Firewall Jobs in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 63 78
Rank change year-on-year -56 +15 +6
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 260 611 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.37% 3.54% 4.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.12% 28.34% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 224 499 517
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,750 £28,575
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +9.20%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 1,720 2,156 3,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.70% 12.48% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,653 1,291
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £57,750
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -49 145 £50,000 - 112
Yorkshire -29 90 £44,700 -0.67% 84
North East 0 25 £37,500 -11.76% 30
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (16.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.92%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) IIS
4 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (7.31%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.31%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 85 (32.69%) Azure
2 81 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
3 28 (10.77%) Entra ID
4 27 (10.38%) AWS
5 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.31%) GCP
7 6 (2.31%) GitHub
7 6 (2.31%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.92%) Mimecast
8 5 (1.92%) SaaS
9 4 (1.54%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.15%) IaaS
11 2 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.77%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.77%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.38%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 95 (36.54%) WAN
2 88 (33.85%) LAN
3 76 (29.23%) VPN
4 66 (25.38%) DNS
5 45 (17.31%) DHCP
6 41 (15.77%) TCP/IP
7 37 (14.23%) Network Security
8 29 (11.15%) SD-WAN
9 26 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 20 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (7.31%) VoIP
12 18 (6.92%) BGP
12 18 (6.92%) OSPF
13 17 (6.54%) VLAN
14 15 (5.77%) Wireless
15 13 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
16 12 (4.62%) MPLS
17 11 (4.23%) IPsec
17 11 (4.23%) SAN
18 10 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.54%) Power BI
3 2 (0.77%) EDMS
3 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.38%) Big Data
4 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
4 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (4.62%) JIRA
2 8 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.54%) Git
3 4 (1.54%) Spinnaker
4 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 130 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 25 (9.62%) Manufacturing
5 16 (6.15%) Finance
5 16 (6.15%) Law
6 13 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.46%) Retail
9 7 (2.69%) Automotive
10 6 (2.31%) Legal
11 5 (1.92%) Banking
11 5 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.54%) Local Government
12 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.77%) Marketing
14 2 (0.77%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (20.00%) Architect
2 33 (12.69%) Analyst
3 32 (12.31%) Network Engineer
4 30 (11.54%) Junior
5 26 (10.00%) IT Support
5 26 (10.00%) Senior
5 26 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (9.62%) Technical Support
7 24 (9.23%) Junior Architect
7 24 (9.23%) Junior Solutions Architect
7 24 (9.23%) Security Engineer
8 18 (6.92%) IT Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Security Architect
9 17 (6.54%) Support Analyst
10 15 (5.77%) Support Engineer
11 14 (5.38%) Support Specialist
12 13 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
13 12 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.62%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.31%) LDAP
2 4 (1.54%) HTML
2 4 (1.54%) Middleware
2 4 (1.54%) SOAP
2 4 (1.54%) XML
2 4 (1.54%) XSLT
3 3 (1.15%) SAML
4 2 (0.77%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.77%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (0.77%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.38%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.69%) Security Posture
2 31 (11.92%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (9.23%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 14 (5.38%) Social Media
6 13 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 11 (4.23%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.08%) FMCG
8 8 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.31%) Replication
10 4 (1.54%) Anti-Spyware
10 4 (1.54%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.15%) CCTV
11 3 (1.15%) Clustering
11 3 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.15%) Housing Association
11 3 (1.15%) PKI
11 3 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 117 (45.00%) Windows
2 68 (26.15%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.23%) Linux
4 19 (7.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (6.15%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (5.38%) Windows Vista
7 12 (4.62%) Unix
8 8 (3.08%) Android
9 7 (2.69%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.77%) Debian
11 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.77%) Solaris
12 1 (0.38%) CentOS
12 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 36 (13.85%) Vulnerability Management
5 33 (12.69%) Presales
6 32 (12.31%) Cloud Security
7 31 (11.92%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (11.54%) Customer Service
9 29 (11.15%) Information Security
10 28 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (9.62%) DevOps
12 24 (9.23%) Incident Response
13 23 (8.85%) Computer Science
14 22 (8.46%) Roadmaps
14 22 (8.46%) SIEM
15 21 (8.08%) Mentoring
16 19 (7.31%) ITIL
16 19 (7.31%) Migration
16 19 (7.31%) Security Architecture
16 19 (7.31%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.54%) PowerShell
1 30 (11.54%) SQL
2 15 (5.77%) Python
3 8 (3.08%) Bash
4 5 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.54%) C
5 4 (1.54%) Jython
5 4 (1.54%) Perl
6 3 (1.15%) Java
6 3 (1.15%) Progress 4GL
7 2 (0.77%) Bicep
8 1 (0.38%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 73 (28.08%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (18.08%) CCNA
3 33 (12.69%) JNCIA
4 27 (10.38%) Degree
5 22 (8.46%) SC Cleared
5 22 (8.46%) Security Cleared
6 20 (7.69%) CCNP
6 20 (7.69%) CISSP
6 20 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (6.54%) CEH
7 17 (6.54%) CISM
8 14 (5.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 14 (5.38%) AWS Certification
8 14 (5.38%) CISA
8 14 (5.38%) DBS Check
8 14 (5.38%) Master's Degree
8 14 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.31%) JNCIS
11 5 (1.92%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (8.85%) NIST
3 22 (8.46%) GDPR
4 7 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.54%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.15%) ISO 14001
7 3 (1.15%) PMO
7 3 (1.15%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.38%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (35.38%) Active Directory
2 58 (22.31%) Hyper-V
3 50 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (7.31%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.54%) vSphere
6 3 (1.15%) DFS Replication
6 3 (1.15%) NFS
6 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.77%) Firmware
7 2 (0.77%) KVM
7 2 (0.77%) pfSense
7 2 (0.77%) SRDF
7 2 (0.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.77%) Xen
8 1 (0.38%) Docker
8 1 (0.38%) RHEV
8 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.38%) XenApp
8 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (5.77%) Ansible
2 15 (5.77%) FortiGate
3 13 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.62%) Terraform
5 7 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.31%) WSUS
7 5 (1.92%) Proxmox
7 5 (1.92%) SCCM
8 3 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.77%) Puppet
10 1 (0.38%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.38%) cPanel
10 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.38%) Grafana
10 1 (0.38%) Istio
10 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.38%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 102 (39.23%) Cisco
2 96 (36.92%) Microsoft
3 67 (25.77%) VMware
4 49 (18.85%) Fortinet
5 39 (15.00%) Palo Alto
6 35 (13.46%) Juniper
7 33 (12.69%) Aruba
8 21 (8.08%) Meraki
9 17 (6.54%) Veeam
10 14 (5.38%) CheckPoint
11 12 (4.62%) SonicWALL
12 9 (3.46%) WatchGuard
13 8 (3.08%) ServiceNow
14 7 (2.69%) Citrix
14 7 (2.69%) Ubiquiti
15 6 (2.31%) Arista
16 5 (1.92%) Draytek
16 5 (1.92%) Kaseya
16 5 (1.92%) Oracle
17 4 (1.54%) Google