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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 98 72
Rank change year-on-year -11 -26 0
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 309 317 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.43% 3.31% 2.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.50% 16.97% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 264 208 320
10th Percentile £28,325 £28,000 £29,975
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -22.28% -1.03%
75th Percentile £57,688 £54,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £72,875 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -1.93%

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 1,261 1,868 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.84% 19.48% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 841 853 1,088
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -28.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -1.93%

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 2 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 2 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 +53 174 £42,500 +13.33% 46
Yorkshire -67 99 £40,000 - 34
North East -47 36 £45,000 +35.55% 12
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 61 (19.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (18.77%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.21%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 163 (52.75%) Microsoft 365
2 144 (46.60%) Azure
3 81 (26.21%) Entra ID
4 60 (19.42%) AWS
5 20 (6.47%) GCP
6 17 (5.50%) GitHub
7 15 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.85%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.24%) Mimecast
9 10 (3.24%) SaaS
10 9 (2.91%) Google Workspace
10 9 (2.91%) IaaS
10 9 (2.91%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 96 (31.07%) DNS
2 92 (29.77%) VPN
3 79 (25.57%) WAN
4 77 (24.92%) TCP/IP
5 76 (24.60%) DHCP
6 66 (21.36%) LAN
7 63 (20.39%) VLAN
8 55 (17.80%) Network Security
9 42 (13.59%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (12.94%) VoIP
11 35 (11.33%) SD-WAN
11 35 (11.33%) Wireless
12 25 (8.09%) BGP
13 21 (6.80%) OSPF
14 12 (3.88%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (3.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (3.56%) Cisco Firepower
15 11 (3.56%) NGFW
15 11 (3.56%) SAN
16 10 (3.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.80%) 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 8 (2.59%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 131 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 24 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (6.15%) Law
4 15 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.56%) Finance
6 11 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.29%) Advertising
9 4 (1.29%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.97%) Legal
10 3 (0.97%) Retail
11 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.32%) German Language
11 1 (0.32%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 71 (22.98%) IT Support
2 61 (19.74%) Support Engineer
3 53 (17.15%) Network Engineer
4 51 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 47 (15.21%) IT Engineer
6 43 (13.92%) Senior
7 38 (12.30%) IT Support Engineer
8 26 (8.41%) Security Engineer
9 24 (7.77%) 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%) Consultant
14 15 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support
14 15 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (4.53%) Senior Network Engineer
16 13 (4.21%) Infrastructure Support
16 13 (4.21%) Support Analyst
17 11 (3.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (2.59%) Middleware
2 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (0.97%) FreeSWITCH
4 2 (0.65%) .NET
4 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.65%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.65%) Ajax
4 2 (0.65%) boto
4 2 (0.65%) CSS
4 2 (0.65%) Flask
4 2 (0.65%) HTML
4 2 (0.65%) Jinja
4 2 (0.65%) jQuery
4 2 (0.65%) Node.js
4 2 (0.65%) OpenLayers
4 2 (0.65%) React
4 2 (0.65%) SAML
4 2 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
5 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%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (3.88%) CCTV
8 8 (2.59%) Life Science
8 8 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Licensing
10 5 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.29%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.97%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.97%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.97%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.97%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.97%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 152 (49.19%) Windows
2 111 (35.92%) Windows Server
3 30 (9.71%) Linux
4 27 (8.74%) Windows 10
5 13 (4.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (3.56%) VMS
6 11 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (3.24%) Android
8 9 (2.91%) Mac OS
9 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
10 7 (2.27%) Debian
10 7 (2.27%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.29%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.29%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.32%) CentOS
12 1 (0.32%) Solaris
12 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (33.98%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (23.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 65 (21.04%) Cybersecurity
4 63 (20.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 52 (16.83%) Customer Service
6 43 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (12.30%) Mentoring
9 35 (11.33%) Service Delivery
10 33 (10.68%) ITIL
11 32 (10.36%) Migration
12 30 (9.71%) High Availability
13 27 (8.74%) DevOps
13 27 (8.74%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 24 (7.77%) CI/CD
15 20 (6.47%) Business Continuity
16 19 (6.15%) Load Balancing
16 19 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (6.15%) Vulnerability Management
17 18 (5.83%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 44 (14.24%) Python
3 25 (8.09%) SQL
4 14 (4.53%) Bash
5 11 (3.56%) Bicep
6 10 (3.24%) Go
7 4 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (13.92%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (9.39%) Degree
3 24 (7.77%) CCNA
4 21 (6.80%) CCNP
4 21 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (6.15%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.21%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.21%) Security Cleared
7 12 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
8 9 (2.91%) CCIE
8 9 (2.91%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.97%) CISSP
11 3 (0.97%) MCSA
12 2 (0.65%) CEH
12 2 (0.65%) CISM
12 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (9.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (3.56%) NIST
4 10 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (2.91%) GDPR
6 8 (2.59%) SLA
7 4 (1.29%) PMO
8 3 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 117 (37.86%) Active Directory
2 63 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (17.48%) 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%) ProxySG
7 4 (1.29%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (0.97%) iptables
8 3 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
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 68 (22.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 33 (10.68%) Terraform
3 21 (6.80%) Ansible
3 21 (6.80%) FortiGate
4 13 (4.21%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.91%) Grafana
5 9 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
6 8 (2.59%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.27%) Autotask
8 5 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.29%) Puppet
9 4 (1.29%) SCCM
10 3 (0.97%) cPanel
10 3 (0.97%) Plesk
10 3 (0.97%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.65%) Nessus
11 2 (0.65%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 180 (58.25%) Microsoft
2 74 (23.95%) VMware
3 70 (22.65%) Cisco
4 22 (7.12%) Fortinet
5 20 (6.47%) Palo Alto
5 20 (6.47%) Veeam
6 18 (5.83%) Juniper
7 16 (5.18%) Google
8 15 (4.85%) Meraki
8 15 (4.85%) SonicWALL
9 14 (4.53%) CheckPoint
10 9 (2.91%) Apple
10 9 (2.91%) Aruba
10 9 (2.91%) Sophos
11 8 (2.59%) F5
12 7 (2.27%) iManage
12 7 (2.27%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.62%) Arista
13 5 (1.62%) Okta
13 5 (1.62%) Ubiquiti