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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 40 89
Rank change year-on-year -29 +49 -27
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 151 350 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.38% 4.83% 3.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.96% 35.00% 21.61%
Number of salaries quoted 124 313 177
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £72,700
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -

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 504 1,000 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.29% 13.81% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 301 829 521
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,910 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
Birmingham -36 46 £46,000 -1.08% 29
Staffordshire +9 37 £35,000 -10.26% 18
Warwickshire -27 26 £48,500 -7.62% 9
Solihull +13 15 £55,000 +22.22% 4
Worcestershire +1 9 £35,000 -28.45% 8
Shropshire +15 5 £28,500 -24.00%
Herefordshire +12 5 £52,500 +61.54% 3
Coventry -24 3 £45,000 -8.16% 6
Wolverhampton +15 2 £38,000 +83.13%
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 25 (16.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (7.95%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.32%) IIS
3 2 (1.32%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 38 (25.17%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (10.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.97%) NetSuite
2 5 (3.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (3.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (47.02%) Azure
2 64 (42.38%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (17.22%) AWS
4 22 (14.57%) Google Workspace
5 17 (11.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (9.93%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.97%) Google Docs
9 5 (3.31%) SaaS
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.65%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.65%) Route 53
10 4 (2.65%) Serverless
10 4 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.99%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 60 (39.74%) WAN
2 45 (29.80%) LAN
3 43 (28.48%) VLAN
4 36 (23.84%) DHCP
5 31 (20.53%) DNS
5 31 (20.53%) VPN
6 27 (17.88%) TCP/IP
7 23 (15.23%) Network Security
8 19 (12.58%) SD-WAN
8 19 (12.58%) WLAN
9 18 (11.92%) BGP
10 17 (11.26%) OSPF
11 15 (9.93%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (8.61%) Intrusion Detection
13 8 (5.30%) Internet
14 6 (3.97%) SAN
15 5 (3.31%) Cisco Firepower
15 5 (3.31%) SSL
16 4 (2.65%) HTTPS
17 3 (1.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.31%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (1.99%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.66%) Git
4 1 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) Maven
4 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.26%) Automotive
2 17 (11.26%) Retail
3 13 (8.61%) Finance
3 13 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.97%) Police
6 5 (3.31%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.65%) Law
8 3 (1.99%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 1 (0.66%) German Language
Job Titles
1 34 (22.52%) Support Engineer
2 29 (19.21%) IT Engineer
3 27 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (14.57%) Network Engineer
5 17 (11.26%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (10.60%) IT Support
7 15 (9.93%) Senior
8 14 (9.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (9.27%) Lead
9 13 (8.61%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 13 (8.61%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (8.61%) 3rd Line Support
9 13 (8.61%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 13 (8.61%) Security Engineer
10 11 (7.28%) Analyst
11 9 (5.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Senior Network Engineer
13 7 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (4.64%) Support Analyst
14 6 (3.97%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.32%) .NET
2 1 (0.66%) LDAP
2 1 (0.66%) SAML
2 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.52%) Management Information System
2 16 (10.60%) Smartphone
3 15 (9.93%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.62%) Private Cloud
5 9 (5.96%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.30%) PKI
7 7 (4.64%) Driving Licence
8 6 (3.97%) Operational Technology
9 5 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.32%) Cloud Native
11 2 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.66%) Clustering
12 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 100 (66.23%) Windows
2 66 (43.71%) Windows Server
3 38 (25.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 34 (22.52%) Windows 10
5 33 (21.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (18.54%) Linux
7 21 (13.91%) Ubuntu
8 17 (11.26%) Mac OS X
9 11 (7.28%) Apple iOS
10 6 (3.97%) Android
11 5 (3.31%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.99%) VMS
12 3 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.66%) CentOS
14 1 (0.66%) Debian
14 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (21.19%) ITIL
3 27 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (16.56%) SIEM
5 24 (15.89%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (15.89%) Security Operations
6 19 (12.58%) Data Security
6 19 (12.58%) Information Security
6 19 (12.58%) Infrastructure Management
6 19 (12.58%) Systems Engineering
7 18 (11.92%) Computer Science
8 17 (11.26%) Network Design
9 16 (10.60%) Business Case
9 16 (10.60%) Mentoring
9 16 (10.60%) Performance Tuning
10 15 (9.93%) Customer Service
10 15 (9.93%) Kalman Filter
11 12 (7.95%) Change Control
11 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (7.95%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 52 (34.44%) PowerShell
2 20 (13.25%) SQL
3 16 (10.60%) Python
4 10 (6.62%) Bash
4 10 (6.62%) C#
5 5 (3.31%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.99%) Groovy
6 3 (1.99%) Java
6 3 (1.99%) Perl
6 3 (1.99%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (28.48%) Degree
2 28 (18.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (14.57%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (11.26%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.60%) HNC
5 16 (10.60%) HND
5 16 (10.60%) MCSE
6 11 (7.28%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (5.96%) A+ Certification
7 9 (5.96%) AWS Certification
7 9 (5.96%) CCNA
8 7 (4.64%) CCNP
8 7 (4.64%) MCSA
9 6 (3.97%) CISSP
9 6 (3.97%) GIAC
9 6 (3.97%) ISACA
9 6 (3.97%) MCP
9 6 (3.97%) SANS
10 5 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (6.62%) COBIT
2 10 (6.62%) SLA
3 8 (5.30%) NIST
4 5 (3.31%) NCSC
5 4 (2.65%) GRC
6 3 (1.99%) GDPR
6 3 (1.99%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (52.32%) Active Directory
2 40 (26.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.26%) Hyper-V
4 14 (9.27%) XenApp
5 10 (6.62%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (3.97%) Firmware
7 5 (3.31%) Docker
7 5 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (21.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.62%) Nessus
3 8 (5.30%) Ansible
3 8 (5.30%) Terraform
4 7 (4.64%) FortiGate
5 4 (2.65%) Proxmox
5 4 (2.65%) SCCM
6 3 (1.99%) Nagios
6 3 (1.99%) QRadar
6 3 (1.99%) SCOM
7 2 (1.32%) SCOrch
7 2 (1.32%) SCSM
7 2 (1.32%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Puppet
8 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.66%) VxRail
8 1 (0.66%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (50.99%) Microsoft
2 66 (43.71%) Cisco
3 41 (27.15%) VMware
4 29 (19.21%) Apple
5 25 (16.56%) Dell
5 25 (16.56%) Google
6 22 (14.57%) Fortinet
7 21 (13.91%) Meraki
8 18 (11.92%) Ubiquiti
9 15 (9.93%) CheckPoint
10 14 (9.27%) Citrix
10 14 (9.27%) Juniper
10 14 (9.27%) SonicWALL
11 9 (5.96%) Acronis
11 9 (5.96%) SolarWinds
12 8 (5.30%) WatchGuard
13 6 (3.97%) HP
13 6 (3.97%) McAfee
14 5 (3.31%) SAP
14 5 (3.31%) Veeam