Firewall Jobs in Northamptonshire

Firewall
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 58 58 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 -1
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 22 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.63% 2.16% 4.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.36% 19.15% 27.50%
Number of salaries quoted 22 18 22
10th Percentile £40,000 - £41,250
25th Percentile £46,563 £24,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £57,188
90th Percentile - £56,250 £66,250
East Midlands median annual salary £45,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +7.06% - -10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 235 94 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 28.14% 11.27% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 40 90 51
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,249 £27,500
25th Percentile £26,844 £25,005 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -31.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £75,000
East Midlands median annual salary £38,500 £40,000 £39,750
% change year-on-year -3.75% +0.63% -6.47%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Northamptonshire.

Salary trend for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Northamptonshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -12 6 £50,000 - 6
Wellingborough - 2 £50,000 -
Firewall
East Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (27.27%) IIS
2 6 (27.27%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Cloudflare
2 2 (9.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) DHCP
1 10 (45.45%) DNS
2 9 (40.91%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (40.91%) LAN
2 9 (40.91%) SD-WAN
2 9 (40.91%) WAN
2 9 (40.91%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (27.27%) Remote Desktop
3 6 (27.27%) SAN
4 4 (18.18%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 13 (59.09%) 3rd Line Support
2 13 (59.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 13 (59.09%) Support Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) Cisco Support
4 7 (31.82%) Cisco Support Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) Project Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Network Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Server Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Support
6 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) SAN Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) SAN Support
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 11 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (22.73%) Linux
4 3 (13.64%) CentOS
4 3 (13.64%) Rocky
4 3 (13.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 9 (40.91%) Presales
3 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.09%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (4.55%) Customer Service
5 1 (4.55%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) Network Optimisation
5 1 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.55%) Project Management
5 1 (4.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) CCIE
1 9 (40.91%) CCNP
1 9 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) SLA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 6 (27.27%) Terminal Services
3 6 (27.27%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) HP
2 13 (59.09%) Cisco
3 9 (40.91%) Aruba
3 9 (40.91%) Fortinet
3 9 (40.91%) Meraki
3 9 (40.91%) Palo Alto
4 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
4 8 (36.36%) VMware
5 6 (27.27%) Dell
5 6 (27.27%) NetApp
6 2 (9.09%) Google
6 2 (9.09%) Imperva