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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 92 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 -27 +16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 354 316 594
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.75% 3.73% 3.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.73% 18.35% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 314 202 487
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,625
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 £60,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,872 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,750
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.71% -4.50%

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 1,232 1,722 2,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.08% 20.33% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 864 746 1,660
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £26,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £33,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.42% -24.14% -5.69%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £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 24 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 24 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 +42 195 £43,000 +1.18% 56
Yorkshire -48 116 £45,250 +13.13% 33
North East -25 43 £45,000 +27.30% 14
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 73 (20.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 68 (19.21%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.54%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 172 (48.59%) Microsoft 365
2 162 (45.76%) Azure
3 111 (31.36%) Entra ID
4 72 (20.34%) AWS
5 26 (7.34%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (6.78%) GitHub
7 23 (6.50%) GCP
8 19 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (3.95%) SaaS
10 13 (3.67%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.39%) Google Workspace
11 12 (3.39%) OCI
12 11 (3.11%) IaaS
12 11 (3.11%) OneDrive
13 10 (2.82%) Mimecast
14 7 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (1.41%) Intacct
17 4 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 113 (31.92%) DNS
2 106 (29.94%) VPN
3 89 (25.14%) WAN
4 86 (24.29%) DHCP
5 84 (23.73%) VLAN
6 76 (21.47%) LAN
7 68 (19.21%) TCP/IP
8 60 (16.95%) Network Security
9 57 (16.10%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (10.17%) SD-WAN
11 31 (8.76%) VoIP
12 28 (7.91%) Wireless
13 23 (6.50%) NGFW
14 22 (6.21%) BGP
15 21 (5.93%) OSPF
16 19 (5.37%) VXLAN
17 16 (4.52%) Wireshark
18 15 (4.24%) HTTP
19 14 (3.95%) Cisco ASA
19 14 (3.95%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.85%) MySQL
4 2 (0.56%) GIS
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.52%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 161 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 58 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.91%) Law
4 24 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.21%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.24%) Finance
8 13 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.69%) Retail
12 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.13%) Social Housing
14 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.85%) Legal
15 2 (0.56%) Advertising
16 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
16 1 (0.28%) German Language
16 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (23.45%) IT Support
2 71 (20.06%) Support Engineer
3 63 (17.80%) IT Engineer
4 53 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (14.69%) Senior
6 50 (14.12%) IT Support Engineer
7 49 (13.84%) Network Engineer
8 25 (7.06%) Lead
9 24 (6.78%) Security Engineer
10 23 (6.50%) IT Technician
11 21 (5.93%) IT Support Technician
11 21 (5.93%) Senior Network Engineer
11 21 (5.93%) Support Technician
12 19 (5.37%) Infrastructure Support
13 18 (5.08%) 2nd Line Support
13 18 (5.08%) Analyst
14 17 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 17 (4.80%) IT Manager
15 16 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (4.24%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (1.98%) Middleware
3 5 (1.41%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (0.56%) .NET
4 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.56%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.56%) Ajax
4 2 (0.56%) boto
4 2 (0.56%) CSS
4 2 (0.56%) Flask
4 2 (0.56%) HTML
4 2 (0.56%) Jinja
4 2 (0.56%) jQuery
4 2 (0.56%) Node.js
4 2 (0.56%) OpenLayers
4 2 (0.56%) SAML
4 2 (0.56%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.38%) Driving Licence
2 45 (12.71%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.93%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (4.24%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.67%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.39%) PKI
9 9 (2.54%) CCTV
10 7 (1.98%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.41%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.13%) Life Science
12 4 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.85%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.85%) FMCG
13 3 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 159 (44.92%) Windows
2 115 (32.49%) Windows Server
3 39 (11.02%) Windows 10
4 28 (7.91%) Linux
5 18 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.39%) Mac OS
8 11 (3.11%) Android
9 10 (2.82%) Apple iOS
9 10 (2.82%) Debian
9 10 (2.82%) VMS
10 7 (1.98%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.98%) Windows 8
11 6 (1.69%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (34.46%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (24.58%) Cybersecurity
3 82 (23.16%) Disaster Recovery
4 62 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (16.95%) Customer Service
6 59 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 47 (13.28%) Mentoring
8 41 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (11.30%) Incident Response
10 39 (11.02%) Business Continuity
10 39 (11.02%) Service Delivery
11 37 (10.45%) ITIL
12 36 (10.17%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 34 (9.60%) SIEM
14 33 (9.32%) High Availability
15 32 (9.04%) Decision-Making
16 31 (8.76%) CI/CD
16 31 (8.76%) Load Balancing
17 30 (8.47%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.38%) Python
2 47 (13.28%) PowerShell
3 24 (6.78%) SQL
4 20 (5.65%) Bash
5 14 (3.95%) Go
6 9 (2.54%) Bicep
7 4 (1.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (13.84%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (10.17%) Degree
3 29 (8.19%) CCNA
4 27 (7.63%) CCNP
5 24 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (6.21%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.39%) CCIE
8 11 (3.11%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.11%) Security Cleared
9 9 (2.54%) DBS Check
9 9 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (2.26%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.41%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.85%) CISSP
13 3 (0.85%) MCSA
14 2 (0.56%) CEH
14 2 (0.56%) CISM
14 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 52 (14.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (9.04%) GDPR
2 32 (9.04%) NIST
3 8 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (2.26%) SLA
4 6 (1.69%) PMO
5 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 137 (38.70%) Active Directory
2 65 (18.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (13.84%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.98%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (1.69%) Docker
6 6 (1.69%) ProxySG
6 6 (1.69%) vSphere
7 3 (0.85%) iptables
7 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.56%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 68 (19.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (12.99%) Terraform
3 34 (9.60%) Ansible
4 24 (6.78%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.24%) Grafana
6 14 (3.95%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.39%) Kubernetes
8 10 (2.82%) Autotask
9 8 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (2.26%) SCCM
10 3 (0.85%) cPanel
10 3 (0.85%) Plesk
10 3 (0.85%) Puppet
10 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.28%) Nessus
12 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 206 (58.19%) Microsoft
2 78 (22.03%) Cisco
3 76 (21.47%) VMware
4 29 (8.19%) Fortinet
5 28 (7.91%) Aruba
5 28 (7.91%) Juniper
6 21 (5.93%) Veeam
7 19 (5.37%) Palo Alto
8 18 (5.08%) Google
9 17 (4.80%) Arista
10 16 (4.52%) CheckPoint
11 14 (3.95%) Meraki
11 14 (3.95%) SonicWALL
12 13 (3.67%) NetScout
13 10 (2.82%) F5
14 9 (2.54%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.54%) Sophos
15 8 (2.26%) Apple
15 8 (2.26%) Ubiquiti
16 7 (1.98%) ESET