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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +56
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 168 158 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 5.03% 3.63% 5.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.34% 38.92% 32.74%
Number of salaries quoted 89 96 161
10th Percentile £26,250 £33,125 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,500 £77,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £46,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% -2.78% +2.86%

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 536 406 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.06% 9.33% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 344 204 426
10th Percentile - £26,075 £27,675
25th Percentile £25,087 £32,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £50,000 £41,367
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +20.87% -12.91%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £61,949
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,375 £77,542
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +12 68 £40,000 -33.33% 13
North Yorkshire -12 38 £27,500 -38.89% 4
East Yorkshire +2 24 £28,000 -37.78% 13
South Yorkshire +17 23 £32,500 -40.91% 7
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 27 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (38.10%) Azure
2 54 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (18.45%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.50%) AWS
5 9 (5.36%) SaaS
6 8 (4.76%) GCP
7 7 (4.17%) OCI
8 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.19%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.19%) IaaS
9 2 (1.19%) PaaS
9 2 (1.19%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.19%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 43 (25.60%) VLAN
1 43 (25.60%) VPN
2 34 (20.24%) WAN
3 33 (19.64%) LAN
3 33 (19.64%) VoIP
4 30 (17.86%) DNS
5 25 (14.88%) TCP/IP
6 24 (14.29%) DHCP
7 23 (13.69%) Network Security
8 16 (9.52%) Wireless
9 15 (8.93%) BGP
10 14 (8.33%) WLAN
11 13 (7.74%) SAN
12 10 (5.95%) SD-WAN
13 9 (5.36%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (4.76%) OSPF
15 7 (4.17%) MPLS
15 7 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (3.57%) ADSL
16 6 (3.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.38%) MySQL
2 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 40 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.36%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 5 (2.98%) Finance
5 3 (1.79%) Legal
6 2 (1.19%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.60%) Law
7 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 21 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 19 (11.31%) Instrumentation Engineer
3 19 (11.31%) Support Technician
3 19 (11.31%) Technical Support
4 18 (10.71%) Analyst
5 17 (10.12%) IT Support
6 16 (9.52%) Network Engineer
7 13 (7.74%) Technical Engineer
7 13 (7.74%) Technical Support Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Support Analyst
9 10 (5.95%) Lead
9 10 (5.95%) Security Specialist
9 10 (5.95%) Senior
10 9 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 8 (4.76%) IT Support Technician
11 8 (4.76%) IT Technician
12 7 (4.17%) Senior Support Technician
12 7 (4.17%) Senior Technician
13 6 (3.57%) Field Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.60%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 60 (35.71%) Operational Technology
2 15 (8.93%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.74%) Clustering
4 9 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.57%) FMCG
5 6 (3.57%) Handset
6 5 (2.98%) Driving Licence
7 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.19%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.19%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.19%) NHS
8 2 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 127 (75.60%) Windows
2 34 (20.24%) Windows Server
3 32 (19.05%) Linux
4 15 (8.93%) Windows 10
4 15 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.19%) Check Point GAiA
6 1 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (39.29%) Network Management
3 64 (38.10%) Network Design
4 31 (18.45%) Customer Service
5 22 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (11.90%) ITIL
7 14 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.74%) Penetration Testing
9 12 (7.14%) Incident Response
10 11 (6.55%) Proactive Monitoring
10 11 (6.55%) Security Architecture
10 11 (6.55%) Vulnerability Management
11 10 (5.95%) DevOps
11 10 (5.95%) Incident Management
11 10 (5.95%) Process Improvement
11 10 (5.95%) SIEM
11 10 (5.95%) SOAR
12 9 (5.36%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 9 (5.36%) Interactive Application Security Testing
12 9 (5.36%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.95%) Python
3 5 (2.98%) SQL
4 3 (1.79%) Bash
4 3 (1.79%) VBA
5 2 (1.19%) Bicep
5 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (8.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (7.14%) CCNA
4 7 (4.17%) CCNP
4 7 (4.17%) CISMP
4 7 (4.17%) GSEC
5 4 (2.38%) Degree
5 4 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.19%) CCSA
7 2 (1.19%) CCSE
7 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.19%) MCSE
7 2 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CEH
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.60%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.17%) GDPR
2 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.38%) NCSC
4 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.19%) NIST
4 2 (1.19%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 95 (56.55%) Active Directory
2 58 (34.52%) Virtual Servers
3 31 (18.45%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.60%) Docker
7 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (15.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (5.36%) Ansible
3 4 (2.38%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.38%) Terraform
4 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.19%) Plesk
4 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.69%) Cisco
3 22 (13.10%) SonicWALL
4 16 (9.52%) Meraki
5 13 (7.74%) Dell
5 13 (7.74%) HP
5 13 (7.74%) Supermicro
6 11 (6.55%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.95%) VMware
8 9 (5.36%) Apple
8 9 (5.36%) Sage
9 8 (4.76%) Citrix
9 8 (4.76%) Sophos
10 7 (4.17%) Huawei
11 6 (3.57%) Aruba
11 6 (3.57%) Polycom
12 3 (1.79%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.19%) Adobe
13 2 (1.19%) arcserve
13 2 (1.19%) Forcepoint