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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 88 70
Rank change year-on-year -86 -18 +36
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 140 264 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.75% 2.68% 4.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.28% 22.84% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 115 228 257
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £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% -2.91%

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 1,362 1,156 1,614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.06% 11.74% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 451 876 676
10th Percentile - £26,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -5.26% +0.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £73,088
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 14 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 14 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 -25 51 £62,500 +8.70% 91
Lancashire -55 34 £52,750 +17.22% 32
Merseyside +27 26 £33,500 -27.96% 5
Cheshire -27 19 £37,500 - 19
Cumbria -64 10 £53,000 +54.74% 10
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 21 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.86%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (24.29%) Azure
3 12 (8.57%) AWS
4 11 (7.86%) Entra ID
5 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (2.86%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.14%) GCP
7 3 (2.14%) IaaS
7 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.14%) SaaS
8 2 (1.43%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.43%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.43%) PaaS
8 2 (1.43%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 58 (41.43%) WAN
2 50 (35.71%) LAN
3 39 (27.86%) DNS
4 25 (17.86%) VPN
5 23 (16.43%) DHCP
6 17 (12.14%) Intrusion Detection
7 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 13 (9.29%) SD-WAN
9 12 (8.57%) Network Security
10 10 (7.14%) VLAN
11 9 (6.43%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (5.71%) BGP
12 8 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (5.71%) IPsec
12 8 (5.71%) OSPF
13 7 (5.00%) EIGRP
13 7 (5.00%) MPLS
13 7 (5.00%) VoIP
14 6 (4.29%) HTTP
14 6 (4.29%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.14%) MySQL
2 3 (2.14%) Power BI
3 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Git
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 88 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.57%) Presentation Skills
3 19 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.00%) Retail
6 4 (2.86%) Automotive
6 4 (2.86%) Finance
7 3 (2.14%) Legal
7 3 (2.14%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.71%) Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Electronics
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (34.29%) Architect
2 31 (22.14%) Junior
3 24 (17.14%) Junior Architect
3 24 (17.14%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 24 (17.14%) Solutions Architect
4 19 (13.57%) IT Support
4 19 (13.57%) Technical Support
5 16 (11.43%) Security Architect
6 15 (10.71%) Analyst
7 13 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.29%) Network Engineer
7 13 (9.29%) Senior
7 13 (9.29%) Support Specialist
8 11 (7.86%) Support Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) IT Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
11 8 (5.71%) IT Analyst
11 8 (5.71%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) LDAP
2 2 (1.43%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.71%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.71%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.71%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.71%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (13.57%) Management Information System
3 18 (12.86%) Security Posture
4 14 (10.00%) Social Media
4 14 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 8 (5.71%) FMCG
6 6 (4.29%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.29%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.86%) Anti-Spyware
8 3 (2.14%) NHS
9 2 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.43%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.43%) Replication
10 1 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.71%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 63 (45.00%) Windows
2 33 (23.57%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.43%) Linux
4 14 (10.00%) Windows Vista
5 13 (9.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (5.71%) Android
7 7 (5.00%) Unix
7 7 (5.00%) Windows 10
8 3 (2.14%) Mac OS
8 3 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.43%) Debian
9 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.71%) CentOS
10 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.71%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (26.43%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (22.86%) Presales
4 22 (15.71%) Information Security
5 19 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (13.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 18 (12.86%) Identity Management
6 18 (12.86%) Security Architecture
6 18 (12.86%) TOGAF
7 17 (12.14%) SIEM
8 16 (11.43%) Cloud Security
8 16 (11.43%) Computer Science
8 16 (11.43%) Ethical Hacking
8 16 (11.43%) Incident Response
9 15 (10.71%) DevSecOps
9 15 (10.71%) Risk Management
10 14 (10.00%) Data Protection
10 14 (10.00%) Information Assurance
10 14 (10.00%) Proactive Management
10 14 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.86%) SQL
3 3 (2.14%) Bicep
3 3 (2.14%) Python
4 2 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (0.71%) C#
5 1 (0.71%) Go
5 1 (0.71%) Java
5 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.71%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 51 (36.43%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (22.86%) CCNA
3 27 (19.29%) JNCIA
4 18 (12.86%) CISSP
5 17 (12.14%) Degree
6 16 (11.43%) CEH
6 16 (11.43%) CISM
6 16 (11.43%) DBS Check
7 14 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (10.00%) CISA
7 14 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (10.00%) Master's Degree
8 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
8 8 (5.71%) Security Cleared
9 6 (4.29%) CCNP
10 4 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (2.14%) CCIE
11 3 (2.14%) MCSE
12 2 (1.43%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.14%) GDPR
1 17 (12.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (12.14%) NIST
2 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.71%) NCSC
3 1 (0.71%) PMO
3 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 23 (16.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.43%) vSphere
6 1 (0.71%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.71%) Docker
6 1 (0.71%) NFS
6 1 (0.71%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.00%) Proxmox
2 7 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.29%) Ansible
4 4 (2.86%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.14%) SCCM
5 3 (2.14%) Terraform
6 1 (0.71%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.71%) cPanel
6 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.71%) Grafana
6 1 (0.71%) Istio
6 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 74 (52.86%) Cisco
2 43 (30.71%) Fortinet
3 38 (27.14%) Microsoft
4 35 (25.00%) Juniper
4 35 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 33 (23.57%) Aruba
6 25 (17.86%) VMware
7 16 (11.43%) Meraki
8 12 (8.57%) Veeam
9 9 (6.43%) SonicWALL
9 9 (6.43%) WatchGuard
10 8 (5.71%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.57%) Sophos
13 4 (2.86%) Kaseya
13 4 (2.86%) Okta
13 4 (2.86%) Perforce
14 3 (2.14%) Acronis
14 3 (2.14%) Synology
14 3 (2.14%) Ubiquiti