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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 40 48
Rank change year-on-year -56 +8 +11
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 104 174 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.41% 4.95% 3.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.04% 28.67% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 92 91 128
10th Percentile £26,025 £25,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £36,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -23.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £55,938 £48,750 £60,313
90th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -5.00% -0.50%

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 519 607 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.01% 17.25% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 306 407 372
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,087 £25,775
25th Percentile £28,500 £25,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £32,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -24.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,438 £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £75,875
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,292 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.31% -15.42% -2.25%

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 August 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 August 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 -23 37 £42,500 +8.97% 5
West Yorkshire -67 31 £47,661 +19.15% 15
North Yorkshire -7 20 £33,500 +21.82% 4
East Yorkshire -36 1 £42,500 +10.39% 1
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 25 (24.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (22.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 48 (46.15%) Azure
3 33 (31.73%) Entra ID
4 10 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.65%) AWS
6 5 (4.81%) Mimecast
7 4 (3.85%) IaaS
7 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (3.85%) PaaS
8 2 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.92%) SaaS
9 1 (0.96%) Azure App Service
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.96%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.96%) GCP
9 1 (0.96%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (33.65%) WAN
2 28 (26.92%) LAN
3 26 (25.00%) VPN
4 23 (22.12%) TCP/IP
5 18 (17.31%) DNS
6 17 (16.35%) Wireless
7 15 (14.42%) DHCP
8 14 (13.46%) SD-WAN
8 14 (13.46%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (11.54%) Network Security
9 12 (11.54%) VoIP
10 11 (10.58%) BGP
11 8 (7.69%) VLAN
12 7 (6.73%) Internet
12 7 (6.73%) MPLS
12 7 (6.73%) OSPF
13 5 (4.81%) ADSL
13 5 (4.81%) VXLAN
14 4 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (3.85%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.96%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
General
1 55 (52.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.65%) Law
4 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.96%) Advertising
5 1 (0.96%) Digital Health
5 1 (0.96%) Finance
5 1 (0.96%) Legal
5 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) IT Support
2 24 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 23 (22.12%) Network Engineer
4 20 (19.23%) IT Engineer
5 19 (18.27%) IT Support Engineer
6 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (11.54%) Analyst
8 11 (10.58%) Architect
9 10 (9.62%) Senior
10 9 (8.65%) Support Analyst
11 7 (6.73%) Network Architect
12 6 (5.77%) IT Technician
12 6 (5.77%) Security Engineer
13 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support
13 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
13 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Engineer
13 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
14 4 (3.85%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.96%) 802.1X
1 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (10.58%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.69%) Life Science
3 8 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.73%) CCTV
5 6 (5.77%) Operational Technology
6 4 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.85%) SCADA
7 3 (2.88%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.96%) IoT
9 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.96%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.96%) Social Media
9 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (50.00%) Windows
2 44 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.58%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (9.62%) Linux
5 8 (7.69%) VMS
6 6 (5.77%) Android
7 5 (4.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.85%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.42%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (36.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (22.12%) Cybersecurity
5 18 (17.31%) Migration
6 16 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (12.50%) ITIL
8 11 (10.58%) Customer Service
8 11 (10.58%) Project Delivery
9 10 (9.62%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (9.62%) Service Delivery
9 10 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.65%) Incident Response
11 8 (7.69%) Mentoring
11 8 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
12 7 (6.73%) Business Continuity
12 7 (6.73%) Information Security
12 7 (6.73%) Service Management
13 6 (5.77%) Decision-Making
13 6 (5.77%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.46%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.69%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) SQL
4 2 (1.92%) Bicep
5 1 (0.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (18.27%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (12.50%) CCNA
3 11 (10.58%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.81%) CCNP
5 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.85%) CCIE
6 4 (3.85%) Degree
6 4 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.85%) SLA
4 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.96%) NIST
5 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 41 (39.42%) Active Directory
2 22 (21.15%) Hyper-V
3 12 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.77%) vSphere
5 4 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (29.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.65%) Terraform
3 7 (6.73%) Ansible
4 4 (3.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 2 (1.92%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.92%) Nessus
5 2 (1.92%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.96%) Grafana
6 1 (0.96%) VxRail
Vendors
1 52 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 31 (29.81%) Cisco
3 15 (14.42%) VMware
4 11 (10.58%) Juniper
5 10 (9.62%) Meraki
6 9 (8.65%) Fortinet
6 9 (8.65%) Veeam
7 7 (6.73%) SonicWALL
8 6 (5.77%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.81%) iManage
10 4 (3.85%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.85%) Huawei
10 4 (3.85%) Polycom
11 2 (1.92%) Arista
11 2 (1.92%) F5
11 2 (1.92%) Zoho
12 1 (0.96%) SolarWinds