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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 40 47
Rank change year-on-year -28 +7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 98 163 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.85% 4.23% 5.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.56% 42.89% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 88 103 146
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,800 £28,438
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.90% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £43,250 £64,250 £62,362
90th Percentile £59,000 £75,000 £68,125
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 528 380 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.37% 9.87% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 348 191 390
10th Percentile £25,087 £28,500 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,500 £32,000 £31,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £41,367
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +8.78% -8.07%
75th Percentile £42,999 £63,000 £61,438
90th Percentile £60,375 £75,000 £77,542
England median annual salary £39,900 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -26.11% +4.85% -1.90%

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 3 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 3 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 -7 45 £36,500 -30.48% 23
East Yorkshire -8 18 £28,000 -37.78% 9
South Yorkshire -3 12 £40,000 -30.43% 12
North Yorkshire -26 12 £27,500 -50.00% 9
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 35 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (16.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (58.16%) Azure
2 55 (56.12%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (29.59%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.16%) SaaS
5 7 (7.14%) AWS
6 3 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.06%) GCP
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (41.84%) VLAN
2 38 (38.78%) VPN
3 33 (33.67%) VoIP
4 30 (30.61%) DNS
5 29 (29.59%) LAN
5 29 (29.59%) WAN
6 26 (26.53%) DHCP
7 23 (23.47%) TCP/IP
8 19 (19.39%) SAN
9 17 (17.35%) Network Security
10 13 (13.27%) Wireless
11 10 (10.20%) WLAN
12 9 (9.18%) BGP
12 9 (9.18%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (8.16%) SD-WAN
14 7 (7.14%) MPLS
14 7 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (6.12%) ADSL
15 6 (6.12%) Broadband
15 6 (6.12%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 43 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Manufacturing
3 10 (10.20%) Telecoms
4 8 (8.16%) Law
5 5 (5.10%) Finance
6 4 (4.08%) Advertising
6 4 (4.08%) Legal
6 4 (4.08%) Retail
7 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (31.63%) IT Support
2 23 (23.47%) Support Engineer
3 22 (22.45%) Support Technician
4 19 (19.39%) Analyst
5 15 (15.31%) Technical Support
6 14 (14.29%) IT Engineer
7 12 (12.24%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (12.24%) Support Analyst
8 11 (11.22%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (10.20%) IT Support Technician
9 10 (10.20%) IT Technician
9 10 (10.20%) Senior
10 9 (9.18%) 2nd Line Support Technician
10 9 (9.18%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (9.18%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
11 7 (7.14%) Network Engineer
11 7 (7.14%) Senior Support Technician
11 7 (7.14%) Senior Technician
12 6 (6.12%) Field Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.02%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 13 (13.27%) Clustering
3 8 (8.16%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 6 (6.12%) FMCG
5 6 (6.12%) Handset
6 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.06%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (63.27%) Windows
2 43 (43.88%) Windows Server
3 27 (27.55%) Linux
4 17 (17.35%) Windows 10
5 15 (15.31%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.04%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (1.02%) Unix
7 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.51%) Customer Service
1 25 (25.51%) ITIL
2 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (15.31%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 10 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (9.18%) Cloud Security
6 9 (9.18%) DevOps
6 9 (9.18%) Network Management
7 8 (8.16%) Data Security
8 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (7.14%) Migration
8 7 (7.14%) Process Improvement
8 7 (7.14%) Server Management
9 6 (6.12%) Asset Management
9 6 (6.12%) Patch Management
9 6 (6.12%) Supplier Management
9 6 (6.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) PowerShell
2 4 (4.08%) Python
2 4 (4.08%) VBA
3 3 (3.06%) Bash
4 2 (2.04%) Bicep
4 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.04%) SQL
5 1 (1.02%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (11.22%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (9.18%) CCNA
4 6 (6.12%) Degree
5 5 (5.10%) CISMP
5 5 (5.10%) GSEC
5 5 (5.10%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (4.08%) CCNP
7 2 (2.04%) CCSA
7 2 (2.04%) CCSE
7 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.02%) CEH
8 1 (1.02%) CISM
8 1 (1.02%) CISSP
8 1 (1.02%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.02%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.02%) MCSE
8 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) GDPR
2 6 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (3.06%) NCSC
3 3 (3.06%) NIST
4 2 (2.04%) GRC
4 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (45.92%) Active Directory
2 39 (39.80%) Hyper-V
3 9 (9.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) Docker
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (7.14%) Terraform
3 5 (5.10%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.06%) Ansible
5 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.04%) Plesk
6 1 (1.02%) Grafana
6 1 (1.02%) Kibana
6 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (68.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (22.45%) SonicWALL
3 20 (20.41%) Cisco
4 17 (17.35%) VMware
5 13 (13.27%) Dell
5 13 (13.27%) HP
5 13 (13.27%) Supermicro
6 11 (11.22%) Fortinet
6 11 (11.22%) Meraki
7 9 (9.18%) Apple
7 9 (9.18%) Citrix
7 9 (9.18%) Sage
8 7 (7.14%) Huawei
8 7 (7.14%) Sophos
9 6 (6.12%) Aruba
9 6 (6.12%) Polycom
10 4 (4.08%) Adobe
11 3 (3.06%) CheckPoint
12 2 (2.04%) Draytek
12 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto