Firewall Jobs in the North of England

Firewall
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 63 70
Rank change year-on-year -67 +7 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 287 600 754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.48% 3.31% 4.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.92% 27.40% 23.80%
Number of salaries quoted 177 495 507
10th Percentile £30,300 £26,750 £29,800
25th Percentile £33,250 £33,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%

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 2,221 2,190 3,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.19% 12.10% 19.06%
Number of salaries quoted 912 1,683 1,246
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £47,313 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the North of England.

Salary trend for Firewall in the North of England

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 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 28 May 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 -5 149 £40,000 -11.11% 265
North West -96 118 £52,750 +5.50% 298
North East -4 20 £37,500 -6.25% 89
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (11.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) IIS
4 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (5.57%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.09%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.66%) Azure
2 77 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (11.15%) AWS
4 30 (10.45%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.83%) GCP
6 10 (3.48%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.09%) Nutanix
8 6 (2.09%) OCI
8 6 (2.09%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.09%) SaaS
9 4 (1.39%) Azure AI
9 4 (1.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.39%) IaaS
9 4 (1.39%) PaaS
9 4 (1.39%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 77 (26.83%) WAN
2 72 (25.09%) VPN
3 67 (23.34%) LAN
4 60 (20.91%) DNS
5 39 (13.59%) Network Security
6 38 (13.24%) TCP/IP
7 35 (12.20%) DHCP
8 22 (7.67%) OSPF
9 21 (7.32%) BGP
10 20 (6.97%) SD-WAN
11 19 (6.62%) VLAN
11 19 (6.62%) Wireless
12 18 (6.27%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (5.57%) VoIP
14 13 (4.53%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (4.53%) MPLS
15 12 (4.18%) SAN
16 11 (3.83%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (3.48%) Cisco Nexus
18 9 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.09%) Power BI
3 5 (1.74%) MySQL
4 4 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.70%) EDMS
5 2 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.35%) Big Data
6 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.48%) JIRA
2 8 (2.79%) Git
2 8 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 120 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (7.67%) Presentation Skills
3 21 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.62%) Manufacturing
5 13 (4.53%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.83%) Finance
7 10 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.09%) Retail
9 4 (1.39%) Automotive
10 3 (1.05%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Local Government
11 2 (0.70%) Marketing
11 2 (0.70%) Police
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (17.42%) IT Engineer
2 45 (15.68%) Architect
3 36 (12.54%) Network Engineer
4 31 (10.80%) Technical Support
5 29 (10.10%) Junior
6 27 (9.41%) IT Support
7 24 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (7.67%) Junior Architect
8 22 (7.67%) Junior Solutions Architect
9 21 (7.32%) Analyst
10 20 (6.97%) Support Engineer
11 19 (6.62%) Instrumentation Engineer
12 17 (5.92%) Senior
13 16 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (5.57%) Support Analyst
14 15 (5.23%) Security Engineer
14 15 (5.23%) Technical Engineer
15 14 (4.88%) Support Specialist
15 14 (4.88%) Technical Support Engineer
16 13 (4.53%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.09%) LDAP
2 2 (0.70%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.70%) Middleware
3 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.35%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.35%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.86%) Operational Technology
2 20 (6.97%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.53%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.18%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.79%) FMCG
6 8 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.79%) Social Media
6 8 (2.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.09%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.09%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.74%) NHS
10 4 (1.39%) Anti-Spyware
11 3 (1.05%) CCTV
11 3 (1.05%) Clustering
11 3 (1.05%) Housing Association
11 3 (1.05%) PKI
11 3 (1.05%) Replication
12 2 (0.70%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 167 (58.19%) Windows
2 61 (21.25%) Windows Server
3 28 (9.76%) Linux
4 16 (5.57%) Windows 10
5 11 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.79%) Android
6 8 (2.79%) Windows Vista
7 7 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.74%) Unix
9 4 (1.39%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.70%) Debian
10 2 (0.70%) Solaris
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.35%) CentOS
11 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (35.54%) Cybersecurity
2 84 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (22.65%) Network Design
4 61 (21.25%) Network Management
5 35 (12.20%) Customer Service
6 28 (9.76%) Presales
7 27 (9.41%) Vulnerability Management
8 26 (9.06%) SIEM
9 25 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (8.71%) Incident Response
10 23 (8.01%) Mentoring
11 22 (7.67%) Security Architecture
12 21 (7.32%) Incident Management
12 21 (7.32%) Information Security
13 20 (6.97%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (6.97%) ITIL
14 19 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (6.27%) Migration
16 17 (5.92%) Computer Science
17 16 (5.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (11.15%) SQL
2 26 (9.06%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.92%) Python
4 5 (1.74%) Bicep
5 4 (1.39%) Bash
6 3 (1.05%) Progress 4GL
7 2 (0.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 58 (20.21%) Cisco Certification
2 43 (14.98%) CCNA
3 29 (10.10%) JNCIA
4 19 (6.62%) CCNP
4 19 (6.62%) Degree
4 19 (6.62%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.62%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.88%) CISSP
5 14 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.18%) DBS Check
6 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.83%) CEH
7 11 (3.83%) CISM
8 8 (2.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (2.79%) CISA
8 8 (2.79%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.09%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.09%) JNCIS
9 6 (2.09%) MCSE
10 5 (1.74%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.62%) GDPR
2 19 (6.62%) NIST
3 7 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.39%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.05%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.05%) SLA
6 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.70%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 134 (46.69%) Active Directory
2 58 (20.21%) Virtual Servers
3 51 (17.77%) Hyper-V
4 48 (16.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.39%) vSphere
7 3 (1.05%) NFS
7 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.70%) Firmware
8 2 (0.70%) KVM
8 2 (0.70%) pfSense
8 2 (0.70%) SRDF
8 2 (0.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.70%) Xen
9 1 (0.35%) Docker
9 1 (0.35%) RHEV
9 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.35%) XenApp
9 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (7.67%) Ansible
2 17 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (4.53%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.18%) Terraform
5 9 (3.14%) FortiGate
6 8 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.44%) Proxmox
8 5 (1.74%) SCCM
8 5 (1.74%) WSUS
9 3 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.70%) Puppet
11 1 (0.35%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.35%) cPanel
11 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.35%) Grafana
11 1 (0.35%) Istio
11 1 (0.35%) Nessus
11 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (33.80%) Cisco
1 97 (33.80%) Microsoft
2 58 (20.21%) VMware
3 44 (15.33%) Fortinet
4 34 (11.85%) Palo Alto
5 30 (10.45%) Juniper
6 29 (10.10%) Aruba
7 20 (6.97%) Meraki
8 15 (5.23%) Veeam
9 13 (4.53%) CheckPoint
10 12 (4.18%) SonicWALL
11 10 (3.48%) WatchGuard
12 8 (2.79%) Ubiquiti
13 7 (2.44%) Citrix
13 7 (2.44%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.09%) Arista
14 6 (2.09%) Sophos
15 5 (1.74%) Draytek
16 4 (1.39%) Google
16 4 (1.39%) Perforce