Firewall Jobs in Staffordshire

Firewall
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 42 35
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 30 47 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 4.79% 4.62% 5.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 56.60% 31.76% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 27 38 28
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,200 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £38,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% -4.38% -27.27%
75th Percentile £39,500 £53,750 £44,875
90th Percentile £53,688 £57,500 £58,750
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,375
% change year-on-year - -0.83% +0.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 53 148 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 8.47% 14.55% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47 115 78
10th Percentile £28,600 £25,450 £22,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £44,449 £52,500 £45,000
90th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £61,125
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Staffordshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in Staffordshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Staffordshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Stoke-on-Trent +28 17 £35,000 - 3
Stafford -5 4 £53,688 -
Burton-upon-Trent +3 2 £27,500 -47.62%
Firewall
West Midlands

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Google Workspace
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) BGP
1 14 (46.67%) DHCP
1 14 (46.67%) DNS
1 14 (46.67%) OSPF
1 14 (46.67%) VLAN
2 13 (43.33%) TCP/IP
2 13 (43.33%) WLAN
3 5 (16.67%) VPN
4 3 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) IPsec
5 1 (3.33%) NAS
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
5 1 (3.33%) SAN
5 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Automotive
2 13 (43.33%) Retail
3 4 (13.33%) Police
4 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 13 (43.33%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) IT Support
6 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Operations Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Project Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Support
7 1 (3.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Information Security Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Management Information System
2 13 (43.33%) Smartphone
3 3 (10.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (10.00%) PKI
3 3 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (76.67%) Windows
2 19 (63.33%) Windows Server
3 15 (50.00%) Linux
4 14 (46.67%) Windows 10
4 14 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (43.33%) Mac OS X
5 13 (43.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 13 (43.33%) Business Case
2 13 (43.33%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (43.33%) Systems Engineering
3 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 6 (20.00%) ITIL
5 5 (16.67%) Information Security
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Security Operations
7 3 (10.00%) Identity Management
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Security Management
7 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.67%) Ethical Hacking
8 2 (6.67%) Information Security Management
8 2 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (6.67%) Process Improvement
8 2 (6.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 13 (43.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Degree
2 14 (46.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (43.33%) HNC
3 13 (43.33%) HND
3 13 (43.33%) MCSE
3 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (10.00%) A+ Certification
5 2 (6.67%) APMG
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (6.67%) Cyber Scheme
5 2 (6.67%) GIAC
5 2 (6.67%) ISACA
5 2 (6.67%) SANS
6 1 (3.33%) CCNP
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.33%) CISSP
6 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (53.33%) Apple
2 16 (53.33%) Dell
3 15 (50.00%) Cisco
4 13 (43.33%) Fortinet
4 13 (43.33%) Google
4 13 (43.33%) Ubiquiti
5 6 (20.00%) VMware
6 4 (13.33%) HP
6 4 (13.33%) Veeam
7 3 (10.00%) Sophos
8 1 (3.33%) Acronis
8 1 (3.33%) Aruba
8 1 (3.33%) F5
8 1 (3.33%) Juniper