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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 92 68
Rank change year-on-year -8 -24 +1
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 340 321 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.63% 3.41% 2.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.22% 17.48% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 302 212 429
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £29,200
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,599 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57,435 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -6.86%

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 1,249 1,836 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.98% 19.53% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 869 837 1,489
10th Percentile £27,161 £25,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.29% -8.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £49,000 £61,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.47%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +48 185 £42,250 +9.74% 37
Yorkshire -47 117 £45,000 +12.50% 24
North East -43 38 £45,000 +27.30% 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 68 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (18.24%) SharePoint
3 12 (3.53%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 169 (49.71%) Microsoft 365
2 162 (47.65%) Azure
3 99 (29.12%) Entra ID
4 68 (20.00%) AWS
5 22 (6.47%) GCP
5 22 (6.47%) GitHub
6 20 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 19 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.41%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.53%) SaaS
10 11 (3.24%) Google Workspace
10 11 (3.24%) IaaS
11 10 (2.94%) Mimecast
12 9 (2.65%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.76%) OCI
14 5 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.18%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 104 (30.59%) DNS
2 97 (28.53%) VPN
3 82 (24.12%) WAN
4 79 (23.24%) DHCP
5 78 (22.94%) TCP/IP
6 72 (21.18%) VLAN
7 68 (20.00%) LAN
8 55 (16.18%) Network Security
9 47 (13.82%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (11.76%) VoIP
11 38 (11.18%) SD-WAN
12 35 (10.29%) Wireless
13 24 (7.06%) BGP
14 20 (5.88%) OSPF
15 17 (5.00%) NGFW
16 14 (4.12%) HTTP
17 13 (3.82%) VXLAN
18 12 (3.53%) Cisco ASA
18 12 (3.53%) Cisco Nexus
19 11 (3.24%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.59%) GIS
5 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.29%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.53%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.59%) Git
3 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 155 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.35%) Law
4 20 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.71%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (4.12%) Finance
8 5 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.18%) Social Housing
10 3 (0.88%) Advertising
10 3 (0.88%) Legal
10 3 (0.88%) Retail
11 1 (0.29%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.29%) German Language
11 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 80 (23.53%) IT Support
2 71 (20.88%) Support Engineer
3 57 (16.76%) IT Engineer
4 54 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 49 (14.41%) Network Engineer
6 47 (13.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 46 (13.53%) Senior
8 26 (7.65%) Security Engineer
9 23 (6.76%) Analyst
10 21 (6.18%) IT Technician
11 19 (5.59%) IT Support Technician
11 19 (5.59%) Lead
11 19 (5.59%) Support Technician
12 18 (5.29%) 2nd Line Support
12 18 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support
13 17 (5.00%) IT Manager
14 16 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.71%) Consultant
14 16 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (2.35%) Middleware
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Graph
4 5 (1.47%) FreeSWITCH
5 2 (0.59%) .NET
5 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.59%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.59%) Ajax
5 2 (0.59%) boto
5 2 (0.59%) CSS
5 2 (0.59%) Flask
5 2 (0.59%) HTML
5 2 (0.59%) Jinja
5 2 (0.59%) jQuery
5 2 (0.59%) Node.js
5 2 (0.59%) OpenLayers
5 2 (0.59%) SAML
5 2 (0.59%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.29%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.88%) Driving Licence
2 39 (11.47%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (4.71%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (4.41%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.94%) CCTV
8 7 (2.06%) Life Science
8 7 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Licensing
9 6 (1.76%) PKI
10 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.88%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.88%) Cyberattack
12 3 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 158 (46.47%) Windows
2 114 (33.53%) Windows Server
3 32 (9.41%) Windows 10
4 31 (9.12%) Linux
5 15 (4.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.24%) Android
7 11 (3.24%) Mac OS
8 10 (2.94%) Debian
8 10 (2.94%) VMS
9 9 (2.65%) Apple iOS
10 7 (2.06%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.76%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.76%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.29%) CentOS
12 1 (0.29%) Solaris
12 1 (0.29%) Unix
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (34.12%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (23.24%) Cybersecurity
3 78 (22.94%) Disaster Recovery
4 71 (20.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 60 (17.65%) Customer Service
6 55 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (12.94%) Mentoring
8 42 (12.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (11.47%) Service Delivery
10 36 (10.59%) ITIL
11 35 (10.29%) High Availability
12 34 (10.00%) Business Continuity
12 34 (10.00%) Incident Response
12 34 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 33 (9.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 32 (9.41%) DevOps
15 31 (9.12%) Migration
16 29 (8.53%) CI/CD
17 28 (8.24%) SIEM
18 24 (7.06%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 54 (15.88%) Python
2 50 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 27 (7.94%) SQL
4 20 (5.88%) Bash
5 13 (3.82%) Go
6 11 (3.24%) Bicep
7 4 (1.18%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (12.94%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (9.41%) Degree
3 26 (7.65%) CCNA
4 24 (7.06%) Azure Certification
4 24 (7.06%) CCNP
5 23 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.53%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (3.53%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.53%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.65%) CCIE
7 9 (2.65%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.88%) CISSP
10 3 (0.88%) MCSA
11 2 (0.59%) CEH
11 2 (0.59%) CISM
11 2 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.24%) Cyber Essentials
1 45 (13.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.65%) NIST
3 23 (6.76%) GDPR
4 9 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (2.35%) SLA
6 4 (1.18%) PMO
7 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 124 (36.47%) Active Directory
2 67 (19.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (15.88%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.06%) vSphere
5 6 (1.76%) Docker
5 6 (1.76%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (1.18%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.88%) iptables
7 3 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.59%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.29%) KVM
9 1 (0.29%) MetaFrame
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 70 (20.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (12.65%) Terraform
3 31 (9.12%) Ansible
4 20 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 14 (4.12%) Kubernetes
6 13 (3.82%) Grafana
7 12 (3.53%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.65%) Autotask
8 9 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (2.06%) SCCM
10 4 (1.18%) Puppet
11 3 (0.88%) cPanel
11 3 (0.88%) Plesk
11 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.59%) Nessus
12 2 (0.59%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 202 (59.41%) Microsoft
2 78 (22.94%) VMware
3 75 (22.06%) Cisco
4 22 (6.47%) Fortinet
5 20 (5.88%) Juniper
5 20 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 20 (5.88%) Veeam
6 18 (5.29%) Google
7 16 (4.71%) Meraki
8 14 (4.12%) Aruba
8 14 (4.12%) CheckPoint
9 13 (3.82%) SonicWALL
10 11 (3.24%) Arista
11 9 (2.65%) Apple
11 9 (2.65%) Sophos
12 8 (2.35%) F5
13 7 (2.06%) iManage
13 7 (2.06%) NetScout
13 7 (2.06%) SolarWinds
13 7 (2.06%) Ubiquiti