Firewall Jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Firewall
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 40 27
Rank change year-on-year +32 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 19 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 18.63% 1.76% 6.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 63.33% 9.09% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 19 6 11
10th Percentile - £25,250 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £27,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +38.46% -45.83%
75th Percentile £37,500 £57,500 £37,183
90th Percentile £38,900 - £42,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £35,000 £39,000 £39,539
% change year-on-year -10.26% -1.36% -28.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 66 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 29.41% 19.35% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 27 58 27
10th Percentile - £24,500 £27,600
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% -10.34%
75th Percentile £37,500 £51,938 £45,625
90th Percentile £38,000 £55,750 £60,000
Staffordshire median annual salary £35,000 £39,000 £38,914
% change year-on-year -10.26% +0.22% -5.09%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Stoke-on-Trent

Firewall
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Stoke-on-Trent.

Salary trend for Firewall in Stoke-on-Trent

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Google Workspace
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) DHCP
1 16 (84.21%) DNS
1 16 (84.21%) VLAN
2 15 (78.95%) BGP
2 15 (78.95%) OSPF
2 15 (78.95%) TCP/IP
2 15 (78.95%) WLAN
3 1 (5.26%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
General
1 16 (84.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (78.95%) Automotive
2 15 (78.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) IT Engineer
2 15 (78.95%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (89.47%) Management Information System
2 15 (78.95%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows 10
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server 2016
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server 2019
3 15 (78.95%) Linux
3 15 (78.95%) Mac OS X
3 15 (78.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Business Case
1 15 (78.95%) Computer Science
1 15 (78.95%) Performance Tuning
1 15 (78.95%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
2 2 (10.53%) Information Security
2 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (10.53%) SIEM
3 1 (5.26%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.26%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (84.21%) PowerShell
2 15 (78.95%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Degree
2 15 (78.95%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (78.95%) HNC
2 15 (78.95%) HND
2 15 (78.95%) MCSE
2 15 (78.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Cisco
2 15 (78.95%) Apple
2 15 (78.95%) Dell
2 15 (78.95%) Fortinet
2 15 (78.95%) Google
2 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (78.95%) Ubiquiti
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Acronis
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam