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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 43 40
Rank change year-on-year -46 -3 +35
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 119 162 264
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.75% 5.09% 4.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.11% 31.40% 34.55%
Number of salaries quoted 113 74 207
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,000
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 £69,262 £75,000 £73,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 515 516 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.55% 16.22% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 310 334 557
10th Percentile £26,237 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -23.53% -
75th Percentile £55,938 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £73,500
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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -55 31 £48,445 +14.39% 18
South Yorkshire -40 28 £42,500 -6.59% 9
North Yorkshire -13 17 £33,500 -16.25% 2
East Yorkshire -41 4 £45,000 +5.88% 4
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 29 (24.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (22.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (45.38%) Entra ID
2 51 (42.86%) Azure
2 51 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (19.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 16 (13.45%) AWS
5 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.20%) Mimecast
6 5 (4.20%) OCI
7 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.52%) GCP
7 3 (2.52%) GitHub
7 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.52%) IaaS
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.52%) PaaS
8 2 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 40 (33.61%) WAN
2 35 (29.41%) LAN
3 31 (26.05%) VPN
4 23 (19.33%) DNS
5 20 (16.81%) TCP/IP
6 18 (15.13%) DHCP
7 17 (14.29%) Network Security
8 16 (13.45%) VLAN
8 16 (13.45%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (10.92%) Wireless
10 12 (10.08%) SD-WAN
11 10 (8.40%) VXLAN
12 9 (7.56%) BGP
13 7 (5.88%) NGFW
13 7 (5.88%) OSPF
14 5 (4.20%) MPLS
14 5 (4.20%) VoIP
14 5 (4.20%) Wireshark
15 4 (3.36%) HTTP
15 4 (3.36%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.84%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (67.23%) Social Skills
2 38 (31.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.56%) Law
4 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.52%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Retail
6 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.84%) Finance
7 1 (0.84%) Legal
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (20.17%) IT Support
2 21 (17.65%) Lead
3 19 (15.97%) Network Engineer
4 18 (15.13%) Senior
4 18 (15.13%) Support Engineer
5 15 (12.61%) IT Engineer
6 13 (10.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Architect
8 9 (7.56%) IT Technician
9 7 (5.88%) Analyst
9 7 (5.88%) IT Support Technician
9 7 (5.88%) Network Architect
9 7 (5.88%) Support Analyst
9 7 (5.88%) Support Technician
10 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Network Manager
10 5 (4.20%) Operations Manager
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.84%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.08%) Driving Licence
3 12 (10.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.20%) PKI
6 4 (3.36%) Life Science
6 4 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.52%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.84%) IoT
9 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.66%) Windows
2 37 (31.09%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (6.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (5.88%) Linux
5 7 (5.88%) VMS
6 4 (3.36%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.68%) Android
8 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (34.45%) Disaster Recovery
3 40 (33.61%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (31.93%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (26.05%) Incident Response
5 31 (26.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (25.21%) Decision-Making
7 28 (23.53%) Business Continuity
8 24 (20.17%) BCP
9 21 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
9 21 (17.65%) Data Protection
9 21 (17.65%) Information Governance
9 21 (17.65%) Risk Management
9 21 (17.65%) Risk Register
9 21 (17.65%) Security Architecture
9 21 (17.65%) SIEM
10 20 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
12 13 (10.92%) ITIL
12 13 (10.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.24%) Python
3 6 (5.04%) SQL
4 3 (2.52%) Bash
4 3 (2.52%) Go
5 2 (1.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (9.24%) Degree
3 10 (8.40%) CCNA
4 9 (7.56%) CCNP
5 7 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.20%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (3.36%) CCIE
7 4 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.36%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (29.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 34 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (21.85%) GDPR
4 21 (17.65%) NIST
5 4 (3.36%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 44 (36.97%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.92%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.20%) vSphere
5 2 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.84%) Docker
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.84%) XenApp
6 1 (0.84%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (21.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.08%) Terraform
3 10 (8.40%) Ansible
4 4 (3.36%) Grafana
5 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.68%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.84%) Nessus
7 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (57.98%) Microsoft
2 33 (27.73%) Cisco
3 17 (14.29%) VMware
4 12 (10.08%) Fortinet
4 12 (10.08%) Juniper
4 12 (10.08%) Veeam
5 9 (7.56%) Meraki
6 7 (5.88%) Arista
7 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.20%) Aruba
8 5 (4.20%) iManage
8 5 (4.20%) NetScout
9 4 (3.36%) CheckPoint
10 3 (2.52%) WatchGuard
11 2 (1.68%) Datto
11 2 (1.68%) F5
11 2 (1.68%) Huawei
11 2 (1.68%) Polycom
11 2 (1.68%) SonicWALL
11 2 (1.68%) Zoho