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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 170 162 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.70% 3.89% 5.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.15% 41.12% 31.55%
Number of salaries quoted 94 100 150
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,425 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £66,375 £77,500 £74,630
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 604 394 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.71% 9.46% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 358 190 407
10th Percentile - £26,225 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,445 £41,235
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% +10.21% -8.37%
75th Percentile £46,250 £65,000 £61,725
90th Percentile £62,875 £78,750 £77,517
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,300 £52,000
% change year-on-year -24.95% +2.50% -0.95%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +11 71 £40,000 -33.33% 17
North Yorkshire -11 36 £27,500 -45.00% 6
South Yorkshire +14 25 £40,000 -28.89% 7
East Yorkshire -2 25 £28,000 -37.78% 7
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 33 (19.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (40.59%) Azure
2 60 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (18.24%) Entra ID
4 20 (11.76%) AWS
5 8 (4.71%) GCP
6 7 (4.12%) OCI
6 7 (4.12%) SaaS
7 3 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 44 (25.88%) VLAN
2 42 (24.71%) VPN
3 34 (20.00%) LAN
3 34 (20.00%) WAN
4 33 (19.41%) VoIP
5 31 (18.24%) DNS
6 29 (17.06%) TCP/IP
7 27 (15.88%) DHCP
8 26 (15.29%) Network Security
9 16 (9.41%) SAN
9 16 (9.41%) Wireless
10 15 (8.82%) BGP
11 13 (7.65%) WLAN
12 9 (5.29%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (4.71%) OSPF
13 8 (4.71%) SD-WAN
14 7 (4.12%) MPLS
14 7 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (3.53%) ADSL
15 6 (3.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.59%) JIRA
General
1 44 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.06%) Manufacturing
3 9 (5.29%) Telecoms
4 5 (2.94%) Finance
5 4 (2.35%) Law
5 4 (2.35%) Legal
6 2 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (29.41%) IT Engineer
2 24 (14.12%) IT Support
3 22 (12.94%) Support Technician
4 20 (11.76%) Support Engineer
5 19 (11.18%) Analyst
5 19 (11.18%) Instrumentation Engineer
6 16 (9.41%) Network Engineer
6 16 (9.41%) Technical Support
7 12 (7.06%) Support Analyst
8 10 (5.88%) IT Support Technician
8 10 (5.88%) IT Technician
8 10 (5.88%) Security Specialist
8 10 (5.88%) Senior
8 10 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (5.29%) 2nd Line Support Technician
9 9 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 8 (4.71%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.59%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 60 (35.29%) Operational Technology
2 15 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.65%) Clustering
4 9 (5.29%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.12%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.53%) FMCG
6 6 (3.53%) Handset
7 5 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.76%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.59%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.59%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 127 (74.71%) Windows
2 38 (22.35%) Windows Server
3 28 (16.47%) Linux
4 17 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 15 (8.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.18%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.59%) Unix
7 1 (0.59%) VMS
7 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (47.65%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (38.82%) Network Management
3 64 (37.65%) Network Design
4 27 (15.88%) Customer Service
5 24 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (13.53%) ITIL
7 15 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (8.24%) Project Delivery
9 13 (7.65%) Incident Response
9 13 (7.65%) Penetration Testing
10 12 (7.06%) Proactive Monitoring
11 11 (6.47%) Security Architecture
11 11 (6.47%) SIEM
12 10 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
12 10 (5.88%) Incident Management
12 10 (5.88%) SOAR
12 10 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
13 9 (5.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 9 (5.29%) Interactive Application Security Testing
13 9 (5.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.47%) PowerShell
2 9 (5.29%) Python
3 4 (2.35%) VBA
4 3 (1.76%) SQL
5 2 (1.18%) Bash
5 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (8.24%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (6.47%) CCNA
4 7 (4.12%) CCNP
5 6 (3.53%) CISMP
5 6 (3.53%) Degree
5 6 (3.53%) GSEC
5 6 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.18%) CCSA
6 2 (1.18%) CCSE
6 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) MCSE
6 2 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.59%) CISM
7 1 (0.59%) CISSP
7 1 (0.59%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.59%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.12%) GDPR
2 6 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.35%) NCSC
4 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (1.76%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.59%) GRC
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 58 (34.12%) Virtual Servers
3 35 (20.59%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.59%) Docker
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (16.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.71%) Ansible
3 5 (2.94%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.18%) Plesk
5 1 (0.59%) Kibana
5 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (42.35%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.53%) Cisco
3 22 (12.94%) SonicWALL
4 13 (7.65%) Dell
4 13 (7.65%) HP
4 13 (7.65%) Meraki
4 13 (7.65%) Supermicro
4 13 (7.65%) VMware
5 11 (6.47%) Fortinet
6 9 (5.29%) Apple
6 9 (5.29%) Citrix
6 9 (5.29%) Sage
7 8 (4.71%) Sophos
8 7 (4.12%) Huawei
9 6 (3.53%) Aruba
9 6 (3.53%) Polycom
10 4 (2.35%) Adobe
10 4 (2.35%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.18%) arcserve
11 2 (1.18%) Forcepoint