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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 56 57
Rank change year-on-year -31 +1 +29
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 228 362 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.06% 3.98% 4.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.68% 37.47% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 204 224 340
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £27,975
25th Percentile £28,500 £41,250 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,950 £47,500 £46,875
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +1.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,949
90th Percentile £60,875 £74,666 £72,625
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% -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 2,627 966 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.76% 10.62% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 771 538 1,009
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,425 £26,750
25th Percentile £26,000 £34,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,375 £74,000
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 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 January 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 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
North West -29 104 £43,000 -9.47% 51
Yorkshire -37 90 £36,500 -27.00% 42
North East -7 34 £31,500 -21.25% 18
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 65 (28.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (11.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (9.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 119 (52.19%) Microsoft 365
2 105 (46.05%) Azure
3 59 (25.88%) Entra ID
4 33 (14.47%) AWS
5 13 (5.70%) GCP
6 9 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
7 8 (3.51%) GitHub
8 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (3.07%) OCI
8 7 (3.07%) SaaS
9 6 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.63%) Google Workspace
9 6 (2.63%) OneDrive
9 6 (2.63%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.19%) IaaS
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.88%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (33.33%) VPN
2 71 (31.14%) WAN
3 69 (30.26%) VLAN
4 61 (26.75%) LAN
5 58 (25.44%) DNS
6 49 (21.49%) DHCP
6 49 (21.49%) TCP/IP
7 32 (14.04%) Wireless
8 27 (11.84%) VoIP
9 25 (10.96%) Network Security
10 17 (7.46%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (7.02%) BGP
12 14 (6.14%) SAN
13 13 (5.70%) SD-WAN
14 10 (4.39%) OSPF
15 7 (3.07%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (3.07%) EIGRP
15 7 (3.07%) VXLAN
15 7 (3.07%) WLAN
16 6 (2.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.63%) Power BI
3 5 (2.19%) MySQL
4 3 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 110 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.77%) Manufacturing
4 19 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (7.46%) Law
7 13 (5.70%) Finance
8 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.51%) Retail
10 5 (2.19%) Advertising
11 4 (1.75%) Legal
12 3 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Military
14 1 (0.44%) Electronics
14 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 64 (28.07%) IT Support
2 56 (24.56%) Support Engineer
3 43 (18.86%) IT Engineer
4 36 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
5 26 (11.40%) Senior
6 25 (10.96%) Support Technician
7 23 (10.09%) 2nd Line Support
8 22 (9.65%) Analyst
8 22 (9.65%) Technical Support
9 19 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
9 19 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Firewall Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Juniper Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) LAN Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Network Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Presales Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) Technical Support Engineer
10 18 (7.89%) WAN Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (2.63%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (0.88%) Middleware
3 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.04%) Driving Licence
2 26 (11.40%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.58%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.95%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.63%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.63%) PKI
9 5 (2.19%) Clustering
9 5 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.75%) Handset
11 3 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.44%) Educational Technology
13 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 112 (49.12%) Windows
2 89 (39.04%) Windows Server
3 23 (10.09%) Linux
3 23 (10.09%) Windows 10
4 12 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (3.07%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.19%) Windows 7
6 5 (2.19%) Windows 8
7 4 (1.75%) Android
7 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.88%) CentOS
10 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (23.25%) Customer Service
3 39 (17.11%) ITIL
4 37 (16.23%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (11.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (9.65%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 21 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (9.21%) Presales
8 19 (8.33%) DevOps
8 19 (8.33%) Incident Response
9 18 (7.89%) CI/CD
9 18 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (7.46%) Project Delivery
10 17 (7.46%) Service Delivery
11 15 (6.58%) Data Protection
11 15 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (6.14%) Agile
12 14 (6.14%) ITSM
13 13 (5.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.84%) Python
2 21 (9.21%) PowerShell
3 13 (5.70%) Bash
4 10 (4.39%) SQL
5 6 (2.63%) Go
6 4 (1.75%) Bicep
6 4 (1.75%) VBA
7 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (21.93%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (15.35%) CCNA
3 28 (12.28%) Degree
4 18 (7.89%) CCNP
4 18 (7.89%) JNCIA
5 11 (4.82%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (3.51%) DBS Check
6 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.07%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (3.07%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.07%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.19%) CCIE
8 5 (2.19%) CISSP
9 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.32%) CISM
11 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.88%) CISMP
11 2 (0.88%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (6.14%) GDPR
4 10 (4.39%) NIST
5 4 (1.75%) PMO
6 3 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.32%) GRC
6 3 (1.32%) NCSC
7 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 114 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 68 (29.82%) Hyper-V
3 45 (19.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.75%) Docker
4 4 (1.75%) ProxySG
4 4 (1.75%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (1.75%) vSphere
5 3 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.44%) Firmware
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (22.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (10.53%) Terraform
3 15 (6.58%) Ansible
3 15 (6.58%) FortiGate
4 10 (4.39%) Autotask
5 7 (3.07%) Grafana
5 7 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.63%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.75%) SCCM
8 2 (0.88%) Plesk
9 1 (0.44%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.44%) Kibana
9 1 (0.44%) Nagios
9 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 126 (55.26%) Microsoft
2 65 (28.51%) Cisco
3 58 (25.44%) VMware
4 33 (14.47%) Aruba
5 32 (14.04%) Fortinet
6 20 (8.77%) Juniper
6 20 (8.77%) SonicWALL
7 13 (5.70%) Veeam
8 11 (4.82%) Citrix
8 11 (4.82%) Meraki
9 10 (4.39%) Palo Alto
9 10 (4.39%) Sage
9 10 (4.39%) WatchGuard
10 8 (3.51%) CheckPoint
11 7 (3.07%) Apple
11 7 (3.07%) HP
12 6 (2.63%) F5
12 6 (2.63%) Google
12 6 (2.63%) Huawei
12 6 (2.63%) NetScout