Firewall Job Trends in Durham

Firewall
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 6 14 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 2.45% 5.34% 4.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.06% 37.84% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile - £31,800 £39,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +17.65% +8.97%
75th Percentile £33,250 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile - £52,700 £68,250
North East median annual salary £31,500 £38,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.71% -13.89% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 99 37 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 40.41% 14.12% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 76 25 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -49.83% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £33,250 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £72,487 -
North East median annual salary £25,087 £44,274 £39,794
% change year-on-year -43.34% +11.26% -0.52%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Durham

Firewall
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Firewall

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support
1 6 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware