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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 96 74
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 -7
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 309 311 395
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.40% 3.24% 2.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.03% 16.64% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 258 207 311
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £36,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -23.16% -2.06%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £62,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -1.22%

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 1,286 1,869 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.82% 19.49% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 854 859 1,055
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.72% -6.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,250 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.63%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +42 175 £42,500 +13.33% 71
Yorkshire -59 101 £41,250 +13.01% 38
North East -53 33 £43,750 +31.79% 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 58 (18.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (18.12%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.21%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 159 (51.46%) Microsoft 365
2 138 (44.66%) Azure
3 77 (24.92%) Entra ID
4 58 (18.77%) AWS
5 20 (6.47%) GCP
6 15 (4.85%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.53%) GitHub
8 13 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.24%) Mimecast
11 9 (2.91%) OneDrive
12 8 (2.59%) Google Workspace
12 8 (2.59%) IaaS
12 8 (2.59%) SaaS
13 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
16 3 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 3 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (31.07%) VPN
2 95 (30.74%) DNS
3 80 (25.89%) WAN
4 77 (24.92%) DHCP
4 77 (24.92%) TCP/IP
5 68 (22.01%) LAN
6 61 (19.74%) VLAN
7 55 (17.80%) Network Security
8 47 (15.21%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (13.27%) VoIP
10 37 (11.97%) Wireless
11 35 (11.33%) SD-WAN
12 27 (8.74%) BGP
13 23 (7.44%) OSPF
14 13 (4.21%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (3.88%) Cisco ASA
15 12 (3.88%) Cisco Nexus
16 11 (3.56%) NGFW
16 11 (3.56%) SAN
16 11 (3.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.65%) GIS
5 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.65%) Git
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 124 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (5.50%) Law
4 14 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.24%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.91%) Finance
9 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.29%) Advertising
11 4 (1.29%) Social Housing
12 3 (0.97%) Legal
12 3 (0.97%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.32%) German Language
13 1 (0.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 70 (22.65%) IT Support
2 59 (19.09%) Support Engineer
3 56 (18.12%) Network Engineer
4 50 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 46 (14.89%) IT Engineer
6 43 (13.92%) Senior
7 37 (11.97%) IT Support Engineer
8 27 (8.74%) Security Engineer
9 25 (8.09%) Analyst
10 23 (7.44%) IT Technician
11 19 (6.15%) IT Support Technician
11 19 (6.15%) Support Technician
12 17 (5.50%) IT Manager
13 16 (5.18%) 2nd Line Support
13 16 (5.18%) Consultant
14 14 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
15 13 (4.21%) Senior Network Engineer
15 13 (4.21%) Support Analyst
16 11 (3.56%) Architect
16 11 (3.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.59%) Middleware
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.97%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.97%) React
5 2 (0.65%) .NET
5 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.65%) Ajax
5 2 (0.65%) boto
5 2 (0.65%) CSS
5 2 (0.65%) Flask
5 2 (0.65%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.65%) HTML
5 2 (0.65%) Jinja
5 2 (0.65%) jQuery
5 2 (0.65%) Node.js
5 2 (0.65%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.65%) SAML
5 2 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.89%) Driving Licence
2 31 (10.03%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.83%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.18%) Security Posture
6 14 (4.53%) CCTV
7 12 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.91%) Life Science
9 8 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Licensing
11 6 (1.94%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.62%) SCADA
12 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.97%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.97%) FMCG
13 3 (0.97%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 151 (48.87%) Windows
2 112 (36.25%) Windows Server
3 29 (9.39%) Linux
4 26 (8.41%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.88%) Android
7 11 (3.56%) VMS
7 11 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (2.91%) Mac OS
9 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.94%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.62%) Debian
12 3 (0.97%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.97%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.32%) CentOS
13 1 (0.32%) Solaris
13 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (34.95%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (24.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 65 (21.04%) Cybersecurity
4 63 (20.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 50 (16.18%) Customer Service
6 45 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (11.97%) Mentoring
8 33 (10.68%) Service Delivery
9 32 (10.36%) Migration
10 31 (10.03%) ITIL
11 29 (9.39%) High Availability
12 26 (8.41%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 24 (7.77%) DevOps
14 21 (6.80%) CI/CD
15 20 (6.47%) Business Continuity
15 20 (6.47%) Change Management
15 20 (6.47%) Vulnerability Management
16 19 (6.15%) Load Balancing
16 19 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 42 (13.59%) Python
3 24 (7.77%) SQL
4 11 (3.56%) Bash
4 11 (3.56%) Bicep
5 9 (2.91%) Go
6 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (13.92%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (8.41%) Degree
3 24 (7.77%) CCNA
4 20 (6.47%) CCNP
5 19 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.18%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.21%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.21%) Security Cleared
8 11 (3.56%) Network+ Certification
9 9 (2.91%) DBS Check
10 8 (2.59%) CCIE
11 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.97%) CISSP
13 3 (0.97%) MCSA
14 2 (0.65%) CEH
14 2 (0.65%) CISM
14 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (8.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 12 (3.88%) NIST
4 9 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.59%) GDPR
5 8 (2.59%) SLA
6 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.97%) PMO
6 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 115 (37.22%) Active Directory
2 62 (20.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (17.80%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.59%) vSphere
5 7 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.94%) Docker
6 6 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.97%) iptables
8 3 (0.97%) ProxySG
8 3 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.32%) Firmware
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
9 1 (0.32%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (21.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (10.03%) Terraform
3 21 (6.80%) FortiGate
4 19 (6.15%) Ansible
5 12 (3.88%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.27%) Grafana
8 6 (1.94%) Autotask
8 6 (1.94%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 4 (1.29%) Puppet
11 3 (0.97%) cPanel
11 3 (0.97%) Plesk
11 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.97%) SCCM
12 2 (0.65%) Nessus
13 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 176 (56.96%) Microsoft
2 74 (23.95%) VMware
3 70 (22.65%) Cisco
4 24 (7.77%) Fortinet
5 21 (6.80%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.47%) Veeam
7 18 (5.83%) Juniper
7 18 (5.83%) SonicWALL
8 15 (4.85%) Google
8 15 (4.85%) Meraki
9 13 (4.21%) Aruba
9 13 (4.21%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.91%) Apple
10 9 (2.91%) Sophos
11 7 (2.27%) F5
11 7 (2.27%) iManage
12 6 (1.94%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.62%) Arista
13 5 (1.62%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.62%) Okta