NGFW Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.52% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.53% - -
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 - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £62,500 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 19 28 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 4.92% 28.28% 19.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 58
10th Percentile - - £24,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £37,500 £51,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £38,125 £55,750
Staffordshire median annual salary £31,125 £35,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -11.07% -10.26% +0.22%

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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