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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 36
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 9 6 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.88% 3.47% 4.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.03% 9.68% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -9.33%
75th Percentile - - £43,750
90th Percentile - £37,250 £59,750
North East median annual salary £45,000 £35,349 £40,000
% change year-on-year +27.30% -11.63% -5.88%

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 29 62 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 6.04% 35.84% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13 44 70
10th Percentile £27,022 - £22,788
25th Percentile £30,000 - £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £25,087 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.49% -49.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £82,900 -
North East median annual salary £42,500 £29,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +46.55% -31.76% -

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
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Durham region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Newton Aycliffe - 2 £40,000 -
Bishop Auckland - 1 - -
Firewall
North East

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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) BGP
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Wireless
1 6 (66.67%) EIGRP
1 6 (66.67%) LAN
1 6 (66.67%) Network Security
1 6 (66.67%) OSPF
1 6 (66.67%) SNMP
1 6 (66.67%) VLAN
1 6 (66.67%) VPN
1 6 (66.67%) WAAS
1 6 (66.67%) WAN
1 6 (66.67%) Wireless
1 6 (66.67%) Wireless Security
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
1 6 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 6 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
1 6 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 6 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 6 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 6 (66.67%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CCIE
1 6 (66.67%) CCNP
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) PMO
2 3 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (22.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) ProxySG
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Blue Coat
1 6 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) F5
1 6 (66.67%) Infoblox
1 6 (66.67%) Motorola
1 6 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 6 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Veeam