Firewall Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Firewall
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 30 44
Rank change year-on-year -38 +14 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 8 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.84% 2.20% 3.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.23% 26.09% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £30,750 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 - £37,500
75th Percentile £32,250 - £52,500
90th Percentile £42,850 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,596 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +7.34% -2.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 153 23 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 16.05% 8.42% 13.93%
Number of salaries quoted 27 5 36
10th Percentile £30,750 £33,102 £29,375
25th Percentile £30,875 £47,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +53.33% +4.90%
75th Percentile £65,625 £87,500 £60,938
90th Percentile £70,000 £104,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £44,360 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.28% +5.26% -6.86%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Northern Ireland

Firewall
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
County Antrim -24 8 £31,500 - 3
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) LAN
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) MPLS
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) SNA
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) NOC Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCSP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft