Firewall Job Trends in Northampton

Firewall
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +10
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 2 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 0.77% 2.09% 3.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 45.45% 35.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile - - £45,300
25th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +55.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £52,500 £83,750 £57,000
90th Percentile - - £58,800
Northamptonshire median annual salary £37,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -42.31% +30.00% +21.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 11 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 5.36% 4.60% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 19
10th Percentile £26,375 - £25,000
25th Percentile £30,313 £26,250 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -32.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50,000 £83,750 £57,000
90th Percentile £52,250 - £62,750
Northamptonshire median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +3.09%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Firewall job vacancy trend in Northampton

Firewall
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) LAN Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) WAN Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Progress