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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 38 37
Rank change year-on-year -55 -1 +50
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 108 147 265
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.65% 5.58% 4.57%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.48% 33.87% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 101 62 213
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £57,239 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% +2.04% -2.00%

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 618 434 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.42% 16.48% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 318 269 586
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,087 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -23.53% -
75th Percentile £54,688 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,750 £73,777 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -47 31 £48,445 +8.38% 16
South Yorkshire -50 22 £42,500 +30.77% 13
North Yorkshire -23 13 £30,000 -14.29% 3
East Yorkshire -36 4 £45,000 -7.69% 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 23 (21.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (19.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (12.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.52%) Entra ID
2 44 (40.74%) Azure
3 41 (37.96%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (20.37%) Microsoft Purview
5 17 (15.74%) AWS
6 9 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.63%) OCI
8 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.78%) GCP
8 3 (2.78%) GitHub
8 3 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.85%) IaaS
9 2 (1.85%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.85%) PaaS
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 37 (34.26%) WAN
2 33 (30.56%) LAN
3 30 (27.78%) VPN
4 21 (19.44%) DNS
5 17 (15.74%) TCP/IP
5 17 (15.74%) VLAN
6 16 (14.81%) DHCP
6 16 (14.81%) Network Security
7 15 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (10.19%) SD-WAN
9 10 (9.26%) VXLAN
10 8 (7.41%) BGP
11 7 (6.48%) NGFW
11 7 (6.48%) OSPF
11 7 (6.48%) Wireless
12 5 (4.63%) Wireshark
13 4 (3.70%) HTTP
13 4 (3.70%) MPLS
13 4 (3.70%) Unified Communications
14 3 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 66 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 34 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.33%) Law
4 8 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Retail
5 5 (4.63%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.70%) Finance
6 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Advertising
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Legal
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.30%) IT Support
2 21 (19.44%) Lead
3 18 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 16 (14.81%) Senior
5 15 (13.89%) IT Engineer
5 15 (13.89%) Network Engineer
6 12 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (8.33%) IT Technician
8 9 (8.33%) Support Technician
9 8 (7.41%) Architect
9 8 (7.41%) IT Support Technician
10 7 (6.48%) Network Architect
11 5 (4.63%) 3rd Line Support
11 5 (4.63%) Help Desk Adviser
11 5 (4.63%) Network Manager
11 5 (4.63%) Network Operations Manager
11 5 (4.63%) Operations Manager
11 5 (4.63%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.93%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.44%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 8 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.63%) PKI
7 3 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.78%) Life Science
7 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 41 (37.96%) Windows
2 32 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 7 (6.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (5.56%) Linux
6 4 (3.70%) VMS
7 2 (1.85%) Android
8 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (36.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 37 (34.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (25.93%) Decision-Making
5 28 (25.93%) Incident Response
5 28 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (25.00%) Business Continuity
7 24 (22.22%) BCP
8 21 (19.44%) Business Continuity Planning
8 21 (19.44%) Data Protection
8 21 (19.44%) Information Governance
8 21 (19.44%) Risk Management
8 21 (19.44%) Risk Register
8 21 (19.44%) Security Architecture
8 21 (19.44%) SIEM
9 16 (14.81%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (10.19%) Coaching
11 11 (10.19%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.26%) Python
3 5 (4.63%) SQL
4 3 (2.78%) Bash
4 3 (2.78%) Go
5 2 (1.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (9.26%) Degree
3 9 (8.33%) CCNP
4 8 (7.41%) CCNA
5 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.70%) CCIE
6 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.70%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (29.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 32 (29.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (24.07%) GDPR
3 21 (19.44%) NIST
4 4 (3.70%) SLA
5 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 38 (35.19%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.26%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.85%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) Docker
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.93%) XenApp
6 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (18.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (10.19%) Terraform
3 9 (8.33%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) Grafana
5 3 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.93%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (56.48%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.93%) Cisco
3 16 (14.81%) VMware
4 12 (11.11%) Juniper
5 11 (10.19%) Fortinet
6 10 (9.26%) Veeam
7 7 (6.48%) Arista
7 7 (6.48%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.63%) Aruba
8 5 (4.63%) Meraki
8 5 (4.63%) NetScout
9 3 (2.78%) Citrix
9 3 (2.78%) F5
9 3 (2.78%) WatchGuard
10 2 (1.85%) Datto
10 2 (1.85%) iManage
10 2 (1.85%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.93%) Duck Creek
11 1 (0.93%) Okta
11 1 (0.93%) Polycom