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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 58 34
Rank change year-on-year -51 -24 +60
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 98 90 276
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.71% 3.90% 4.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.01% 27.19% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 90 76 220
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £29,113
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,239 £57,813 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £78,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%

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 653 331 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.40% 14.35% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 313 260 577
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,500 £25,900
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,688 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £54,063 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £73,997 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 18 April 2026.

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 18 April 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
West Yorkshire -47 25 £48,445 +9.85% 10
South Yorkshire -34 17 £40,000 -42.86% 10
North Yorkshire -18 11 £30,000 -25.00% 5
East Yorkshire -30 9 £45,000 - 2
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 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (15.31%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (44.90%) Azure
2 42 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 39 (39.80%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
5 15 (15.31%) AWS
6 5 (5.10%) OCI
7 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.08%) GCP
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (3.06%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.06%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.04%) IaaS
9 2 (2.04%) PaaS
9 2 (2.04%) SaaS
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (34.69%) VPN
2 26 (26.53%) WAN
3 25 (25.51%) LAN
4 21 (21.43%) VLAN
5 20 (20.41%) DNS
6 18 (18.37%) TCP/IP
7 16 (16.33%) DHCP
8 12 (12.24%) Network Security
9 10 (10.20%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (6.12%) SAN
11 5 (5.10%) HTTP
11 5 (5.10%) NGFW
11 5 (5.10%) SD-WAN
11 5 (5.10%) VXLAN
11 5 (5.10%) Wireless
11 5 (5.10%) Wireshark
12 4 (4.08%) BGP
12 4 (4.08%) Unified Communications
13 3 (3.06%) OSPF
13 3 (3.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.08%) MySQL
2 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
General
1 53 (54.08%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Manufacturing
4 13 (13.27%) Law
5 8 (8.16%) Retail
6 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.14%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.10%) Advertising
8 4 (4.08%) Finance
9 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Electronics
10 1 (1.02%) Legal
10 1 (1.02%) Marketing
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) IT Support
2 21 (21.43%) Lead
3 19 (19.39%) Support Engineer
4 16 (16.33%) IT Engineer
5 13 (13.27%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (12.24%) Senior
7 9 (9.18%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (9.18%) Network Engineer
7 9 (9.18%) Support Technician
8 8 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (6.12%) IT Technician
10 5 (5.10%) 2nd Line Support Technician
10 5 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Help Desk Adviser
10 5 (5.10%) Network Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Network Operations Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.02%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 11 (11.22%) Driving Licence
3 10 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (9.18%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.10%) PKI
7 4 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.06%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.04%) Life Science
9 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.02%) IoT
10 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 40 (40.82%) Windows
2 37 (37.76%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.14%) Linux
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.04%) Android
7 1 (1.02%) VMS
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.76%) Disaster Recovery
2 31 (31.63%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (25.51%) Incident Response
5 24 (24.49%) BCP
5 24 (24.49%) Decision-Making
6 23 (23.47%) Data Protection
6 23 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.47%) SIEM
7 22 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (21.43%) Business Continuity
8 21 (21.43%) Business Continuity Planning
8 21 (21.43%) Information Governance
8 21 (21.43%) Risk Management
8 21 (21.43%) Risk Register
8 21 (21.43%) Security Architecture
9 14 (14.29%) Customer Service
10 12 (12.24%) ITIL
10 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) Python
2 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.08%) Bash
3 4 (4.08%) Bicep
3 4 (4.08%) Go
3 4 (4.08%) SQL
4 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.02%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) Degree
2 7 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.10%) CCNP
4 4 (4.08%) CCNA
5 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (33.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (28.57%) GDPR
3 26 (26.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (23.47%) NIST
5 5 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.04%) GRC
6 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 35 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 16 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.04%) vSphere
6 1 (1.02%) Docker
6 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.02%) XenApp
6 1 (1.02%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (17.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (14.29%) Terraform
3 9 (9.18%) Ansible
4 5 (5.10%) Grafana
5 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.02%) Kibana
7 1 (1.02%) Plesk
7 1 (1.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (66.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (25.51%) VMware
3 16 (16.33%) Cisco
4 7 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 5 (5.10%) Arista
5 5 (5.10%) Aruba
5 5 (5.10%) NetScout
6 4 (4.08%) Citrix
6 4 (4.08%) Meraki
6 4 (4.08%) Veeam
7 3 (3.06%) SonicWALL
7 3 (3.06%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.04%) Adobe
8 2 (2.04%) Datto
8 2 (2.04%) Huawei
9 1 (1.02%) Apple
9 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.02%) Commvault
9 1 (1.02%) Duck Creek
9 1 (1.02%) Sage