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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 98 74
Rank change year-on-year -17 -24 -7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 311 314 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.42% 3.28% 2.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.09% 16.84% 26.84%
Number of salaries quoted 262 209 315
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -21.05% -3.06%
75th Percentile £58,250 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £66,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -1.96%

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 1,291 1,865 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.88% 19.47% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 857 856 1,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,084 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.72% -6.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.91%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +52 176 £42,500 +13.33% 50
Yorkshire -67 100 £40,000 +9.59% 31
North East -47 35 £45,000 +35.55% 13
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 61 (19.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (18.33%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.18%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 162 (52.09%) Microsoft 365
2 143 (45.98%) Azure
3 80 (25.72%) Entra ID
4 58 (18.65%) AWS
5 19 (6.11%) GCP
6 15 (4.82%) GitHub
6 15 (4.82%) Power Platform
7 13 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.22%) Mimecast
10 9 (2.89%) Google Workspace
10 9 (2.89%) IaaS
10 9 (2.89%) OneDrive
10 9 (2.89%) SaaS
11 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 96 (30.87%) VPN
2 94 (30.23%) DNS
3 81 (26.05%) WAN
4 76 (24.44%) DHCP
4 76 (24.44%) TCP/IP
5 68 (21.86%) LAN
6 63 (20.26%) VLAN
7 55 (17.68%) Network Security
8 44 (14.15%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (13.18%) VoIP
10 36 (11.58%) Wireless
11 35 (11.25%) SD-WAN
12 26 (8.36%) BGP
13 22 (7.07%) OSPF
14 12 (3.86%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (3.86%) Cisco Firepower
14 12 (3.86%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (3.54%) NGFW
15 11 (3.54%) SAN
16 10 (3.22%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.64%) GIS
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.93%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.64%) Git
4 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 130 (41.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (5.47%) Law
4 15 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.22%) Finance
7 10 (3.22%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.93%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.29%) Advertising
10 4 (1.29%) Social Housing
11 3 (0.96%) Legal
11 3 (0.96%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.32%) German Language
12 1 (0.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 71 (22.83%) IT Support
2 61 (19.61%) Support Engineer
3 55 (17.68%) Network Engineer
4 51 (16.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 47 (15.11%) IT Engineer
6 45 (14.47%) Senior
7 38 (12.22%) IT Support Engineer
8 26 (8.36%) Security Engineer
9 25 (8.04%) Analyst
10 23 (7.40%) IT Technician
11 19 (6.11%) IT Support Technician
11 19 (6.11%) Support Technician
12 17 (5.47%) IT Manager
13 16 (5.14%) Consultant
14 15 (4.82%) 2nd Line Support
14 15 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (4.50%) Senior Network Engineer
16 13 (4.18%) Support Analyst
17 12 (3.86%) Infrastructure Support
18 11 (3.54%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.57%) Middleware
2 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.96%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (0.96%) React
5 2 (0.64%) .NET
5 2 (0.64%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.64%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.64%) Ajax
5 2 (0.64%) boto
5 2 (0.64%) CSS
5 2 (0.64%) Flask
5 2 (0.64%) HTML
5 2 (0.64%) Jinja
5 2 (0.64%) jQuery
5 2 (0.64%) Node.js
5 2 (0.64%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.64%) SAML
5 2 (0.64%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.79%) Driving Licence
2 31 (9.97%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.79%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.14%) Security Posture
6 14 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.18%) CCTV
8 9 (2.89%) Life Science
9 8 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.93%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.29%) SCADA
13 3 (0.96%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.96%) FMCG
13 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 153 (49.20%) Windows
2 113 (36.33%) Windows Server
3 31 (9.97%) Linux
4 27 (8.68%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (3.54%) Android
6 11 (3.54%) VMS
6 11 (3.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (2.89%) Mac OS
8 8 (2.57%) Apple iOS
9 7 (2.25%) Debian
9 7 (2.25%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.29%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.29%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.32%) CentOS
11 1 (0.32%) Solaris
11 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (34.73%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (23.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 65 (20.90%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (20.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 52 (16.72%) Customer Service
6 44 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (12.22%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.25%) Service Delivery
9 33 (10.61%) ITIL
10 32 (10.29%) Migration
11 29 (9.32%) High Availability
12 27 (8.68%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 25 (8.04%) DevOps
14 22 (7.07%) CI/CD
15 20 (6.43%) Business Continuity
15 20 (6.43%) Load Balancing
15 20 (6.43%) Vulnerability Management
16 19 (6.11%) Change Management
16 19 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.76%) PowerShell
2 43 (13.83%) Python
3 25 (8.04%) SQL
4 12 (3.86%) Bash
5 11 (3.54%) Bicep
6 9 (2.89%) Go
7 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.96%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (14.15%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (9.00%) Degree
3 24 (7.72%) CCNA
4 21 (6.75%) CCNP
5 20 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (5.79%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.18%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.18%) Security Cleared
8 12 (3.86%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (2.89%) CCIE
9 9 (2.89%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.61%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.96%) CISSP
12 3 (0.96%) MCSA
13 2 (0.64%) CEH
13 2 (0.64%) CISM
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (8.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (3.54%) NIST
4 9 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.57%) GDPR
5 8 (2.57%) SLA
6 4 (1.29%) PMO
7 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 118 (37.94%) Active Directory
2 63 (20.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (17.68%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.57%) vSphere
5 7 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.93%) Docker
6 6 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.29%) ProxySG
7 4 (1.29%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.96%) iptables
8 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.32%) Firmware
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
9 1 (0.32%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (21.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (9.97%) Terraform
3 21 (6.75%) FortiGate
4 19 (6.11%) Ansible
5 13 (4.18%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.89%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.25%) Autotask
7 7 (2.25%) Grafana
8 6 (1.93%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.29%) Puppet
10 4 (1.29%) SCCM
11 3 (0.96%) cPanel
11 3 (0.96%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.96%) Plesk
11 3 (0.96%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.64%) Nessus
13 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 180 (57.88%) Microsoft
2 75 (24.12%) VMware
3 71 (22.83%) Cisco
4 23 (7.40%) Fortinet
5 20 (6.43%) Palo Alto
5 20 (6.43%) Veeam
6 18 (5.79%) Juniper
7 16 (5.14%) Google
7 16 (5.14%) SonicWALL
8 15 (4.82%) Meraki
9 14 (4.50%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.54%) Aruba
11 9 (2.89%) Apple
11 9 (2.89%) Sophos
12 8 (2.57%) F5
13 7 (2.25%) iManage
13 7 (2.25%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.61%) Arista
14 5 (1.61%) Atlassian
14 5 (1.61%) Okta