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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +15
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Firewall 4 14 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 3.42% 5.09% 10.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 24.56% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 20
10th Percentile - £26,700 -
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £41,000 £35,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year +17.14% -19.08% +8.13%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 57 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 22.22% 20.73% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23 47 36
10th Percentile £27,174 £28,850 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £37,500 £44,375 £48,750
90th Percentile £39,500 £56,000 £58,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £35,000 £38,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% -4.38% -3.61%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Firewall

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper