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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 65 58
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 258 389 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.73% 3.17% 4.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.58% 34.03% 30.54%
Number of salaries quoted 212 231 319
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £46,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% -3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £48,750 £60,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £77,922
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 1,769 1,143 1,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.71% 9.30% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 865 607 923
10th Percentile - £29,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% - -
75th Percentile £42,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £73,886 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,050 £51,500
% change year-on-year -24.60% +3.01% -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 24 November 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 24 November 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 -7 130 £36,500 -30.48% 36
North West -17 93 £40,500 -10.00% 46
North East +9 35 £31,500 -21.25% 6
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 73 (28.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (8.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 128 (49.61%) Azure
2 124 (48.06%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (20.16%) Entra ID
4 25 (9.69%) AWS
5 10 (3.88%) GCP
6 9 (3.49%) SaaS
7 8 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.33%) Google Workspace
8 6 (2.33%) IaaS
8 6 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.55%) PaaS
10 3 (1.16%) GitHub
10 3 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.16%) OCI
11 2 (0.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.78%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 79 (30.62%) VLAN
2 69 (26.74%) VPN
3 62 (24.03%) TCP/IP
3 62 (24.03%) WAN
4 57 (22.09%) DNS
5 56 (21.71%) LAN
6 48 (18.60%) DHCP
7 44 (17.05%) VoIP
7 44 (17.05%) Wireless
8 36 (13.95%) Network Security
9 23 (8.91%) SAN
10 19 (7.36%) BGP
11 16 (6.20%) SD-WAN
12 12 (4.65%) OSPF
12 12 (4.65%) WLAN
13 10 (3.88%) Remote Desktop
13 10 (3.88%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (2.71%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (2.71%) MPLS
15 6 (2.33%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.33%) Power BI
3 5 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 112 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.69%) Manufacturing
4 19 (7.36%) Telecoms
5 13 (5.04%) Finance
6 9 (3.49%) Law
6 9 (3.49%) Retail
7 7 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.94%) Legal
8 5 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Advertising
10 2 (0.78%) Military
11 1 (0.39%) Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (23.26%) Support Engineer
2 57 (22.09%) IT Engineer
3 54 (20.93%) IT Support
4 43 (16.67%) Technical Support
5 40 (15.50%) Technical Engineer
6 37 (14.34%) Technical Support Engineer
7 29 (11.24%) Analyst
8 28 (10.85%) Support Technician
9 26 (10.08%) Network Engineer
10 24 (9.30%) IT Support Engineer
11 20 (7.75%) Senior
12 18 (6.98%) Support Analyst
13 17 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (5.81%) IT Manager
15 14 (5.43%) 3rd Line Support
16 12 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
17 11 (4.26%) Security Engineer
18 10 (3.88%) Instrumentation Engineer
18 10 (3.88%) IT Support Technician
18 10 (3.88%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.33%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.39%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.18%) Operational Technology
2 30 (11.63%) Driving Licence
3 23 (8.91%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (5.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.04%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.04%) Clustering
5 13 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.04%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.71%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.33%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.33%) FMCG
7 6 (2.33%) Handset
8 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.16%) EPoS
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.78%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 143 (55.43%) Windows
2 80 (31.01%) Windows Server
3 36 (13.95%) Linux
4 22 (8.53%) Windows 10
5 17 (6.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (2.71%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.55%) Unix
7 4 (1.55%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.55%) Windows 8
7 4 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.78%) Check Point GAiA
9 2 (0.78%) VMS
10 1 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.64%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (22.09%) Customer Service
2 57 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (17.05%) Network Management
4 42 (16.28%) ITIL
5 35 (13.57%) Network Design
6 32 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (10.85%) Disaster Recovery
8 24 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (7.36%) Project Delivery
10 18 (6.98%) DevOps
11 17 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (6.20%) Agile
13 15 (5.81%) Customer-Centricity
13 15 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (5.43%) Incident Response
15 13 (5.04%) Cloud Security
15 13 (5.04%) Information Security
16 12 (4.65%) Data Protection
16 12 (4.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.14%) PowerShell
2 18 (6.98%) Python
3 16 (6.20%) SQL
4 13 (5.04%) Bash
5 5 (1.94%) Bicep
6 4 (1.55%) VBA
7 3 (1.16%) Go
8 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 44 (17.05%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (10.47%) CCNA
3 24 (9.30%) Degree
4 16 (6.20%) CCNP
5 15 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.04%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (4.26%) CISSP
8 8 (3.10%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.71%) DBS Check
10 6 (2.33%) SC Cleared
10 6 (2.33%) Security Cleared
11 5 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.94%) CISMP
11 5 (1.94%) GSEC
11 5 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.94%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.55%) CCIE
12 4 (1.55%) CISM
12 4 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.04%) GDPR
3 11 (4.26%) NIST
4 5 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.55%) GRC
5 4 (1.55%) NCSC
6 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 2 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 143 (55.43%) Active Directory
2 81 (31.40%) Hyper-V
3 46 (17.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (12.02%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.16%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (0.78%) Docker
6 2 (0.78%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (27.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (9.30%) FortiGate
3 13 (5.04%) Terraform
4 9 (3.49%) Autotask
5 7 (2.71%) Ansible
6 4 (1.55%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.16%) Grafana
7 3 (1.16%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.16%) SCCM
8 2 (0.78%) Plesk
8 2 (0.78%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.39%) Kibana
9 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 142 (55.04%) Microsoft
2 69 (26.74%) Cisco
3 56 (21.71%) VMware
4 37 (14.34%) SonicWALL
5 25 (9.69%) Veeam
6 22 (8.53%) Fortinet
7 17 (6.59%) Meraki
8 16 (6.20%) Aruba
9 15 (5.81%) HP
9 15 (5.81%) WatchGuard
10 13 (5.04%) Dell
10 13 (5.04%) Palo Alto
10 13 (5.04%) Sage
10 13 (5.04%) Supermicro
11 11 (4.26%) Apple
11 11 (4.26%) Sophos
12 10 (3.88%) Citrix
13 8 (3.10%) ESET
14 7 (2.71%) CheckPoint
14 7 (2.71%) Juniper