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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 64 57
Rank change year-on-year -32 -7 +34
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 208 352 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.98% 3.79% 4.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.93% 36.44% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 189 215 319
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,850 £29,450
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,554 £77,715
England median annual salary £46,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.21% +0.95% -

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 2,622 966 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.96% 10.40% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 770 537 946
10th Percentile - £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £58,750 £61,949
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -23 94 £45,000 -2.17% 46
Yorkshire -38 85 £32,500 -35.00% 40
North East -4 29 £31,500 -30.00% 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 68 (32.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) IIS
3 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (9.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 117 (56.25%) Microsoft 365
2 102 (49.04%) Azure
3 54 (25.96%) Entra ID
4 23 (11.06%) AWS
5 9 (4.33%) GCP
6 8 (3.85%) SaaS
7 7 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.88%) OneDrive
8 6 (2.88%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.40%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.40%) IaaS
10 4 (1.92%) GitHub
10 4 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.96%) iPaaS
11 2 (0.96%) PaaS
12 1 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 71 (34.13%) VPN
2 69 (33.17%) VLAN
3 65 (31.25%) WAN
4 57 (27.40%) LAN
5 54 (25.96%) DNS
6 50 (24.04%) TCP/IP
7 47 (22.60%) DHCP
8 35 (16.83%) VoIP
9 34 (16.35%) Wireless
10 22 (10.58%) Network Security
11 18 (8.65%) BGP
12 17 (8.17%) SAN
13 15 (7.21%) SD-WAN
14 10 (4.81%) OSPF
15 8 (3.85%) MPLS
15 8 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (3.85%) WLAN
16 7 (3.37%) ADSL
16 7 (3.37%) WebEx
16 7 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.81%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.88%) Power BI
2 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.44%) MySQL
4 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 101 (48.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (10.58%) Manufacturing
3 19 (9.13%) Telecoms
4 14 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (6.25%) Finance
6 12 (5.77%) Law
7 8 (3.85%) Retail
8 6 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.40%) Advertising
9 5 (2.40%) Legal
10 2 (0.96%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Electronics
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (27.40%) IT Support
2 54 (25.96%) Support Engineer
3 38 (18.27%) IT Engineer
4 30 (14.42%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (13.46%) Technical Support
6 26 (12.50%) Analyst
6 26 (12.50%) Support Technician
7 25 (12.02%) Technical Engineer
8 24 (11.54%) Senior
9 22 (10.58%) Technical Support Engineer
10 19 (9.13%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (9.13%) Support Analyst
11 14 (6.73%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (6.73%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Firewall Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) LAN Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) Presales Engineer
11 14 (6.73%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.88%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.96%) Middleware
4 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.54%) Driving Licence
2 21 (10.10%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.21%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.85%) Clustering
8 6 (2.88%) Client/Server
8 6 (2.88%) Handset
8 6 (2.88%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.44%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.44%) FMCG
9 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.48%) BYOD
11 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 108 (51.92%) Windows
2 87 (41.83%) Windows Server
3 26 (12.50%) Linux
4 21 (10.10%) Windows 10
5 12 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.88%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.92%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.92%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.96%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Android
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.44%) Customer Service
2 52 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (18.27%) ITIL
4 30 (14.42%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (9.13%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 17 (8.17%) DevOps
9 16 (7.69%) Agile
10 15 (7.21%) Project Delivery
11 14 (6.73%) CI/CD
11 14 (6.73%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (6.73%) Presales
11 14 (6.73%) Service Delivery
12 12 (5.77%) Incident Response
13 11 (5.29%) Computer Science
13 11 (5.29%) Information Security
14 10 (4.81%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.10%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.21%) Python
3 11 (5.29%) Bash
4 10 (4.81%) SQL
5 4 (1.92%) Bicep
5 4 (1.92%) Go
5 4 (1.92%) VBA
6 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (24.04%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (16.83%) CCNA
3 25 (12.02%) Degree
4 15 (7.21%) CCNP
5 14 (6.73%) JNCIA
6 11 (5.29%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.85%) CISSP
8 8 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.85%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.37%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.37%) Security Cleared
10 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.92%) CCIE
11 4 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.44%) CISM
13 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.96%) CISMP
13 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.88%) GDPR
4 4 (1.92%) NIST
5 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.44%) GRC
5 3 (1.44%) NCSC
6 2 (0.96%) PMO
6 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 108 (51.92%) Active Directory
2 71 (34.13%) Hyper-V
3 43 (20.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.92%) Docker
5 3 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.44%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.96%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (8.17%) FortiGate
3 14 (6.73%) Terraform
4 9 (4.33%) Autotask
5 7 (3.37%) Ansible
6 6 (2.88%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.40%) Grafana
7 5 (2.40%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.44%) SCCM
9 2 (0.96%) Plesk
10 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.48%) Kibana
10 1 (0.48%) Nagios
10 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 117 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 64 (30.77%) Cisco
3 56 (26.92%) VMware
4 26 (12.50%) Aruba
4 26 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 25 (12.02%) SonicWALL
6 15 (7.21%) Veeam
7 14 (6.73%) Juniper
7 14 (6.73%) Meraki
8 12 (5.77%) Citrix
8 12 (5.77%) Palo Alto
9 11 (5.29%) Sage
10 10 (4.81%) HP
10 10 (4.81%) WatchGuard
11 9 (4.33%) Apple
12 8 (3.85%) Dell
12 8 (3.85%) Huawei
12 8 (3.85%) Supermicro
13 7 (3.37%) Polycom
14 6 (2.88%) CheckPoint