NGFW Job Trends in Warrington

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warrington 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Warrington 0.18% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - -
75th Percentile £38,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warrington

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 Warrington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 122 34 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warrington 21.79% 28.81% 21.00%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 72
10th Percentile £25,087 - £24,807
25th Percentile £29,000 - £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £23,504 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +80.82% -45.97% +16.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £37,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £38,000 £59,750
Cheshire median annual salary £30,500 £37,000 £37,750
% change year-on-year -17.57% -1.99% -8.48%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NGFW relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

NGFW job vacancy trend in Warrington

NGFW
Salary Trend in Warrington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing NGFW.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing NGFW

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Password Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft