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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 46 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +34
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 167 161 169
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.73% 3.91% 5.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.79% 41.07% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 91 99 150
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,100 £28,875
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £65,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £71,500
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 601 392 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.01% 9.51% 16.65%
Number of salaries quoted 356 188 398
10th Percentile - £26,250 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,445 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.89% +12.21% -10.00%
75th Percentile £46,250 £65,000 £60,938
90th Percentile £61,250 £77,875 £77,513
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,128
% change year-on-year -25.93% +5.62% -2.61%

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 19 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 19 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 +18 69 £40,000 -33.33% 18
North Yorkshire -14 35 £27,500 -47.62% 4
East Yorkshire +1 26 £28,000 -37.78% 5
South Yorkshire +13 25 £40,000 -30.43% 5
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 34 (20.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (9.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (8.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (41.32%) Azure
2 60 (35.93%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (17.96%) Entra ID
4 20 (11.98%) AWS
5 8 (4.79%) SaaS
6 7 (4.19%) GCP
7 5 (2.99%) OCI
8 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (25.15%) VLAN
2 39 (23.35%) VPN
3 33 (19.76%) VoIP
4 32 (19.16%) LAN
4 32 (19.16%) WAN
5 31 (18.56%) DNS
6 27 (16.17%) TCP/IP
7 26 (15.57%) DHCP
8 24 (14.37%) Network Security
9 17 (10.18%) SAN
10 15 (8.98%) Wireless
11 13 (7.78%) BGP
12 12 (7.19%) WLAN
13 9 (5.39%) Remote Desktop
14 8 (4.79%) SD-WAN
15 7 (4.19%) MPLS
15 7 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (3.59%) ADSL
16 6 (3.59%) Broadband
16 6 (3.59%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.38%) Manufacturing
3 10 (5.99%) Telecoms
4 6 (3.59%) Law
5 5 (2.99%) Finance
6 4 (2.40%) Legal
7 3 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.60%) Advertising
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (30.54%) IT Engineer
2 26 (15.57%) IT Support
3 22 (13.17%) Support Technician
4 20 (11.98%) Support Engineer
5 19 (11.38%) Analyst
5 19 (11.38%) Instrumentation Engineer
6 15 (8.98%) Technical Support
7 13 (7.78%) Network Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) Support Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) IT Support Technician
9 10 (5.99%) IT Technician
9 10 (5.99%) Security Specialist
9 10 (5.99%) Senior
10 9 (5.39%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (5.39%) 2nd Line Support Technician
10 9 (5.39%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 9 (5.39%) IT Support Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Senior Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.60%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 60 (35.93%) Operational Technology
2 15 (8.98%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.78%) Clustering
4 8 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.19%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.59%) FMCG
6 6 (3.59%) Handset
7 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.40%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 126 (75.45%) Windows
2 39 (23.35%) Windows Server
3 27 (16.17%) Linux
4 17 (10.18%) Windows 10
5 15 (8.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.20%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.60%) Unix
7 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (48.50%) Cybersecurity
2 66 (39.52%) Network Management
3 62 (37.13%) Network Design
4 25 (14.97%) Customer Service
5 24 (14.37%) ITIL
6 22 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (8.38%) Project Delivery
8 13 (7.78%) Incident Response
8 13 (7.78%) Penetration Testing
9 12 (7.19%) Proactive Monitoring
9 12 (7.19%) SIEM
10 11 (6.59%) Security Architecture
11 10 (5.99%) DevOps
11 10 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (5.99%) Incident Management
11 10 (5.99%) SOAR
11 10 (5.99%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 9 (5.39%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 9 (5.39%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.99%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.79%) Python
3 4 (2.40%) VBA
4 3 (1.80%) Bash
4 3 (1.80%) SQL
5 2 (1.20%) Bicep
5 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (7.78%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (5.99%) CCNA
4 6 (3.59%) CCNP
4 6 (3.59%) Degree
4 6 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.99%) CISMP
5 5 (2.99%) GSEC
6 2 (1.20%) CCSA
6 2 (1.20%) CCSE
6 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.20%) MCSE
6 2 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.60%) CEH
7 1 (0.60%) CISM
7 1 (0.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.60%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) GDPR
1 7 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (2.40%) NCSC
2 4 (2.40%) NIST
3 2 (1.20%) GRC
3 2 (1.20%) SLA
3 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 100 (59.88%) Active Directory
2 58 (34.73%) Virtual Servers
3 36 (21.56%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.60%) Docker
5 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (16.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.19%) Ansible
2 7 (4.19%) Terraform
3 5 (2.99%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.20%) Plesk
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.17%) Cisco
2 22 (13.17%) SonicWALL
3 14 (8.38%) VMware
4 13 (7.78%) Dell
4 13 (7.78%) HP
4 13 (7.78%) Supermicro
5 12 (7.19%) Meraki
6 11 (6.59%) Fortinet
7 9 (5.39%) Apple
7 9 (5.39%) Citrix
7 9 (5.39%) Sage
8 8 (4.79%) Sophos
9 7 (4.19%) Huawei
10 6 (3.59%) Aruba
10 6 (3.59%) Polycom
11 4 (2.40%) Adobe
11 4 (2.40%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.20%) arcserve
12 2 (1.20%) Forcepoint