Firewall Jobs in the West Midlands

Firewall
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 66 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 255 205 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.64% 4.04% 3.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.24% 23.48% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 207 185 252
10th Percentile £27,650 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,090 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £74,200 £73,700
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -2.89% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 872 873 1,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.46% 17.20% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 555 496 742
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,125
25th Percentile £31,125 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,375 £76,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Firewall in the West Midlands

Firewall
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Birmingham +14 115 £46,500 -22.50% 10
Staffordshire -24 44 £37,500 -10.18% 4
Warwickshire +21 32 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Worcestershire -9 25 £50,000 +25.56% 10
Shropshire +8 11 £37,500 -17.13% 1
Solihull +7 11 £48,800 +14.82% 3
Coventry +14 9 £49,000 +30.67% 3
Sutton Coldfield - 3 - -
Walsall - 1 £36,500 - 1
Halesowen - 1 £42,500 -
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 27 (10.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (9.41%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.35%) IIS
4 2 (0.78%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 124 (48.63%) Azure
2 91 (35.69%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (18.43%) Entra ID
4 19 (7.45%) AWS
5 14 (5.49%) OneDrive
6 12 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (4.31%) Google Workspace
7 11 (4.31%) IaaS
8 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.14%) PaaS
9 7 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.96%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.57%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) GCP
13 2 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.78%) Rubrik
13 2 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (26.27%) WAN
2 58 (22.75%) DNS
2 58 (22.75%) VPN
3 49 (19.22%) Network Security
4 45 (17.65%) LAN
5 39 (15.29%) DHCP
6 38 (14.90%) VLAN
7 34 (13.33%) TCP/IP
8 25 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (9.41%) SD-WAN
10 22 (8.63%) Wireless
11 17 (6.67%) OSPF
11 17 (6.67%) SAN
12 16 (6.27%) MPLS
13 13 (5.10%) BGP
14 12 (4.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 12 (4.71%) Intrusion Detection
14 12 (4.71%) VoIP
15 11 (4.31%) PBX
15 11 (4.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.18%) Power BI
4 2 (0.78%) MySQL
4 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Git
2 5 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.78%) GNU Toolchain
3 2 (0.78%) Subversion
4 1 (0.39%) JIRA
4 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 26 (10.20%) Telecoms
3 24 (9.41%) Finance
4 15 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (5.49%) Retail
6 11 (4.31%) Law
7 10 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.35%) Automotive
11 5 (1.96%) Games
11 5 (1.96%) Police
12 3 (1.18%) Legal
13 2 (0.78%) Back Office
13 2 (0.78%) Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Electronics
13 2 (0.78%) Marketing
13 2 (0.78%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (27.45%) Network Engineer
2 45 (17.65%) Senior
3 39 (15.29%) IT Engineer
4 32 (12.55%) Support Engineer
5 27 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (8.63%) Analyst
7 21 (8.24%) IT Support
7 21 (8.24%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (6.67%) IT Manager
9 16 (6.27%) Architect
10 15 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.31%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 10 (3.92%) Developer
14 9 (3.53%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (3.53%) 3rd Line Support
14 9 (3.53%) Lead
14 9 (3.53%) Security Analyst
15 8 (3.14%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.71%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.75%) JSON
2 7 (2.75%) YAML
3 5 (1.96%) .NET
3 5 (1.96%) REST
4 3 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (1.18%) CSS
4 3 (1.18%) EDI
4 3 (1.18%) HTML
4 3 (1.18%) jQuery
4 3 (1.18%) React
4 3 (1.18%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (1.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (1.18%) Vue
4 3 (1.18%) WPF
5 2 (0.78%) Node.js
5 2 (0.78%) POSIX
5 2 (0.78%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.45%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.88%) Replication
4 12 (4.71%) Clustering
4 12 (4.71%) Driving Licence
4 12 (4.71%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (3.92%) Smartphone
6 9 (3.53%) Wiki
7 8 (3.14%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.35%) CCTV
9 6 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.96%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.96%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.57%) FMCG
11 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) PKI
11 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 106 (41.57%) Windows
2 72 (28.24%) Windows Server
3 39 (15.29%) Windows 10
4 29 (11.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (8.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (7.84%) Linux
7 17 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (2.75%) Mac OS X
9 6 (2.35%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.57%) VMS
10 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.78%) Unix
12 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.88%) Cybersecurity
2 52 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (16.86%) ITIL
4 42 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (9.02%) Customer Service
7 21 (8.24%) Agile
8 19 (7.45%) Information Security
9 17 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
10 15 (5.88%) Computer Science
10 15 (5.88%) Risk Management
10 15 (5.88%) Security Operations
11 13 (5.10%) Change Management
11 13 (5.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (5.10%) Incident Response
11 13 (5.10%) Mentoring
11 13 (5.10%) Network Monitoring
11 13 (5.10%) Server Management
11 13 (5.10%) Service Management
12 12 (4.71%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (16.86%) PowerShell
2 29 (11.37%) SQL
3 9 (3.53%) Python
4 8 (3.14%) C++
4 8 (3.14%) Perl
5 5 (1.96%) C
5 5 (1.96%) Go
5 5 (1.96%) Rust
6 3 (1.18%) C#
6 3 (1.18%) XAML
7 2 (0.78%) Bash
7 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.39%) Bicep
8 1 (0.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 44 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.80%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (9.02%) Degree
5 21 (8.24%) CCNA
6 15 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 14 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (5.10%) MCSE
9 11 (4.31%) CCNP
10 6 (2.35%) CISA
10 6 (2.35%) CISM
10 6 (2.35%) CISSP
10 6 (2.35%) HNC
10 6 (2.35%) HND
11 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.57%) CRISC
12 4 (1.57%) GIAC
13 3 (1.18%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.71%) GDPR
2 9 (3.53%) NIST
3 7 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (2.75%) SLA
4 5 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.78%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 90 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 61 (23.92%) Hyper-V
3 57 (22.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (7.06%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.57%) NFS
5 4 (1.57%) pfSense
6 3 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.18%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (14.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.24%) SCCM
3 12 (4.71%) Terraform
4 8 (3.14%) Failover Clustering
4 8 (3.14%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.57%) Ansible
6 3 (1.18%) Autotask
6 3 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.18%) Nagios
6 3 (1.18%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.78%) SCOM
7 2 (0.78%) VxRail
7 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 90 (35.29%) Cisco
2 87 (34.12%) Microsoft
3 73 (28.63%) VMware
4 32 (12.55%) Veeam
5 31 (12.16%) Fortinet
6 29 (11.37%) CheckPoint
6 29 (11.37%) Juniper
7 24 (9.41%) Aruba
7 24 (9.41%) Meraki
8 23 (9.02%) Dell
8 23 (9.02%) Palo Alto
9 14 (5.49%) Sophos
10 13 (5.10%) HP
11 12 (4.71%) Avaya
11 12 (4.71%) Ubiquiti
12 11 (4.31%) F5
12 11 (4.31%) Sage
13 9 (3.53%) Apple
13 9 (3.53%) EqualLogic
14 8 (3.14%) WatchGuard