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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 41 42
Rank change year-on-year -52 +1 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 111 156 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.65% 5.41% 4.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.94% 32.03% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 105 67 207
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,250 £29,900
25th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -15.79% +4.11%
75th Percentile £57,239 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £69,756 £78,000 £75,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +3.09% -3.00%

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 506 487 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.53% 16.90% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 298 303 569
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,859 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -23.53% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,000 £75,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -52 30 £48,445 +8.38% 17
South Yorkshire -47 25 £42,500 +8.97% 10
North Yorkshire -22 15 £40,500 +1.25% 3
East Yorkshire -39 4 £45,000 -5.26% 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 26 (23.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (21.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.90%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (46.85%) Entra ID
2 48 (43.24%) Azure
3 46 (41.44%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (20.72%) Microsoft Purview
5 16 (14.41%) AWS
6 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.50%) OCI
8 4 (3.60%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.70%) GCP
9 3 (2.70%) GitHub
9 3 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.70%) IaaS
9 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.70%) PaaS
10 2 (1.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.80%) SaaS
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (33.33%) WAN
2 34 (30.63%) LAN
3 28 (25.23%) VPN
4 22 (19.82%) DNS
5 17 (15.32%) DHCP
5 17 (15.32%) Network Security
5 17 (15.32%) TCP/IP
6 16 (14.41%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (13.51%) VLAN
8 10 (9.01%) SD-WAN
8 10 (9.01%) VXLAN
9 9 (8.11%) Wireless
10 7 (6.31%) BGP
10 7 (6.31%) NGFW
10 7 (6.31%) OSPF
11 5 (4.50%) Wireshark
12 4 (3.60%) HTTP
12 4 (3.60%) Unified Communications
13 3 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
13 3 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.21%) Law
4 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.70%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Retail
6 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.80%) Finance
8 1 (0.90%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.90%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (18.92%) IT Support
1 21 (18.92%) Lead
2 18 (16.22%) Senior
3 17 (15.32%) Network Engineer
4 16 (14.41%) Support Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) IT Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) IT Technician
9 8 (7.21%) Architect
10 7 (6.31%) IT Support Technician
10 7 (6.31%) Network Architect
10 7 (6.31%) Support Technician
11 5 (4.50%) Help Desk Adviser
11 5 (4.50%) Network Manager
11 5 (4.50%) Operations Manager
11 5 (4.50%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Senior IT Technician
11 5 (4.50%) Senior Network Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.90%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 11 (9.91%) Driving Licence
3 11 (9.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.50%) PKI
6 3 (2.70%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.70%) Life Science
6 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.90%) IoT
8 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 43 (38.74%) Windows
2 34 (30.63%) Windows Server
3 12 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (7.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (6.31%) VMS
6 6 (5.41%) Linux
7 3 (2.70%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.80%) Android
9 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.94%) Continuous Improvement
2 40 (36.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 38 (34.23%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (34.23%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (27.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (27.03%) Decision-Making
5 30 (27.03%) Incident Response
6 28 (25.23%) Business Continuity
7 24 (21.62%) BCP
8 21 (18.92%) Business Continuity Planning
8 21 (18.92%) Data Protection
8 21 (18.92%) Information Governance
8 21 (18.92%) Risk Management
8 21 (18.92%) Risk Register
8 21 (18.92%) Security Architecture
8 21 (18.92%) SIEM
9 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (14.41%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.91%) Coaching
10 11 (9.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.81%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.01%) Python
3 6 (5.41%) SQL
4 3 (2.70%) Bash
4 3 (2.70%) Go
5 2 (1.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (9.91%) Degree
3 9 (8.11%) CCNP
4 8 (7.21%) CCNA
5 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.60%) CCIE
7 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.63%) Cyber Essentials
2 33 (29.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (23.42%) GDPR
4 21 (18.92%) NIST
5 4 (3.60%) SLA
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 40 (36.04%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.70%) vSphere
6 1 (0.90%) Docker
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.90%) XenApp
6 1 (0.90%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (9.91%) Terraform
3 9 (8.11%) Ansible
4 4 (3.60%) Grafana
5 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.80%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.90%) Nessus
7 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (57.66%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.23%) Cisco
3 16 (14.41%) VMware
4 12 (10.81%) Juniper
5 11 (9.91%) Veeam
6 10 (9.01%) Fortinet
7 7 (6.31%) Arista
8 6 (5.41%) Meraki
8 6 (5.41%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.50%) Aruba
9 5 (4.50%) NetScout
10 4 (3.60%) iManage
11 3 (2.70%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.70%) F5
11 3 (2.70%) WatchGuard
12 2 (1.80%) Datto
12 2 (1.80%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.80%) Zoho
13 1 (0.90%) Duck Creek
13 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds