Firewall Jobs in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 32 72
Rank change year-on-year -30 +40 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 49 168 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.59% 5.49% 4.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.82% 36.68% 35.73%
Number of salaries quoted 25 129 141
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,750 £34,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,700 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £84,000 £77,500 £77,542
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 159 458 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.65% 14.96% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 104 321 281
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,875 £33,000 £32,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £68,438 £65,625 £67,070
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £77,715
Yorkshire median annual salary £31,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.06% - -15.00%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for Firewall in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in West Yorkshire

Firewall
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Leeds -29 14 £75,000 +42.86% 26
Pontefract -3 8 £40,000 +29.03%
Knottingley - 8 - -
Castleford 0 7 - -
Bradford +3 4 £39,850 -29.47% 6
Huddersfield +11 1 £32,500 -13.33%
Wakefield +11 1 £31,000 -4.62% 1
Firewall
Yorkshire

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) AWS
3 9 (18.37%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (16.33%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.24%) GCP
5 6 (12.24%) OCI
6 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.08%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.08%) Nutanix
8 1 (2.04%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.04%) IaaS
8 1 (2.04%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) VPN
2 13 (26.53%) TCP/IP
3 9 (18.37%) BGP
3 9 (18.37%) LAN
3 9 (18.37%) OSPF
3 9 (18.37%) VLAN
4 8 (16.33%) DNS
5 7 (14.29%) Network Security
6 6 (12.24%) DHCP
7 4 (8.16%) SAN
7 4 (8.16%) Wireless
8 3 (6.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (6.12%) WAN
9 2 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (4.08%) NAS
9 2 (4.08%) PSTN
9 2 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (4.08%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.08%) VoIP
9 2 (4.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.12%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Local Government
4 2 (4.08%) Police
5 1 (2.04%) Legal
5 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) IT Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Network Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Instrumentation Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Service Desk Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Security Specialist
7 3 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Lead Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (4.08%) IT Support
8 2 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Security Consultant
9 1 (2.04%) Security Technical Consultant
9 1 (2.04%) Service Desk Manager
9 1 (2.04%) Service Manager
9 1 (2.04%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (2.04%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.78%) Operational Technology
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) HP Storage
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) PKI
3 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (69.39%) Windows
2 9 (18.37%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.08%) Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Network Design
2 24 (48.98%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (38.78%) Network Management
4 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
6 6 (12.24%) Service Delivery
6 6 (12.24%) Task Automation
6 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (10.20%) Incident Response
8 4 (8.16%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (6.12%) Decision-Making
9 3 (6.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (6.12%) Fuzz Testing
9 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (6.12%) Proactive Monitoring
9 3 (6.12%) Security Architecture
9 3 (6.12%) Security Testing
9 3 (6.12%) Server Management
9 3 (6.12%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.12%) CCNA
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) CCNP
5 1 (2.04%) CCSA
5 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (61.22%) Active Directory
2 19 (38.78%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (8.16%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.08%) Firmware
5 2 (4.08%) pfSense
6 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.04%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) VMware
3 4 (8.16%) Cisco
4 3 (6.12%) CheckPoint
4 3 (6.12%) Veeam
5 2 (4.08%) Avaya
5 2 (4.08%) Dell
5 2 (4.08%) HP
5 2 (4.08%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.04%) Commvault
6 1 (2.04%) Databricks
6 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.04%) Meraki
6 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow