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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 41 41
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 115 160 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.70% 5.37% 4.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.59% 32.19% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 109 71 206
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -13.51% -
75th Percentile £57,239 £56,250 £63,438
90th Percentile £69,390 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 509 497 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.53% 16.68% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 302 314 569
10th Percentile £26,129 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £26,750 £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 £63,750 £70,875 £73,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -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 22 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 22 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 -51 30 £48,445 +14.39% 16
South Yorkshire -44 27 £42,500 -6.59% 10
North Yorkshire -16 16 £33,500 -16.25% 3
East Yorkshire -38 4 £45,000 - 2
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 28 (24.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (22.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (46.09%) Entra ID
2 49 (42.61%) Azure
2 49 (42.61%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 16 (13.91%) AWS
5 10 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.35%) Mimecast
6 5 (4.35%) OCI
7 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.61%) GCP
7 3 (2.61%) GitHub
7 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.61%) IaaS
7 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.61%) PaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.74%) SaaS
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 38 (33.04%) WAN
2 34 (29.57%) LAN
3 30 (26.09%) VPN
4 23 (20.00%) DNS
5 19 (16.52%) TCP/IP
6 18 (15.65%) DHCP
7 17 (14.78%) Network Security
8 16 (13.91%) VLAN
8 16 (13.91%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (9.57%) SD-WAN
9 11 (9.57%) Wireless
10 10 (8.70%) VXLAN
11 8 (6.96%) BGP
12 7 (6.09%) NGFW
12 7 (6.09%) OSPF
13 5 (4.35%) Wireshark
14 4 (3.48%) HTTP
14 4 (3.48%) MPLS
14 4 (3.48%) Unified Communications
15 3 (2.61%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.61%) MySQL
4 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.87%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
General
1 78 (67.83%) Social Skills
2 38 (33.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.83%) Law
4 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Retail
6 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.87%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.87%) Finance
7 1 (0.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) IT Support
2 21 (18.26%) Lead
3 18 (15.65%) Network Engineer
3 18 (15.65%) Senior
4 17 (14.78%) Support Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) IT Engineer
6 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (9.57%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) IT Technician
9 8 (6.96%) Architect
10 7 (6.09%) IT Support Technician
10 7 (6.09%) Network Architect
10 7 (6.09%) Support Technician
11 6 (5.22%) Analyst
11 6 (5.22%) Support Analyst
12 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 5 (4.35%) Network Manager
12 5 (4.35%) Operations Manager
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.87%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.26%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (11.30%) Data Centre
3 12 (10.43%) Driving Licence
3 12 (10.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.35%) PKI
6 4 (3.48%) Life Science
6 4 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.61%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.87%) IoT
9 1 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.13%) Windows
2 36 (31.30%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (6.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (6.09%) Linux
5 7 (6.09%) VMS
6 4 (3.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.74%) Android
8 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (35.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 38 (33.04%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (33.04%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (26.96%) Incident Response
4 31 (26.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (26.09%) Decision-Making
6 28 (24.35%) Business Continuity
7 24 (20.87%) BCP
8 21 (18.26%) Business Continuity Planning
8 21 (18.26%) Data Protection
8 21 (18.26%) Information Governance
8 21 (18.26%) Risk Management
8 21 (18.26%) Risk Register
8 21 (18.26%) Security Architecture
8 21 (18.26%) SIEM
9 18 (15.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (13.91%) Mentoring
11 12 (10.43%) ITIL
12 11 (9.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.43%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.57%) Python
3 6 (5.22%) SQL
4 3 (2.61%) Bash
4 3 (2.61%) Go
5 2 (1.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (13.91%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (9.57%) Degree
3 9 (7.83%) CCNA
3 9 (7.83%) CCNP
4 6 (5.22%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.48%) CCIE
6 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.48%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.61%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (30.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 34 (29.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (22.61%) GDPR
4 21 (18.26%) NIST
5 4 (3.48%) SLA
6 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 43 (37.39%) Active Directory
2 14 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.57%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.48%) vSphere
6 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.87%) Docker
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.87%) XenApp
7 1 (0.87%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (10.43%) Terraform
3 10 (8.70%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Grafana
5 3 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.74%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.87%) Nessus
7 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (58.26%) Microsoft
2 31 (26.96%) Cisco
3 16 (13.91%) VMware
4 12 (10.43%) Juniper
4 12 (10.43%) Veeam
5 11 (9.57%) Fortinet
6 8 (6.96%) Meraki
7 7 (6.09%) Arista
8 6 (5.22%) Palo Alto
9 5 (4.35%) Aruba
9 5 (4.35%) iManage
9 5 (4.35%) NetScout
10 4 (3.48%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.61%) WatchGuard
12 2 (1.74%) Datto
12 2 (1.74%) F5
12 2 (1.74%) SonicWALL
12 2 (1.74%) Zoho
13 1 (0.87%) Polycom
13 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds