Firewall Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Firewall
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 73 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 1,469 1,259 2,621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 2.08% 3.76% 3.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.14% 22.63% 28.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 985 2,226
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.65%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,041 5,563 9,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.13% 16.60% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,438 3,010 6,746
10th Percentile £27,161 £25,087 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.55% -2.80%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.41%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firewall relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Firewall job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the UK excluding London

Firewall
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
South East +13 468 £47,750 +0.53% 177
North of England +6 363 £45,000 +12.50% 90
Midlands -28 219 £45,000 -2.17% 60
North West +45 197 £42,250 +6.96% 48
East of England +19 160 £42,500 -15.00% 39
South West -58 152 £42,500 +6.25% 49
Yorkshire -43 123 £45,000 +12.50% 31
East Midlands +12 110 £44,472 +11.18% 21
West Midlands -46 109 £56,400 +18.74% 39
Wales -12 55 £45,000 -5.26% 8
Scotland +27 49 £37,750 -20.53% 23
North East -32 43 £45,000 +27.30% 13
Northern Ireland -57 6 £39,000 -25.71% 20
Firewall
UK

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 240 (16.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 234 (15.93%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.84%) IIS
4 14 (0.95%) Confluence
5 5 (0.34%) Apache
5 5 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
5 5 (0.34%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.34%) WordPress
6 3 (0.20%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) nginx
Applications
1 84 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.41%) Raiser’s Edge
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.14%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.068%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.068%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.068%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.068%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 651 (44.32%) Microsoft 365
2 619 (42.14%) Azure
3 332 (22.60%) Entra ID
4 260 (17.70%) AWS
5 60 (4.08%) GCP
6 47 (3.20%) OneDrive
7 44 (3.00%) Mimecast
8 37 (2.52%) GitHub
9 35 (2.38%) IaaS
10 34 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 33 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 33 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 32 (2.18%) SaaS
13 29 (1.97%) Google Workspace
14 28 (1.91%) Power Platform
15 25 (1.70%) PaaS
16 17 (1.16%) OCI
17 16 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 13 (0.88%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 487 (33.15%) VPN
2 431 (29.34%) DNS
3 404 (27.50%) WAN
4 363 (24.71%) LAN
5 303 (20.63%) DHCP
6 275 (18.72%) VLAN
7 238 (16.20%) TCP/IP
8 230 (15.66%) Wi-Fi
9 226 (15.38%) Network Security
10 136 (9.26%) Wireless
11 124 (8.44%) VoIP
12 95 (6.47%) SD-WAN
13 85 (5.79%) BGP
14 59 (4.02%) OSPF
15 56 (3.81%) Internet
16 53 (3.61%) Cisco Nexus
17 48 (3.27%) Cisco ASA
17 48 (3.27%) NGFW
18 44 (3.00%) SAN
19 42 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (4.36%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.16%) MySQL
3 14 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
5 6 (0.41%) GIS
5 6 (0.41%) Power BI
6 5 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.27%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.27%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.14%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.14%) KNIME
8 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.068%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.068%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.068%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.068%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.36%) GitLab
2 20 (1.36%) JIRA
3 16 (1.09%) Git
4 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.20%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.068%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.068%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.068%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.068%) git-flow
6 1 (0.068%) Postman
General
1 534 (36.35%) Social Skills
2 138 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (6.60%) Telecoms
4 95 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.72%) Finance
6 74 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
7 56 (3.81%) Retail
8 54 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (2.72%) Law
10 40 (2.72%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.36%) Marketing
13 19 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.75%) Banking
15 9 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.54%) Military
17 7 (0.48%) Electronics
17 7 (0.48%) Legal
18 4 (0.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 294 (20.01%) IT Support
2 264 (17.97%) IT Engineer
3 260 (17.70%) Support Engineer
4 234 (15.93%) Senior
5 211 (14.36%) Network Engineer
6 193 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 190 (12.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 146 (9.94%) Analyst
9 98 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
10 89 (6.06%) Security Engineer
11 87 (5.92%) Support Technician
12 70 (4.77%) IT Technician
13 66 (4.49%) Senior Network Engineer
14 63 (4.29%) Architect
14 63 (4.29%) Lead
15 59 (4.02%) Network Analyst
16 58 (3.95%) IT Support Technician
17 55 (3.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 53 (3.61%) Consultant
18 53 (3.61%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.18%) LDAP
2 29 (1.97%) XMPP
3 23 (1.57%) Regular Expression
4 17 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (1.16%) JSON
5 14 (0.95%) Middleware
