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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 100 70
Rank change year-on-year +8 -30 -1
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 351 318 554
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.68% 3.38% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.10% 17.34% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 314 209 460
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,725
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -6.84%

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 1,249 1,834 1,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.99% 19.49% 10.91%
Number of salaries quoted 876 834 1,555
10th Percentile £27,081 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,461
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.22% -8.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £60,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
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 15 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 15 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 +43 189 £42,000 +9.09% 57
Yorkshire -43 122 £45,000 +12.50% 39
North East -44 40 £45,000 +27.30% 16
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 69 (19.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (17.66%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.42%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 173 (49.29%) Microsoft 365
2 165 (47.01%) Azure
3 103 (29.34%) Entra ID
4 71 (20.23%) AWS
5 24 (6.84%) Microsoft Purview
6 22 (6.27%) GitHub
7 21 (5.98%) GCP
8 19 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (4.27%) Power Platform
10 12 (3.42%) Google Workspace
10 12 (3.42%) SaaS
11 11 (3.13%) IaaS
12 10 (2.85%) Mimecast
13 9 (2.56%) OCI
13 9 (2.56%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 4 (1.14%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 108 (30.77%) DNS
2 101 (28.77%) VPN
3 84 (23.93%) WAN
4 83 (23.65%) DHCP
5 79 (22.51%) TCP/IP
6 76 (21.65%) VLAN
7 68 (19.37%) LAN
8 56 (15.95%) Network Security
9 53 (15.10%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (11.40%) SD-WAN
11 39 (11.11%) VoIP
12 34 (9.69%) Wireless
13 24 (6.84%) BGP
14 20 (5.70%) NGFW
14 20 (5.70%) OSPF
15 16 (4.56%) VXLAN
16 13 (3.70%) HTTP
16 13 (3.70%) Wireshark
17 12 (3.42%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (3.42%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.57%) GIS
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.28%) MySQL
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.42%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.57%) Git
3 2 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 161 (45.87%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.41%) Law
4 21 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
4 21 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.56%) Telecoms
6 15 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.99%) Finance
8 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.14%) Retail
9 4 (1.14%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.85%) Advertising
10 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.28%) German Language
11 1 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 82 (23.36%) IT Support
2 72 (20.51%) Support Engineer
3 59 (16.81%) IT Engineer
4 54 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 50 (14.25%) Network Engineer
6 48 (13.68%) IT Support Engineer
7 46 (13.11%) Senior
8 26 (7.41%) Security Engineer
9 23 (6.55%) Analyst
9 23 (6.55%) Lead
10 22 (6.27%) IT Technician
11 20 (5.70%) 2nd Line Support
11 20 (5.70%) IT Support Technician
11 20 (5.70%) Support Technician
12 18 (5.13%) Infrastructure Support
13 17 (4.84%) IT Manager
14 16 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.56%) Consultant
14 16 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.56%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.28%) Middleware
3 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.42%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.57%) .NET
5 2 (0.57%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.57%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.57%) Ajax
5 2 (0.57%) boto
5 2 (0.57%) CSS
5 2 (0.57%) Flask
5 2 (0.57%) HTML
5 2 (0.57%) Jinja
5 2 (0.57%) jQuery
5 2 (0.57%) Node.js
5 2 (0.57%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.57%) SAML
5 2 (0.57%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.52%) Driving Licence
2 42 (11.97%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.56%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.27%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.56%) CCTV
8 9 (2.56%) PKI
9 7 (1.99%) Life Science
9 7 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.71%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.85%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.85%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 161 (45.87%) Windows
2 115 (32.76%) Windows Server
3 35 (9.97%) Windows 10
4 31 (8.83%) Linux
5 16 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (3.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.42%) Android
8 11 (3.13%) Apple iOS
8 11 (3.13%) Mac OS
9 10 (2.85%) Debian
9 10 (2.85%) VMS
10 7 (1.99%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.99%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.99%) 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
1 122 (34.76%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (23.93%) Cybersecurity
3 83 (23.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 69 (19.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 62 (17.66%) Customer Service
6 59 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (13.11%) Mentoring
8 41 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (11.68%) Service Delivery
9 39 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (10.83%) Business Continuity
10 38 (10.83%) Incident Response
10 38 (10.83%) ITIL
11 35 (9.97%) High Availability
12 34 (9.69%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 32 (9.12%) DevOps
13 32 (9.12%) SIEM
14 31 (8.83%) Migration
15 29 (8.26%) CI/CD
16 28 (7.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.95%) Python
2 50 (14.25%) PowerShell
3 27 (7.69%) SQL
4 20 (5.70%) Bash
5 12 (3.42%) Go
6 11 (3.13%) Bicep
7 4 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (12.54%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (9.40%) Degree
3 26 (7.41%) CCNA
4 24 (6.84%) CCNP
5 23 (6.55%) Azure Certification
5 23 (6.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.42%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.42%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.56%) CCIE
7 9 (2.56%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.85%) CISSP
10 3 (0.85%) MCSA
11 2 (0.57%) CEH
11 2 (0.57%) CISM
11 2 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (13.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (8.55%) NIST
4 28 (7.98%) GDPR
5 9 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.28%) SLA
7 4 (1.14%) PMO
8 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 130 (37.04%) Active Directory
2 69 (19.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (15.38%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.99%) VMware Workstation
4 7 (1.99%) vSphere
5 6 (1.71%) Docker
6 4 (1.14%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.85%) iptables
7 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.57%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.28%) KVM
9 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 69 (19.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (13.11%) Terraform
3 34 (9.69%) Ansible
4 20 (5.70%) FortiGate
5 14 (3.99%) Kubernetes
6 13 (3.70%) Grafana
7 12 (3.42%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.85%) Autotask
9 9 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (2.28%) SCCM
11 4 (1.14%) Puppet
12 3 (0.85%) cPanel
12 3 (0.85%) Plesk
12 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.57%) Nessus
13 2 (0.57%) Proxmox
14 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 211 (60.11%) Microsoft
2 80 (22.79%) VMware
3 75 (21.37%) Cisco
4 24 (6.84%) Fortinet
5 21 (5.98%) Juniper
5 21 (5.98%) Veeam
6 20 (5.70%) Palo Alto
7 19 (5.41%) Google
8 18 (5.13%) Aruba
9 16 (4.56%) Meraki
10 14 (3.99%) Arista
10 14 (3.99%) CheckPoint
11 13 (3.70%) SonicWALL
12 10 (2.85%) NetScout
13 9 (2.56%) Apple
13 9 (2.56%) Sophos
14 8 (2.28%) F5
15 7 (1.99%) ESET
15 7 (1.99%) iManage
15 7 (1.99%) Ubiquiti