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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	120	89	66
Rank change year-on-year	-31	-23	-8
Permanent jobs citing Firewall	298	291	360
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	1.24%	3.19%	2.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	19.50%	19.41%	31.09%
Number of salaries quoted	234	201	201
10^th Percentile	£28,250	£26,250	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£31,000	£28,500	£38,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£40,000	£33,750	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+18.52%	-32.50%	+3.15%
75^th Percentile	£57,500	£50,000	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£70,750	£62,500	£70,000
England median annual salary	£51,500	£45,285	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+13.73%	-13.74%	-3.67%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills	1,528	1,499	1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	6.35%	16.43%	9.05%
Number of salaries quoted	847	835	606
10^th Percentile	£27,250	-	£29,000
25^th Percentile	£30,500	£25,087	£32,813
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£42,500	£30,500	£45,271
Median % change year-on-year	+39.34%	-32.63%	-4.69%
75^th Percentile	£63,750	£45,000	£60,000
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£65,000	£70,000
England median annual salary	£50,000	£40,000	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+25.00%	-23.81%	-

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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 18 October 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 18 October 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	+20	165	£38,750	+0.32%	82
Yorkshire	-51	106	£40,000	+14.29%	35
North East	-78	27	£40,000	+26.98%	18
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Firewall Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Firewall also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region with a requirement for Firewall.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	59.1%	176
2	Microsoft 365	54.4%	162
3	Windows	53.7%	160
4	Active Directory	43.0%	128
5	Windows Server	40.3%	120
6	Azure	38.3%	114
7	Problem-Solving	35.9%	107
8	DNS	31.9%	95
9	Infrastructure Engineering	31.5%	94
9	VPN	31.5%	94
11	Entra ID	27.5%	82
12	DHCP	25.5%	76
13	TCP/IP	23.8%	71
14	VMware	23.5%	70
15	Microsoft Exchange	21.8%	65
16	Cisco	21.1%	63
16	Cybersecurity	21.1%	63
16	Microsoft Intune	21.1%	63
19	Disaster Recovery	20.5%	61
20	VLAN	19.8%	59
21	WAN	19.1%	57
22	Hyper-V	18.5%	55
23	Customer Service	17.8%	53
24	Wi-Fi	17.4%	52
25	VMware Infrastructure	17.1%	51
26	LAN	16.8%	50
27	Network Security	16.4%	49
28	Continuous Improvement	15.8%	47
28	SharePoint	15.8%	47
30	PowerShell	15.4%	46

Firewall Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	31.9%	95
2	VPN	31.5%	94
3	DHCP	25.5%	76
4	TCP/IP	23.8%	71
5	VLAN	19.8%	59
6	WAN	19.1%	57
7	Wi-Fi	17.4%	52
8	LAN	16.8%	50
9	Network Security	16.4%	49
10	VoIP	12.4%	37
11	Wireless	10.7%	32
12	SD-WAN	8.4%	25
13	BGP	7.7%	23
14	OSPF	5.4%	16
15	Structured Cabling	5.0%	15
16	Cisco Firepower	4.4%	13
17	Cisco ASA	3.7%	11
17	NGFW	3.7%	11
17	VXLAN	3.7%	11
20	MPLS	3.4%	10