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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -69 +5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 102 179 199
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.45% 5.11% 3.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.16% 30.49% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 93 92 153
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,688 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,063 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £57,239 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -3.89%

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 506 587 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.20% 16.77% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 295 389 449
10th Percentile £26,170 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,875 £26,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £76,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% -4.87%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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
South Yorkshire -29 34 £42,500 -6.59% 6
West Yorkshire -67 29 £55,472 +38.68% 22
North Yorkshire -10 19 £31,750 +18.14% 4
East Yorkshire -38 2 £47,500 +13.10% 2
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 28 (27.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (25.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.96%) Microsoft 365
2 49 (48.04%) Azure
3 35 (34.31%) Entra ID
4 11 (10.78%) AWS
5 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (4.90%) Mimecast
7 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (2.94%) IaaS
8 3 (2.94%) PaaS
9 2 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.96%) GCP
9 2 (1.96%) SaaS
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.98%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.98%) GitHub
10 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (37.25%) WAN
2 31 (30.39%) LAN
3 26 (25.49%) VPN
4 24 (23.53%) TCP/IP
5 18 (17.65%) Wireless
6 15 (14.71%) DNS
7 13 (12.75%) Network Security
7 13 (12.75%) SD-WAN
8 12 (11.76%) DHCP
8 12 (11.76%) VoIP
9 11 (10.78%) BGP
10 10 (9.80%) VLAN
10 10 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (6.86%) MPLS
11 7 (6.86%) OSPF
12 6 (5.88%) Internet
12 6 (5.88%) VXLAN
13 5 (4.90%) ADSL
14 4 (3.92%) Unified Communications
14 4 (3.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.98%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.80%) Law
4 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.98%) Advertising
6 1 (0.98%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.98%) Finance
6 1 (0.98%) Legal
6 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (22.55%) IT Support
1 23 (22.55%) Network Engineer
2 20 (19.61%) Support Engineer
3 15 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (14.71%) IT Engineer
4 14 (13.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 13 (12.75%) Senior
6 11 (10.78%) Architect
7 10 (9.80%) Analyst
8 9 (8.82%) Support Analyst
9 7 (6.86%) Network Architect
10 6 (5.88%) IT Technician
11 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Support
11 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Security Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.92%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.98%) 802.1X
1 1 (0.98%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (10.78%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.84%) Life Science
3 8 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.90%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.94%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.98%) CCTV
8 1 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) IoT
8 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.98%) PKI
8 1 (0.98%) SCADA
8 1 (0.98%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (45.10%) Windows
2 37 (36.27%) Windows Server
3 11 (10.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (9.80%) Linux
5 7 (6.86%) VMS
6 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (3.92%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.96%) Android
9 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (36.27%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (31.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (19.61%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (18.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (17.65%) Migration
7 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (11.76%) Incident Response
8 12 (11.76%) ITIL
9 11 (10.78%) Customer Service
9 11 (10.78%) Mentoring
10 10 (9.80%) Business Continuity
10 10 (9.80%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (9.80%) Service Delivery
11 9 (8.82%) Decision-Making
12 7 (6.86%) Coaching
12 7 (6.86%) Information Security
12 7 (6.86%) Project Delivery
12 7 (6.86%) Service Management
13 6 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.80%) Python
3 6 (5.88%) SQL
4 2 (1.96%) Bash
4 2 (1.96%) Bicep
5 1 (0.98%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (18.63%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (11.76%) CCNA
3 10 (9.80%) Network+ Certification
4 9 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.86%) Degree
6 6 (5.88%) CCNP
7 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.90%) Security Cleared
8 4 (3.92%) CCIE
8 4 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 13 (12.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.90%) GDPR
4 4 (3.92%) SLA
5 3 (2.94%) NIST
6 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 40 (39.22%) Active Directory
2 15 (14.71%) Hyper-V
3 12 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.88%) vSphere
5 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.98%) Docker
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.98%) XenApp
7 1 (0.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (28.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (10.78%) Terraform
3 9 (8.82%) Ansible
4 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.96%) Nessus
4 2 (1.96%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.98%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.98%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (50.98%) Microsoft
2 33 (32.35%) Cisco
3 14 (13.73%) VMware
4 11 (10.78%) Fortinet
4 11 (10.78%) Juniper
5 9 (8.82%) Meraki
5 9 (8.82%) Veeam
6 6 (5.88%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.90%) iManage
8 4 (3.92%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.92%) Huawei
8 4 (3.92%) Polycom
9 3 (2.94%) Arista
10 2 (1.96%) F5
10 2 (1.96%) Zoho
11 1 (0.98%) Aruba
11 1 (0.98%) Citrix
11 1 (0.98%) NetScout
11 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.98%) SonicWALL