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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 112 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 -52 +21
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 290 253 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 3.31% 3.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.41% 16.99% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 252 210 492
10th Percentile £28,550 £31,599 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,390 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,498 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.80% +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 2,162 1,489 2,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.63% 19.48% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 794 647 1,647
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.00% +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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +21 153 £43,500 -17.14% 69
Yorkshire -48 100 £48,445 +11.37% 35
North East -19 37 £45,000 +20.00% 20
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 56 (19.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (16.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.38%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (7.93%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 136 (46.90%) Azure
2 127 (43.79%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 59 (20.34%) AWS
5 27 (9.31%) GitHub
6 25 (8.62%) GCP
7 24 (8.28%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.14%) OCI
10 10 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (3.45%) IaaS
10 10 (3.45%) SaaS
11 9 (3.10%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.41%) Google Workspace
12 7 (2.41%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.72%) Intacct
14 4 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 96 (33.10%) VPN
2 87 (30.00%) DNS
3 82 (28.28%) WAN
4 74 (25.52%) VLAN
5 69 (23.79%) LAN
6 61 (21.03%) DHCP
7 54 (18.62%) TCP/IP
8 45 (15.52%) Network Security
9 38 (13.10%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (8.97%) SD-WAN
10 26 (8.97%) Wireless
11 20 (6.90%) NGFW
11 20 (6.90%) VoIP
12 19 (6.55%) BGP
12 19 (6.55%) HTTP
13 18 (6.21%) OSPF
13 18 (6.21%) VXLAN
14 15 (5.17%) Wireshark
15 14 (4.83%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (4.14%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.03%) MySQL
4 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.34%) GIS
5 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.34%) Git
General
1 126 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.69%) Law
4 20 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.52%) Finance
7 15 (5.17%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.79%) Retail
9 8 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.72%) Advertising
10 5 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.38%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.34%) Electronics
13 1 (0.34%) German Language
13 1 (0.34%) Marketing
13 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 70 (24.14%) IT Support
2 69 (23.79%) Support Engineer
3 63 (21.72%) IT Engineer
4 54 (18.62%) IT Support Engineer
5 45 (15.52%) Senior
6 43 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 42 (14.48%) Network Engineer
8 25 (8.62%) Lead
9 22 (7.59%) Senior Network Engineer
10 21 (7.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (6.90%) LAN Engineer
12 19 (6.55%) 2nd Line Support
13 18 (6.21%) Cisco Engineer
14 17 (5.86%) Firewall Engineer
14 17 (5.86%) Juniper Engineer
14 17 (5.86%) LAN/WAN Engineer
14 17 (5.86%) Presales Engineer
14 17 (5.86%) WAN Engineer
15 15 (5.17%) Support Technician
16 14 (4.83%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.72%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.69%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.69%) Middleware
5 1 (0.34%) .NET
5 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.34%) Ajax
5 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.34%) boto
5 1 (0.34%) CSS
5 1 (0.34%) Flask
5 1 (0.34%) HTML
5 1 (0.34%) Jinja
5 1 (0.34%) jQuery
5 1 (0.34%) Node.js
5 1 (0.34%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.34%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.10%) Data Centre
2 37 (12.76%) Driving Licence
3 21 (7.24%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.14%) PKI
6 11 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.41%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.38%) CCTV
9 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.03%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.03%) FMCG
10 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.03%) Social Media
11 2 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.69%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.69%) Life Science
11 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 119 (41.03%) Windows
2 89 (30.69%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.62%) Windows 10
4 24 (8.28%) Linux
5 12 (4.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.41%) Debian
7 7 (2.41%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.41%) Windows 8
8 6 (2.07%) Android
8 6 (2.07%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.38%) VMS
10 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.34%) CentOS
11 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
4 46 (15.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (15.86%) Customer Service
5 44 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (15.17%) Mentoring
6 40 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (12.07%) Incident Response
8 34 (11.72%) CI/CD
9 31 (10.69%) Load Balancing
10 30 (10.34%) SIEM
11 29 (10.00%) Business Continuity
11 29 (10.00%) DevOps
11 29 (10.00%) High Availability
11 29 (10.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 28 (9.66%) Decision-Making
12 28 (9.66%) ITIL
13 26 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 24 (8.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.00%) Python
2 36 (12.41%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.28%) Bash
4 18 (6.21%) Go
5 16 (5.52%) SQL
6 8 (2.76%) Bicep
7 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (18.28%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (12.07%) Degree
3 33 (11.38%) CCNA
4 25 (8.62%) CCNP
5 17 (5.86%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.86%) JNCIA
5 17 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.79%) CCIE
6 11 (3.79%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.79%) Security Cleared
7 9 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (2.41%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.03%) CISSP
11 3 (1.03%) MCSA
12 2 (0.69%) CEH
12 2 (0.69%) CISM
12 2 (0.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 41 (14.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (10.34%) GDPR
4 29 (10.00%) NIST
5 8 (2.76%) PMO
6 7 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.41%) SLA
7 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 112 (38.62%) Active Directory
2 45 (15.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (14.48%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.76%) ProxySG
4 8 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.41%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (1.38%) Docker
6 4 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.69%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Firmware
9 1 (0.34%) XenApp
9 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (20.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (15.17%) Terraform
3 34 (11.72%) Ansible
4 20 (6.90%) Grafana
5 19 (6.55%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.17%) FortiGate
7 10 (3.45%) Autotask
8 8 (2.76%) Kubernetes
8 8 (2.76%) SCCM
9 3 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.34%) Nagios
10 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (53.45%) Microsoft
2 72 (24.83%) Cisco
3 54 (18.62%) VMware
4 36 (12.41%) Fortinet
5 35 (12.07%) Aruba
6 29 (10.00%) Juniper
7 16 (5.52%) Arista
8 14 (4.83%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.48%) F5
9 13 (4.48%) Palo Alto
10 12 (4.14%) NetScout
10 12 (4.14%) Veeam
11 10 (3.45%) Google
12 9 (3.10%) Meraki
12 9 (3.10%) SolarWinds
13 8 (2.76%) Blue Coat
13 8 (2.76%) Infoblox
13 8 (2.76%) Motorola
13 8 (2.76%) ServiceNow
13 8 (2.76%) Ubiquiti