Firewall Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 46 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 17 54 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.81% 4.06% 6.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.54% 30.86% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 17 50 55
10th Percentile £30,359 £33,500 £31,100
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,938 £48,750
90th Percentile - £72,500 £76,800
North East median annual salary £37,500 £42,328 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.41% -0.41% +13.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 87 175 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.51% 13.16% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 60 165 94
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £58,125 £53,750 £49,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,687 £72,125
North East median annual salary £25,087 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -40.97% +3.66% +2.50%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Tyne and Wear

Firewall
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 7 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 12 £48,750 +14.71% 11
Gateshead +5 2 £37,000 -4.52% 2
Prudhoe - 2 £45,000 -
Sunderland +19 1 £28,000 -44.00% 3
Firewall
North East

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) VPN
2 5 (29.41%) Intrusion Detection
2 5 (29.41%) Network Security
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) Internet
4 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
4 2 (11.76%) VoIP
4 2 (11.76%) Wireless
5 1 (5.88%) BGP
5 1 (5.88%) FTP
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) NAS
5 1 (5.88%) OSPF
5 1 (5.88%) PSTN
5 1 (5.88%) SAN
5 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) EDMS
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Security Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Support
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior IT Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Technician
5 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support
5 1 (5.88%) IT Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Housing Association
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.88%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Continuity
1 6 (35.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 4 (23.53%) BCP
3 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity Planning
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (23.53%) SIEM
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (11.76%) Change Control
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.76%) Information Security
5 2 (11.76%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Progress 4GL
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CCDA
2 1 (5.88%) CCNA
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CISM
2 1 (5.88%) CISSP
2 1 (5.88%) GIAC
2 1 (5.88%) MCSD
2 1 (5.88%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (29.41%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Capita
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Progress
2 2 (11.76%) Sun
2 2 (11.76%) VMware