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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 59 35
Rank change year-on-year -50 -24 +59
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 93 92 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.53% 3.84% 4.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.31% 25.63% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 85 77 211
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,300 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £44,700 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -0.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57,239 £57,500 £59,375
90th Percentile £58,750 £78,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 650 359 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.72% 14.98% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 301 273 571
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £74,777 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 4 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 4 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 -52 23 £48,445 +8.38% 13
South Yorkshire -31 17 £40,000 -38.46% 10
North Yorkshire -13 10 £30,000 -20.00% 4
East Yorkshire -35 7 £45,000 - 3
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 19 (20.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (16.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) Azure
2 40 (43.01%) Entra ID
3 36 (38.71%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (22.58%) Microsoft Purview
5 17 (18.28%) AWS
6 5 (5.38%) OCI
6 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.30%) GCP
7 4 (4.30%) GitHub
7 4 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (2.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.15%) IaaS
9 2 (2.15%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.15%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) SaaS
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (32.26%) VPN
2 24 (25.81%) WAN
3 23 (24.73%) LAN
4 19 (20.43%) VLAN
5 18 (19.35%) DNS
6 15 (16.13%) TCP/IP
7 14 (15.05%) DHCP
8 11 (11.83%) Network Security
9 10 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (5.38%) HTTP
10 5 (5.38%) NGFW
10 5 (5.38%) VXLAN
10 5 (5.38%) Wireless
10 5 (5.38%) Wireshark
11 4 (4.30%) SAN
11 4 (4.30%) SD-WAN
11 4 (4.30%) Unified Communications
12 3 (3.23%) BGP
13 2 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
13 2 (2.15%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.08%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (54.84%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 11 (11.83%) Law
5 8 (8.60%) Retail
6 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.38%) Advertising
9 4 (4.30%) Finance
10 3 (3.23%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.08%) Electronics
12 1 (1.08%) Marketing
12 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) IT Support
2 21 (22.58%) Lead
3 18 (19.35%) Support Engineer
4 15 (16.13%) IT Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) IT Support Engineer
5 12 (12.90%) Senior
6 10 (10.75%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (9.68%) Network Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Support Technician
9 6 (6.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) IT Support Technician
9 6 (6.45%) IT Technician
10 5 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Help Desk Adviser
10 5 (5.38%) Network Manager
10 5 (5.38%) Network Operations Manager
10 5 (5.38%) Operations Manager
11 4 (4.30%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.08%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.08%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.58%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (8.60%) Driving Licence
2 8 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.53%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.38%) PKI
5 4 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.23%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.15%) Life Science
7 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 36 (38.71%) Windows
2 31 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.38%) Linux
4 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.15%) Android
5 2 (2.15%) VMS
6 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (38.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 32 (34.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 26 (27.96%) Incident Response
5 24 (25.81%) BCP
5 24 (25.81%) Decision-Making
5 24 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (24.73%) Business Continuity
6 23 (24.73%) Data Protection
6 23 (24.73%) SIEM
6 23 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (22.58%) Business Continuity Planning
7 21 (22.58%) Information Governance
7 21 (22.58%) Risk Management
7 21 (22.58%) Risk Register
7 21 (22.58%) Security Architecture
8 12 (12.90%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (11.83%) Time Management
10 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.75%) Python
2 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.30%) Bash
3 4 (4.30%) Bicep
3 4 (4.30%) Go
3 4 (4.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (4.30%) CCNA
3 4 (4.30%) CCNP
4 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (34.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (30.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 28 (30.11%) GDPR
3 23 (24.73%) NIST
4 5 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.15%) GRC
5 2 (2.15%) SLA
5 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (34.41%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.13%) Hyper-V
3 14 (15.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.15%) vSphere
6 1 (1.08%) Docker
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.08%) XenApp
6 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (15.05%) Terraform
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 5 (5.38%) Grafana
5 4 (4.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (1.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (21.51%) VMware
3 16 (17.20%) Cisco
4 8 (8.60%) Fortinet
5 6 (6.45%) Veeam
6 5 (5.38%) Arista
6 5 (5.38%) Aruba
6 5 (5.38%) NetScout
7 3 (3.23%) Citrix
7 3 (3.23%) Juniper
7 3 (3.23%) Meraki
7 3 (3.23%) WatchGuard
8 2 (2.15%) Datto
8 2 (2.15%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.08%) Duck Creek
9 1 (1.08%) F5
9 1 (1.08%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.08%) New Relic
9 1 (1.08%) Okta
9 1 (1.08%) Palo Alto