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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 102 70
Rank change year-on-year -20 -32 -17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 300 274 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.25% 2.93% 2.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.41% 15.28% 29.42%
Number of salaries quoted 242 183 223
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £29,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -26.53% +3.16%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £62,500 £74,500
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 1,470 1,793 1,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.14% 19.20% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 868 805 714
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,034 £28,825
25th Percentile £30,499 £25,087 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £30,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -33.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.87% -17.00% -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 23 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 23 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 +39 164 £41,000 +9.33% 97
Yorkshire -56 111 £40,000 +11.89% 42
North East -73 25 £40,000 +19.40% 16
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 (18.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (17.00%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.00%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 159 (53.00%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (40.67%) Azure
3 80 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 44 (14.67%) AWS
5 14 (4.67%) GCP
6 13 (4.33%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.33%) GitHub
8 9 (3.00%) Mimecast
8 9 (3.00%) OneDrive
9 8 (2.67%) SaaS
10 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.33%) IaaS
11 5 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.67%) Google Workspace
11 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.33%) PaaS
13 3 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 98 (32.67%) VPN
2 97 (32.33%) DNS
3 82 (27.33%) DHCP
4 67 (22.33%) TCP/IP
5 64 (21.33%) WAN
6 55 (18.33%) LAN
7 54 (18.00%) VLAN
7 54 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
8 48 (16.00%) Network Security
9 38 (12.67%) VoIP
10 32 (10.67%) Wireless
11 31 (10.33%) SD-WAN
12 25 (8.33%) BGP
13 20 (6.67%) OSPF
14 13 (4.33%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
16 11 (3.67%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (3.67%) Intrusion Detection
16 11 (3.67%) NGFW
17 10 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.67%) GIS
5 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.67%) JIRA
2 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 119 (39.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.67%) Law
3 11 (3.67%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (3.33%) Finance
5 7 (2.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.33%) Advertising
7 4 (1.33%) Legal
7 4 (1.33%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.67%) Aviation
8 2 (0.67%) Banking
8 2 (0.67%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.33%) Games
9 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (24.00%) IT Support
2 64 (21.33%) Support Engineer
3 54 (18.00%) IT Engineer
4 52 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 48 (16.00%) Network Engineer
6 45 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 40 (13.33%) Senior
8 27 (9.00%) Security Engineer
9 26 (8.67%) 2nd Line Support
10 25 (8.33%) Analyst
11 18 (6.00%) Consultant
12 16 (5.33%) IT Technician
12 16 (5.33%) Support Technician
13 15 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 15 (5.00%) IT Manager
14 14 (4.67%) Support Analyst
15 13 (4.33%) Architect
15 13 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (4.00%) IT Support Technician
17 11 (3.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.33%) Terraform
2 8 (2.67%) Middleware
3 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.33%) React
5 2 (0.67%) .NET
5 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.67%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.67%) Ajax
5 2 (0.67%) boto
5 2 (0.67%) CSS
5 2 (0.67%) Flask
5 2 (0.67%) HTML
5 2 (0.67%) Jinja
5 2 (0.67%) jQuery
5 2 (0.67%) Node.js
5 2 (0.67%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.67%) SAML
5 2 (0.67%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 50 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 33 (11.00%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.33%) CCTV
5 11 (3.67%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.33%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.67%) Life Science
8 7 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.33%) SCADA
9 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Licensing
9 6 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 156 (52.00%) Windows
2 117 (39.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.67%) Linux
4 18 (6.00%) Windows 10
5 16 (5.33%) Android
6 13 (4.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (4.00%) VMS
8 8 (2.67%) Apple iOS
8 8 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.00%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.67%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.00%) Debian
12 1 (0.33%) CentOS
12 1 (0.33%) Solaris
12 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.33%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (30.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 63 (21.00%) Cybersecurity
4 61 (20.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 47 (15.67%) Customer Service
6 45 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (11.33%) Migration
8 32 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (10.67%) ITIL
8 32 (10.67%) Mentoring
9 30 (10.00%) Service Delivery
10 24 (8.00%) Change Management
11 22 (7.33%) DevOps
11 22 (7.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 20 (6.67%) CI/CD
12 20 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (6.00%) Business Continuity
13 18 (6.00%) High Availability
13 18 (6.00%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (16.33%) PowerShell
2 34 (11.33%) Python
3 22 (7.33%) SQL
4 12 (4.00%) Bicep
5 4 (1.33%) Go
5 4 (1.33%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.00%) ActionScript
6 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.67%) Bash
7 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (11.00%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (7.67%) CCNA
3 15 (5.00%) Degree
3 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 13 (4.33%) CCNP
5 13 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.33%) Security Cleared
6 11 (3.67%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (2.33%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.67%) CCIE
9 4 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.67%) MCSE
12 1 (0.33%) CISSP
12 1 (0.33%) GIAC
12 1 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 30 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.00%) NIST
4 9 (3.00%) SLA
5 8 (2.67%) GDPR
6 6 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
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%) QA
System Software
1 124 (41.33%) Active Directory
2 58 (19.33%) Hyper-V
3 57 (19.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.33%) vSphere
5 8 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.00%) Docker
6 6 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.00%) iptables
9 1 (0.33%) Firmware
9 1 (0.33%) KVM
9 1 (0.33%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (21.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (7.00%) FortiGate
3 12 (4.00%) Ansible
4 11 (3.67%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 4 (1.33%) Puppet
6 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.00%) cPanel
7 3 (1.00%) Plesk
7 3 (1.00%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.67%) Nessus
8 2 (0.67%) SCCM
9 1 (0.33%) Grafana
9 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 177 (59.00%) Microsoft
2 72 (24.00%) VMware
3 62 (20.67%) Cisco
4 30 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 25 (8.33%) SonicWALL
6 22 (7.33%) Palo Alto
6 22 (7.33%) Veeam
7 21 (7.00%) Juniper
8 15 (5.00%) Meraki
9 12 (4.00%) Aruba
10 11 (3.67%) Google
11 9 (3.00%) Okta
12 8 (2.67%) Apple
12 8 (2.67%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.33%) F5
13 7 (2.33%) iManage
14 6 (2.00%) Arista
14 6 (2.00%) Draytek
15 5 (1.67%) Atlassian
15 5 (1.67%) Sophos