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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 97 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 -29 +1
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 318 321 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.50% 3.37% 2.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.30% 17.26% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 274 213 362
10th Percentile £28,325 £28,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -21.05% -2.06%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,525 £73,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -1.93%

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 1,257 1,860 1,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.92% 19.54% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 851 850 1,252
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -27.78% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £61,145
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -4.87%

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 27 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 27 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 +43 179 £42,500 +13.33% 46
Yorkshire -65 102 £40,000 - 33
North East -42 37 £45,000 +35.55% 15
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 66 (20.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (19.18%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.09%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 167 (52.52%) Microsoft 365
2 152 (47.80%) Azure
3 84 (26.42%) Entra ID
4 63 (19.81%) AWS
5 22 (6.92%) GCP
6 20 (6.29%) GitHub
7 17 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.46%) SaaS
10 10 (3.14%) Google Workspace
10 10 (3.14%) IaaS
10 10 (3.14%) Mimecast
11 9 (2.83%) OneDrive
12 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 99 (31.13%) DNS
2 94 (29.56%) VPN
3 80 (25.16%) WAN
4 79 (24.84%) TCP/IP
5 77 (24.21%) DHCP
6 68 (21.38%) VLAN
7 66 (20.75%) LAN
8 56 (17.61%) Network Security
9 43 (13.52%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (12.58%) VoIP
11 36 (11.32%) SD-WAN
12 35 (11.01%) Wireless
13 25 (7.86%) BGP
14 21 (6.60%) OSPF
15 12 (3.77%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (3.77%) HTTP
15 12 (3.77%) NGFW
16 11 (3.46%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (3.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.63%) GIS
5 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.31%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (3.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.63%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
General
1 138 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 26 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (6.60%) Law
4 17 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.09%) Finance
7 12 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.26%) Advertising
9 4 (1.26%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.94%) Legal
10 3 (0.94%) Retail
11 1 (0.31%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.31%) German Language
11 1 (0.31%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (23.58%) IT Support
2 66 (20.75%) Support Engineer
3 53 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 53 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 51 (16.04%) IT Engineer
5 44 (13.84%) Senior
6 42 (13.21%) IT Support Engineer
7 26 (8.18%) Security Engineer
8 24 (7.55%) Analyst
9 22 (6.92%) IT Technician
10 19 (5.97%) IT Support Technician
10 19 (5.97%) Support Technician
11 17 (5.35%) IT Manager
12 16 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support
12 16 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (5.03%) Consultant
12 16 (5.03%) Infrastructure Support
13 14 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.40%) Senior Network Engineer
13 14 (4.40%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.52%) Middleware
3 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.26%) FreeSWITCH
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%) React
5 2 (0.63%) SAML
5 2 (0.63%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.31%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.41%) Driving Licence
2 33 (10.38%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.35%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.03%) Security Posture
5 16 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.46%) CCTV
7 8 (2.52%) Life Science
7 8 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.94%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (0.94%) Cyberattack
11 3 (0.94%) FMCG
11 3 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 156 (49.06%) Windows
2 114 (35.85%) Windows Server
3 33 (10.38%) Linux
4 29 (9.12%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.46%) VMS
8 10 (3.14%) Android
8 10 (3.14%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.83%) Debian
10 8 (2.52%) Apple iOS
10 8 (2.52%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.57%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.57%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.31%) CentOS
12 1 (0.31%) Solaris
12 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (34.28%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (23.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 66 (20.75%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (20.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 56 (17.61%) Customer Service
6 44 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (12.26%) Mentoring
9 37 (11.64%) Service Delivery
10 35 (11.01%) ITIL
11 34 (10.69%) High Availability
12 32 (10.06%) Migration
13 30 (9.43%) DevOps
13 30 (9.43%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 27 (8.49%) CI/CD
15 21 (6.60%) Business Continuity
16 20 (6.29%) Load Balancing
16 20 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (6.29%) Time Management
17 19 (5.97%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.41%) PowerShell
2 48 (15.09%) Python
3 26 (8.18%) SQL
4 17 (5.35%) Bash
5 12 (3.77%) Go
6 11 (3.46%) Bicep
7 4 (1.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.94%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (13.52%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (9.43%) Degree
3 24 (7.55%) CCNA
4 22 (6.92%) Azure Certification
4 22 (6.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (6.60%) CCNP
6 13 (4.09%) Network+ Certification
6 13 (4.09%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.09%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.83%) CCIE
7 9 (2.83%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.94%) CISSP
10 3 (0.94%) MCSA
11 2 (0.63%) CEH
11 2 (0.63%) CISM
11 2 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (9.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (3.77%) NIST
4 10 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (3.14%) GDPR
5 8 (2.52%) SLA
6 4 (1.26%) PMO
7 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 120 (37.74%) Active Directory
2 66 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (16.98%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.52%) vSphere
5 7 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.89%) Docker
7 5 (1.57%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (1.26%) ProxySG
9 3 (0.94%) iptables
9 3 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.63%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) KVM
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 70 (22.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (11.64%) Terraform
3 25 (7.86%) Ansible
4 21 (6.60%) FortiGate
5 14 (4.40%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.46%) Grafana
7 10 (3.14%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.83%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (2.52%) Autotask
10 6 (1.89%) SCCM
11 4 (1.26%) Puppet
11 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.94%) cPanel
12 3 (0.94%) Plesk
12 3 (0.94%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.63%) Nessus
14 1 (0.31%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 185 (58.18%) Microsoft
2 77 (24.21%) VMware
3 71 (22.33%) Cisco
4 22 (6.92%) Fortinet
5 20 (6.29%) Palo Alto
5 20 (6.29%) Veeam
6 18 (5.66%) Juniper
7 17 (5.35%) Google
8 15 (4.72%) Meraki
9 14 (4.40%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.40%) SonicWALL
10 10 (3.14%) Aruba
11 9 (2.83%) Apple
11 9 (2.83%) Sophos
12 8 (2.52%) F5
13 7 (2.20%) iManage
13 7 (2.20%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.89%) Arista
14 6 (1.89%) Ubiquiti
15 5 (1.57%) Okta