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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 91 68
Rank change year-on-year +1 -23 +17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 347 315 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.72% 3.77% 2.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.35% 18.56% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 307 200 489
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.60%
75th Percentile £57,239 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,997 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 1,224 1,697 2,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.08% 20.32% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 854 722 1,671
10th Percentile £26,258 £24,275 £25,875
25th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £33,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -24.14% -5.43%
75th Percentile £57,239 £54,594 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,412 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +47 192 £42,750 +3.64% 54
Yorkshire -55 114 £46,500 +16.25% 29
North East -31 41 £45,000 +20.00% 12
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 71 (20.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (19.02%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.31%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 167 (48.13%) Microsoft 365
2 160 (46.11%) Azure
3 109 (31.41%) Entra ID
4 70 (20.17%) AWS
5 26 (7.49%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (6.92%) GitHub
7 23 (6.63%) GCP
8 19 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.03%) SaaS
10 13 (3.75%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.46%) OCI
12 11 (3.17%) Google Workspace
12 11 (3.17%) IaaS
12 11 (3.17%) OneDrive
13 9 (2.59%) Mimecast
14 8 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (1.44%) Intacct
17 4 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 109 (31.41%) DNS
2 103 (29.68%) VPN
3 87 (25.07%) WAN
4 83 (23.92%) DHCP
4 83 (23.92%) VLAN
5 74 (21.33%) LAN
6 64 (18.44%) TCP/IP
7 60 (17.29%) Network Security
8 54 (15.56%) Wi-Fi
9 35 (10.09%) SD-WAN
10 30 (8.65%) VoIP
11 26 (7.49%) Wireless
12 23 (6.63%) NGFW
13 22 (6.34%) BGP
14 21 (6.05%) OSPF
15 19 (5.48%) VXLAN
16 15 (4.32%) HTTP
16 15 (4.32%) Wireshark
17 14 (4.03%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (3.75%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.86%) MySQL
4 2 (0.58%) GIS
5 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.29%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.61%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.58%) Git
3 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 157 (45.24%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.07%) Law
4 24 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.32%) Finance
8 12 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.73%) Retail
12 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.15%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.86%) Legal
15 2 (0.58%) Advertising
16 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
16 1 (0.29%) German Language
16 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (23.34%) IT Support
2 70 (20.17%) Support Engineer
3 62 (17.87%) IT Engineer
4 52 (14.99%) Senior
5 51 (14.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (14.70%) IT Support Engineer
6 47 (13.54%) Network Engineer
7 25 (7.20%) Lead
8 23 (6.63%) Security Engineer
9 22 (6.34%) IT Technician
10 21 (6.05%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (5.76%) IT Support Technician
11 20 (5.76%) Support Technician
12 18 (5.19%) Infrastructure Support
13 17 (4.90%) 2nd Line Support
13 17 (4.90%) Analyst
13 17 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.61%) IT Manager
15 15 (4.32%) LAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.73%) Middleware
4 5 (1.44%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.58%) .NET
5 2 (0.58%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.58%) Ajax
5 2 (0.58%) boto
5 2 (0.58%) CSS
5 2 (0.58%) Flask
5 2 (0.58%) HTML
5 2 (0.58%) Jinja
5 2 (0.58%) jQuery
5 2 (0.58%) Node.js
5 2 (0.58%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.58%) SAML
5 2 (0.58%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.43%) Driving Licence
2 46 (13.26%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (6.05%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.46%) PKI
8 11 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.31%) CCTV
10 7 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Licensing
12 4 (1.15%) Life Science
12 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.86%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.86%) FMCG
13 3 (0.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 154 (44.38%) Windows
2 112 (32.28%) Windows Server
3 36 (10.37%) Windows 10
4 28 (8.07%) Linux
5 17 (4.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.17%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.88%) Android
8 10 (2.88%) Debian
8 10 (2.88%) VMS
9 9 (2.59%) Apple iOS
10 7 (2.02%) Windows 7
10 7 (2.02%) Windows 8
11 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (25.07%) Cybersecurity
3 79 (22.77%) Disaster Recovery
4 60 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (17.00%) Customer Service
6 57 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 47 (13.54%) Mentoring
8 41 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (11.24%) Incident Response
11 38 (10.95%) Business Continuity
12 37 (10.66%) Service Delivery
13 36 (10.37%) ITIL
14 35 (10.09%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 34 (9.80%) SIEM
16 32 (9.22%) Decision-Making
16 32 (9.22%) High Availability
17 31 (8.93%) CI/CD
17 31 (8.93%) Load Balancing
18 30 (8.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.71%) Python
2 46 (13.26%) PowerShell
3 23 (6.63%) SQL
4 20 (5.76%) Bash
5 14 (4.03%) Go
6 9 (2.59%) Bicep
7 4 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (14.41%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (10.37%) Degree
3 30 (8.65%) CCNA
4 27 (7.78%) CCNP
5 23 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (6.34%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.46%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.46%) Security Cleared
8 11 (3.17%) CCIE
9 9 (2.59%) DBS Check
9 9 (2.59%) JNCIA
9 9 (2.59%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.86%) CISSP
12 3 (0.86%) MCSA
13 2 (0.58%) CEH
13 2 (0.58%) CISM
13 2 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (14.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 50 (14.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (9.22%) GDPR
3 32 (9.22%) NIST
4 8 (2.31%) SLA
5 7 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.73%) PMO
7 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 134 (38.62%) Active Directory
2 62 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (13.83%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.02%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (1.73%) Docker
6 6 (1.73%) ProxySG
7 5 (1.44%) vSphere
8 3 (0.86%) iptables
8 3 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.58%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.29%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 68 (19.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (13.26%) Terraform
3 34 (9.80%) Ansible
4 23 (6.63%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.32%) Grafana
6 14 (4.03%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.46%) Kubernetes
8 10 (2.88%) Autotask
9 8 (2.31%) SCCM
10 7 (2.02%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.86%) cPanel
11 3 (0.86%) Plesk
11 3 (0.86%) Puppet
11 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.58%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.29%) Nessus
13 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 200 (57.64%) Microsoft
2 76 (21.90%) Cisco
3 72 (20.75%) VMware
4 30 (8.65%) Fortinet
5 29 (8.36%) Aruba
6 28 (8.07%) Juniper
7 20 (5.76%) Veeam
8 18 (5.19%) Palo Alto
9 17 (4.90%) Google
10 16 (4.61%) Arista
11 15 (4.32%) CheckPoint
12 13 (3.75%) Meraki
12 13 (3.75%) SonicWALL
13 12 (3.46%) NetScout
14 10 (2.88%) F5
15 9 (2.59%) SolarWinds
16 8 (2.31%) Sophos
16 8 (2.31%) Ubiquiti
17 7 (2.02%) Apple
17 7 (2.02%) ESET