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 citing Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	118	91	68
Rank change year-on-year	-27	-23	-10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	307	290	361
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	1.26%	3.10%	2.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	19.91%	20.18%	31.36%
Number of salaries quoted	235	203	205
10^th Percentile	£28,250	£26,250	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£31,000	£28,500	£38,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	£33,750	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+18.52%	-32.50%	+5.26%
75^th Percentile	£58,125	£48,750	£61,000
90^th Percentile	£70,000	£62,500	£68,250
England median annual salary	£51,500	£45,142	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+14.08%	-14.01%	-1.87%

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	1,542	1,437	1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	6.35%	15.35%	9.22%
Number of salaries quoted	829	861	602
10^th Percentile	£27,250	-	£29,000
25^th Percentile	£30,500	£25,087	£32,063
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£42,500	£30,250	£45,000
Median % change year-on-year	+40.50%	-32.78%	-
75^th Percentile	£62,500	£43,250	£60,000
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£65,000	£70,000
England median annual salary	£50,000	£40,000	£53,025
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-24.56%	+1.00%

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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 30 October 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 30 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	+24	168	£38,750	+7.64%	48
Yorkshire	-51	107	£40,000	+14.29%	10
North East	-76	32	£40,000	+26.98%	8
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Firewall Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, job vacancies citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region citing Firewall.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	57.0%	175
2	Windows	52.8%	162
3	Microsoft 365	50.8%	156
4	Active Directory	40.4%	124
5	Windows Server	40.1%	123
6	Azure	37.1%	114
7	Problem-Solving	35.8%	110
8	Infrastructure Engineering	31.6%	97
9	DNS	30.9%	95
10	VPN	29.6%	91
11	Entra ID	25.7%	79
12	DHCP	24.4%	75
13	Cybersecurity	23.8%	73
14	VMware	23.5%	72
15	TCP/IP	22.8%	70
16	Cisco	21.8%	67
17	Microsoft Exchange	20.2%	62
18	Disaster Recovery	19.9%	61
18	Microsoft Intune	19.9%	61
20	VLAN	18.9%	58
20	WAN	18.9%	58
22	Hyper-V	17.9%	55
23	Customer Service	17.6%	54
24	VMware Infrastructure	16.9%	52
25	LAN	16.3%	50
25	Wi-Fi	16.3%	50
27	Network Security	16.0%	49
28	Continuous Improvement	15.3%	47
28	PowerShell	15.3%	47
30	ITIL	13.7%	42

Firewall Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	30.9%	95
2	VPN	29.6%	91
3	DHCP	24.4%	75
4	TCP/IP	22.8%	70
5	VLAN	18.9%	58
5	WAN	18.9%	58
7	LAN	16.3%	50
7	Wi-Fi	16.3%	50
9	Network Security	16.0%	49
10	VoIP	12.1%	37
11	Wireless	10.4%	32
12	SD-WAN	8.1%	25
13	BGP	7.5%	23
14	Structured Cabling	5.5%	17
15	OSPF	5.2%	16
16	Cisco Firepower	4.2%	13
17	Intrusion Detection	3.9%	12
18	Cisco ASA	3.6%	11
18	NGFW	3.6%	11
18	VXLAN	3.6%	11