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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 94 68
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 +9
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 362 320 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.76% 3.56% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.15% 17.94% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 323 210 479
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,350
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,813 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -7.22%
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 1,242 1,784 2,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.05% 19.86% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 869 802 1,626
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.29% -7.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,725
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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +43 199 £42,500 +6.25% 43
Yorkshire -44 119 £45,000 +12.50% 36
North East -31 44 £45,000 +20.00% 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 70 (19.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 63 (17.40%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.04%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 175 (48.34%) Microsoft 365
2 170 (46.96%) Azure
3 107 (29.56%) Entra ID
4 77 (21.27%) AWS
5 26 (7.18%) GitHub
5 26 (7.18%) Microsoft Purview
6 25 (6.91%) GCP
7 21 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.14%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.59%) SaaS
10 12 (3.31%) Google Workspace
10 12 (3.31%) OCI
11 11 (3.04%) IaaS
12 10 (2.76%) Mimecast
13 9 (2.49%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.38%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 112 (30.94%) DNS
2 107 (29.56%) VPN
3 90 (24.86%) WAN
4 85 (23.48%) DHCP
5 82 (22.65%) VLAN
6 76 (20.99%) LAN
6 76 (20.99%) TCP/IP
7 61 (16.85%) Network Security
8 58 (16.02%) Wi-Fi
9 38 (10.50%) SD-WAN
10 34 (9.39%) VoIP
11 33 (9.12%) Wireless
12 24 (6.63%) BGP
13 23 (6.35%) NGFW
14 22 (6.08%) OSPF
15 19 (5.25%) VXLAN
16 16 (4.42%) Wireshark
17 15 (4.14%) HTTP
18 14 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (3.87%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.55%) GIS
4 2 (0.55%) MySQL
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.42%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.55%) Git
3 2 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 167 (46.13%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.73%) Law
4 24 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.08%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (4.97%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.14%) Finance
8 6 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.38%) Retail
10 4 (1.10%) Social Housing
11 3 (0.83%) Advertising
11 3 (0.83%) Legal
12 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.28%) German Language
13 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (23.20%) IT Support
2 73 (20.17%) Support Engineer
3 62 (17.13%) IT Engineer
4 54 (14.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (14.36%) Senior
6 51 (14.09%) Network Engineer
7 50 (13.81%) IT Support Engineer
8 26 (7.18%) Security Engineer
9 25 (6.91%) Lead
10 23 (6.35%) IT Technician
11 21 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
11 21 (5.80%) IT Support Technician
11 21 (5.80%) Senior Network Engineer
11 21 (5.80%) Support Technician
12 20 (5.52%) Analyst
13 19 (5.25%) Infrastructure Support
14 18 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.70%) IT Manager
16 16 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
16 16 (4.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Graph
2 7 (1.93%) Middleware
3 5 (1.38%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (0.55%) .NET
4 2 (0.55%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.55%) Ajax
4 2 (0.55%) boto
4 2 (0.55%) CSS
4 2 (0.55%) Flask
4 2 (0.55%) HTML
4 2 (0.55%) Jinja
4 2 (0.55%) jQuery
4 2 (0.55%) Node.js
4 2 (0.55%) OpenLayers
4 2 (0.55%) SAML
4 2 (0.55%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 62 (17.13%) Driving Licence
2 46 (12.71%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.80%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (5.25%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.42%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.14%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.31%) PKI
9 9 (2.49%) CCTV
10 7 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Licensing
12 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.38%) Life Science
12 5 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.83%) Cloud Native
14 3 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.83%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 161 (44.48%) Windows
2 113 (31.22%) Windows Server
3 37 (10.22%) Windows 10
4 29 (8.01%) Linux
5 18 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (3.59%) Android
8 12 (3.31%) Apple iOS
8 12 (3.31%) Mac OS
9 10 (2.76%) Debian
9 10 (2.76%) VMS
10 7 (1.93%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.93%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.93%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.28%) Solaris
11 1 (0.28%) Unix
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (24.31%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (23.20%) Disaster Recovery
4 63 (17.40%) Customer Service
5 62 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (17.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 49 (13.54%) Mentoring
7 45 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (11.60%) Service Delivery
9 41 (11.33%) Incident Response
9 41 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (10.77%) Business Continuity
11 38 (10.50%) ITIL
12 36 (9.94%) High Availability
12 36 (9.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 34 (9.39%) DevOps
13 34 (9.39%) SIEM
14 33 (9.12%) CI/CD
15 31 (8.56%) Decision-Making
15 31 (8.56%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.13%) Python
2 49 (13.54%) PowerShell
3 26 (7.18%) SQL
4 21 (5.80%) Bash
5 14 (3.87%) Go
6 11 (3.04%) Bicep
7 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (13.26%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (9.94%) Degree
3 28 (7.73%) CCNA
3 28 (7.73%) CCNP
4 24 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (6.35%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.31%) CCIE
7 11 (3.04%) SC Cleared
7 11 (3.04%) Security Cleared
8 9 (2.49%) DBS Check
8 9 (2.49%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.38%) JNCIA
11 3 (0.83%) CISSP
11 3 (0.83%) MCSA
12 2 (0.55%) CEH
12 2 (0.55%) CISM
12 2 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (14.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 53 (14.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (8.84%) NIST
3 31 (8.56%) GDPR
4 9 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.21%) SLA
6 6 (1.66%) PMO
7 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 133 (36.74%) Active Directory
2 68 (18.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (13.81%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.93%) VMware Workstation
4 7 (1.93%) vSphere
5 6 (1.66%) Docker
5 6 (1.66%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.83%) iptables
6 3 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.28%) KVM
8 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 68 (18.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (13.81%) Terraform
3 36 (9.94%) Ansible
4 20 (5.52%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.14%) Grafana
6 14 (3.87%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.59%) Kubernetes
8 10 (2.76%) Autotask
9 9 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (2.21%) SCCM
11 4 (1.10%) Puppet
12 3 (0.83%) cPanel
12 3 (0.83%) Plesk
12 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.55%) Proxmox
14 1 (0.28%) Nessus
14 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 213 (58.84%) Microsoft
2 79 (21.82%) Cisco
2 79 (21.82%) VMware
3 28 (7.73%) Fortinet
4 26 (7.18%) Juniper
5 25 (6.91%) Aruba
6 22 (6.08%) Veeam
7 20 (5.52%) Palo Alto
8 19 (5.25%) Google
9 17 (4.70%) Arista
10 16 (4.42%) CheckPoint
11 15 (4.14%) Meraki
12 14 (3.87%) SonicWALL
13 13 (3.59%) NetScout
14 10 (2.76%) F5
15 9 (2.49%) Apple
15 9 (2.49%) SolarWinds
15 9 (2.49%) Sophos
16 8 (2.21%) Ubiquiti
17 7 (1.93%) iManage