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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 42 43
Rank change year-on-year -46 +1 +24
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 119 172 244
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.73% 4.99% 4.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.38% 30.39% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 112 85 193
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57,239 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,390 £73,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.26% -6.84%

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 509 566 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.38% 16.42% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 309 374 526
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £48,438 £60,264
90th Percentile £73,000 £67,500 £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 16 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 16 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
South Yorkshire -34 33 £42,500 -6.59% 5
West Yorkshire -58 32 £48,445 +21.11% 19
North Yorkshire -11 18 £31,750 +18.14% 3
East Yorkshire -36 2 £48,750 +14.71% 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 29 (24.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (22.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (43.70%) Azure
1 52 (43.70%) Microsoft 365
2 51 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 20 (16.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 13 (10.92%) AWS
5 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.20%) Mimecast
7 3 (2.52%) IaaS
7 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.52%) OCI
7 3 (2.52%) PaaS
8 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.68%) GCP
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.68%) SaaS
9 1 (0.84%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.84%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 41 (34.45%) WAN
2 34 (28.57%) LAN
3 29 (24.37%) VPN
4 23 (19.33%) TCP/IP
5 18 (15.13%) DNS
6 17 (14.29%) Wireless
7 14 (11.76%) DHCP
7 14 (11.76%) SD-WAN
8 13 (10.92%) Network Security
9 12 (10.08%) VLAN
10 11 (9.24%) BGP
10 11 (9.24%) VoIP
10 11 (9.24%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (6.72%) VXLAN
12 7 (5.88%) MPLS
12 7 (5.88%) OSPF
13 5 (4.20%) ADSL
13 5 (4.20%) Internet
13 5 (4.20%) NGFW
14 4 (3.36%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.84%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
General
1 78 (65.55%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.24%) Law
4 5 (4.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.84%) Finance
7 1 (0.84%) Legal
7 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (19.33%) IT Support
1 23 (19.33%) Network Engineer
2 20 (16.81%) Support Engineer
3 18 (15.13%) Lead
4 16 (13.45%) IT Engineer
5 15 (12.61%) Senior
6 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (8.40%) Architect
8 9 (7.56%) Analyst
8 9 (7.56%) Support Analyst
9 7 (5.88%) Network Architect
10 6 (5.04%) IT Technician
11 5 (4.20%) Help Desk Adviser
11 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Support
11 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.84%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.88%) Life Science
4 7 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.52%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.52%) PKI
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.84%) IoT
8 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.66%) Windows
2 37 (31.09%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (6.72%) Linux
5 7 (5.88%) VMS
5 7 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
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 38 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (30.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (29.41%) Disaster Recovery
4 34 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (23.53%) Incident Response
5 28 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (21.01%) Business Continuity
7 24 (20.17%) Decision-Making
8 21 (17.65%) BCP
9 18 (15.13%) Business Continuity Planning
9 18 (15.13%) Data Protection
9 18 (15.13%) Information Governance
9 18 (15.13%) Risk Management
9 18 (15.13%) Risk Register
9 18 (15.13%) Security Architecture
9 18 (15.13%) SIEM
10 17 (14.29%) Migration
11 14 (11.76%) Mentoring
12 12 (10.08%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.08%) Python
2 11 (9.24%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.04%) SQL
4 3 (2.52%) Bash
5 2 (1.68%) Bicep
5 2 (1.68%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (16.81%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (10.92%) CCNA
3 9 (7.56%) Degree
3 9 (7.56%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (6.72%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.72%) CCNP
5 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.20%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.36%) CCIE
6 4 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 28 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (16.81%) GDPR
4 18 (15.13%) NIST
5 4 (3.36%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 42 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 14 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 12 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
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 29 (24.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (10.92%) Terraform
3 11 (9.24%) Ansible
4 3 (2.52%) Grafana
5 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.68%) Nessus
5 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.68%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (56.30%) Microsoft
2 35 (29.41%) Cisco
3 14 (11.76%) VMware
4 12 (10.08%) Fortinet
4 12 (10.08%) Juniper
5 11 (9.24%) Veeam
6 10 (8.40%) Meraki
7 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.20%) Arista
8 5 (4.20%) iManage
9 4 (3.36%) CheckPoint
9 4 (3.36%) Huawei
9 4 (3.36%) Polycom
10 3 (2.52%) Aruba
10 3 (2.52%) NetScout
11 2 (1.68%) F5
11 2 (1.68%) WatchGuard
11 2 (1.68%) Zoho
12 1 (0.84%) Commvault
12 1 (0.84%) SonicWALL