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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 76 58
Rank change year-on-year -28 -18 +29
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 275 265 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.54% 3.73% 3.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.90% 21.62% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 238 230 502
10th Percentile £28,425 £31,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,680 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -3.47% +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 2,777 1,226 2,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.51% 17.27% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 798 661 1,649
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -20 147 £43,000 -14.00% 49
Yorkshire -50 93 £45,000 - 29
North East -33 35 £45,000 +20.00% 27
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 (20.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (14.91%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 137 (49.82%) Azure
2 122 (44.36%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (30.91%) Entra ID
4 59 (21.45%) AWS
5 25 (9.09%) GCP
5 25 (9.09%) GitHub
5 25 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.36%) OCI
8 12 (4.36%) SaaS
9 10 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (3.64%) IaaS
10 9 (3.27%) Google Workspace
10 9 (3.27%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.82%) Intacct
11 5 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 92 (33.45%) VPN
2 81 (29.45%) DNS
3 78 (28.36%) WAN
4 68 (24.73%) VLAN
5 64 (23.27%) LAN
6 61 (22.18%) DHCP
7 54 (19.64%) TCP/IP
8 34 (12.36%) Network Security
9 33 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (9.82%) Wireless
11 23 (8.36%) SD-WAN
12 19 (6.91%) HTTP
12 19 (6.91%) VoIP
13 15 (5.45%) Wireshark
14 14 (5.09%) BGP
15 13 (4.73%) OSPF
16 12 (4.36%) NGFW
16 12 (4.36%) VXLAN
17 11 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
18 9 (3.27%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.09%) MySQL
4 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 118 (42.91%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (12.73%) Law
4 22 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (7.27%) Telecoms
6 19 (6.91%) Manufacturing
6 19 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.36%) Finance
8 11 (4.00%) Retail
9 8 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Advertising
11 4 (1.45%) Social Housing
12 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.73%) Military
14 1 (0.36%) Electronics
14 1 (0.36%) German Language
14 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.36%) Marketing
14 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 72 (26.18%) IT Support
2 69 (25.09%) Support Engineer
3 63 (22.91%) IT Engineer
4 54 (19.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 41 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 34 (12.36%) Senior
7 30 (10.91%) Network Engineer
8 25 (9.09%) Lead
9 22 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
10 21 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (7.64%) LAN Engineer
11 20 (7.27%) Cisco Engineer
12 19 (6.91%) Firewall Engineer
12 19 (6.91%) Juniper Engineer
12 19 (6.91%) LAN/WAN Engineer
12 19 (6.91%) Presales Engineer
12 19 (6.91%) WAN Engineer
13 15 (5.45%) Senior Network Engineer
14 14 (5.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 14 (5.09%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.55%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.82%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.73%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.73%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.09%) Driving Licence
2 28 (10.18%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.64%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (4.36%) PKI
7 10 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.27%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.91%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.45%) CCTV
10 4 (1.45%) Social Media
11 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.09%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.09%) Cyberattack
11 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.73%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 123 (44.73%) Windows
2 99 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 30 (10.91%) Windows 10
4 27 (9.82%) Linux
5 11 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.27%) Windows 7
6 9 (3.27%) Windows 8
7 7 (2.55%) Debian
7 7 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.18%) Android
8 6 (2.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.36%) CentOS
11 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (33.45%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (24.73%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (18.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 47 (17.09%) Customer Service
5 40 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (13.82%) Incident Response
7 37 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (12.73%) ITIL
9 33 (12.00%) Mentoring
9 33 (12.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 33 (12.00%) SIEM
10 30 (10.91%) High Availability
11 29 (10.55%) CI/CD
12 27 (9.82%) Business Continuity
13 26 (9.45%) Decision-Making
14 25 (9.09%) Data Protection
14 25 (9.09%) DevOps
14 25 (9.09%) Load Balancing
14 25 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (19.64%) Python
2 26 (9.45%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.73%) Bash
4 18 (6.55%) Go
5 14 (5.09%) SQL
6 8 (2.91%) Bicep
7 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 49 (17.82%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (12.73%) Degree
3 32 (11.64%) CCNA
4 20 (7.27%) CCNP
5 19 (6.91%) JNCIA
6 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (5.45%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.27%) CCIE
10 8 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (2.55%) DBS Check
12 6 (2.18%) CISSP
13 5 (1.82%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.82%) Security Cleared
14 4 (1.45%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.45%) MCSA
15 3 (1.09%) CEH
15 3 (1.09%) CISM
16 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 40 (14.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (11.64%) GDPR
4 28 (10.18%) NIST
5 9 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (2.91%) PMO
7 3 (1.09%) SLA
8 2 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.73%) GRC
8 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (38.91%) Active Directory
2 51 (18.55%) Hyper-V
3 47 (17.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.27%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (2.91%) ProxySG
5 8 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.09%) Docker
8 2 (0.73%) vSphere
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) XenApp
9 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (19.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (16.00%) Terraform
3 34 (12.36%) Ansible
4 20 (7.27%) Grafana
5 19 (6.91%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.45%) FortiGate
7 12 (4.36%) Autotask
8 10 (3.64%) SCCM
9 9 (3.27%) Kubernetes
10 4 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 154 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 64 (23.27%) Cisco
3 58 (21.09%) VMware
4 35 (12.73%) Aruba
5 31 (11.27%) Fortinet
6 22 (8.00%) Juniper
7 13 (4.73%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.36%) Arista
8 12 (4.36%) NetScout
9 11 (4.00%) Google
10 9 (3.27%) ESET
10 9 (3.27%) F5
10 9 (3.27%) SolarWinds
10 9 (3.27%) Ubiquiti
11 8 (2.91%) Blue Coat
11 8 (2.91%) Infoblox
11 8 (2.91%) Meraki
11 8 (2.91%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.91%) Veeam