Firewall Jobs in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 69 72
Rank change year-on-year -54 +3 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 316 615 701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.61% 2.99% 4.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.10% 27.02% 22.63%
Number of salaries quoted 201 492 474
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £33,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,586
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.43% +9.39%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £75,921
England median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%

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 2,848 2,276 3,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.53% 11.07% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,289 1,682 1,169
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £27,600
25th Percentile - £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £43,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.33% -5.43% -3.16%
75th Percentile £38,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 June 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 22 June 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 -6 160 £40,000 -13.51% 196
North West -74 130 £41,250 -17.50% 261
North East +5 26 £35,349 -11.63% 47
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (14.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (7.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.95%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) IIS
4 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 115 (36.39%) Azure
2 96 (30.38%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (12.34%) Entra ID
4 34 (10.76%) AWS
5 11 (3.48%) GCP
6 10 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (2.53%) SaaS
8 6 (1.90%) Nutanix
8 6 (1.90%) OCI
8 6 (1.90%) PaaS
9 5 (1.58%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (1.58%) IaaS
10 4 (1.27%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.27%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.27%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.63%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 79 (25.00%) WAN
2 78 (24.68%) VPN
3 69 (21.84%) LAN
4 64 (20.25%) DNS
5 49 (15.51%) Network Security
6 44 (13.92%) TCP/IP
7 38 (12.03%) DHCP
8 34 (10.76%) VLAN
9 27 (8.54%) Wireless
10 23 (7.28%) VoIP
11 20 (6.33%) Intrusion Detection
11 20 (6.33%) OSPF
12 19 (6.01%) BGP
13 18 (5.70%) SD-WAN
14 14 (4.43%) SAN
15 12 (3.80%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (3.80%) MPLS
16 11 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (3.16%) Cisco Nexus
17 10 (3.16%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.58%) MySQL
3 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
3 4 (1.27%) Power BI
4 2 (0.63%) EDMS
4 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.32%) Big Data
5 1 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.16%) JIRA
2 9 (2.85%) Git
3 8 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (43.67%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.91%) Manufacturing
4 20 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (4.43%) Finance
6 13 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.53%) Retail
10 4 (1.27%) Automotive
11 3 (0.95%) Legal
11 3 (0.95%) Local Government
11 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.63%) Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Marketing
12 2 (0.63%) Police
13 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (18.04%) IT Engineer
2 43 (13.61%) Network Engineer
3 41 (12.97%) Technical Support
4 40 (12.66%) Architect
5 32 (10.13%) IT Support
6 30 (9.49%) Support Engineer
7 28 (8.86%) Junior
8 26 (8.23%) Technical Engineer
9 25 (7.91%) Technical Support Engineer
10 24 (7.59%) Analyst
11 22 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (6.33%) Junior Architect
12 20 (6.33%) Junior Solutions Architect
13 19 (6.01%) Instrumentation Engineer
14 18 (5.70%) Security Engineer
14 18 (5.70%) Senior
15 16 (5.06%) Support Analyst
16 14 (4.43%) Lead
17 13 (4.11%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.90%) LDAP
2 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.63%) Middleware
2 2 (0.63%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.32%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 58 (18.35%) Operational Technology
2 22 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.06%) Driving Licence
4 15 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.85%) FMCG
8 8 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.22%) Clustering
9 7 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.90%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.90%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.90%) Social Media
10 6 (1.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.58%) EPoS
11 5 (1.58%) NHS
12 4 (1.27%) Anti-Spyware
13 3 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.95%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 180 (56.96%) Windows
2 71 (22.47%) Windows Server
3 35 (11.08%) Linux
4 18 (5.70%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (2.53%) Android
8 7 (2.22%) Unix
9 6 (1.90%) Windows Vista
10 5 (1.58%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.95%) VMS
12 2 (0.63%) Debian
12 2 (0.63%) Solaris
13 1 (0.32%) CentOS
13 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.54%) Cybersecurity
2 93 (29.43%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (20.57%) Network Design
4 62 (19.62%) Network Management
5 39 (12.34%) Customer Service
6 28 (8.86%) SIEM
7 26 (8.23%) Incident Response
8 25 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (7.91%) Presales
9 24 (7.59%) ITIL
9 24 (7.59%) Mentoring
9 24 (7.59%) Vulnerability Management
10 22 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (6.65%) Incident Management
11 21 (6.65%) Information Security
12 20 (6.33%) Security Architecture
13 18 (5.70%) Migration
13 18 (5.70%) Penetration Testing
14 17 (5.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 38 (12.03%) SQL
2 29 (9.18%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.70%) Python
4 6 (1.90%) Bicep
5 4 (1.27%) Bash
6 3 (0.95%) Progress 4GL
7 2 (0.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 56 (17.72%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (13.61%) CCNA
3 28 (8.86%) JNCIA
4 19 (6.01%) CCNP
5 18 (5.70%) Degree
5 18 (5.70%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.70%) Security Cleared
6 15 (4.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.11%) CISSP
8 12 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.16%) CEH
9 10 (3.16%) CISM
9 10 (3.16%) DBS Check
9 10 (3.16%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (2.22%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.90%) CISA
11 6 (1.90%) JNCIS
11 6 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.90%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.59%) GDPR
3 23 (7.28%) NIST
4 8 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.95%) ISO 14001
6 3 (0.95%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.95%) NCSC
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
7 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 148 (46.84%) Active Directory
2 63 (19.94%) Hyper-V
3 58 (18.35%) Virtual Servers
4 54 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (6.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.95%) NFS
6 3 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.95%) vSphere
7 2 (0.63%) Firmware
7 2 (0.63%) KVM
7 2 (0.63%) pfSense
7 2 (0.63%) SRDF
7 2 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.63%) Xen
8 1 (0.32%) Docker
8 1 (0.32%) RHEV
8 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.32%) XenApp
8 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (9.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.65%) Ansible
3 16 (5.06%) FortiGate
4 13 (4.11%) Kubernetes
5 11 (3.48%) Terraform
6 8 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.22%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.58%) SCCM
8 5 (1.58%) WSUS
9 3 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.63%) Puppet
11 1 (0.32%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.32%) cPanel
11 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.32%) Grafana
11 1 (0.32%) Istio
11 1 (0.32%) Nessus
11 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 125 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 105 (33.23%) Cisco
3 63 (19.94%) VMware
4 44 (13.92%) Fortinet
5 33 (10.44%) Palo Alto
6 27 (8.54%) Juniper
7 26 (8.23%) Aruba
8 20 (6.33%) Meraki
9 19 (6.01%) Veeam
10 18 (5.70%) SonicWALL
11 14 (4.43%) WatchGuard
12 13 (4.11%) CheckPoint
13 11 (3.48%) Ubiquiti
14 9 (2.85%) Sophos
15 8 (2.53%) Citrix
16 6 (1.90%) Arista
16 6 (1.90%) ESET
16 6 (1.90%) ServiceNow
17 5 (1.58%) Draytek
17 5 (1.58%) MobileIron