17%) VoIP
13 19 (6.81%) HTTP
14 15 (5.38%) BGP
14 15 (5.38%) Wireshark
15 14 (5.02%) OSPF
16 12 (4.30%) NGFW
16 12 (4.30%) VXLAN
17 11 (3.94%) Cisco ASA
18 9 (3.23%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.43%) MySQL
2 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 121 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (12.54%) Law
4 22 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.53%) Organisational Skills
5 21 (7.53%) Telecoms
6 19 (6.81%) Manufacturing
6 19 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.30%) Finance
8 11 (3.94%) Retail
9 8 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.79%) Advertising
11 4 (1.43%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.72%) Military
14 1 (0.36%) German Language
14 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.36%) Legal
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing
14 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (26.16%) IT Support
2 70 (25.09%) Support Engineer
3 63 (22.58%) IT Engineer
4 54 (19.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 40 (14.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 33 (11.83%) Senior
7 31 (11.11%) Network Engineer
8 25 (8.96%) 2nd Line Support
8 25 (8.96%) Lead
9 21 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (7.53%) LAN Engineer
10 20 (7.17%) Cisco Engineer
11 19 (6.81%) Firewall Engineer
11 19 (6.81%) Juniper Engineer
11 19 (6.81%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 19 (6.81%) Presales Engineer
11 19 (6.81%) WAN Engineer
12 16 (5.73%) Support Technician
13 15 (5.38%) Senior Network Engineer
14 14 (5.02%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.79%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.72%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.72%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.26%) Driving Licence
2 28 (10.04%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.53%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.02%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.30%) PKI
7 10 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.43%) CCTV
9 4 (1.43%) Social Media
10 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.08%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.72%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.72%) Life Science
11 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 125 (44.80%) Windows
2 102 (36.56%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.47%) Windows 10
4 29 (10.39%) Linux
5 12 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (3.58%) Windows 7
6 10 (3.58%) Windows 8
7 7 (2.51%) Debian
7 7 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.15%) Android
8 6 (2.15%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.08%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.36%) CentOS
11 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (24.73%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (19.00%) Customer Service
4 51 (18.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (13.62%) Incident Response
7 37 (13.26%) ITIL
8 36 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (12.19%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 33 (11.83%) Mentoring
11 33 (11.83%) SIEM
12 30 (10.75%) High Availability
13 28 (10.04%) CI/CD
14 26 (9.32%) Decision-Making
15 25 (8.96%) Business Continuity
15 25 (8.96%) Data Protection
15 25 (8.96%) DevOps
15 25 (8.96%) Load Balancing
15 25 (8.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (18.64%) Python
2 26 (9.32%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.60%) Bash
4 18 (6.45%) Go
5 14 (5.02%) SQL
6 7 (2.51%) Bicep
7 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (17.92%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (12.90%) Degree
3 32 (11.47%) CCNA
4 21 (7.53%) CCNP
5 19 (6.81%) JNCIA
6 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.02%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.23%) CCIE
10 8 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (2.51%) DBS Check
12 6 (2.15%) CISSP
13 5 (1.79%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.79%) Security Cleared
14 4 (1.43%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.43%) MCSA
15 3 (1.08%) CEH
15 3 (1.08%) CISM
16 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 41 (14.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (11.47%) GDPR
4 28 (10.04%) NIST
5 9 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.87%) PMO
7 3 (1.08%) SLA
8 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.72%) GRC
8 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 111 (39.78%) Active Directory
2 56 (20.07%) Hyper-V
3 49 (17.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.58%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (2.87%) ProxySG
5 8 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.08%) Docker
8 2 (0.72%) vSphere
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) XenApp
9 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (19.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (15.41%) Terraform
3 34 (12.19%) Ansible
4 20 (7.17%) Grafana
5 19 (6.81%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.73%) FortiGate
7 13 (4.66%) Autotask
8 11 (3.94%) SCCM
9 9 (3.23%) Kubernetes
10 4 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Plesk
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 157 (56.27%) Microsoft
2 66 (23.66%) Cisco
3 61 (21.86%) VMware
4 35 (12.54%) Aruba
5 32 (11.47%) Fortinet
6 22 (7.89%) Juniper
7 14 (5.02%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.30%) Arista
8 12 (4.30%) NetScout
9 11 (3.94%) Google
10 10 (3.58%) ESET
11 9 (3.23%) F5
11 9 (3.23%) Meraki
11 9 (3.23%) SolarWinds
11 9 (3.23%) Ubiquiti
12 8 (2.87%) Blue Coat
12 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.87%) Motorola
12 8 (2.87%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.87%) SonicWALL