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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 101 74
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 -11
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 309 309 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.38% 3.21% 2.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.73% 16.44% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 259 207 305
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £29,850
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% -3.55%
75th Percentile £58,500 £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% -0.50%

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 1,302 1,879 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.82% 19.52% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 870 869 1,020
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,813 £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 £45,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,292 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -15.42% -2.25%

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 18 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 18 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 +50 175 £42,500 +13.33% 41
Yorkshire -56 104 £41,250 +13.01% 24
North East -61 30 £42,500 +28.02% 18
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 57 (18.45%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.21%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 164 (53.07%) Microsoft 365
2 136 (44.01%) Azure
3 78 (25.24%) Entra ID
4 54 (17.48%) AWS
5 19 (6.15%) GCP
6 15 (4.85%) Power Platform
7 11 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.56%) GitHub
8 10 (3.24%) Mimecast
8 10 (3.24%) OneDrive
9 9 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (2.59%) SaaS
11 7 (2.27%) Google Workspace
11 7 (2.27%) IaaS
11 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.29%) PaaS
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 97 (31.39%) DNS
2 96 (31.07%) VPN
3 81 (26.21%) DHCP
4 77 (24.92%) TCP/IP
4 77 (24.92%) WAN
5 66 (21.36%) LAN
6 61 (19.74%) VLAN
7 53 (17.15%) Network Security
8 52 (16.83%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (13.92%) VoIP
10 34 (11.00%) SD-WAN
10 34 (11.00%) Wireless
11 26 (8.41%) BGP
12 22 (7.12%) OSPF
13 13 (4.21%) Structured Cabling
14 12 (3.88%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (3.56%) Cisco ASA
15 11 (3.56%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (3.56%) NGFW
15 11 (3.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.65%) GIS
5 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.65%) Git
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 124 (40.13%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.85%) Law
4 12 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.24%) Finance
6 10 (3.24%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.29%) Advertising
10 4 (1.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.29%) Social Housing
11 3 (0.97%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (23.62%) IT Support
2 62 (20.06%) Support Engineer
3 53 (17.15%) Network Engineer
4 52 (16.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 49 (15.86%) IT Engineer
6 42 (13.59%) Senior
7 40 (12.94%) IT Support Engineer
8 27 (8.74%) Security Engineer
9 26 (8.41%) Analyst
10 22 (7.12%) IT Technician
11 18 (5.83%) 2nd Line Support
11 18 (5.83%) IT Support Technician
11 18 (5.83%) Support Technician
12 17 (5.50%) IT Manager
13 16 (5.18%) Consultant
14 14 (4.53%) Support Analyst
15 13 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (3.88%) Senior Network Engineer
17 11 (3.56%) Architect
17 11 (3.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.59%) Middleware
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.29%) React
4 3 (0.97%) 802.1X
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%) 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
6 1 (0.32%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.53%) Driving Licence
2 31 (10.03%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.18%) CCTV
5 16 (5.18%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.91%) Life Science
8 8 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.27%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Licensing
11 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.62%) SCADA
11 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.29%) Social Media
13 3 (0.97%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.97%) Cyberattack
13 3 (0.97%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 154 (49.84%) Windows
2 116 (37.54%) Windows Server
3 27 (8.74%) Linux
4 26 (8.41%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (4.21%) Android
7 12 (3.88%) VMS
7 12 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (2.91%) Mac OS
9 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
10 6 (1.94%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.29%) Debian
12 2 (0.65%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.65%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.32%) CentOS
13 1 (0.32%) Solaris
13 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (35.92%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (26.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 68 (22.01%) Cybersecurity
4 65 (21.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 50 (16.18%) Customer Service
6 48 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (11.65%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (10.68%) Service Delivery
10 32 (10.36%) Migration
11 31 (10.03%) ITIL
12 26 (8.41%) High Availability
12 26 (8.41%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 23 (7.44%) DevOps
14 21 (6.80%) Vulnerability Management
15 20 (6.47%) Business Continuity
15 20 (6.47%) Change Management
16 19 (6.15%) CI/CD
16 19 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 38 (12.30%) Python
3 24 (7.77%) SQL
4 11 (3.56%) Bicep
5 8 (2.59%) Go
6 7 (2.27%) Bash
7 4 (1.29%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (12.94%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (7.77%) CCNA
2 24 (7.77%) Degree
3 19 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (5.50%) CCNP
5 15 (4.85%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.88%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.88%) Security Cleared
7 11 (3.56%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (3.24%) DBS Check
9 7 (2.27%) CCIE
10 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.97%) CISSP
12 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.97%) MCSA
13 2 (0.65%) CEH
13 2 (0.65%) CISM
13 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (9.71%) 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%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.65%) PMO
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
1 120 (38.83%) Active Directory
2 62 (20.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (18.77%) 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
9 2 (0.65%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.65%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
10 1 (0.32%) MetaFrame
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.32%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (21.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (9.06%) Terraform
3 21 (6.80%) FortiGate
4 16 (5.18%) Ansible
5 11 (3.56%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.62%) Grafana
7 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.29%) Autotask
8 4 (1.29%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.29%) Puppet
9 3 (0.97%) cPanel
9 3 (0.97%) Plesk
9 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.65%) Nessus
10 2 (0.65%) SCCM
11 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 181 (58.58%) Microsoft
2 75 (24.27%) VMware
3 67 (21.68%) Cisco
4 25 (8.09%) Fortinet
5 22 (7.12%) SonicWALL
6 20 (6.47%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.47%) Veeam
7 18 (5.83%) Juniper
8 16 (5.18%) Meraki
9 14 (4.53%) Google
10 13 (4.21%) Aruba
11 11 (3.56%) CheckPoint
12 9 (2.91%) Apple
12 9 (2.91%) Sophos
13 7 (2.27%) iManage
14 6 (1.94%) F5
15 5 (1.62%) Arista
15 5 (1.62%) Atlassian
15 5 (1.62%) Okta
15 5 (1.62%) Splunk