Firewall Jobs in the North West

Firewall
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 84 72
Rank change year-on-year -49 -12 +28
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 145 270 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.91% 2.78% 4.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.24% 23.52% 22.13%
Number of salaries quoted 123 230 255
10th Percentile £33,670 £26,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £33,875 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,125 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,095 1,148 1,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.46% 11.81% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 458 876 680
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -4.26% +3.87%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the North West

Firewall
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester -10 51 £62,500 +8.70% 70
Lancashire -35 38 £51,250 +13.89% 26
Merseyside +29 27 £40,000 -16.67% 7
Cheshire +7 20 £37,500 - 16
Cumbria -74 9 £54,000 +57.66% 11
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 26 (17.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (11.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.07%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.76%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.97%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (23.45%) Azure
3 12 (8.28%) AWS
4 11 (7.59%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.76%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.07%) GCP
7 3 (2.07%) IaaS
7 3 (2.07%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.07%) SaaS
8 2 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.38%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.69%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 59 (40.69%) WAN
2 54 (37.24%) LAN
3 40 (27.59%) DNS
4 27 (18.62%) DHCP
5 25 (17.24%) VPN
6 17 (11.72%) Intrusion Detection
6 17 (11.72%) TCP/IP
7 14 (9.66%) SD-WAN
8 13 (8.97%) Network Security
8 13 (8.97%) VLAN
9 11 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (6.21%) IPsec
11 8 (5.52%) BGP
11 8 (5.52%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (5.52%) OSPF
11 8 (5.52%) VoIP
12 7 (4.83%) EIGRP
12 7 (4.83%) IPv4
13 6 (4.14%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (4.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.38%) Power BI
3 1 (0.69%) Big Data
3 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.69%) MySQL
3 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.83%) JIRA
2 4 (2.76%) Git
3 3 (2.07%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 85 (58.62%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.93%) Presentation Skills
3 20 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.03%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.52%) Retail
6 7 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Automotive
7 5 (3.45%) Finance
7 5 (3.45%) Legal
8 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.38%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (31.72%) Architect
2 29 (20.00%) Junior
3 24 (16.55%) Junior Architect
3 24 (16.55%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 24 (16.55%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (13.79%) Analyst
5 19 (13.10%) IT Support
6 17 (11.72%) Technical Support
7 16 (11.03%) Security Architect
8 14 (9.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Network Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Senior
9 13 (8.97%) Support Specialist
10 10 (6.90%) IT Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Support Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) 2nd Line Support
12 8 (5.52%) IT Analyst
12 8 (5.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) IT Support Analyst
12 8 (5.52%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.76%) LDAP
2 3 (2.07%) SAML
3 2 (1.38%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.38%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (1.38%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.69%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.93%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (13.10%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.10%) Security Posture
3 14 (9.66%) Social Media
3 14 (9.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 8 (5.52%) FMCG
5 6 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.76%) Anti-Spyware
6 4 (2.76%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) Replication
7 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.38%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.38%) Life Science
8 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.69%) NHS
9 1 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (44.14%) Windows
2 32 (22.07%) Windows Server
3 19 (13.10%) Linux
4 17 (11.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (9.66%) Windows Vista
6 8 (5.52%) Android
6 8 (5.52%) Unix
7 7 (4.83%) Windows 10
8 5 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.76%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.76%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.38%) Debian
11 1 (0.69%) CentOS
11 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (37.24%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (22.76%) Presales
4 24 (16.55%) Information Security
5 21 (14.48%) Vulnerability Management
6 20 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (12.41%) Identity Management
7 18 (12.41%) Security Architecture
8 17 (11.72%) Cloud Security
8 17 (11.72%) SIEM
9 16 (11.03%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.03%) Ethical Hacking
9 16 (11.03%) Incident Response
9 16 (11.03%) TOGAF
10 15 (10.34%) DevSecOps
10 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (10.34%) Risk Management
11 14 (9.66%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (9.66%) Proactive Management
11 14 (9.66%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.72%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.76%) Python
3 2 (1.38%) Bash
3 2 (1.38%) Bicep
3 2 (1.38%) SQL
4 1 (0.69%) C#
4 1 (0.69%) Go
4 1 (0.69%) Java
4 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.69%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 52 (35.86%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (22.76%) CCNA
3 27 (18.62%) JNCIA
4 18 (12.41%) CISSP
5 17 (11.72%) Degree
6 16 (11.03%) CEH
6 16 (11.03%) CISM
7 14 (9.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (9.66%) CISA
7 14 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (9.66%) DBS Check
7 14 (9.66%) Master's Degree
8 10 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
8 10 (6.90%) Security Cleared
9 7 (4.83%) CCNP
10 4 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.07%) CCIE
11 3 (2.07%) MCSE
12 2 (1.38%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.72%) GDPR
1 17 (11.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (11.72%) NIST
2 4 (2.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.07%) PMO
4 1 (0.69%) NCSC
4 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (25.52%) Active Directory
2 28 (19.31%) Hyper-V
3 23 (15.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.21%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.07%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.38%) vSphere
7 1 (0.69%) Docker
7 1 (0.69%) NFS
7 1 (0.69%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.14%) Ansible
4 5 (3.45%) Proxmox
5 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.76%) Terraform
6 3 (2.07%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (2.07%) SCCM
7 1 (0.69%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.69%) cPanel
7 1 (0.69%) Grafana
7 1 (0.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.69%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 71 (48.97%) Cisco
2 43 (29.66%) Fortinet
3 39 (26.90%) Microsoft
4 35 (24.14%) Juniper
4 35 (24.14%) Palo Alto
5 33 (22.76%) Aruba
6 25 (17.24%) VMware
7 15 (10.34%) Meraki
8 12 (8.28%) Veeam
9 9 (6.21%) SonicWALL
9 9 (6.21%) WatchGuard
10 8 (5.52%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.14%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.45%) Kaseya
13 4 (2.76%) Apple
13 4 (2.76%) Okta
13 4 (2.76%) Perforce
13 4 (2.76%) SolarWinds
14 3 (2.07%) Aderant
14 3 (2.07%) Sophos