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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -41 +4 +44
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 267 325 581
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 4.71% 4.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.97% 36.39% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 238 236 494
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,875 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,239 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -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 2,678 893 1,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.09% 12.94% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 752 625 1,533
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,100 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £43,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +1.16% -4.44%
75th Percentile £50,063 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.56% +10.31% -4.98%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -39 118 £40,500 -19.00% 74
Yorkshire -38 103 £42,500 -5.56% 25
North East -6 46 £35,000 -6.67% 11
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 67 (25.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (13.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) IIS
3 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (11.24%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 130 (48.69%) Azure
2 126 (47.19%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (29.21%) Entra ID
4 48 (17.98%) AWS
5 24 (8.99%) Microsoft Purview
6 23 (8.61%) GCP
6 23 (8.61%) GitHub
7 20 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (7.12%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.49%) OCI
10 11 (4.12%) Google Workspace
10 11 (4.12%) IaaS
11 10 (3.75%) SaaS
12 9 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.25%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.87%) Intacct
15 3 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.12%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.12%) Power Platform
16 2 (0.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 88 (32.96%) VPN
2 78 (29.21%) WAN
3 75 (28.09%) VLAN
4 71 (26.59%) DNS
5 65 (24.34%) LAN
6 63 (23.60%) TCP/IP
7 52 (19.48%) DHCP
8 33 (12.36%) Wireless
9 31 (11.61%) Network Security
10 24 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (7.12%) SD-WAN
11 19 (7.12%) VoIP
12 18 (6.74%) HTTP
13 13 (4.87%) VXLAN
14 12 (4.49%) BGP
14 12 (4.49%) NGFW
14 12 (4.49%) Wireshark
15 11 (4.12%) OSPF
16 8 (3.00%) DMZ
16 8 (3.00%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.87%) MySQL
3 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.12%) Power BI
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (7.49%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
General
1 135 (50.56%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.99%) Law
4 27 (10.11%) Telecoms
5 19 (7.12%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (7.12%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (6.74%) Public Sector
7 17 (6.37%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.87%) Finance
9 11 (4.12%) Retail
10 8 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.87%) Advertising
12 4 (1.50%) Legal
13 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.75%) Military
15 1 (0.37%) Electronics
15 1 (0.37%) German Language
15 1 (0.37%) Marketing
15 1 (0.37%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 81 (30.34%) IT Support
2 73 (27.34%) Support Engineer
3 61 (22.85%) IT Engineer
4 53 (19.85%) IT Support Engineer
5 29 (10.86%) 2nd Line Support
6 27 (10.11%) Senior
7 25 (9.36%) Network Engineer
8 24 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (8.24%) Support Technician
10 21 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.87%) Lead
11 20 (7.49%) Cisco Engineer
12 19 (7.12%) Firewall Engineer
12 19 (7.12%) Juniper Engineer
12 19 (7.12%) LAN Engineer
12 19 (7.12%) LAN/WAN Engineer
12 19 (7.12%) Presales Engineer
12 19 (7.12%) WAN Engineer
13 17 (6.37%) 1st Line Support
14 14 (5.24%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (3.00%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.75%) Middleware
4 1 (0.37%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.23%) Driving Licence
2 28 (10.49%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.87%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 14 (5.24%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.49%) PKI
7 7 (2.62%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.25%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.12%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Social Media
10 2 (0.75%) CCTV
10 2 (0.75%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.37%) Life Science
11 1 (0.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 126 (47.19%) Windows
2 106 (39.70%) Windows Server
3 31 (11.61%) Windows 10
4 27 (10.11%) Linux
5 11 (4.12%) Windows 7
5 11 (4.12%) Windows 8
5 11 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.37%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.62%) Debian
8 6 (2.25%) Android
9 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.37%) CentOS
12 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.96%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (24.34%) Customer Service
3 59 (22.10%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (17.98%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (16.10%) ITIL
6 36 (13.48%) Incident Response
6 36 (13.48%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 35 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (10.49%) CI/CD
8 28 (10.49%) Data Protection
8 28 (10.49%) High Availability
8 28 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (10.11%) DevOps
9 27 (10.11%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.74%) SIEM
10 26 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (9.36%) Decision-Making
11 25 (9.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (8.99%) Containerisation
12 24 (8.99%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.35%) Python
2 28 (10.49%) Bash
3 19 (7.12%) PowerShell
4 18 (6.74%) Go
5 9 (3.37%) SQL
6 4 (1.50%) VBA
7 2 (0.75%) Bicep
7 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (19.10%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (13.48%) Degree
3 34 (12.73%) CCNA
4 24 (8.99%) CCNP
5 19 (7.12%) JNCIA
6 12 (4.49%) Azure Certification
7 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.12%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.00%) CCIE
9 8 (3.00%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.00%) Security Cleared
10 7 (2.62%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.12%) CISSP
12 3 (1.12%) MCSA
13 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (15.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 32 (11.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (10.86%) GDPR
4 24 (8.99%) NIST
5 7 (2.62%) PMO
6 5 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.75%) GRC
7 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (44.57%) Active Directory
2 62 (23.22%) Hyper-V
3 46 (17.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.75%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (2.62%) ProxySG
6 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.12%) Docker
7 3 (1.12%) vSphere
8 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.37%) XenApp
9 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (19.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (14.98%) Terraform
3 34 (12.73%) Ansible
4 19 (7.12%) Grafana
4 19 (7.12%) Prometheus
5 17 (6.37%) Autotask
6 14 (5.24%) FortiGate
7 11 (4.12%) SCCM
8 8 (3.00%) Kubernetes
9 3 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.75%) Plesk
11 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.37%) Kibana
11 1 (0.37%) Nagios
11 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 154 (57.68%) Microsoft
2 69 (25.84%) Cisco
3 58 (21.72%) VMware
4 35 (13.11%) Aruba
5 33 (12.36%) Fortinet
6 22 (8.24%) Juniper
7 13 (4.87%) SonicWALL
8 12 (4.49%) Arista
8 12 (4.49%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.49%) NetScout
9 11 (4.12%) ESET
9 11 (4.12%) Google
10 10 (3.75%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.75%) Veeam
11 9 (3.37%) F5
11 9 (3.37%) Meraki
11 9 (3.37%) Sage
12 8 (3.00%) Citrix
12 8 (3.00%) Ubiquiti
12 8 (3.00%) WatchGuard