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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 65 59
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 294 369 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.06% 3.02% 4.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.04% 33.03% 30.62%
Number of salaries quoted 213 212 322
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £63,438
90th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £79,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 1,833 1,117 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.10% 9.15% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 888 582 929
10th Percentile - £29,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £73,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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
Yorkshire +5 167 £36,500 -30.48% 32
North West -22 91 £40,000 -20.00% 51
North East +1 36 £31,500 -18.71% 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 74 (25.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (7.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (7.48%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 139 (47.28%) Azure
2 132 (44.90%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (18.03%) Entra ID
4 36 (12.24%) AWS
5 12 (4.08%) GCP
6 9 (3.06%) SaaS
7 8 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.04%) Google Workspace
8 6 (2.04%) IaaS
8 6 (2.04%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.70%) OCI
10 4 (1.36%) PaaS
11 3 (1.02%) GitHub
11 3 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (0.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 81 (27.55%) VLAN
2 70 (23.81%) VPN
3 63 (21.43%) TCP/IP
4 61 (20.75%) WAN
5 58 (19.73%) DNS
6 55 (18.71%) LAN
7 48 (16.33%) DHCP
8 44 (14.97%) VoIP
9 43 (14.63%) Wireless
10 39 (13.27%) Network Security
11 22 (7.48%) SAN
12 21 (7.14%) BGP
13 16 (5.44%) SD-WAN
14 14 (4.76%) OSPF
15 13 (4.42%) WLAN
16 10 (3.40%) Remote Desktop
16 10 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (2.72%) Intrusion Detection
18 7 (2.38%) MPLS
19 6 (2.04%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.04%) Power BI
2 6 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.34%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
General
1 111 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.16%) Manufacturing
4 19 (6.46%) Telecoms
5 13 (4.42%) Finance
6 9 (3.06%) Retail
7 8 (2.72%) Law
8 7 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.70%) Legal
9 5 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.70%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (25.17%) IT Engineer
2 58 (19.73%) Support Engineer
3 52 (17.69%) IT Support
4 43 (14.63%) Technical Support
5 40 (13.61%) Technical Engineer
6 37 (12.59%) Technical Support Engineer
7 29 (9.86%) Analyst
7 29 (9.86%) Network Engineer
8 28 (9.52%) Support Technician
9 22 (7.48%) IT Support Engineer
10 20 (6.80%) Senior
11 19 (6.46%) Instrumentation Engineer
12 18 (6.12%) Support Analyst
13 17 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (5.44%) IT Manager
15 12 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
15 12 (4.08%) Security Engineer
16 11 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support
16 11 (3.74%) Security Specialist
17 10 (3.40%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.04%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.68%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.34%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.75%) Operational Technology
2 30 (10.20%) Driving Licence
3 23 (7.82%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.44%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (4.42%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.42%) Clustering
5 13 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.38%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.04%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.04%) FMCG
8 6 (2.04%) Handset
9 4 (1.36%) EPoS
10 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.68%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 178 (60.54%) Windows
2 79 (26.87%) Windows Server
3 36 (12.24%) Linux
4 22 (7.48%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 5 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.36%) Unix
8 4 (1.36%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.36%) Windows 8
8 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.68%) Check Point GAiA
9 2 (0.68%) VMS
10 1 (0.34%) CentOS
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (32.99%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (24.15%) Network Management
3 64 (21.77%) Network Design
4 59 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (19.39%) Customer Service
6 42 (14.29%) ITIL
7 34 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (9.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (7.82%) Incident Response
11 22 (7.48%) SIEM
12 19 (6.46%) Project Delivery
13 18 (6.12%) DevOps
14 17 (5.78%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (5.44%) Agile
15 16 (5.44%) Vulnerability Management
16 15 (5.10%) Customer-Centricity
16 15 (5.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (5.10%) Penetration Testing
17 14 (4.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.80%) Python
3 18 (6.12%) SQL
4 13 (4.42%) Bash
5 5 (1.70%) Bicep
6 4 (1.36%) VBA
7 3 (1.02%) Go
8 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (8.50%) CCNA
3 24 (8.16%) Degree
4 16 (5.44%) CCNP
4 16 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.42%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (3.74%) CISSP
7 8 (2.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (2.38%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.04%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.04%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.70%) CISMP
10 5 (1.70%) GSEC
11 4 (1.36%) CCIE
11 4 (1.36%) CISM
11 4 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.02%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.76%) GDPR
3 13 (4.42%) NIST
4 6 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.70%) NCSC
6 4 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.36%) GRC
7 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 170 (57.82%) Active Directory
2 78 (26.53%) Hyper-V
3 58 (19.73%) Virtual Servers
4 46 (15.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.68%) Docker
6 2 (0.68%) vSphere
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (8.16%) FortiGate
3 13 (4.42%) Terraform
4 9 (3.06%) Ansible
4 9 (3.06%) Autotask
5 4 (1.36%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.02%) Grafana
6 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.02%) SCCM
7 2 (0.68%) Plesk
7 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.34%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.34%) Kibana
8 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 150 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 67 (22.79%) Cisco
3 55 (18.71%) VMware
4 37 (12.59%) SonicWALL
5 26 (8.84%) Veeam
6 20 (6.80%) Fortinet
7 17 (5.78%) Meraki
8 15 (5.10%) HP
8 15 (5.10%) WatchGuard
9 14 (4.76%) Aruba
10 13 (4.42%) Dell
10 13 (4.42%) Palo Alto
10 13 (4.42%) Sage
10 13 (4.42%) Supermicro
11 12 (4.08%) Sophos
12 11 (3.74%) Apple
13 10 (3.40%) Citrix
14 8 (2.72%) ESET
15 7 (2.38%) CheckPoint
15 7 (2.38%) Huawei