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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 86 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 -26 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 282 262 587
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.53% 3.53% 3.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.57% 20.94% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 244 219 493
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £56,438 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,250 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,875 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +2.62% +7.14% -2.00%

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 2,437 1,251 2,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.22% 16.85% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 782 660 1,653
10th Percentile £25,888 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,913 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,950 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -2 150 £43,500 -15.12% 72
Yorkshire -48 96 £48,445 +8.38% 32
North East -31 36 £45,000 +20.00% 21
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 53 (18.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (15.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.06%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.84%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 135 (47.87%) Azure
2 125 (44.33%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (30.50%) Entra ID
4 59 (20.92%) AWS
5 26 (9.22%) GitHub
6 25 (8.87%) GCP
7 24 (8.51%) Microsoft Purview
8 21 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.26%) OCI
10 11 (3.90%) SaaS
11 10 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (3.55%) IaaS
12 7 (2.48%) Google Workspace
12 7 (2.48%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.48%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.77%) Intacct
14 4 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 95 (33.69%) VPN
2 82 (29.08%) DNS
3 80 (28.37%) WAN
4 73 (25.89%) VLAN
5 68 (24.11%) LAN
6 61 (21.63%) DHCP
7 53 (18.79%) TCP/IP
8 42 (14.89%) Network Security
9 37 (13.12%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (9.57%) Wireless
11 24 (8.51%) SD-WAN
12 20 (7.09%) VoIP
13 19 (6.74%) HTTP
14 15 (5.32%) NGFW
14 15 (5.32%) Wireshark
15 14 (4.96%) BGP
16 13 (4.61%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (4.61%) OSPF
16 13 (4.61%) VXLAN
17 10 (3.55%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.06%) MySQL
4 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) GIS
5 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.09%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Git
General
1 120 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (11.35%) Law
4 20 (7.09%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.09%) Telecoms
5 18 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (5.67%) Manufacturing
8 15 (5.32%) Finance
9 11 (3.90%) Retail
10 8 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Advertising
11 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.42%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.35%) Electronics
14 1 (0.35%) German Language
14 1 (0.35%) Marketing
14 1 (0.35%) Military
14 1 (0.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 70 (24.82%) IT Support
2 69 (24.47%) Support Engineer
3 63 (22.34%) IT Engineer
4 54 (19.15%) IT Support Engineer
5 42 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 41 (14.54%) Senior
7 36 (12.77%) Network Engineer
8 25 (8.87%) Lead
9 21 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (7.45%) LAN Engineer
10 20 (7.09%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (6.74%) Cisco Engineer
12 18 (6.38%) Firewall Engineer
12 18 (6.38%) Juniper Engineer
12 18 (6.38%) LAN/WAN Engineer
12 18 (6.38%) Presales Engineer
12 18 (6.38%) Senior Network Engineer
12 18 (6.38%) WAN Engineer
13 15 (5.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 14 (4.96%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.77%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.71%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.71%) Middleware
5 1 (0.35%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.35%) Ajax
5 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.35%) boto
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) Flask
5 1 (0.35%) HTML
5 1 (0.35%) Jinja
5 1 (0.35%) jQuery
5 1 (0.35%) Node.js
5 1 (0.35%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.12%) Driving Licence
2 31 (10.99%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.45%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.26%) PKI
6 10 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.42%) CCTV
9 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) FMCG
10 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Social Media
11 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.71%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 119 (42.20%) Windows
2 91 (32.27%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.87%) Linux
3 25 (8.87%) Windows 10
4 11 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.48%) Debian
6 7 (2.48%) Windows 7
6 7 (2.48%) Windows 8
7 6 (2.13%) Android
7 6 (2.13%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.42%) VMS
9 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.62%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (24.82%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (18.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 46 (16.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (16.31%) Customer Service
5 39 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (13.83%) Mentoring
6 37 (13.12%) Incident Response
7 36 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (11.35%) SIEM
9 30 (10.64%) CI/CD
9 30 (10.64%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 29 (10.28%) High Availability
11 28 (9.93%) Business Continuity
11 28 (9.93%) ITIL
12 27 (9.57%) Decision-Making
13 26 (9.22%) Load Balancing
14 25 (8.87%) DevOps
14 25 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (8.51%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 57 (20.21%) Python
2 33 (11.70%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.51%) Bash
4 18 (6.38%) Go
5 15 (5.32%) SQL
6 8 (2.84%) Bicep
7 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (18.09%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (12.41%) Degree
3 32 (11.35%) CCNA
4 23 (8.16%) CCNP
5 18 (6.38%) JNCIA
6 16 (5.67%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.55%) CCIE
7 10 (3.55%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.55%) Security Cleared
8 9 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.84%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (2.48%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.42%) CISSP
13 3 (1.06%) CEH
13 3 (1.06%) MCSA
14 2 (0.71%) CISM
14 2 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 41 (14.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (10.99%) GDPR
4 29 (10.28%) NIST
5 8 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.84%) PMO
6 7 (2.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (39.01%) Active Directory
2 44 (15.60%) Hyper-V
2 44 (15.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.84%) ProxySG
3 8 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.48%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (1.42%) Docker
5 4 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.71%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Firmware
7 1 (0.35%) XenApp
7 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (20.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (15.60%) Terraform
3 34 (12.06%) Ansible
4 20 (7.09%) Grafana
5 19 (6.74%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.32%) FortiGate
7 10 (3.55%) Autotask
8 8 (2.84%) Kubernetes
8 8 (2.84%) SCCM
9 3 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.35%) Nagios
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 154 (54.61%) Microsoft
2 69 (24.47%) Cisco
3 53 (18.79%) VMware
4 36 (12.77%) Fortinet
5 35 (12.41%) Aruba
6 27 (9.57%) Juniper
7 14 (4.96%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.26%) Arista
8 12 (4.26%) NetScout
9 10 (3.55%) Google
9 10 (3.55%) Veeam
10 9 (3.19%) F5
10 9 (3.19%) Meraki
10 9 (3.19%) SolarWinds
11 8 (2.84%) Blue Coat
11 8 (2.84%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.84%) Motorola
11 8 (2.84%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.84%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.84%) Ubiquiti