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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 44 49
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 +39
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 87 148 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.63% 4.49% 5.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.95% 43.02% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 78 96 147
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £27,100
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £43,625 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £71,500
England median annual salary £45,285 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +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 582 344 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.58% 10.43% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 309 183 384
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £32,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £40,950 £60,176 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,500 £75,000 £76,750
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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -17 36 £39,900 -24.00% 56
East Yorkshire -14 14 £28,000 -37.78% 14
North Yorkshire -19 14 £27,500 -50.00% 27
South Yorkshire -7 11 £40,000 -30.43% 41
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 30 (34.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (17.24%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (18.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (52.87%) Azure
3 25 (28.74%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.05%) AWS
5 6 (6.90%) SaaS
6 3 (3.45%) GCP
6 3 (3.45%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (43.68%) VPN
2 33 (37.93%) VLAN
3 29 (33.33%) VoIP
4 28 (32.18%) WAN
5 26 (29.89%) LAN
6 24 (27.59%) DNS
7 22 (25.29%) DHCP
8 20 (22.99%) TCP/IP
9 14 (16.09%) SAN
10 12 (13.79%) Network Security
11 10 (11.49%) BGP
11 10 (11.49%) Wireless
12 9 (10.34%) SD-WAN
13 8 (9.20%) MPLS
13 8 (9.20%) Remote Desktop
14 7 (8.05%) ADSL
14 7 (8.05%) WebEx
14 7 (8.05%) WLAN
15 6 (6.90%) Broadband
16 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Manufacturing
3 11 (12.64%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.20%) Law
5 5 (5.75%) Advertising
5 5 (5.75%) Finance
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Legal
7 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Electronics
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (33.33%) IT Support
2 22 (25.29%) Support Engineer
3 19 (21.84%) Support Technician
4 17 (19.54%) Analyst
5 14 (16.09%) Technical Support
6 13 (14.94%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (14.94%) Support Analyst
7 12 (13.79%) IT Engineer
7 12 (13.79%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (11.49%) 2nd Line Support Technician
9 9 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (10.34%) Senior
10 8 (9.20%) IT Support Technician
10 8 (9.20%) IT Technician
10 8 (9.20%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (9.20%) Technical Support Engineer
11 6 (6.90%) Help Desk Support
11 6 (6.90%) Help Desk Support Technician
11 6 (6.90%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (6.90%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Data Centre
2 8 (9.20%) Clustering
3 7 (8.05%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.90%) Driving Licence
4 6 (6.90%) Handset
4 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.60%) FMCG
5 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (63.22%) Windows
2 43 (49.43%) Windows Server
3 20 (22.99%) Linux
4 12 (13.79%) Windows 10
5 10 (11.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.89%) Customer Service
2 19 (21.84%) ITIL
3 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (12.64%) Project Delivery
6 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (9.20%) Data Security
7 8 (9.20%) DevOps
7 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (9.20%) Network Management
8 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
8 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (6.90%) Asset Management
9 6 (6.90%) Patch Management
9 6 (6.90%) Supplier Management
9 6 (6.90%) Time Management
10 5 (5.75%) Mentoring
10 5 (5.75%) Migration
10 5 (5.75%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.60%) VBA
3 3 (3.45%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) Bicep
4 2 (2.30%) Python
4 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.15%) Bash
5 1 (1.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (10.34%) CCNA
3 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (6.90%) Degree
5 4 (4.60%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.45%) CCNP
7 2 (2.30%) CISMP
7 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.30%) GSEC
8 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.60%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.30%) GRC
4 2 (2.30%) NCSC
4 2 (2.30%) NIST
4 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Active Directory
2 34 (39.08%) Hyper-V
3 10 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Docker
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.05%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.30%) Plesk
5 1 (1.15%) Grafana
5 1 (1.15%) Kibana
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (65.52%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.99%) Cisco
2 20 (22.99%) VMware
3 16 (18.39%) SonicWALL
4 11 (12.64%) Citrix
5 10 (11.49%) Meraki
6 9 (10.34%) Fortinet
7 8 (9.20%) Apple
7 8 (9.20%) Dell
7 8 (9.20%) HP
7 8 (9.20%) Huawei
7 8 (9.20%) Sage
7 8 (9.20%) Supermicro
8 7 (8.05%) Polycom
9 6 (6.90%) Aruba
10 4 (4.60%) Adobe
10 4 (4.60%) Sophos
11 2 (2.30%) Draytek
12 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.15%) SAP