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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 43 43
Rank change year-on-year -40 0 +44
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 91 144 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.62% 4.67% 5.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.05% 42.99% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 81 91 164
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £27,575
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,900 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £50,000 £61,875 £62,087
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £46,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +8.00% -4.76%

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 567 335 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.31% 10.86% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 291 172 408
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,938 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £41,235
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +9.13% -2.98%
75th Percentile £42,915 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £72,453
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -24 33 £41,500 -20.95% 14
East Yorkshire -15 13 £31,750 -29.44% 6
South Yorkshire -12 11 £40,000 -31.33% 6
North Yorkshire -13 11 £27,501 -50.00% 6
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 (29.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (46.15%) Azure
3 30 (32.97%) Entra ID
4 10 (10.99%) AWS
5 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.40%) GCP
7 3 (3.30%) OCI
7 3 (3.30%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.30%) SaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.20%) GitHub
8 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 37 (40.66%) VPN
2 29 (31.87%) VLAN
3 26 (28.57%) WAN
4 24 (26.37%) LAN
5 23 (25.27%) DNS
6 20 (21.98%) DHCP
6 20 (21.98%) TCP/IP
7 19 (20.88%) VoIP
8 16 (17.58%) Network Security
9 11 (12.09%) SAN
10 8 (8.79%) BGP
10 8 (8.79%) Wireless
11 7 (7.69%) SD-WAN
12 6 (6.59%) MPLS
12 6 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (6.59%) WLAN
13 5 (5.49%) ADSL
13 5 (5.49%) Remote Desktop
13 5 (5.49%) WebEx
14 4 (4.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) MySQL
3 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (47.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Manufacturing
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.89%) Law
4 9 (9.89%) Telecoms
5 8 (8.79%) Retail
6 5 (5.49%) Advertising
6 5 (5.49%) Finance
6 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.40%) Legal
8 3 (3.30%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (32.97%) IT Support
2 19 (20.88%) Support Technician
3 18 (19.78%) Support Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 13 (14.29%) IT Engineer
5 12 (13.19%) Analyst
6 11 (12.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 10 (10.99%) IT Support Technician
7 10 (10.99%) IT Technician
7 10 (10.99%) Senior
8 9 (9.89%) 3rd Line Support
8 9 (9.89%) Lead
8 9 (9.89%) Technical Support
9 8 (8.79%) Support Analyst
10 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Support
10 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Support Technician
10 6 (6.59%) Help Desk Technician
10 6 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.59%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 11 (12.09%) Driving Licence
3 8 (8.79%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (8.79%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.49%) Clustering
6 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.40%) Handset
6 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.20%) PKI
7 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) FMCG
8 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (56.04%) Windows
2 42 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 17 (18.68%) Linux
4 9 (9.89%) Windows 10
4 9 (9.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (21.98%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (21.98%) ITIL
3 19 (20.88%) Customer Service
3 19 (20.88%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
5 11 (12.09%) Incident Response
6 10 (10.99%) Data Protection
6 10 (10.99%) Project Delivery
6 10 (10.99%) Security Architecture
6 10 (10.99%) SIEM
7 9 (9.89%) DevOps
7 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.89%) Time Management
8 8 (8.79%) BCP
8 8 (8.79%) Business Continuity
8 8 (8.79%) Data Security
8 8 (8.79%) Information Governance
8 8 (8.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.99%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.49%) Python
3 4 (4.40%) VBA
4 3 (3.30%) SQL
5 2 (2.20%) Bash
5 2 (2.20%) Bicep
5 2 (2.20%) Go
5 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (9.89%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (8.79%) Degree
3 7 (7.69%) CCNA
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.40%) CCNP
5 4 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.20%) CISMP
6 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.20%) GSEC
7 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (16.48%) GDPR
3 11 (12.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (10.99%) NIST
5 3 (3.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.20%) GRC
6 2 (2.20%) NCSC
6 2 (2.20%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 42 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 32 (35.16%) Hyper-V
3 15 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.30%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) Docker
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (18.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.99%) Terraform
3 6 (6.59%) Ansible
4 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.20%) Plesk
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Kibana
5 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (65.93%) Microsoft
2 25 (27.47%) VMware
3 16 (17.58%) Cisco
4 12 (13.19%) SonicWALL
5 10 (10.99%) Fortinet
6 9 (9.89%) Citrix
6 9 (9.89%) Meraki
7 6 (6.59%) Aruba
7 6 (6.59%) Huawei
8 5 (5.49%) Apple
8 5 (5.49%) Dell
8 5 (5.49%) HP
8 5 (5.49%) Polycom
8 5 (5.49%) Sage
8 5 (5.49%) Supermicro
9 4 (4.40%) Adobe
10 3 (3.30%) Veeam
11 2 (2.20%) Arista
11 2 (2.20%) Draytek
11 2 (2.20%) NetScout