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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 91 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 -23 +16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 357 317 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 3.71% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.12% 18.26% 27.74%
Number of salaries quoted 317 205 478
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,700 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.51% -9.28%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 1,226 1,736 2,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.04% 20.33% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 860 759 1,629
10th Percentile £26,995 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,500 £26,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £33,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -23.26% -7.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -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 27 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 27 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 +49 197 £42,500 +6.25% 45
Yorkshire -49 117 £45,500 +13.75% 35
North East -24 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 72 (20.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (18.49%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.80%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 173 (48.46%) Microsoft 365
2 166 (46.50%) Azure
3 109 (30.53%) Entra ID
4 74 (20.73%) AWS
5 26 (7.28%) Microsoft Purview
6 25 (7.00%) GitHub
7 23 (6.44%) GCP
8 20 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (3.92%) Power Platform
10 13 (3.64%) SaaS
11 12 (3.36%) Google Workspace
11 12 (3.36%) OCI
12 11 (3.08%) IaaS
13 10 (2.80%) Mimecast
13 10 (2.80%) OneDrive
14 7 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
15 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (1.40%) Intacct
17 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 113 (31.65%) DNS
2 106 (29.69%) VPN
3 90 (25.21%) WAN
4 86 (24.09%) DHCP
5 83 (23.25%) VLAN
6 77 (21.57%) LAN
7 70 (19.61%) TCP/IP
8 61 (17.09%) Network Security
9 57 (15.97%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (10.36%) SD-WAN
11 31 (8.68%) VoIP
11 31 (8.68%) Wireless
12 23 (6.44%) BGP
12 23 (6.44%) NGFW
13 22 (6.16%) OSPF
14 19 (5.32%) VXLAN
15 16 (4.48%) Wireshark
16 15 (4.20%) HTTP
17 14 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.84%) 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 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.56%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 164 (45.94%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.84%) Law
4 24 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.20%) Finance
8 14 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.68%) Retail
11 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.12%) Social Housing
13 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.84%) Legal
14 2 (0.56%) Advertising
15 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
15 1 (0.28%) German Language
15 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 85 (23.81%) IT Support
2 72 (20.17%) Support Engineer
3 61 (17.09%) IT Engineer
4 53 (14.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (14.57%) Senior
6 50 (14.01%) IT Support Engineer
6 50 (14.01%) Network Engineer
7 25 (7.00%) Lead
8 24 (6.72%) IT Technician
8 24 (6.72%) Security Engineer
9 22 (6.16%) IT Support Technician
9 22 (6.16%) Support Technician
10 21 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (5.32%) Analyst
11 19 (5.32%) Infrastructure Support
12 17 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.76%) IT Manager
13 16 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (4.48%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (1.96%) Middleware
3 5 (1.40%) 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 60 (16.81%) Driving Licence
2 45 (12.61%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.64%) Security Posture
8 12 (3.36%) PKI
9 9 (2.52%) CCTV
10 7 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.12%) Life Science
12 4 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.84%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.84%) FMCG
13 3 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 159 (44.54%) Windows
2 115 (32.21%) Windows Server
3 37 (10.36%) Windows 10
4 28 (7.84%) Linux
5 18 (5.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.36%) Mac OS
8 11 (3.08%) Android
9 10 (2.80%) Apple iOS
9 10 (2.80%) Debian
9 10 (2.80%) VMS
10 7 (1.96%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.96%) Windows 8
11 6 (1.68%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (24.37%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 62 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (17.09%) Customer Service
6 60 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 48 (13.45%) Mentoring
8 43 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (11.20%) Incident Response
10 40 (11.20%) Service Delivery
11 39 (10.92%) Business Continuity
12 37 (10.36%) ITIL
13 36 (10.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 35 (9.80%) High Availability
15 34 (9.52%) SIEM
16 32 (8.96%) CI/CD
16 32 (8.96%) Decision-Making
17 31 (8.68%) DevOps
17 31 (8.68%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 59 (16.53%) Python
2 49 (13.73%) PowerShell
3 25 (7.00%) SQL
4 20 (5.60%) Bash
5 14 (3.92%) Go
6 10 (2.80%) Bicep
7 4 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.84%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (10.08%) Degree
3 29 (8.12%) CCNA
4 28 (7.84%) CCNP
5 24 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (6.44%) Azure Certification
7 12 (3.36%) CCIE
8 11 (3.08%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.08%) Security Cleared
9 9 (2.52%) DBS Check
9 9 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.96%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.84%) CISSP
12 3 (0.84%) MCSA
13 2 (0.56%) CEH
13 2 (0.56%) CISM
13 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 52 (14.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.96%) GDPR
2 32 (8.96%) NIST
3 8 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 8 (2.24%) SLA
4 6 (1.68%) 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
1 134 (37.54%) Active Directory
2 67 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (14.01%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.96%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (1.96%) vSphere
6 6 (1.68%) Docker
6 6 (1.68%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.84%) iptables
7 3 (0.84%) 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 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (13.17%) Terraform
3 34 (9.52%) Ansible
4 22 (6.16%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.20%) Grafana
6 14 (3.92%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.36%) Kubernetes
8 10 (2.80%) Autotask
9 8 (2.24%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (2.24%) SCCM
10 3 (0.84%) cPanel
10 3 (0.84%) Plesk
10 3 (0.84%) Puppet
10 3 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.56%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.28%) Nessus
12 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 209 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 80 (22.41%) Cisco
3 78 (21.85%) VMware
4 29 (8.12%) Fortinet
5 28 (7.84%) Juniper
6 27 (7.56%) Aruba
7 21 (5.88%) Veeam
8 20 (5.60%) Palo Alto
9 18 (5.04%) Google
10 17 (4.76%) Arista
11 16 (4.48%) CheckPoint
12 14 (3.92%) Meraki
12 14 (3.92%) SonicWALL
13 13 (3.64%) NetScout
14 10 (2.80%) F5
15 9 (2.52%) SolarWinds
15 9 (2.52%) Sophos
16 8 (2.24%) Apple
16 8 (2.24%) Ubiquiti
17 7 (1.96%) iManage