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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 53 37
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 +61
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 105 101 267
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.08% 4.59% 4.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.48% 30.61% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 98 82 218
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,375 £29,213
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,239 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.16% -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 637 330 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.62% 15.01% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 313 256 551
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £59,750
90th Percentile £57,239 £73,886 £72,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -37 26 £45,000 +0.33% 16
South Yorkshire -30 18 £40,000 -42.86% 3
North Yorkshire -18 12 £30,000 -25.00% 7
East Yorkshire -27 11 £45,000 - 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 24 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (17.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (43.81%) Azure
2 45 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (41.90%) Entra ID
4 21 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 13 (12.38%) AWS
6 5 (4.76%) OCI
7 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.81%) GCP
7 4 (3.81%) GitHub
7 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.86%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.90%) SaaS
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (36.19%) VPN
2 28 (26.67%) WAN
3 26 (24.76%) LAN
4 23 (21.90%) VLAN
5 22 (20.95%) TCP/IP
6 21 (20.00%) DNS
7 17 (16.19%) DHCP
8 14 (13.33%) Network Security
9 8 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (6.67%) Wireless
11 6 (5.71%) SAN
12 5 (4.76%) NGFW
12 5 (4.76%) VoIP
12 5 (4.76%) VXLAN
12 5 (4.76%) Wireshark
13 4 (3.81%) HTTP
13 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
13 4 (3.81%) Unified Communications
14 3 (2.86%) BGP
14 3 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.76%) MySQL
3 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.95%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (56.19%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.14%) Manufacturing
4 13 (12.38%) Law
5 9 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 8 (7.62%) Retail
7 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.76%) Advertising
9 4 (3.81%) Finance
9 4 (3.81%) Legal
10 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Electronics
11 1 (0.95%) Marketing
11 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) IT Support
2 22 (20.95%) Support Engineer
3 21 (20.00%) Lead
4 16 (15.24%) IT Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) Support Technician
6 12 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support
7 11 (10.48%) Senior
8 9 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 9 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (7.62%) IT Support Technician
9 8 (7.62%) IT Technician
9 8 (7.62%) Network Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) IT Manager
10 7 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Technical Support
10 7 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Help Desk Support
11 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (13.33%) Driving Licence
3 12 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (10.48%) Data Centre
5 8 (7.62%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.76%) PKI
7 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.86%) Cyber Security Posture
8 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.90%) Life Science
9 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (43.81%) Windows
2 43 (40.95%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.52%) Linux
4 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.81%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.90%) Android
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.95%) VMS
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 33 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (24.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (23.81%) Incident Response
6 24 (22.86%) BCP
6 24 (22.86%) Decision-Making
7 23 (21.90%) Data Protection
7 23 (21.90%) SIEM
8 22 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (20.00%) Business Continuity
9 21 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
9 21 (20.00%) Information Governance
9 21 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 21 (20.00%) Risk Register
9 21 (20.00%) Security Architecture
10 19 (18.10%) Customer Service
11 14 (13.33%) ITIL
11 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.52%) Python
2 7 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.81%) Bash
3 4 (3.81%) Go
3 4 (3.81%) SQL
3 4 (3.81%) VBA
4 2 (1.90%) Bicep
4 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) Degree
2 7 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (5.71%) CCNP
4 4 (3.81%) CCNA
4 4 (3.81%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (29.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (24.76%) GDPR
3 24 (22.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (21.90%) NIST
5 3 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.90%) GRC
6 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.95%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (40.95%) Active Directory
2 26 (24.76%) Hyper-V
3 18 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.90%) vSphere
5 1 (0.95%) Docker
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.95%) XenApp
5 1 (0.95%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (16.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (12.38%) Terraform
3 9 (8.57%) Ansible
4 5 (4.76%) Grafana
5 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.90%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.90%) Plesk
7 1 (0.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (68.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (26.67%) VMware
3 15 (14.29%) Cisco
4 8 (7.62%) Fortinet
5 7 (6.67%) Citrix
6 5 (4.76%) Arista
6 5 (4.76%) Aruba
6 5 (4.76%) Meraki
6 5 (4.76%) NetScout
6 5 (4.76%) SonicWALL
7 4 (3.81%) Adobe
7 4 (3.81%) Veeam
8 3 (2.86%) Apple
8 3 (2.86%) Sage
8 3 (2.86%) WatchGuard
9 2 (1.90%) Datto
9 2 (1.90%) Draytek
9 2 (1.90%) Huawei
10 1 (0.95%) Duck Creek
10 1 (0.95%) Trend Micro