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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 100 77
Rank change year-on-year -19 -23 -19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 302 286 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.29% 3.05% 2.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.19% 15.77% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 251 196 239
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £29,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £36,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -23.16% -1.00%
75th Percentile £58,250 £50,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £73,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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 1,425 1,814 1,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.07% 19.32% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 880 825 780
10th Percentile £27,225 £24,700 £28,725
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,108 £30,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.06% -32.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £43,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,373 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.98% -18.00% -2.91%

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 September 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 September 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 +43 168 £42,000 +12.00% 94
Yorkshire -49 109 £40,000 +14.29% 38
North East -64 25 £42,500 +26.87% 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 55 (18.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (17.55%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.97%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 161 (53.31%) Microsoft 365
2 127 (42.05%) Azure
3 77 (25.50%) Entra ID
4 48 (15.89%) AWS
5 14 (4.64%) GCP
5 14 (4.64%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.31%) Mimecast
7 9 (2.98%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.65%) SaaS
9 7 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.32%) GitHub
10 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.66%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.32%) IaaS
12 4 (1.32%) PaaS
13 3 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 100 (33.11%) VPN
2 96 (31.79%) DNS
3 85 (28.15%) DHCP
4 69 (22.85%) TCP/IP
5 68 (22.52%) WAN
6 59 (19.54%) LAN
7 58 (19.21%) VLAN
8 56 (18.54%) Wi-Fi
9 49 (16.23%) Network Security
10 41 (13.58%) VoIP
11 31 (10.26%) SD-WAN
11 31 (10.26%) Wireless
12 25 (8.28%) BGP
13 21 (6.95%) OSPF
14 14 (4.64%) Structured Cabling
15 13 (4.30%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (3.64%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (3.64%) NGFW
17 10 (3.31%) Cisco ASA
17 10 (3.31%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.66%) GIS
5 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Git
1 2 (0.66%) GitLab
1 2 (0.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 121 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (3.97%) Law
4 11 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.31%) Finance
6 9 (2.98%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.32%) Advertising
9 4 (1.32%) Legal
9 4 (1.32%) Social Housing
9 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.66%) Aviation
11 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (23.84%) IT Support
2 63 (20.86%) Support Engineer
3 52 (17.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 52 (17.22%) IT Engineer
4 48 (15.89%) Network Engineer
5 43 (14.24%) IT Support Engineer
6 40 (13.25%) Senior
7 28 (9.27%) Security Engineer
8 26 (8.61%) Analyst
9 25 (8.28%) 2nd Line Support
10 18 (5.96%) Consultant
10 18 (5.96%) IT Technician
10 18 (5.96%) Support Technician
11 16 (5.30%) IT Manager
12 14 (4.64%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 14 (4.64%) IT Support Technician
12 14 (4.64%) Support Analyst
13 13 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.97%) Architect
15 11 (3.64%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.95%) Terraform
2 8 (2.65%) Middleware
3 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.32%) React
5 2 (0.66%) .NET
5 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.66%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.66%) Ajax
5 2 (0.66%) boto
5 2 (0.66%) CSS
5 2 (0.66%) Flask
5 2 (0.66%) HTML
5 2 (0.66%) Jinja
5 2 (0.66%) jQuery
5 2 (0.66%) Node.js
5 2 (0.66%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.66%) SAML
5 2 (0.66%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.22%) Driving Licence
2 31 (10.26%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.96%) CCTV
3 18 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.30%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.31%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.65%) Life Science
7 8 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.32%) SCADA
9 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Licensing
10 5 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.32%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.99%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (0.99%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 157 (51.99%) Windows
2 119 (39.40%) Windows Server
3 22 (7.28%) Linux
4 21 (6.95%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.30%) Android
6 14 (4.64%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (3.97%) VMS
8 9 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.65%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.99%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.99%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.99%) Debian
12 1 (0.33%) CentOS
12 1 (0.33%) Solaris
12 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (35.76%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (28.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 71 (23.51%) Cybersecurity
4 63 (20.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 49 (16.23%) Customer Service
6 47 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (10.93%) Mentoring
8 32 (10.60%) Service Delivery
9 31 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (10.26%) Migration
10 29 (9.60%) ITIL
11 24 (7.95%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 22 (7.28%) DevOps
12 22 (7.28%) Vulnerability Management
13 21 (6.95%) Change Management
14 20 (6.62%) Business Continuity
14 20 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (6.29%) High Availability
15 19 (6.29%) Project Delivery
16 18 (5.96%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 51 (16.89%) PowerShell
2 33 (10.93%) Python
3 23 (7.62%) SQL
4 11 (3.64%) Bicep
5 4 (1.32%) Go
5 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 3 (0.99%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.66%) Bash
7 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (12.25%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (7.62%) CCNA
3 20 (6.62%) Degree
4 18 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.97%) CCNP
6 14 (4.64%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.97%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.97%) Security Cleared
8 11 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (2.65%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.99%) CCIE
11 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.32%) CISSP
12 4 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.99%) CISM
13 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.66%) CEH
14 2 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 32 (10.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (4.97%) NIST
4 10 (3.31%) SLA
5 8 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.65%) GDPR
6 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.33%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 123 (40.73%) Active Directory
2 58 (19.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (18.87%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.31%) vSphere
5 8 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.99%) Docker
8 5 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.99%) iptables
10 1 (0.33%) Firmware
10 1 (0.33%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.33%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (20.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.62%) FortiGate
3 12 (3.97%) Ansible
4 10 (3.31%) Kubernetes
5 7 (2.32%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 4 (1.32%) Puppet
8 3 (0.99%) cPanel
8 3 (0.99%) Plesk
8 3 (0.99%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.66%) Nessus
10 1 (0.33%) Grafana
10 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 180 (59.60%) Microsoft
2 72 (23.84%) VMware
3 61 (20.20%) Cisco
4 27 (8.94%) Fortinet
4 27 (8.94%) SonicWALL
5 20 (6.62%) Veeam
6 19 (6.29%) Juniper
6 19 (6.29%) Palo Alto
7 14 (4.64%) Meraki
8 12 (3.97%) Aruba
9 11 (3.64%) Google
10 8 (2.65%) Apple
10 8 (2.65%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.32%) iManage
11 7 (2.32%) Sophos
12 6 (1.99%) Draytek
13 5 (1.66%) Arista
13 5 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.66%) F5
13 5 (1.66%) Splunk