Firewall Job Trends in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 46 48
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 96 151 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.74% 4.31% 5.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.05% 42.18% 38.27%
Number of salaries quoted 87 99 149
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,950 £27,700
25th Percentile £27,250 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £45,625 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £70,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 598 358 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.10% 10.23% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 336 193 379
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £25,500 £32,500 £30,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £42,999 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,875 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Firewall job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Firewall.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Firewall

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firewall within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
West Yorkshire +1 42 £39,900 -24.00% 26
East Yorkshire -11 16 £28,000 -37.78% 5
South Yorkshire -6 13 £40,000 -30.43% 15
North Yorkshire -27 13 £27,500 -50.00% 10
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 34 (35.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (17.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (55.21%) Azure
3 29 (30.21%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.38%) AWS
5 8 (8.33%) SaaS
6 3 (3.13%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (41.67%) VLAN
1 40 (41.67%) VPN
2 32 (33.33%) VoIP
3 29 (30.21%) DNS
3 29 (30.21%) WAN
4 28 (29.17%) LAN
5 25 (26.04%) DHCP
6 22 (22.92%) TCP/IP
7 17 (17.71%) SAN
8 14 (14.58%) Network Security
9 11 (11.46%) Wireless
10 9 (9.38%) BGP
10 9 (9.38%) Remote Desktop
11 8 (8.33%) SD-WAN
11 8 (8.33%) WLAN
12 7 (7.29%) MPLS
13 6 (6.25%) ADSL
13 6 (6.25%) Broadband
13 6 (6.25%) WebEx
13 6 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) MySQL
1 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 41 (42.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 11 (11.46%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.33%) Law
5 5 (5.21%) Advertising
5 5 (5.21%) Finance
5 5 (5.21%) Retail
6 4 (4.17%) Legal
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.04%) Electronics
8 1 (1.04%) Marketing
8 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (34.38%) IT Support
2 25 (26.04%) Support Engineer
3 22 (22.92%) Support Technician
4 17 (17.71%) Analyst
5 15 (15.63%) Technical Support
6 14 (14.58%) IT Engineer
6 14 (14.58%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
7 12 (12.50%) Support Analyst
8 10 (10.42%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 10 (10.42%) IT Support Technician
8 10 (10.42%) IT Technician
9 9 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (9.38%) Senior
9 9 (9.38%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (9.38%) Technical Support Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.25%) Network Analyst
10 6 (6.25%) Network Support Analyst
10 6 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.04%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 11 (11.46%) Clustering
3 9 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 6 (6.25%) FMCG
4 6 (6.25%) Handset
4 6 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.13%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 61 (63.54%) Windows
2 46 (47.92%) Windows Server
3 24 (25.00%) Linux
4 15 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.08%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (1.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.08%) Customer Service
2 22 (22.92%) ITIL
3 17 (17.71%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (14.58%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (9.38%) Network Management
8 8 (8.33%) Data Security
8 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (8.33%) Patch Management
9 7 (7.29%) Cloud Security
9 7 (7.29%) DevOps
9 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.29%) Migration
9 7 (7.29%) Process Improvement
10 6 (6.25%) Asset Management
10 6 (6.25%) Supplier Management
10 6 (6.25%) Test Automation
10 6 (6.25%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.17%) Python
2 4 (4.17%) SQL
2 4 (4.17%) VBA
3 3 (3.13%) Bash
4 2 (2.08%) Bicep
4 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (8.33%) CCNA
4 6 (6.25%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.13%) CCNP
6 3 (3.13%) CISMP
6 3 (3.13%) GSEC
7 2 (2.08%) CCSA
7 2 (2.08%) CCSE
7 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.04%) CEH
8 1 (1.04%) CISM
8 1 (1.04%) CISSP
8 1 (1.04%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.04%) MCSE
8 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.21%) GDPR
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.13%) NCSC
4 3 (3.13%) NIST
5 2 (2.08%) GRC
5 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 38 (39.58%) Hyper-V
3 10 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.04%) Docker
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.29%) Terraform
3 4 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.08%) Plesk
6 1 (1.04%) Grafana
6 1 (1.04%) Kibana
6 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 20 (20.83%) SonicWALL
3 19 (19.79%) Cisco
3 19 (19.79%) VMware
4 11 (11.46%) Citrix
4 11 (11.46%) Dell
4 11 (11.46%) HP
4 11 (11.46%) Supermicro
5 10 (10.42%) Fortinet
6 9 (9.38%) Apple
6 9 (9.38%) Meraki
6 9 (9.38%) Sage
7 7 (7.29%) Huawei
7 7 (7.29%) Sophos
8 6 (6.25%) Aruba
8 6 (6.25%) Polycom
9 4 (4.17%) Adobe
10 3 (3.13%) CheckPoint
10 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.08%) Draytek