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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 41 46
Rank change year-on-year -43 +5 +43
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 83 144 169
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.49% 4.62% 5.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.82% 43.24% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74 92 146
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £26,313 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -33.50% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £61,774
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,285 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.26% -

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 560 333 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.81% 10.68% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 285 171 392
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £40,867
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +10.11% -3.84%
75th Percentile £37,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £74,875
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -30 32 £39,900 -24.00% 11
East Yorkshire -13 13 £28,250 -37.22% 6
North Yorkshire -17 12 £27,500 -50.00% 8
South Yorkshire -5 11 £40,000 -31.33% 9
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 (33.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (15.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.22%) Microsoft 365
2 41 (49.40%) Azure
3 24 (28.92%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.43%) AWS
5 4 (4.82%) SaaS
6 3 (3.61%) GCP
6 3 (3.61%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.20%) GitHub
8 1 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (44.58%) VPN
2 30 (36.14%) VLAN
3 26 (31.33%) WAN
4 25 (30.12%) VoIP
5 24 (28.92%) LAN
6 21 (25.30%) DNS
7 19 (22.89%) DHCP
7 19 (22.89%) TCP/IP
8 14 (16.87%) Network Security
9 13 (15.66%) SAN
10 10 (12.05%) BGP
11 9 (10.84%) SD-WAN
12 8 (9.64%) MPLS
12 8 (9.64%) Wireless
13 7 (8.43%) ADSL
13 7 (8.43%) WebEx
13 7 (8.43%) WLAN
14 6 (7.23%) Broadband
14 6 (7.23%) Remote Desktop
15 4 (4.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.82%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 35 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.69%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.84%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.64%) Law
5 7 (8.43%) Retail
6 5 (6.02%) Advertising
6 5 (6.02%) Finance
7 4 (4.82%) Legal
8 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.41%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Electronics
10 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) IT Support
2 20 (24.10%) Support Technician
3 19 (22.89%) Support Engineer
4 15 (18.07%) Analyst
5 13 (15.66%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (14.46%) Technical Support
7 11 (13.25%) IT Engineer
7 11 (13.25%) IT Support Engineer
7 11 (13.25%) Support Analyst
8 10 (12.05%) 2nd Line Support Technician
8 10 (12.05%) IT Support Technician
8 10 (12.05%) IT Technician
8 10 (12.05%) Senior
9 9 (10.84%) 3rd Line Support
10 6 (7.23%) Help Desk Support
10 6 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (7.23%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Technical Support Analyst
10 6 (7.23%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.84%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.43%) Clustering
4 6 (7.23%) Handset
4 6 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.02%) Management Information System
5 5 (6.02%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.41%) FMCG
7 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.41%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (61.45%) Windows
2 41 (49.40%) Windows Server
3 19 (22.89%) Linux
4 11 (13.25%) Windows 10
5 9 (10.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.51%) Customer Service
2 21 (25.30%) ITIL
3 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (14.46%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (10.84%) Project Delivery
7 8 (9.64%) Data Security
7 8 (9.64%) DevOps
7 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (9.64%) Time Management
8 7 (8.43%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (7.23%) Asset Management
9 6 (7.23%) Network Management
9 6 (7.23%) Patch Management
9 6 (7.23%) Supplier Management
10 5 (6.02%) Cloud Security
10 5 (6.02%) Mentoring
11 4 (4.82%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 10 (12.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.82%) VBA
3 3 (3.61%) SQL
4 2 (2.41%) Bicep
4 2 (2.41%) Python
4 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.20%) Bash
5 1 (1.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (9.64%) CCNA
3 7 (8.43%) Degree
3 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (3.61%) CCNP
6 2 (2.41%) CISMP
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.41%) GSEC
7 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.43%) GDPR
3 4 (4.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.61%) NIST
5 2 (2.41%) GRC
5 2 (2.41%) NCSC
5 2 (2.41%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (49.40%) Active Directory
2 32 (38.55%) Hyper-V
3 12 (14.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) Docker
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (21.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.43%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.41%) Plesk
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Kibana
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (65.06%) Microsoft
2 22 (26.51%) VMware
3 18 (21.69%) Cisco
4 13 (15.66%) SonicWALL
5 10 (12.05%) Citrix
5 10 (12.05%) Meraki
6 9 (10.84%) Fortinet
7 8 (9.64%) Huawei
8 7 (8.43%) Dell
8 7 (8.43%) HP
8 7 (8.43%) Polycom
8 7 (8.43%) Supermicro
9 6 (7.23%) Apple
9 6 (7.23%) Aruba
9 6 (7.23%) Sage
10 4 (4.82%) Adobe
11 2 (2.41%) Draytek
11 2 (2.41%) Sophos
12 1 (1.20%) Oracle
12 1 (1.20%) SAP