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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 45 40
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 +44
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 96 143 203
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.72% 4.66% 5.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.84% 42.69% 39.65%
Number of salaries quoted 87 90 175
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,125 £28,300
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £62,188 £62,225
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% -4.76%

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 570 335 512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.13% 10.92% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 299 173 429
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 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +11.11% -4.71%
75th Percentile £44,375 £63,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £72,446
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -3.85%

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 23 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 23 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 -25 36 £42,500 -19.05% 20
South Yorkshire -10 11 £40,000 -31.33% 10
North Yorkshire -14 11 £27,501 -50.00% 4
East Yorkshire -16 11 £35,000 -22.22% 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 27 (28.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (14.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) Azure
1 43 (44.79%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (36.46%) Entra ID
3 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Purview
4 11 (11.46%) AWS
5 4 (4.17%) GCP
5 4 (4.17%) OCI
6 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 36 (37.50%) VPN
2 28 (29.17%) VLAN
3 26 (27.08%) WAN
4 24 (25.00%) LAN
5 22 (22.92%) DNS
6 19 (19.79%) DHCP
6 19 (19.79%) TCP/IP
7 17 (17.71%) VoIP
8 16 (16.67%) Network Security
9 11 (11.46%) SAN
10 8 (8.33%) Wireless
11 7 (7.29%) BGP
11 7 (7.29%) SD-WAN
11 7 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (5.21%) MPLS
12 5 (5.21%) WLAN
13 4 (4.17%) ADSL
13 4 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (4.17%) WebEx
14 3 (3.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.21%) MySQL
3 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 10 (10.42%) Law
4 8 (8.33%) Retail
4 8 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Advertising
7 4 (4.17%) Finance
7 4 (4.17%) Legal
8 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Electronics
9 1 (1.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) IT Support
2 19 (19.79%) Support Technician
3 17 (17.71%) Support Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) IT Engineer
4 14 (14.58%) Lead
5 13 (13.54%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (11.46%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (11.46%) Senior
7 10 (10.42%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 10 (10.42%) Analyst
7 10 (10.42%) IT Support Technician
7 10 (10.42%) IT Technician
8 9 (9.38%) 3rd Line Support
9 7 (7.29%) Network Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Support Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Technical Support
10 6 (6.25%) Help Desk Support
10 6 (6.25%) Help Desk Support Technician
10 6 (6.25%) Help Desk Technician
10 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.54%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (11.46%) Driving Licence
4 8 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 5 (5.21%) Clustering
7 4 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.13%) Handset
8 3 (3.13%) PKI
9 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.04%) FMCG
10 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (52.08%) Windows
2 41 (42.71%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.67%) Linux
4 9 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 9 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.04%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Disaster Recovery
2 23 (23.96%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (18.75%) ITIL
5 17 (17.71%) Customer Service
5 17 (17.71%) Incident Response
6 16 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.63%) Data Protection
7 15 (15.63%) Security Architecture
7 15 (15.63%) SIEM
8 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.54%) BCP
9 13 (13.54%) Business Continuity
9 13 (13.54%) Business Continuity Planning
9 13 (13.54%) Information Governance
9 13 (13.54%) Risk Management
9 13 (13.54%) Risk Register
10 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.25%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) VBA
4 3 (3.13%) SQL
5 2 (2.08%) Bash
5 2 (2.08%) Bicep
5 2 (2.08%) Go
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (8.33%) CCNA
2 8 (8.33%) Degree
3 6 (6.25%) CCNP
4 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) CISMP
7 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.04%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (19.79%) GDPR
3 16 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (15.63%) NIST
5 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.08%) GRC
6 2 (2.08%) NCSC
6 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 41 (42.71%) Active Directory
2 31 (32.29%) Hyper-V
3 15 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (1.04%) Docker
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (11.46%) Terraform
3 7 (7.29%) Ansible
4 2 (2.08%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.08%) Grafana
4 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.08%) Plesk
4 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Kibana
5 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (65.63%) Microsoft
2 25 (26.04%) VMware
3 17 (17.71%) Cisco
4 11 (11.46%) SonicWALL
5 9 (9.38%) Citrix
5 9 (9.38%) Fortinet
6 8 (8.33%) Meraki
7 6 (6.25%) Aruba
8 5 (5.21%) Dell
8 5 (5.21%) HP
8 5 (5.21%) Huawei
8 5 (5.21%) Supermicro
9 4 (4.17%) Adobe
9 4 (4.17%) Apple
9 4 (4.17%) Polycom
9 4 (4.17%) Sage
10 3 (3.13%) Arista
10 3 (3.13%) NetScout
10 3 (3.13%) Veeam
11 2 (2.08%) Draytek