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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 61 57
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 210 352 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.97% 3.87% 4.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.08% 36.70% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 188 215 318
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £29,213
25th Percentile £28,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £51,563 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,554 £77,715
England median annual salary £45,285 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.26% -

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 2,598 959 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.41% 10.55% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 745 530 968
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,483 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £33,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,915 £60,000 £61,612
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 12 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 12 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 -18 96 £45,000 -5.26% 62
Yorkshire -43 83 £33,250 -33.50% 51
North East -6 31 £31,500 -30.00% 20
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 65 (30.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (11.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.48%) IIS
3 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 115 (54.76%) Microsoft 365
2 98 (46.67%) Azure
3 53 (25.24%) Entra ID
4 25 (11.90%) AWS
5 10 (4.76%) GCP
6 7 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (3.33%) SaaS
7 6 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 6 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.38%) GitHub
8 5 (2.38%) Google Workspace
8 5 (2.38%) IaaS
9 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.95%) iPaaS
10 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.95%) PaaS
11 1 (0.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 72 (34.29%) VPN
2 68 (32.38%) VLAN
2 68 (32.38%) WAN
3 60 (28.57%) LAN
4 52 (24.76%) DNS
5 48 (22.86%) TCP/IP
6 45 (21.43%) DHCP
7 33 (15.71%) Wireless
8 32 (15.24%) VoIP
9 24 (11.43%) Network Security
10 19 (9.05%) BGP
11 16 (7.62%) SAN
12 14 (6.67%) SD-WAN
13 11 (5.24%) OSPF
14 8 (3.81%) MPLS
14 8 (3.81%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (3.81%) WLAN
15 7 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (3.33%) EIGRP
15 7 (3.33%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.86%) Power BI
4 4 (1.90%) MySQL
5 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 100 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 18 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (6.67%) Law
7 12 (5.71%) Finance
8 8 (3.81%) Retail
9 6 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.86%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.38%) Advertising
11 4 (1.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Military
13 1 (0.48%) Electronics
13 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (28.10%) IT Support
2 53 (25.24%) Support Engineer
3 38 (18.10%) IT Engineer
4 31 (14.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 27 (12.86%) Senior
6 26 (12.38%) Support Technician
6 26 (12.38%) Technical Support
7 24 (11.43%) Analyst
8 22 (10.48%) Technical Engineer
9 20 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (9.52%) Technical Support Engineer
10 17 (8.10%) Support Analyst
11 16 (7.62%) Cisco Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) Firewall Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) Juniper Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) LAN Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) Network Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) Presales Engineer
11 16 (7.62%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.86%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.95%) Middleware
4 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.86%) Driving Licence
2 22 (10.48%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.19%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.29%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (3.33%) Clustering
9 6 (2.86%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.86%) Handset
9 6 (2.86%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.43%) Cyberattack
10 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.95%) FMCG
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.48%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 107 (50.95%) Windows
2 86 (40.95%) Windows Server
3 25 (11.90%) Linux
4 21 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 11 (5.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.86%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.90%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.90%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.95%) Android
8 2 (0.95%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (24.76%) Customer Service
3 39 (18.57%) ITIL
4 30 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (10.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (9.05%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 17 (8.10%) DevOps
10 16 (7.62%) Presales
10 16 (7.62%) Project Delivery
11 15 (7.14%) Agile
11 15 (7.14%) CI/CD
11 15 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
12 14 (6.67%) Service Delivery
13 13 (6.19%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.19%) Incident Response
14 11 (5.24%) Information Security
15 10 (4.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.57%) Python
3 11 (5.24%) Bash
4 10 (4.76%) SQL
5 4 (1.90%) Bicep
5 4 (1.90%) Go
5 4 (1.90%) VBA
6 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 52 (24.76%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (17.14%) CCNA
3 27 (12.86%) Degree
4 18 (8.57%) CCNP
5 16 (7.62%) JNCIA
6 10 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (3.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (3.81%) DBS Check
9 7 (3.33%) CISSP
9 7 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.33%) SC Cleared
9 7 (3.33%) Security Cleared
10 6 (2.86%) CCIE
11 4 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.43%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.43%) CISM
13 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.95%) CISMP
13 2 (0.95%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.81%) GDPR
4 5 (2.38%) NIST
5 4 (1.90%) PMO
6 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.43%) GRC
6 3 (1.43%) NCSC
7 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.48%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 107 (50.95%) Active Directory
2 69 (32.86%) Hyper-V
3 43 (20.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.90%) Docker
4 4 (1.90%) ProxySG
5 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.95%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (24.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.62%) FortiGate
3 15 (7.14%) Terraform
4 9 (4.29%) Autotask
5 7 (3.33%) Ansible
6 6 (2.86%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.38%) Grafana
7 5 (2.38%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.43%) SCCM
9 2 (0.95%) Plesk
10 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.48%) Kibana
10 1 (0.48%) Nagios
10 1 (0.48%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.48%) VxRail
Vendors
1 116 (55.24%) Microsoft
2 65 (30.95%) Cisco
3 56 (26.67%) VMware
4 28 (13.33%) Fortinet
5 27 (12.86%) Aruba
6 22 (10.48%) SonicWALL
7 17 (8.10%) Juniper
8 13 (6.19%) Meraki
8 13 (6.19%) Veeam
9 11 (5.24%) Citrix
9 11 (5.24%) Palo Alto
10 10 (4.76%) Sage
11 9 (4.29%) HP
11 9 (4.29%) WatchGuard
12 8 (3.81%) Apple
12 8 (3.81%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.81%) Huawei
13 7 (3.33%) Dell
13 7 (3.33%) Polycom
13 7 (3.33%) Supermicro