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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 62 54
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 +51
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 222 384 360
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.28% 3.45% 5.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.62% 35.00% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 207 232 315
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 2,091 1,097 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.45% 9.85% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 861 602 908
10th Percentile - £29,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,914 £77,594
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire -35 98 £35,750 -31.90% 83
North West -20 93 £40,500 -14.74% 103
North East -1 31 £31,500 -21.25% 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 71 (31.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (10.36%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 125 (56.31%) Microsoft 365
2 121 (54.50%) Azure
3 52 (23.42%) Entra ID
4 23 (10.36%) AWS
5 9 (4.05%) GCP
5 9 (4.05%) SaaS
6 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.70%) IaaS
7 6 (2.70%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.25%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.80%) PaaS
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.35%) GitHub
10 3 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 76 (34.23%) VLAN
2 66 (29.73%) VPN
3 61 (27.48%) WAN
4 57 (25.68%) TCP/IP
5 56 (25.23%) DNS
6 55 (24.77%) LAN
7 47 (21.17%) DHCP
8 43 (19.37%) VoIP
9 41 (18.47%) Wireless
10 28 (12.61%) Network Security
11 24 (10.81%) SAN
12 17 (7.66%) BGP
13 16 (7.21%) SD-WAN
14 11 (4.95%) WLAN
15 10 (4.50%) OSPF
15 10 (4.50%) Remote Desktop
15 10 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (3.15%) MPLS
17 6 (2.70%) ADSL
17 6 (2.70%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.70%) Power BI
3 5 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.90%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 109 (49.10%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.71%) Manufacturing
3 25 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 13 (5.86%) Finance
6 10 (4.50%) Law
6 10 (4.50%) Retail
7 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.25%) Legal
9 5 (2.25%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.80%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Military
11 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.45%) Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 61 (27.48%) Support Engineer
2 59 (26.58%) IT Support
3 39 (17.57%) Technical Support
4 38 (17.12%) IT Engineer
5 36 (16.22%) Technical Engineer
6 33 (14.86%) Technical Support Engineer
7 29 (13.06%) Analyst
7 29 (13.06%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (12.61%) Support Technician
9 20 (9.01%) Senior
10 18 (8.11%) Support Analyst
11 17 (7.66%) Network Engineer
12 16 (7.21%) 2nd Line Support
12 16 (7.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (6.76%) 3rd Line Support
13 15 (6.76%) IT Manager
14 10 (4.50%) 1st Line Support
14 10 (4.50%) IT Support Technician
14 10 (4.50%) IT Technician
15 9 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.70%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.90%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.45%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.06%) Driving Licence
2 22 (9.91%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (6.31%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.86%) Clustering
5 13 (5.86%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.41%) Cloud Native
7 11 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.15%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.70%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.70%) FMCG
9 6 (2.70%) Handset
10 4 (1.80%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.90%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.90%) EPoS
12 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.90%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 114 (51.35%) Windows
2 84 (37.84%) Windows Server
3 34 (15.32%) Linux
4 22 (9.91%) Windows 10
5 17 (7.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.70%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.80%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.80%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.90%) CentOS
9 2 (0.90%) Check Point GAiA
9 2 (0.90%) Unix
9 2 (0.90%) VMS
9 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.77%) Customer Service
2 54 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (19.37%) ITIL
4 32 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (11.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 23 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (8.56%) Project Delivery
9 17 (7.66%) DevOps
10 16 (7.21%) Agile
11 15 (6.76%) Collaborative Working
11 15 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (6.76%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 14 (6.31%) Incident Response
12 14 (6.31%) Network Management
13 13 (5.86%) Cloud Security
13 13 (5.86%) Customer-Centricity
13 13 (5.86%) Information Security
14 12 (5.41%) CI/CD
14 12 (5.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (9.46%) PowerShell
2 16 (7.21%) Python
3 15 (6.76%) SQL
4 13 (5.86%) Bash
5 5 (2.25%) Bicep
6 4 (1.80%) VBA
7 3 (1.35%) Go
8 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (18.92%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (11.71%) CCNA
3 23 (10.36%) Degree
4 15 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.31%) CCNP
6 11 (4.95%) CISSP
7 10 (4.50%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (3.15%) DBS Check
10 6 (2.70%) JNCIA
10 6 (2.70%) SC Cleared
10 6 (2.70%) Security Cleared
11 5 (2.25%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.25%) CISMP
11 5 (2.25%) GSEC
11 5 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.80%) CCIE
12 4 (1.80%) CISM
12 4 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.95%) GDPR
3 9 (4.05%) NIST
4 6 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.80%) GRC
5 4 (1.80%) NCSC
6 3 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 115 (51.80%) Active Directory
2 81 (36.49%) Hyper-V
3 44 (19.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) Docker
4 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (29.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (9.01%) FortiGate
3 14 (6.31%) Terraform
4 9 (4.05%) Autotask
5 6 (2.70%) Ansible
6 5 (2.25%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.80%) Grafana
7 4 (1.80%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.35%) SCCM
9 2 (0.90%) Plesk
9 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) Nagios
10 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 139 (62.61%) Microsoft
2 65 (29.28%) Cisco
3 55 (24.77%) VMware
4 35 (15.77%) SonicWALL
5 22 (9.91%) Fortinet
5 22 (9.91%) Veeam
6 18 (8.11%) Aruba
7 16 (7.21%) Meraki
8 15 (6.76%) HP
9 13 (5.86%) Dell
9 13 (5.86%) Palo Alto
9 13 (5.86%) Sage
9 13 (5.86%) Supermicro
9 13 (5.86%) WatchGuard
10 11 (4.95%) Apple
10 11 (4.95%) Citrix
10 11 (4.95%) Sophos
11 8 (3.60%) ESET
11 8 (3.60%) Juniper
12 7 (3.15%) Huawei