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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 95 66
Rank change year-on-year +4 -29 +4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 361 318 575
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.75% 3.41% 3.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.97% 17.44% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 322 208 477
10th Percentile £28,275 £28,500 £28,450
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,750 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -5.47%

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 1,246 1,823 2,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.04% 19.54% 11.03%
Number of salaries quoted 873 825 1,599
10th Percentile £27,161 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -24.42% -8.51%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,625 £61,180
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +50 197 £42,250 +9.03% 57
Yorkshire -46 122 £45,000 +12.50% 34
North East -31 42 £45,000 +27.30% 13
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 71 (19.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 64 (17.73%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.32%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 176 (48.75%) Microsoft 365
2 174 (48.20%) Azure
3 107 (29.64%) Entra ID
4 77 (21.33%) AWS
5 25 (6.93%) GitHub
5 25 (6.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 24 (6.65%) GCP
7 21 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.16%) Power Platform
9 13 (3.60%) SaaS
10 12 (3.32%) Google Workspace
10 12 (3.32%) OCI
11 11 (3.05%) IaaS
12 10 (2.77%) Mimecast
13 9 (2.49%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.39%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 112 (31.02%) DNS
2 105 (29.09%) VPN
3 89 (24.65%) WAN
4 85 (23.55%) DHCP
5 80 (22.16%) VLAN
6 79 (21.88%) TCP/IP
7 74 (20.50%) LAN
8 59 (16.34%) Network Security
9 56 (15.51%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (10.80%) SD-WAN
11 37 (10.25%) VoIP
12 35 (9.70%) Wireless
13 24 (6.65%) BGP
14 23 (6.37%) NGFW
15 21 (5.82%) OSPF
16 19 (5.26%) VXLAN
17 16 (4.43%) Wireshark
18 15 (4.16%) HTTP
19 13 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
19 13 (3.60%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.37%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.55%) GIS
5 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.28%) MySQL
5 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.16%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.55%) Git
3 2 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 166 (45.98%) Social Skills
2 57 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.76%) Law
4 24 (6.65%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (4.99%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.16%) Finance
8 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.11%) Retail
9 4 (1.11%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.83%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Legal
10 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.28%) German Language
11 1 (0.28%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (23.27%) IT Support
2 74 (20.50%) Support Engineer
3 62 (17.17%) IT Engineer
4 54 (14.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 51 (14.13%) Network Engineer
6 50 (13.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 49 (13.57%) Senior
8 26 (7.20%) Security Engineer
9 24 (6.65%) Lead
10 22 (6.09%) Analyst
10 22 (6.09%) IT Technician
11 21 (5.82%) 2nd Line Support
12 20 (5.54%) IT Support Technician
12 20 (5.54%) Support Technician
13 19 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
13 19 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
14 18 (4.99%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.71%) IT Manager
16 16 (4.43%) Cloud Engineer
16 16 (4.43%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.22%) Middleware
3 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.39%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.55%) .NET
5 2 (0.55%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.55%) Ajax
5 2 (0.55%) boto
5 2 (0.55%) CSS
5 2 (0.55%) Flask
5 2 (0.55%) HTML
5 2 (0.55%) Jinja
5 2 (0.55%) jQuery
5 2 (0.55%) Node.js
5 2 (0.55%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.55%) SAML
5 2 (0.55%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.62%) Driving Licence
2 46 (12.74%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.54%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (4.43%) Security Posture
7 15 (4.16%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.32%) PKI
9 9 (2.49%) CCTV
10 6 (1.66%) Life Science
10 6 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.83%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.83%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 163 (45.15%) Windows
2 116 (32.13%) Windows Server
3 36 (9.97%) Windows 10
4 29 (8.03%) Linux
5 18 (4.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.32%) Android
7 12 (3.32%) Mac OS
8 11 (3.05%) Apple iOS
9 10 (2.77%) Debian
9 10 (2.77%) VMS
10 7 (1.94%) Ubuntu
10 7 (1.94%) Windows 7
10 7 (1.94%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.28%) Solaris
11 1 (0.28%) Unix
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (35.18%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (24.38%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (23.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 66 (18.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 63 (17.45%) Customer Service
6 60 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (13.57%) Mentoring
8 44 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 42 (11.63%) Service Delivery
10 40 (11.08%) Incident Response
10 40 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (10.80%) Business Continuity
12 38 (10.53%) ITIL
13 37 (10.25%) High Availability
14 36 (9.97%) Remote Monitoring and Management
15 34 (9.42%) DevOps
16 33 (9.14%) SIEM
17 32 (8.86%) CI/CD
17 32 (8.86%) Migration
18 30 (8.31%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 61 (16.90%) Python
2 50 (13.85%) PowerShell
3 27 (7.48%) SQL
4 21 (5.82%) Bash
5 14 (3.88%) Go
6 11 (3.05%) Bicep
7 4 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (13.02%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (9.42%) Degree
3 28 (7.76%) CCNA
4 27 (7.48%) CCNP
5 24 (6.65%) Azure Certification
5 24 (6.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.05%) CCIE
6 11 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (3.05%) SC Cleared
6 11 (3.05%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.49%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.83%) CISSP
10 3 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.83%) JNCIA
10 3 (0.83%) MCSA
11 2 (0.55%) CEH
11 2 (0.55%) CISM
11 2 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (14.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 51 (14.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (8.59%) NIST
4 29 (8.03%) GDPR
5 9 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.22%) SLA
7 5 (1.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 131 (36.29%) Active Directory
2 70 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (14.96%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.22%) vSphere
5 7 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.94%) VMware Workstation
6 6 (1.66%) Docker
7 5 (1.39%) ProxySG
8 3 (0.83%) iptables
8 3 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.28%) KVM
10 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 71 (19.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (13.85%) Terraform
3 37 (10.25%) Ansible
4 20 (5.54%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.16%) Grafana
6 14 (3.88%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.60%) Kubernetes
8 10 (2.77%) Autotask
9 9 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (2.22%) SCCM
11 4 (1.11%) Puppet
12 3 (0.83%) cPanel
12 3 (0.83%) Plesk
12 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.55%) Proxmox
14 1 (0.28%) Nessus
14 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 214 (59.28%) Microsoft
2 81 (22.44%) VMware
3 79 (21.88%) Cisco
4 27 (7.48%) Fortinet
5 24 (6.65%) Juniper
6 23 (6.37%) Aruba
7 22 (6.09%) Veeam
8 20 (5.54%) Palo Alto
9 19 (5.26%) Google
10 17 (4.71%) Arista
11 16 (4.43%) Meraki
12 15 (4.16%) CheckPoint
13 14 (3.88%) SonicWALL
14 13 (3.60%) NetScout
15 9 (2.49%) Apple
15 9 (2.49%) F5
15 9 (2.49%) Sophos
16 8 (2.22%) SolarWinds
16 8 (2.22%) Ubiquiti
17 7 (1.94%) iManage