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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 44 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +40
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 130 173 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.78% 4.11% 5.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.09% 42.51% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 89 111 154
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,750 £29,000
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 £62,750 £77,500 £69,625
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 563 407 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.36% 9.66% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 353 202 403
10th Percentile - £26,325 £27,600
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,750 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £41,235
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +9.13% -9.37%
75th Percentile £43,250 £64,625 £60,625
90th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,025 £51,500
% change year-on-year -24.56% +2.96% -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 23 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 23 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 +4 56 £39,900 -26.79% 17
North Yorkshire -22 23 £27,500 -47.62% 6
East Yorkshire -3 22 £28,000 -37.78% 5
South Yorkshire +6 17 £40,000 -31.33% 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 34 (26.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (12.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (45.38%) Azure
2 52 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (22.31%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.92%) AWS
5 8 (6.15%) SaaS
6 5 (3.85%) GCP
7 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.31%) OCI
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.77%) GitHub
10 1 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (31.54%) VLAN
2 38 (29.23%) VPN
3 33 (25.38%) VoIP
4 31 (23.85%) LAN
4 31 (23.85%) WAN
5 30 (23.08%) DNS
6 26 (20.00%) DHCP
7 25 (19.23%) TCP/IP
8 22 (16.92%) Network Security
9 18 (13.85%) SAN
10 15 (11.54%) Wireless
11 11 (8.46%) BGP
11 11 (8.46%) WLAN
12 9 (6.92%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (6.15%) SD-WAN
14 7 (5.38%) MPLS
14 7 (5.38%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (4.62%) ADSL
15 6 (4.62%) Broadband
15 6 (4.62%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 45 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.31%) Manufacturing
3 10 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.38%) Law
5 5 (3.85%) Finance
6 4 (3.08%) Legal
7 3 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Advertising
8 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) IT Engineer
2 28 (21.54%) IT Support
3 22 (16.92%) Support Technician
4 21 (16.15%) Support Engineer
5 19 (14.62%) Analyst
6 15 (11.54%) Technical Support
7 12 (9.23%) Support Analyst
8 11 (8.46%) Network Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) IT Support Technician
9 10 (7.69%) IT Technician
9 10 (7.69%) Senior
10 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (6.92%) 2nd Line Support Technician
10 9 (6.92%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (5.38%) Senior Support Technician
11 7 (5.38%) Senior Technician
12 6 (4.62%) Field Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.77%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.77%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.38%) Operational Technology
2 15 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 13 (10.00%) Clustering
4 8 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.38%) Driving Licence
6 6 (4.62%) FMCG
6 6 (4.62%) Handset
7 5 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.08%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 91 (70.00%) Windows
2 40 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 27 (20.77%) Linux
4 17 (13.08%) Windows 10
5 15 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.54%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.77%) Unix
7 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (30.00%) Network Management
3 33 (25.38%) Network Design
4 25 (19.23%) Customer Service
5 24 (18.46%) ITIL
6 19 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (10.77%) Project Delivery
8 12 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (7.69%) DevOps
9 10 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (6.92%) Cloud Security
11 8 (6.15%) Data Security
11 8 (6.15%) Server Management
12 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (5.38%) Migration
12 7 (5.38%) Process Improvement
13 6 (4.62%) Patch Management
13 6 (4.62%) Supplier Management
13 6 (4.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.62%) Python
3 4 (3.08%) VBA
4 3 (2.31%) Bash
5 2 (1.54%) Bicep
5 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.54%) SQL
6 1 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (7.69%) CCNA
4 6 (4.62%) CCNP
4 6 (4.62%) Degree
5 5 (3.85%) CISMP
5 5 (3.85%) GSEC
5 5 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.54%) CCSA
6 2 (1.54%) CCSE
6 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.77%) CEH
7 1 (0.77%) CISM
7 1 (0.77%) CISSP
7 1 (0.77%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.77%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) GDPR
2 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.31%) NCSC
3 3 (2.31%) NIST
4 2 (1.54%) GRC
4 2 (1.54%) SLA
4 2 (1.54%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 73 (56.15%) Active Directory
2 38 (29.23%) Hyper-V
3 31 (23.85%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.77%) Docker
5 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (21.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.38%) Terraform
3 5 (3.85%) Ansible
3 5 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.54%) Plesk
5 1 (0.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.77%) Kibana
5 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.92%) Cisco
2 22 (16.92%) SonicWALL
3 16 (12.31%) VMware
4 13 (10.00%) Dell
4 13 (10.00%) HP
4 13 (10.00%) Supermicro
5 12 (9.23%) Meraki
6 11 (8.46%) Fortinet
7 9 (6.92%) Apple
7 9 (6.92%) Citrix
7 9 (6.92%) Sage
8 7 (5.38%) Huawei
8 7 (5.38%) Sophos
9 6 (4.62%) Aruba
9 6 (4.62%) Polycom
10 4 (3.08%) Adobe
10 4 (3.08%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.54%) Draytek
11 2 (1.54%) Palo Alto