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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 57 56
Rank change year-on-year -45 -1 +35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 279 273 606
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.70% 4.28% 3.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.09% 33.09% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 246 240 515
10th Percentile £27,875 £31,750 £26,600
25th Percentile £31,438 £36,250 £32,500
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 £58,500 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.16% -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 2,765 825 1,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.86% 12.92% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 801 664 1,626
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,281 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £30,438 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £41,817 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% -1.61% -5.56%
75th Percentile £50,443 £60,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.48% +8.42% -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 9 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 9 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 -36 137 £43,000 -14.00% 67
Yorkshire -45 101 £45,000 - 27
North East -15 41 £45,000 +20.00% 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 62 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (13.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 28 (10.04%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.87%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 139 (49.82%) Azure
2 125 (44.80%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (29.39%) Entra ID
4 55 (19.71%) AWS
5 25 (8.96%) GCP
5 25 (8.96%) GitHub
5 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Purview
6 20 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (6.81%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.30%) OCI
9 11 (3.94%) SaaS
10 10 (3.58%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (3.58%) Google Workspace
11 9 (3.23%) IaaS
12 8 (2.87%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.79%) Intacct
14 4 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
15 3 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 3 (1.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 90 (32.26%) VPN
2 80 (28.67%) WAN
3 77 (27.60%) DNS
4 72 (25.81%) VLAN
5 65 (23.30%) LAN
6 60 (21.51%) TCP/IP
7 57 (20.43%) DHCP
8 34 (12.19%) Network Security
9 31 (11.11%) Wireless
10 28 (10.04%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (6.81%) SD-WAN
12 18 (6.45%) HTTP
13 17 (6.09%) VoIP
14 14 (5.02%) Wireshark
15 13 (4.66%) BGP
16 12 (4.30%) NGFW
16 12 (4.30%) OSPF
16 12 (4.30%) VXLAN
17 11 (3.94%) Cisco ASA
18 9 (3.23%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.43%) MySQL
2 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 123 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (12.54%) Law
4 22 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 21 (7.53%) Organisational Skills
6 19 (6.81%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (6.45%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.94%) Finance
8 11 (3.94%) Retail
9 8 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.79%) Advertising
11 3 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.08%) Legal
11 3 (1.08%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.72%) Military
13 1 (0.36%) Electronics
13 1 (0.36%) German Language
13 1 (0.36%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 77 (27.60%) IT Support
2 70 (25.09%) Support Engineer
3 61 (21.86%) IT Engineer
4 52 (18.64%) IT Support Engineer
5 38 (13.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (11.11%) Senior
7 29 (10.39%) Network Engineer
8 27 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
9 25 (8.96%) Lead
10 21 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (7.17%) Cisco Engineer
12 19 (6.81%) Firewall Engineer
12 19 (6.81%) Juniper Engineer
12 19 (6.81%) LAN Engineer
12 19 (6.81%) LAN/WAN Engineer
12 19 (6.81%) Presales Engineer
12 19 (6.81%) Support Technician
12 19 (6.81%) WAN Engineer
13 15 (5.38%) IT Technician
13 15 (5.38%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.79%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.72%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.62%) Driving Licence
2 30 (10.75%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.53%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.02%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.30%) PKI
7 11 (3.94%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (3.23%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.43%) CCTV
10 4 (1.43%) Social Media
11 3 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.08%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.72%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 127 (45.52%) Windows
2 107 (38.35%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.47%) Windows 10
4 31 (11.11%) Linux
5 12 (4.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (3.58%) Windows 7
6 10 (3.58%) Windows 8
7 7 (2.51%) Debian
7 7 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.15%) Android
8 6 (2.15%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.43%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.08%) 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 95 (34.05%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (24.73%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (20.43%) Customer Service
4 52 (18.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (14.70%) ITIL
6 39 (13.98%) Incident Response
7 36 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (12.19%) Mentoring
9 34 (12.19%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 30 (10.75%) High Availability
10 30 (10.75%) SIEM
11 29 (10.39%) CI/CD
12 26 (9.32%) Decision-Making
12 26 (9.32%) DevOps
13 25 (8.96%) Business Continuity
13 25 (8.96%) Data Protection
13 25 (8.96%) Load Balancing
13 25 (8.96%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.00%) Python
2 25 (8.96%) Bash
2 25 (8.96%) PowerShell
3 18 (6.45%) Go
4 14 (5.02%) SQL
5 5 (1.79%) Bicep
6 3 (1.08%) VBA
7 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (17.56%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (13.26%) Degree
3 31 (11.11%) CCNA
4 21 (7.53%) CCNP
5 19 (6.81%) JNCIA
6 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.66%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.23%) CCIE
10 8 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (2.15%) CISSP
11 6 (2.15%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.15%) Security Cleared
12 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.43%) MCSA
14 3 (1.08%) CEH
14 3 (1.08%) CISM
15 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 40 (14.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (11.11%) GDPR
4 28 (10.04%) NIST
5 8 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.87%) PMO
6 3 (1.08%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 115 (41.22%) Active Directory
2 62 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 55 (19.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.58%) VMware Workstation
5 8 (2.87%) ProxySG
6 6 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.43%) Docker
8 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.08%) 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 (19.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (15.41%) Terraform
3 34 (12.19%) Ansible
4 20 (7.17%) Grafana
5 19 (6.81%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.38%) FortiGate
7 13 (4.66%) Autotask
8 11 (3.94%) SCCM
9 10 (3.58%) Kubernetes
10 4 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
11 1 (0.36%) Kibana
11 1 (0.36%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) Plesk
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 159 (56.99%) Microsoft
2 68 (24.37%) Cisco
3 67 (24.01%) VMware
4 36 (12.90%) Aruba
5 31 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 22 (7.89%) Juniper
7 13 (4.66%) CheckPoint
8 12 (4.30%) Arista
8 12 (4.30%) NetScout
9 11 (3.94%) Google
9 11 (3.94%) SonicWALL
10 10 (3.58%) ESET
10 10 (3.58%) F5
10 10 (3.58%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.23%) Ubiquiti
11 9 (3.23%) Veeam
12 8 (2.87%) Blue Coat
12 8 (2.87%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.87%) Motorola
12 8 (2.87%) SolarWinds