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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 101 60
Rank change year-on-year -6 -41 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 297 283 585
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 3.57% 3.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.67% 18.55% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 261 205 492
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £48,837
% change year-on-year +6.80% +5.45% -2.33%

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 2,173 1,526 2,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.28% 19.27% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 816 642 1,653
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +28 160 £46,500 -11.85% 62
Yorkshire -54 100 £48,445 +12.66% 33
North East -23 37 £45,000 +12.50% 17
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 59 (19.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (16.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.69%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 140 (47.14%) Azure
2 129 (43.43%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (30.30%) Entra ID
4 58 (19.53%) AWS
5 25 (8.42%) GitHub
6 24 (8.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 23 (7.74%) GCP
8 21 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (4.04%) OCI
11 11 (3.70%) Power Platform
12 10 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (3.37%) IaaS
12 10 (3.37%) SaaS
13 7 (2.36%) Google Workspace
13 7 (2.36%) OneDrive
14 5 (1.68%) Intacct
15 4 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.35%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 95 (31.99%) VPN
2 87 (29.29%) WAN
3 85 (28.62%) DNS
4 72 (24.24%) VLAN
5 71 (23.91%) LAN
6 62 (20.88%) DHCP
7 51 (17.17%) TCP/IP
8 50 (16.84%) Network Security
9 39 (13.13%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (10.44%) SD-WAN
11 25 (8.42%) Wireless
12 22 (7.41%) NGFW
13 20 (6.73%) BGP
13 20 (6.73%) VoIP
14 19 (6.40%) OSPF
14 19 (6.40%) VXLAN
15 16 (5.39%) HTTP
16 15 (5.05%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (5.05%) Wireshark
17 14 (4.71%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.01%) MySQL
4 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.67%) GIS
5 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.67%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 131 (44.11%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (9.09%) Law
4 22 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.06%) Finance
6 17 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
6 17 (5.72%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.04%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.03%) Retail
10 8 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.35%) Social Housing
13 3 (1.01%) Advertising
13 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.34%) Electronics
14 1 (0.34%) German Language
14 1 (0.34%) Legal
14 1 (0.34%) Marketing
14 1 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 68 (22.90%) IT Support
2 67 (22.56%) Support Engineer
3 61 (20.54%) IT Engineer
4 52 (17.51%) IT Support Engineer
5 48 (16.16%) Senior
6 45 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 44 (14.81%) Network Engineer
8 25 (8.42%) Lead
9 23 (7.74%) Senior Network Engineer
10 20 (6.73%) LAN Engineer
11 18 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
11 18 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (5.72%) Cisco Engineer
13 16 (5.39%) Firewall Engineer
13 16 (5.39%) Juniper Engineer
13 16 (5.39%) LAN/WAN Engineer
13 16 (5.39%) Presales Engineer
13 16 (5.39%) Support Technician
13 16 (5.39%) WAN Engineer
14 15 (5.05%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (1.68%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (0.67%) .NET
4 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.67%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.67%) Ajax
4 2 (0.67%) boto
4 2 (0.67%) CSS
4 2 (0.67%) Flask
4 2 (0.67%) HTML
4 2 (0.67%) Jinja
4 2 (0.67%) jQuery
4 2 (0.67%) Middleware
4 2 (0.67%) Node.js
4 2 (0.67%) OpenLayers
4 2 (0.67%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.14%) Data Centre
2 37 (12.46%) Driving Licence
3 21 (7.07%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (4.04%) PKI
6 10 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.35%) CCTV
9 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Cyber Security Posture
10 3 (1.01%) FMCG
10 3 (1.01%) Social Media
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.67%) Life Science
11 2 (0.67%) Replication
11 2 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 120 (40.40%) Windows
2 87 (29.29%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.42%) Windows 10
4 24 (8.08%) Linux
5 14 (4.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.36%) Debian
7 7 (2.36%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.36%) Windows 8
8 6 (2.02%) Android
8 6 (2.02%) Mac OS
9 5 (1.68%) VMS
10 4 (1.35%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (31.99%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (24.92%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (20.20%) Disaster Recovery
4 47 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 47 (15.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 47 (15.82%) Mentoring
5 46 (15.49%) Customer Service
6 40 (13.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (11.78%) Incident Response
8 34 (11.45%) CI/CD
9 32 (10.77%) Load Balancing
10 31 (10.44%) Business Continuity
10 31 (10.44%) SIEM
11 29 (9.76%) Decision-Making
11 29 (9.76%) ITIL
11 29 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (9.43%) DevOps
12 28 (9.43%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 27 (9.09%) High Availability
14 25 (8.42%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.53%) Python
2 40 (13.47%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.07%) Bash
4 16 (5.39%) SQL
5 15 (5.05%) Go
6 9 (3.03%) Bicep
7 4 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (12.12%) Degree
3 34 (11.45%) CCNA
4 27 (9.09%) CCNP
5 19 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (5.39%) JNCIA
8 12 (4.04%) CCIE
8 12 (4.04%) SC Cleared
8 12 (4.04%) Security Cleared
9 9 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.69%) DBS Check
10 8 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.02%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.01%) CISSP
12 3 (1.01%) MCSA
13 2 (0.67%) CEH
13 2 (0.67%) CISM
13 2 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 43 (14.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (10.44%) NIST
4 30 (10.10%) GDPR
5 8 (2.69%) PMO
6 7 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.36%) SLA
7 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 115 (38.72%) Active Directory
2 44 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (13.13%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.69%) ProxySG
4 8 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.36%) VMware Workstation
6 5 (1.68%) Docker
7 4 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.67%) vSphere
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
10 1 (0.34%) XenApp
10 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (21.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (14.81%) Terraform
3 31 (10.44%) Ansible
4 17 (5.72%) FortiGate
4 17 (5.72%) Grafana
5 16 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.37%) Autotask
7 9 (3.03%) Kubernetes
8 8 (2.69%) SCCM
9 3 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.34%) Nagios
11 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 157 (52.86%) Microsoft
2 74 (24.92%) Cisco
3 53 (17.85%) VMware
4 36 (12.12%) Fortinet
5 35 (11.78%) Aruba
6 30 (10.10%) Juniper
7 16 (5.39%) Arista
8 14 (4.71%) CheckPoint
8 14 (4.71%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.38%) F5
9 13 (4.38%) Veeam
10 12 (4.04%) NetScout
11 11 (3.70%) Google
12 10 (3.37%) SolarWinds
13 9 (3.03%) Meraki
14 8 (2.69%) Blue Coat
14 8 (2.69%) Infoblox
14 8 (2.69%) Motorola
14 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.69%) Ubiquiti