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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 101 75
Rank change year-on-year -23 -26 -13
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 299 293 353
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.30% 3.13% 2.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.54% 15.96% 27.34%
Number of salaries quoted 250 199 253
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £29,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -23.16% -1.82%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,750 £62,200 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -3.05%

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 1,388 1,836 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.01% 19.63% 9.03%
Number of salaries quoted 895 843 835
10th Percentile £27,250 £24,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £25,087 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £30,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.15% -32.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £43,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,650 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -3.85%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +47 167 £42,500 +13.33% 66
Yorkshire -58 107 £42,500 +18.88% 33
North East -65 25 £42,500 +28.02% 20
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 54 (18.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 54 (18.06%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.35%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 160 (53.51%) Microsoft 365
2 129 (43.14%) Azure
3 75 (25.08%) Entra ID
4 50 (16.72%) AWS
5 15 (5.02%) GCP
5 15 (5.02%) Power Platform
6 10 (3.34%) Mimecast
6 10 (3.34%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.68%) SaaS
8 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.34%) GitHub
8 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (1.67%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.34%) IaaS
10 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.34%) PaaS
11 3 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 98 (32.78%) VPN
2 95 (31.77%) DNS
3 83 (27.76%) DHCP
4 72 (24.08%) WAN
5 70 (23.41%) TCP/IP
6 63 (21.07%) LAN
7 59 (19.73%) VLAN
8 54 (18.06%) Wi-Fi
9 50 (16.72%) Network Security
10 41 (13.71%) VoIP
11 33 (11.04%) Wireless
12 31 (10.37%) SD-WAN
13 26 (8.70%) BGP
14 22 (7.36%) OSPF
15 13 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
16 11 (3.68%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (3.68%) Cisco Firepower
16 11 (3.68%) Cisco Nexus
16 11 (3.68%) NGFW
16 11 (3.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.67%) GIS
5 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.33%) GitLab
2 1 (0.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 117 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.68%) Law
3 11 (3.68%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (3.34%) Finance
5 9 (3.01%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.34%) Advertising
8 4 (1.34%) Social Housing
8 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (0.67%) Retail
11 1 (0.33%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 70 (23.41%) IT Support
2 60 (20.07%) Support Engineer
3 53 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 51 (17.06%) Network Engineer
5 50 (16.72%) IT Engineer
6 41 (13.71%) IT Support Engineer
6 41 (13.71%) Senior
7 27 (9.03%) Security Engineer
8 26 (8.70%) Analyst
9 20 (6.69%) 2nd Line Support
10 18 (6.02%) IT Technician
11 17 (5.69%) IT Manager
12 16 (5.35%) Consultant
12 16 (5.35%) Support Technician
13 14 (4.68%) IT Support Technician
13 14 (4.68%) Support Analyst
14 13 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
15 12 (4.01%) Senior Network Engineer
16 11 (3.68%) Architect
16 11 (3.68%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.36%) Terraform
2 8 (2.68%) Middleware
3 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (1.34%) React
5 3 (1.00%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.67%) .NET
6 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.67%) Ajax
6 2 (0.67%) boto
6 2 (0.67%) CSS
6 2 (0.67%) Flask
6 2 (0.67%) HTML
6 2 (0.67%) Jinja
6 2 (0.67%) jQuery
6 2 (0.67%) Node.js
6 2 (0.67%) OpenLayers
6 2 (0.67%) SAML
6 2 (0.67%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.39%) Driving Licence
2 32 (10.70%) Data Centre
3 20 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.69%) CCTV
4 17 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.68%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.68%) Life Science
6 8 (2.68%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Licensing
9 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) SCADA
9 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.34%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.00%) FMCG
11 3 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 153 (51.17%) Windows
2 116 (38.80%) Windows Server
3 23 (7.69%) Linux
4 21 (7.02%) Windows 10
5 15 (5.02%) Android
6 14 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (4.01%) VMS
8 11 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 8 (2.68%) Apple iOS
10 7 (2.34%) Mac OS
11 6 (2.01%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.00%) Debian
13 1 (0.33%) CentOS
13 1 (0.33%) Solaris
13 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (35.79%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (28.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 68 (22.74%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (21.40%) Disaster Recovery
5 47 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (15.38%) Customer Service
7 34 (11.37%) Mentoring
8 33 (11.04%) Service Delivery
9 32 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (10.70%) Migration
10 28 (9.36%) ITIL
11 22 (7.36%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 21 (7.02%) Vulnerability Management
13 20 (6.69%) Business Continuity
13 20 (6.69%) Change Management
13 20 (6.69%) DevOps
13 20 (6.69%) High Availability
14 19 (6.35%) Project Delivery
14 19 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (16.72%) PowerShell
2 34 (11.37%) Python
3 23 (7.69%) SQL
4 11 (3.68%) Bicep
5 4 (1.34%) Go
5 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.67%) Bash
7 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (8.03%) CCNA
3 20 (6.69%) Degree
4 17 (5.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.35%) CCNP
6 14 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 12 (4.01%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.01%) Security Cleared
8 11 (3.68%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (3.01%) DBS Check
10 7 (2.34%) CCIE
11 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.00%) CISSP
13 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (0.67%) CEH
14 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 2 (0.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (10.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (4.01%) NIST
4 9 (3.01%) SLA
5 8 (2.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.34%) GDPR
7 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.67%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 120 (40.13%) Active Directory
2 59 (19.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (19.40%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.01%) vSphere
5 7 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.01%) Docker
7 5 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.00%) iptables
9 2 (0.67%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.33%) Firmware
10 1 (0.33%) KVM
10 1 (0.33%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (21.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (6.69%) FortiGate
3 12 (4.01%) Ansible
4 11 (3.68%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 4 (1.34%) Puppet
8 3 (1.00%) cPanel
8 3 (1.00%) Plesk
8 3 (1.00%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.67%) Nessus
10 1 (0.33%) Grafana
10 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 177 (59.20%) Microsoft
2 72 (24.08%) VMware
3 63 (21.07%) Cisco
4 26 (8.70%) Fortinet
5 25 (8.36%) SonicWALL
6 20 (6.69%) Veeam
7 19 (6.35%) Palo Alto
8 18 (6.02%) Juniper
9 15 (5.02%) Meraki
10 13 (4.35%) Aruba
11 12 (4.01%) Google
12 10 (3.34%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.68%) Apple
14 7 (2.34%) iManage
14 7 (2.34%) Sophos
15 6 (2.01%) F5
16 5 (1.67%) Atlassian
16 5 (1.67%) Draytek
16 5 (1.67%) SolarWinds
16 5 (1.67%) Splunk