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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -37 +4 +42
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 85 147 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.52% 4.63% 5.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.86% 43.62% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 76 95 143
10th Percentile - £35,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £44,688 £60,625 £61,949
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £46,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.21% +0.95% -

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 572 337 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.95% 10.61% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 299 175 381
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,500 £34,875 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £41,235
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +9.13% -2.98%
75th Percentile £37,250 £60,801 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.36% +8.64% -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 8 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 8 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 -16 33 £40,700 -22.48% 13
North Yorkshire -15 14 £27,500 -50.00% 10
East Yorkshire -16 13 £28,000 -37.78% 5
South Yorkshire -4 11 £40,000 -30.43% 11
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 29 (34.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (16.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (55.29%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (50.59%) Azure
3 24 (28.24%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.24%) AWS
5 5 (5.88%) SaaS
6 3 (3.53%) GCP
6 3 (3.53%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub
8 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.18%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (45.88%) VPN
2 32 (37.65%) VLAN
3 27 (31.76%) VoIP
3 27 (31.76%) WAN
4 25 (29.41%) LAN
5 24 (28.24%) DNS
6 22 (25.88%) DHCP
7 21 (24.71%) TCP/IP
8 14 (16.47%) Network Security
9 13 (15.29%) SAN
10 10 (11.76%) BGP
11 9 (10.59%) SD-WAN
11 9 (10.59%) Wireless
12 8 (9.41%) MPLS
13 7 (8.24%) ADSL
13 7 (8.24%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (8.24%) WebEx
13 7 (8.24%) WLAN
14 6 (7.06%) Broadband
15 5 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.71%) MySQL
3 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.35%) Manufacturing
3 10 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.41%) Law
5 7 (8.24%) Retail
6 5 (5.88%) Advertising
6 5 (5.88%) Finance
7 4 (4.71%) Legal
8 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Electronics
10 1 (1.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (35.29%) IT Support
2 20 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 20 (23.53%) Support Technician
3 17 (20.00%) Analyst
4 13 (15.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 13 (15.29%) Support Analyst
4 13 (15.29%) Technical Support
5 11 (12.94%) IT Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 10 (11.76%) IT Support Technician
6 10 (11.76%) IT Technician
6 10 (11.76%) Senior
7 9 (10.59%) 3rd Line Support
8 7 (8.24%) Technical Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Help Desk Support
9 6 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) Network Analyst
9 6 (7.06%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.29%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.41%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.24%) Clustering
4 6 (7.06%) Handset
4 6 (7.06%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.06%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.53%) FMCG
7 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.35%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (62.35%) Windows
2 43 (50.59%) Windows Server
3 20 (23.53%) Linux
4 11 (12.94%) Windows 10
5 9 (10.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Customer Service
2 21 (24.71%) ITIL
3 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (11.76%) Project Delivery
6 9 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (9.41%) Data Security
7 8 (9.41%) DevOps
7 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (9.41%) Time Management
8 7 (8.24%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (8.24%) Network Management
8 7 (8.24%) Patch Management
9 6 (7.06%) Asset Management
9 6 (7.06%) Supplier Management
10 5 (5.88%) Cloud Security
10 5 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 4 (4.71%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.94%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.71%) VBA
3 3 (3.53%) SQL
4 2 (2.35%) Bicep
4 2 (2.35%) Python
4 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.18%) Bash
5 1 (1.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (10.59%) CCNA
3 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (7.06%) Degree
5 4 (4.71%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.53%) CCNP
7 2 (2.35%) CISMP
7 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) GSEC
8 1 (1.18%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.06%) GDPR
3 3 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.35%) GRC
4 2 (2.35%) NCSC
4 2 (2.35%) NIST
4 2 (2.35%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (50.59%) Active Directory
2 33 (38.82%) Hyper-V
3 12 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.18%) Docker
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.24%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.35%) Plesk
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) Kibana
5 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (25.88%) VMware
3 20 (23.53%) Cisco
4 14 (16.47%) SonicWALL
5 11 (12.94%) Citrix
6 10 (11.76%) Meraki
7 9 (10.59%) Fortinet
8 8 (9.41%) Huawei
9 7 (8.24%) Apple
9 7 (8.24%) Dell
9 7 (8.24%) HP
9 7 (8.24%) Polycom
9 7 (8.24%) Sage
9 7 (8.24%) Supermicro
10 6 (7.06%) Aruba
11 4 (4.71%) Adobe
12 3 (3.53%) Sophos
13 2 (2.35%) Draytek
14 1 (1.18%) Oracle
14 1 (1.18%) SAP