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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 254 362 460
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.19% 4.10% 4.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.57% 37.67% 32.55%
Number of salaries quoted 231 224 398
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £27,275
25th Percentile £29,750 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -4.76%

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 2,653 961 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.90% 10.89% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 799 539 1,202
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £34,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £62,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.18%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -20 114 £43,000 -14.00% 61
Yorkshire -31 103 £43,750 -14.63% 36
North East -6 37 £31,500 -21.25% 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 63 (24.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (11.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) IIS
3 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (9.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 121 (47.64%) Microsoft 365
2 113 (44.49%) Azure
3 73 (28.74%) Entra ID
4 39 (15.35%) AWS
5 22 (8.66%) Microsoft Purview
6 14 (5.51%) GCP
7 11 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (4.33%) OCI
8 10 (3.94%) GitHub
9 9 (3.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.76%) Google Workspace
11 7 (2.76%) SaaS
12 6 (2.36%) IaaS
12 6 (2.36%) OneDrive
12 6 (2.36%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.79%) Intacct
13 2 (0.79%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (31.89%) VPN
2 76 (29.92%) WAN
3 69 (27.17%) VLAN
4 65 (25.59%) LAN
5 61 (24.02%) DNS
6 51 (20.08%) DHCP
7 50 (19.69%) TCP/IP
8 32 (12.60%) Wireless
9 25 (9.84%) Network Security
10 22 (8.66%) VoIP
10 22 (8.66%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (5.91%) SD-WAN
12 14 (5.51%) BGP
13 12 (4.72%) SAN
13 12 (4.72%) VXLAN
14 11 (4.33%) NGFW
14 11 (4.33%) Wireshark
15 10 (3.94%) OSPF
16 8 (3.15%) HTTP
17 7 (2.76%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.36%) Power BI
4 5 (1.97%) MySQL
5 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.39%) GitLab
2 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 125 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.05%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (8.66%) Law
4 20 (7.87%) Telecoms
5 19 (7.48%) Manufacturing
5 19 (7.48%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (7.09%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.72%) Finance
8 11 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.15%) Retail
10 5 (1.97%) Advertising
11 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.57%) Legal
12 3 (1.18%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.79%) Military
14 1 (0.39%) Electronics
14 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 69 (27.17%) IT Support
2 61 (24.02%) Support Engineer
3 51 (20.08%) IT Engineer
4 42 (16.54%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (11.02%) Senior
6 25 (9.84%) 2nd Line Support
7 23 (9.06%) Support Technician
8 22 (8.66%) Lead
9 21 (8.27%) Network Engineer
10 20 (7.87%) Cisco Engineer
11 19 (7.48%) Firewall Engineer
11 19 (7.48%) Juniper Engineer
11 19 (7.48%) LAN Engineer
11 19 (7.48%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 19 (7.48%) Presales Engineer
11 19 (7.48%) Technical Support
11 19 (7.48%) WAN Engineer
12 18 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (6.69%) Analyst
13 17 (6.69%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (2.76%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.57%) Driving Licence
2 31 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 21 (8.27%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (6.30%) Management Information System
5 14 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.33%) PKI
7 8 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.15%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.36%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.97%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.18%) Clustering
10 3 (1.18%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.18%) Handset
10 3 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.39%) BYOD
12 1 (0.39%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 116 (45.67%) Windows
2 93 (36.61%) Windows Server
3 24 (9.45%) Windows 10
4 21 (8.27%) Linux
5 12 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (3.15%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.36%) Android
7 6 (2.36%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.36%) Windows 8
8 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.57%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.79%) CentOS
11 1 (0.39%) Debian
11 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.89%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (22.05%) Customer Service
3 53 (20.87%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (16.93%) Disaster Recovery
5 40 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (14.96%) ITIL
7 36 (14.17%) Incident Response
8 30 (11.81%) Data Protection
8 30 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (10.24%) SIEM
10 25 (9.84%) Decision-Making
10 25 (9.84%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 25 (9.84%) Security Architecture
11 23 (9.06%) Business Continuity
11 23 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (9.06%) Presales
11 23 (9.06%) Risk Management
12 22 (8.66%) Risk Register
13 21 (8.27%) Business Continuity Planning
13 21 (8.27%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.78%) Python
2 21 (8.27%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.30%) Bash
4 11 (4.33%) SQL
5 8 (3.15%) Go
6 4 (1.57%) Bicep
6 4 (1.57%) VBA
7 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 53 (20.87%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (14.96%) CCNA
3 30 (11.81%) Degree
4 21 (8.27%) CCNP
5 19 (7.48%) JNCIA
6 12 (4.72%) Network+ Certification
7 8 (3.15%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.76%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.76%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.97%) CCIE
9 5 (1.97%) CISSP
10 4 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.18%) CISM
12 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (13.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 27 (10.63%) GDPR
4 25 (9.84%) NIST
5 4 (1.57%) PMO
6 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.18%) GRC
6 3 (1.18%) NCSC
7 2 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 118 (46.46%) Active Directory
2 66 (25.98%) Hyper-V
3 46 (18.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.97%) VMware Workstation
5 4 (1.57%) Docker
5 4 (1.57%) ProxySG
5 4 (1.57%) vSphere
6 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.39%) Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (20.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (12.20%) Terraform
3 22 (8.66%) Ansible
4 14 (5.51%) FortiGate
5 11 (4.33%) Autotask
6 9 (3.54%) Grafana
6 9 (3.54%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.36%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.97%) SCCM
9 2 (0.79%) Plesk
10 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) Kibana
10 1 (0.39%) Nagios
10 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 143 (56.30%) Microsoft
2 67 (26.38%) Cisco
3 59 (23.23%) VMware
4 38 (14.96%) Aruba
5 32 (12.60%) Fortinet
6 22 (8.66%) Juniper
7 16 (6.30%) SonicWALL
8 13 (5.12%) Veeam
9 11 (4.33%) Arista
9 11 (4.33%) Meraki
9 11 (4.33%) NetScout
10 10 (3.94%) Palo Alto
10 10 (3.94%) Sage
10 10 (3.94%) WatchGuard
11 9 (3.54%) Citrix
12 8 (3.15%) CheckPoint
13 7 (2.76%) Google
14 6 (2.36%) Apple
14 6 (2.36%) ESET
14 6 (2.36%) F5