NGFW Job Trends in Staffordshire

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60,250 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £65,625 - -
90th Percentile £66,750 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

NGFW 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 345 56 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 25.59% 9.77% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 80 49 119
10th Percentile £27,694 £28,800 £25,650
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,125 £35,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% -10.26% +0.22%
75th Percentile £51,250 £51,251 £51,375
90th Percentile £68,750 £53,688 £55,000
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £48,000 £43,227
% change year-on-year -11.46% +11.04% -3.94%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

NGFW job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

NGFW
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing NGFW.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing NGFW

NGFW
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing NGFW within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £62,500 - 2
NGFW
West Midlands

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto