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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 43 39
Rank change year-on-year -39 -4 +38
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 124 165 258
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.81% 4.95% 4.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.31% 30.50% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 117 77 204
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,239 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,006 £75,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -5.47%

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 510 541 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.43% 16.22% 12.13%
Number of salaries quoted 310 352 551
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -23.53% -
75th Percentile £57,239 £48,750 £60,801
90th Percentile £69,390 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -51 33 £48,445 +18.88% 23
South Yorkshire -33 31 £42,500 -6.59% 7
North Yorkshire -16 18 £33,500 -16.25% 5
East Yorkshire -40 4 £45,000 +5.88% 5
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 30 (24.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (22.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.35%) Entra ID
2 53 (42.74%) Azure
3 52 (41.94%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (18.55%) Microsoft Purview
5 16 (12.90%) AWS
6 10 (8.06%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.03%) Mimecast
7 5 (4.03%) OCI
8 3 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.42%) GCP
8 3 (2.42%) GitHub
8 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.42%) IaaS
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.42%) PaaS
9 2 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.61%) SaaS
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (33.87%) WAN
2 36 (29.03%) LAN
3 31 (25.00%) VPN
4 22 (17.74%) DNS
4 22 (17.74%) TCP/IP
5 17 (13.71%) DHCP
6 16 (12.90%) Network Security
7 15 (12.10%) VLAN
7 15 (12.10%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (12.10%) Wireless
8 13 (10.48%) SD-WAN
9 10 (8.06%) BGP
9 10 (8.06%) VXLAN
10 7 (5.65%) NGFW
10 7 (5.65%) OSPF
10 7 (5.65%) VoIP
11 6 (4.84%) MPLS
12 5 (4.03%) Wireshark
13 4 (3.23%) Internet
13 4 (3.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.61%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Jenkins
General
1 82 (66.13%) Social Skills
2 38 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Law
4 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.61%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.81%) Finance
8 1 (0.81%) Legal
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (19.35%) IT Support
2 22 (17.74%) Network Engineer
3 21 (16.94%) Lead
4 19 (15.32%) Support Engineer
5 17 (13.71%) Senior
6 16 (12.90%) IT Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Architect
9 8 (6.45%) Analyst
9 8 (6.45%) IT Technician
9 8 (6.45%) Support Analyst
10 7 (5.65%) Network Architect
11 6 (4.84%) IT Support Technician
11 6 (4.84%) Support Technician
12 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 5 (4.03%) Network Manager
12 5 (4.03%) Operations Manager
12 5 (4.03%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.81%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.94%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (12.10%) Data Centre
3 12 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (8.87%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.84%) Life Science
6 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.03%) PKI
8 3 (2.42%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.81%) IoT
10 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (37.10%) Windows
2 37 (29.84%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (6.45%) Linux
4 8 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (5.65%) VMS
6 4 (3.23%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.61%) Android
8 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (33.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 40 (32.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (30.65%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 31 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (23.39%) Decision-Making
7 28 (22.58%) Business Continuity
8 24 (19.35%) BCP
9 23 (18.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (16.94%) Business Continuity Planning
10 21 (16.94%) Data Protection
10 21 (16.94%) Information Governance
10 21 (16.94%) Risk Management
10 21 (16.94%) Risk Register
10 21 (16.94%) Security Architecture
10 21 (16.94%) SIEM
11 16 (12.90%) Mentoring
12 15 (12.10%) Migration
13 13 (10.48%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.48%) PowerShell
1 13 (10.48%) Python
2 6 (4.84%) SQL
3 3 (2.42%) Bash
3 3 (2.42%) Go
4 2 (1.61%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (15.32%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (9.68%) CCNA
3 11 (8.87%) Degree
4 9 (7.26%) CCNP
5 8 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 7 (5.65%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.23%) CCIE
8 4 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.23%) Security Cleared
9 3 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (28.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 33 (26.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (20.16%) GDPR
4 21 (16.94%) NIST
5 4 (3.23%) SLA
6 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 44 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.29%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.84%) vSphere
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.81%) Docker
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.81%) XenApp
7 1 (0.81%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (21.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (11.29%) Terraform
3 12 (9.68%) Ansible
4 4 (3.23%) Grafana
5 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.61%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.81%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.81%) Nessus
7 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (56.45%) Microsoft
2 35 (28.23%) Cisco
3 17 (13.71%) VMware
4 13 (10.48%) Fortinet
5 12 (9.68%) Juniper
5 12 (9.68%) Veeam
6 10 (8.06%) Meraki
7 7 (5.65%) Arista
8 6 (4.84%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.03%) Aruba
9 5 (4.03%) iManage
9 5 (4.03%) NetScout
10 4 (3.23%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.42%) Huawei
11 3 (2.42%) Polycom
11 3 (2.42%) WatchGuard
12 2 (1.61%) Datto
12 2 (1.61%) F5
12 2 (1.61%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.61%) Zoho