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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 55 56
Rank change year-on-year -42 +1 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 280 280 597
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.79% 4.39% 3.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.18% 34.06% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 249 239 509
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,750 £26,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.16% -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 2,750 822 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.58% 12.89% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 796 656 1,612
10th Percentile £25,242 £25,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,443 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -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 April 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 April 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 -36 135 £42,750 -14.50% 67
Yorkshire -47 104 £45,000 - 27
North East -5 41 £45,000 +20.00% 12
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 63 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (13.93%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 29 (10.36%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 139 (49.64%) Azure
2 128 (45.71%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 56 (20.00%) AWS
5 25 (8.93%) GCP
5 25 (8.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 23 (8.21%) GitHub
7 20 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.29%) OCI
10 11 (3.93%) Google Workspace
10 11 (3.93%) SaaS
11 10 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.86%) IaaS
13 7 (2.50%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.79%) Intacct
15 4 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Copilot
16 3 (1.07%) Power Automate
16 3 (1.07%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 91 (32.50%) VPN
2 80 (28.57%) WAN
3 75 (26.79%) DNS
4 73 (26.07%) VLAN
5 67 (23.93%) LAN
6 63 (22.50%) TCP/IP
7 55 (19.64%) DHCP
8 35 (12.50%) Network Security
9 31 (11.07%) Wireless
10 27 (9.64%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (6.79%) SD-WAN
12 18 (6.43%) HTTP
12 18 (6.43%) VoIP
13 14 (5.00%) BGP
14 13 (4.64%) OSPF
14 13 (4.64%) VXLAN
14 13 (4.64%) Wireshark
15 12 (4.29%) NGFW
16 10 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (3.21%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.79%) MySQL
3 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.07%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 126 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (12.50%) Law
4 23 (8.21%) Telecoms
5 21 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.79%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (6.43%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.93%) Retail
10 10 (3.57%) Finance
11 8 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.79%) Advertising
13 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.07%) Legal
14 2 (0.71%) Military
14 2 (0.71%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.36%) German Language
15 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.36%) Marketing
15 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 78 (27.86%) IT Support
2 73 (26.07%) Support Engineer
3 62 (22.14%) IT Engineer
4 53 (18.93%) IT Support Engineer
5 34 (12.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (10.71%) Senior
7 28 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 28 (10.00%) Network Engineer
8 25 (8.93%) Lead
9 21 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
10 20 (7.14%) Support Technician
11 19 (6.79%) Firewall Engineer
11 19 (6.79%) Juniper Engineer
11 19 (6.79%) LAN Engineer
11 19 (6.79%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 19 (6.79%) Presales Engineer
11 19 (6.79%) WAN Engineer
12 15 (5.36%) IT Support Technician
12 15 (5.36%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.79%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.71%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 30 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
4 18 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.29%) PKI
7 11 (3.93%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.21%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) CCTV
10 4 (1.43%) Social Media
11 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.07%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.07%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.07%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.71%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 128 (45.71%) Windows
2 108 (38.57%) Windows Server
3 34 (12.14%) Windows 10
4 32 (11.43%) Linux
5 13 (4.64%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (3.93%) Windows 7
6 11 (3.93%) Windows 8
7 7 (2.50%) Debian
8 6 (2.14%) Android
8 6 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.36%) CentOS
11 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (25.36%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (21.79%) Customer Service
4 53 (18.93%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (14.64%) ITIL
6 40 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 36 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (12.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 34 (12.14%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 30 (10.71%) SIEM
12 29 (10.36%) CI/CD
12 29 (10.36%) High Availability
13 26 (9.29%) Decision-Making
13 26 (9.29%) DevOps
14 25 (8.93%) Business Continuity
14 25 (8.93%) Data Protection
14 25 (8.93%) Load Balancing
14 25 (8.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (18.21%) Python
2 25 (8.93%) Bash
3 23 (8.21%) PowerShell
4 18 (6.43%) Go
5 12 (4.29%) SQL
6 3 (1.07%) Bicep
6 3 (1.07%) VBA
7 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (17.86%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (12.50%) Degree
3 31 (11.07%) CCNA
4 23 (8.21%) CCNP
5 19 (6.79%) JNCIA
6 15 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.64%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.21%) CCIE
10 8 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
10 8 (2.86%) SC Cleared
10 8 (2.86%) Security Cleared
11 6 (2.14%) CISSP
12 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.43%) MCSA
14 3 (1.07%) CEH
14 3 (1.07%) CISM
15 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (15.36%) Cyber Essentials
2 39 (13.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (10.71%) GDPR
4 28 (10.00%) NIST
5 8 (2.86%) PMO
6 7 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.07%) SLA
8 2 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.71%) GRC
8 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 115 (41.07%) Active Directory
2 63 (22.50%) Hyper-V
3 51 (18.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.57%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (2.86%) ProxySG
6 4 (1.43%) Docker
6 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.07%) vSphere
8 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.36%) XenApp
9 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (18.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (15.36%) Terraform
3 34 (12.14%) Ansible
4 20 (7.14%) Grafana
5 19 (6.79%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.36%) FortiGate
7 14 (5.00%) Autotask
8 11 (3.93%) SCCM
9 10 (3.57%) Kubernetes
10 4 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.71%) Plesk
12 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
12 1 (0.36%) Kibana
12 1 (0.36%) Nagios
12 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 159 (56.79%) Microsoft
2 69 (24.64%) Cisco
3 66 (23.57%) VMware
4 36 (12.86%) Aruba
5 33 (11.79%) Fortinet
6 22 (7.86%) Juniper
7 13 (4.64%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.29%) Arista
8 12 (4.29%) Google
8 12 (4.29%) NetScout
8 12 (4.29%) SonicWALL
9 11 (3.93%) ESET
9 11 (3.93%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.57%) F5
11 9 (3.21%) Meraki
11 9 (3.21%) Ubiquiti
11 9 (3.21%) Veeam
12 8 (2.86%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.86%) SolarWinds