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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 61 55
Rank change year-on-year -36 -6 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 211 359 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.00% 3.70% 5.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.86% 35.65% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 197 225 313
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £60,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £45,285 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +0.95% -

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 2,683 1,007 1,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.38% 10.38% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 834 570 895
10th Percentile - £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £34,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,625 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire -30 94 £32,500 -35.00% 34
North West -21 86 £44,000 -7.37% 58
North East -3 31 £31,500 -30.00% 9
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 (31.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (10.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) IIS
3 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (8.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 117 (55.45%) Microsoft 365
2 108 (51.18%) Azure
3 49 (23.22%) Entra ID
4 25 (11.85%) AWS
5 9 (4.27%) GCP
6 8 (3.79%) SaaS
7 7 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.84%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.37%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.37%) IaaS
10 4 (1.90%) GitHub
10 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.90%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.95%) PaaS
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.47%) OCI
12 1 (0.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 72 (34.12%) VLAN
2 71 (33.65%) VPN
3 65 (30.81%) WAN
4 57 (27.01%) LAN
5 55 (26.07%) TCP/IP
6 52 (24.64%) DNS
7 44 (20.85%) DHCP
8 41 (19.43%) VoIP
9 38 (18.01%) Wireless
10 25 (11.85%) Network Security
11 20 (9.48%) BGP
11 20 (9.48%) SAN
12 17 (8.06%) SD-WAN
13 12 (5.69%) OSPF
14 10 (4.74%) Remote Desktop
15 8 (3.79%) MPLS
15 8 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (3.79%) WLAN
16 7 (3.32%) ADSL
16 7 (3.32%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.84%) Power BI
3 5 (2.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.95%) MySQL
5 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.47%) GitLab
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 102 (48.34%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.37%) Manufacturing
3 22 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.95%) Telecoms
5 14 (6.64%) Finance
6 11 (5.21%) Law
7 10 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.27%) Retail
9 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.37%) Advertising
10 5 (2.37%) Legal
11 2 (0.95%) Military
12 1 (0.47%) Electronics
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (27.49%) IT Support
2 57 (27.01%) Support Engineer
3 35 (16.59%) IT Engineer
4 32 (15.17%) Technical Support
5 30 (14.22%) IT Support Engineer
6 29 (13.74%) Technical Engineer
7 28 (13.27%) Support Technician
8 27 (12.80%) Analyst
9 26 (12.32%) Technical Support Engineer
10 22 (10.43%) Senior
11 19 (9.00%) 2nd Line Support
11 19 (9.00%) Support Analyst
12 15 (7.11%) 3rd Line Support
13 14 (6.64%) IT Manager
13 14 (6.64%) Network Engineer
14 13 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (5.21%) Firewall Engineer
16 10 (4.74%) 2nd Line Support Technician
16 10 (4.74%) IT Technician
16 10 (4.74%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.84%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.90%) Data Centre
2 22 (10.43%) Driving Licence
3 15 (7.11%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.16%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.21%) Clustering
6 9 (4.27%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.32%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.84%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.84%) Handset
10 5 (2.37%) FMCG
11 3 (1.42%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.47%) Educational Technology
13 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.47%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 108 (51.18%) Windows
2 83 (39.34%) Windows Server
3 30 (14.22%) Linux
4 20 (9.48%) Windows 10
5 15 (7.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.84%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.90%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.90%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.95%) CentOS
8 2 (0.95%) Check Point GAiA
9 1 (0.47%) Android
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.54%) Customer Service
2 49 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (18.96%) ITIL
4 33 (15.64%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (10.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (9.00%) Project Delivery
9 17 (8.06%) DevOps
9 17 (8.06%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 16 (7.58%) Agile
11 15 (7.11%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (6.64%) CI/CD
12 14 (6.64%) Incident Response
12 14 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.16%) Network Management
14 12 (5.69%) Service Delivery
14 12 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (5.21%) Computer Science
15 11 (5.21%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (9.48%) PowerShell
2 17 (8.06%) Python
3 13 (6.16%) Bash
4 10 (4.74%) SQL
5 4 (1.90%) Bicep
5 4 (1.90%) Go
5 4 (1.90%) VBA
6 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 48 (22.75%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (14.22%) CCNA
3 25 (11.85%) Degree
4 15 (7.11%) CCNP
5 13 (6.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.74%) CISSP
6 10 (4.74%) JNCIA
7 9 (4.27%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (3.79%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.79%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.32%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.32%) Security Cleared
10 6 (2.84%) CCIE
11 5 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.42%) CISM
14 2 (0.95%) CCSE
14 2 (0.95%) CISMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (2.84%) GDPR
4 5 (2.37%) NIST
5 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.42%) GRC
5 3 (1.42%) NCSC
6 2 (0.95%) PMO
6 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 106 (50.24%) Active Directory
2 74 (35.07%) Hyper-V
3 40 (18.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.90%) Docker
5 3 (1.42%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.95%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.95%) vSphere
7 1 (0.47%) Firmware
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 58 (27.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (8.06%) FortiGate
3 14 (6.64%) Terraform
4 9 (4.27%) Autotask
5 7 (3.32%) Ansible
6 6 (2.84%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.37%) Grafana
7 5 (2.37%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.42%) SCCM
9 2 (0.95%) Plesk
10 1 (0.47%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.47%) Kibana
10 1 (0.47%) Nagios
10 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 122 (57.82%) Microsoft
2 63 (29.86%) Cisco
3 53 (25.12%) VMware
4 31 (14.69%) SonicWALL
5 25 (11.85%) Fortinet
6 22 (10.43%) Aruba
7 18 (8.53%) Veeam
8 15 (7.11%) Meraki
9 13 (6.16%) HP
9 13 (6.16%) Palo Alto
9 13 (6.16%) Sage
10 12 (5.69%) Citrix
10 12 (5.69%) Juniper
11 11 (5.21%) Apple
11 11 (5.21%) Dell
11 11 (5.21%) Supermicro
11 11 (5.21%) WatchGuard
12 8 (3.79%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.79%) Huawei
13 7 (3.32%) Polycom