6 12 (0.82%) Jinja
6 12 (0.82%) XML
7 10 (0.68%) Node.js
7 10 (0.68%) YAML
8 9 (0.61%) REST
9 8 (0.54%) .NET
10 7 (0.48%) JSON Schema
10 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.34%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.34%) FreeSWITCH
11 5 (0.34%) YANG
12 4 (0.27%) COM
12 4 (0.27%) DCOM
12 4 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 180 (12.25%) Driving Licence
2 130 (8.85%) Data Centre
3 80 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 64 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 58 (3.95%) Security Posture
7 47 (3.20%) PKI
8 45 (3.06%) Replication
9 33 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
10 25 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 25 (1.70%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.43%) CCTV
13 18 (1.23%) Fibre Optics
14 17 (1.16%) Private Cloud
14 17 (1.16%) Smartphone
15 16 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (1.02%) Clustering
17 14 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 716 (48.74%) Windows
2 457 (31.11%) Windows Server
3 224 (15.25%) Linux
4 109 (7.42%) Windows 10
5 53 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 51 (3.47%) Mac OS
6 51 (3.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 38 (2.59%) Apple iOS
8 32 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (2.11%) Android
10 22 (1.50%) VMS
11 20 (1.36%) Ubuntu
12 15 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
13 13 (0.88%) Debian
14 12 (0.82%) Unix
15 9 (0.61%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.48%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.41%) CentOS
17 6 (0.41%) Solaris
17 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (28.66%) Problem-Solving
2 389 (26.48%) Cybersecurity
3 272 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 245 (16.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 234 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 225 (15.32%) Customer Service
7 214 (14.57%) ITIL
8 184 (12.53%) SIEM
9 172 (11.71%) Mentoring
10 138 (9.39%) Project Delivery
11 123 (8.37%) Service Delivery
12 121 (8.24%) Incident Response
12 121 (8.24%) Vulnerability Management
13 113 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 109 (7.42%) High Availability
15 106 (7.22%) Business Continuity
16 103 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 87 (5.92%) CI/CD
17 87 (5.92%) DevOps
18 79 (5.38%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 224 (15.25%) PowerShell
2 165 (11.23%) Python
3 105 (7.15%) SQL
4 86 (5.85%) Bash
5 22 (1.50%) Go
6 19 (1.29%) Bicep
7 13 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 11 (0.75%) VBA
9 10 (0.68%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.61%) Perl
11 8 (0.54%) C++
12 7 (0.48%) Search Processing Language
13 6 (0.41%) C#
13 6 (0.41%) Korn
14 5 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.34%) Ruby
15 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.20%) C
16 3 (0.20%) Java
17 2 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 226 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 194 (13.21%) Cisco Certification
3 161 (10.96%) Degree
4 128 (8.71%) SC Cleared
5 116 (7.90%) CCNA
6 115 (7.83%) CCNP
7 110 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 86 (5.85%) DV Cleared
9 62 (4.22%) Azure Certification
10 44 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 44 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
11 43 (2.93%) DBS Check
12 37 (2.52%) CISSP
13 27 (1.84%) CCIE
14 26 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
15 24 (1.63%) AWS Certification
16 19 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
16 19 (1.29%) CEH
16 19 (1.29%) CISM
17 16 (1.09%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (10.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 128 (8.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 84 (5.72%) SLA
4 81 (5.51%) GDPR
5 66 (4.49%) NIST
6 34 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 32 (2.18%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.57%) GRC
9 16 (1.09%) ISO 9001
9 16 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 13 (0.88%) QA
11 10 (0.68%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.61%) NCSC
13 8 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.34%) PMO
15 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 539 (36.69%) Active Directory
2 294 (20.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 289 (19.67%) Hyper-V
4 71 (4.83%) vSphere
5 38 (2.59%) Docker
6 31 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (1.91%) VMware NSX
8 26 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
9 22 (1.50%) Firmware
9 22 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
11 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 10 (0.68%) KVM
13 8 (0.54%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 7 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
15 5 (0.34%) BitLocker
15 5 (0.34%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.34%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.20%) iptables
16 3 (0.20%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 178 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 114 (7.76%) Terraform
3 94 (6.40%) Ansible
4 58 (3.95%) Kubernetes
5 48 (3.27%) Grafana
6 42 (2.86%) FortiGate
7 40 (2.72%) Proxmox
8 37 (2.52%) Prometheus
9 26 (1.77%) SCCM
10 13 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 13 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 12 (0.82%) QRadar
12 11 (0.75%) Autotask
12 11 (0.75%) Puppet
13 10 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
14 9 (0.61%) Graylog
14 9 (0.61%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 831 (56.57%) Microsoft
2 385 (26.21%) VMware
3 358 (24.37%) Cisco
4 146 (9.94%) Fortinet
5 122 (8.30%) Palo Alto
6 99 (6.74%) Aruba
7 98 (6.67%) Veeam
8 63 (4.29%) Meraki
9 58 (3.95%) Juniper
10 55 (3.74%) SonicWALL
11 54 (3.68%) Google
12 49 (3.34%) Sophos
13 46 (3.13%) HP
14 43 (2.93%) Splunk
15 42 (2.86%) Red Hat
16 37 (2.52%) Dell
17 36 (2.45%) CheckPoint
18 33 (2.25%) Qualys
19 29 (1.97%) Apple
20 27 (1.84%) McAfee