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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 90 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 -24 +17
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 320 296 592
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 3.63% 3.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.53% 18.23% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 282 184 492
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,563 £32,000 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% -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 1,486 1,624 2,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.51% 19.91% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 830 662 1,673
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £25,775
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £33,875 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.44% -20.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 8 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 8 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 +39 169 £43,500 -8.42% 59
Yorkshire -50 111 £48,445 +13.99% 34
North East -24 40 £45,250 +20.67% 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 68 (21.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (18.13%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.56%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.50%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 149 (46.56%) Azure
2 146 (45.63%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 65 (20.31%) AWS
5 25 (7.81%) GitHub
5 25 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
6 22 (6.88%) GCP
7 21 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.06%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.75%) OCI
11 11 (3.44%) SaaS
12 10 (3.13%) IaaS
13 9 (2.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.81%) Google Workspace
13 9 (2.81%) OneDrive
14 8 (2.50%) Mimecast
15 5 (1.56%) Intacct
15 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 4 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (29.69%) VPN
2 93 (29.06%) DNS
3 89 (27.81%) WAN
4 76 (23.75%) VLAN
5 74 (23.13%) LAN
6 68 (21.25%) DHCP
7 55 (17.19%) Network Security
8 53 (16.56%) TCP/IP
9 47 (14.69%) Wi-Fi
10 33 (10.31%) SD-WAN
11 25 (7.81%) VoIP
12 24 (7.50%) Wireless
13 23 (7.19%) NGFW
14 22 (6.88%) BGP
15 21 (6.56%) OSPF
16 19 (5.94%) VXLAN
17 16 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
17 16 (5.00%) HTTP
18 15 (4.69%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (4.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.94%) MySQL
5 2 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.63%) GIS
6 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (5.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.63%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
General
1 145 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.75%) Law
4 24 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.94%) Finance
5 19 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.94%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.81%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.19%) Retail
9 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.25%) Social Housing
11 3 (0.94%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.94%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Advertising
12 1 (0.31%) Electronics
12 1 (0.31%) German Language
12 1 (0.31%) Marketing
12 1 (0.31%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 72 (22.50%) IT Support
2 66 (20.63%) Support Engineer
3 59 (18.44%) IT Engineer
4 51 (15.94%) Senior
5 50 (15.63%) IT Support Engineer
6 49 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 46 (14.38%) Network Engineer
8 25 (7.81%) Lead
9 23 (7.19%) Senior Network Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) IT Technician
10 18 (5.63%) Security Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) Support Technician
11 17 (5.31%) Infrastructure Support
11 17 (5.31%) IT Support Technician
11 17 (5.31%) LAN Engineer
12 15 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.38%) 2nd Line Support
13 14 (4.38%) Analyst
13 14 (4.38%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (1.56%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (0.94%) Middleware
5 2 (0.63%) .NET
5 2 (0.63%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.63%) Ajax
5 2 (0.63%) boto
5 2 (0.63%) CSS
5 2 (0.63%) Flask
5 2 (0.63%) HTML
5 2 (0.63%) Jinja
5 2 (0.63%) jQuery
5 2 (0.63%) Node.js
5 2 (0.63%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.63%) SAML
5 2 (0.63%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.69%) Data Centre
2 40 (12.50%) Driving Licence
3 21 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.75%) PKI
6 10 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.88%) CCTV
10 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.94%) FMCG
12 3 (0.94%) Life Science
12 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.94%) Social Media
13 2 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.63%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 135 (42.19%) Windows
2 98 (30.63%) Windows Server
3 30 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 25 (7.81%) Linux
5 16 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.81%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.81%) VMS
7 8 (2.50%) Android
7 8 (2.50%) Debian
8 7 (2.19%) Windows 7
8 7 (2.19%) Windows 8
9 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
10 4 (1.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (25.31%) Cybersecurity
3 70 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 55 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (15.94%) Customer Service
7 47 (14.69%) Mentoring
8 40 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (12.19%) Incident Response
10 35 (10.94%) Business Continuity
10 35 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (10.63%) CI/CD
11 34 (10.63%) ITIL
11 34 (10.63%) Load Balancing
12 32 (10.00%) SIEM
13 30 (9.38%) Decision-Making
13 30 (9.38%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 29 (9.06%) DevOps
14 29 (9.06%) High Availability
15 27 (8.44%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.44%) Python
2 44 (13.75%) PowerShell
3 21 (6.56%) Bash
3 21 (6.56%) SQL
4 15 (4.69%) Go
5 9 (2.81%) Bicep
6 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (17.50%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (11.56%) Degree
3 34 (10.63%) CCNA
4 29 (9.06%) CCNP
5 22 (6.88%) Azure Certification
5 22 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.06%) CCIE
6 13 (4.06%) JNCIA
6 13 (4.06%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.06%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.50%) DBS Check
9 7 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.94%) CISSP
11 3 (0.94%) MCSA
12 2 (0.63%) CEH
12 2 (0.63%) CISM
12 2 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (16.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 49 (15.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (10.00%) NIST
4 30 (9.38%) GDPR
5 8 (2.50%) PMO
5 8 (2.50%) SLA
6 7 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 124 (38.75%) Active Directory
2 51 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (12.81%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.50%) ProxySG
6 7 (2.19%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (1.56%) Docker
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.94%) vSphere
10 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) iptables
11 1 (0.31%) MetaFrame
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.31%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.31%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 67 (20.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (13.75%) Terraform
3 32 (10.00%) Ansible
4 20 (6.25%) FortiGate
5 16 (5.00%) Grafana
6 15 (4.69%) Prometheus
7 10 (3.13%) Autotask
8 9 (2.81%) Kubernetes
9 8 (2.50%) SCCM
10 5 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.63%) cPanel
12 2 (0.63%) Plesk
13 1 (0.31%) Nessus
13 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.31%) Puppet
13 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 173 (54.06%) Microsoft
2 77 (24.06%) Cisco
3 61 (19.06%) VMware
4 33 (10.31%) Aruba
4 33 (10.31%) Fortinet
5 30 (9.38%) Juniper
6 17 (5.31%) Palo Alto
6 17 (5.31%) Veeam
7 16 (5.00%) Arista
7 16 (5.00%) CheckPoint
8 13 (4.06%) F5
8 13 (4.06%) Google
9 12 (3.75%) Meraki
9 12 (3.75%) NetScout
10 11 (3.44%) SolarWinds
11 10 (3.13%) SonicWALL
12 8 (2.50%) Blue Coat
12 8 (2.50%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.50%) Motorola
12 8 (2.50%) Ubiquiti