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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 114 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 -56 +24
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 289 254 582
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 3.31% 3.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.36% 16.99% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 251 211 489
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,390 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,209 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +3.25% +7.14% -2.00%

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 2,163 1,495 2,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.55% 19.46% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 795 650 1,650
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.00% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +25 154 £43,500 -17.14% 75
Yorkshire -42 99 £48,445 +11.37% 32
North East -21 36 £45,000 +20.00% 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 56 (19.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (16.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.38%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (7.96%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.77%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 134 (46.37%) Azure
2 127 (43.94%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (30.10%) Entra ID
4 56 (19.38%) AWS
5 24 (8.30%) GitHub
5 24 (8.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 22 (7.61%) GCP
7 19 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.15%) OCI
9 10 (3.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (3.46%) IaaS
9 10 (3.46%) SaaS
10 9 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 7 (2.42%) Google Workspace
11 7 (2.42%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.73%) Intacct
13 4 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (1.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 96 (33.22%) VPN
2 84 (29.07%) DNS
3 83 (28.72%) WAN
4 74 (25.61%) VLAN
5 69 (23.88%) LAN
6 61 (21.11%) DHCP
7 51 (17.65%) TCP/IP
8 46 (15.92%) Network Security
9 38 (13.15%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (9.34%) SD-WAN
11 26 (9.00%) Wireless
12 20 (6.92%) NGFW
12 20 (6.92%) VoIP
13 19 (6.57%) BGP
14 18 (6.23%) OSPF
14 18 (6.23%) VXLAN
15 16 (5.54%) HTTP
16 15 (5.19%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (5.19%) Wireshark
17 13 (4.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.04%) MySQL
4 2 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.35%) GIS
5 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 17 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) Git
General
1 126 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (9.69%) Law
4 21 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 16 (5.54%) Finance
7 15 (5.19%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.81%) Retail
9 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.73%) Advertising
10 5 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.38%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.35%) Electronics
13 1 (0.35%) German Language
13 1 (0.35%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 70 (24.22%) IT Support
2 69 (23.88%) Support Engineer
3 63 (21.80%) IT Engineer
4 54 (18.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 45 (15.57%) Senior
6 44 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 43 (14.88%) Network Engineer
8 25 (8.65%) Lead
9 22 (7.61%) Senior Network Engineer
10 20 (6.92%) LAN Engineer
11 19 (6.57%) 2nd Line Support
12 18 (6.23%) Cisco Engineer
12 18 (6.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) Juniper Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) LAN/WAN Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) Presales Engineer
13 17 (5.88%) WAN Engineer
14 15 (5.19%) Support Technician
15 14 (4.84%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.73%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.69%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.69%) Middleware
5 1 (0.35%) .NET
5 1 (0.35%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.35%) Ajax
5 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.35%) boto
5 1 (0.35%) CSS
5 1 (0.35%) Flask
5 1 (0.35%) HTML
5 1 (0.35%) Jinja
5 1 (0.35%) jQuery
5 1 (0.35%) Node.js
5 1 (0.35%) OpenLayers
5 1 (0.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.49%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.15%) Driving Licence
3 21 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.15%) PKI
6 11 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.38%) CCTV
8 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.04%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.04%) FMCG
9 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Social Media
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.69%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 119 (41.18%) Windows
2 89 (30.80%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.65%) Windows 10
4 24 (8.30%) Linux
5 12 (4.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.42%) Debian
7 7 (2.42%) Windows 7
7 7 (2.42%) Windows 8
8 6 (2.08%) Android
8 6 (2.08%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.38%) VMS
10 3 (1.04%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (24.22%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (19.03%) Disaster Recovery
4 46 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (15.92%) Customer Service
5 45 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (15.22%) Mentoring
7 37 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (12.11%) Incident Response
9 32 (11.07%) Load Balancing
10 31 (10.73%) CI/CD
11 30 (10.38%) SIEM
12 29 (10.03%) Business Continuity
12 29 (10.03%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 28 (9.69%) Decision-Making
13 28 (9.69%) ITIL
14 27 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (9.00%) DevOps
15 26 (9.00%) High Availability
16 24 (8.30%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 55 (19.03%) Python
2 36 (12.46%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.27%) Bash
4 16 (5.54%) SQL
5 15 (5.19%) Go
6 8 (2.77%) Bicep
7 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (18.69%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (12.11%) Degree
3 34 (11.76%) CCNA
4 26 (9.00%) CCNP
5 17 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.88%) JNCIA
5 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.15%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.15%) Security Cleared
7 11 (3.81%) CCIE
8 9 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.77%) Network+ Certification
10 7 (2.42%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.73%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.04%) CISSP
12 3 (1.04%) MCSA
13 2 (0.69%) CEH
13 2 (0.69%) CISM
13 2 (0.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (0.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 41 (14.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 30 (10.38%) GDPR
4 29 (10.03%) NIST
5 8 (2.77%) PMO
6 7 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 112 (38.75%) Active Directory
2 45 (15.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (14.53%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.77%) ProxySG
4 8 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.42%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (1.38%) Docker
6 4 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.69%) vSphere
9 1 (0.35%) Firmware
9 1 (0.35%) XenApp
9 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (20.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (14.19%) Terraform
3 31 (10.73%) Ansible
4 17 (5.88%) Grafana
5 16 (5.54%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.19%) FortiGate
7 10 (3.46%) Autotask
8 8 (2.77%) Kubernetes
8 8 (2.77%) SCCM
9 3 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.35%) Nagios
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (53.63%) Microsoft
2 73 (25.26%) Cisco
3 54 (18.69%) VMware
4 36 (12.46%) Aruba
4 36 (12.46%) Fortinet
5 29 (10.03%) Juniper
6 16 (5.54%) Arista
7 14 (4.84%) CheckPoint
8 13 (4.50%) F5
8 13 (4.50%) Palo Alto
9 12 (4.15%) NetScout
9 12 (4.15%) Veeam
10 10 (3.46%) Google
11 9 (3.11%) Meraki
11 9 (3.11%) SolarWinds
12 8 (2.77%) Blue Coat
12 8 (2.77%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.77%) Motorola
12 8 (2.77%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.77%) Ubiquiti