Firewall Jobs in Yorkshire

Firewall
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Firewall skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firewall over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 37 86
Rank change year-on-year -29 +49 -4
Permanent jobs citing Firewall 90 273 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.36% 4.74% 3.89%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.17% 34.78% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 76 213 200
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £34,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,700 £45,000 £46,875
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -4.00% -1.32%
75th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £76,316
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -2.00% -

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 406 785 1,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.15% 13.63% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 291 574 505
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,825 £25,425
25th Percentile £27,375 £31,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% - -14.14%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £71,588
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

Firewall
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Firewall as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firewall in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Firewall in Yorkshire

Firewall
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firewall in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -41 27 £44,700 -10.60% 28
North Yorkshire -20 22 £37,500 +15.38% 16
South Yorkshire +45 21 £65,000 +75.68% 15
East Yorkshire +2 13 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Firewall
England

Firewall
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.22%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.11%) IIS
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (43.33%) Azure
2 26 (28.89%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 13 (14.44%) AWS
5 6 (6.67%) GitHub
6 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.33%) GCP
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.22%) Mimecast
8 2 (2.22%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.22%) SaaS
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.11%) Datadog
9 1 (1.11%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 38 (42.22%) VPN
2 32 (35.56%) LAN
2 32 (35.56%) WAN
3 23 (25.56%) TCP/IP
4 19 (21.11%) Network Security
5 18 (20.00%) DNS
6 15 (16.67%) SD-WAN
7 11 (12.22%) DHCP
8 10 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (11.11%) Wireless
9 9 (10.00%) BGP
9 9 (10.00%) OSPF
10 8 (8.89%) VoIP
10 8 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (7.78%) MPLS
12 6 (6.67%) DWDM
12 6 (6.67%) SAN
13 5 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (5.56%) NAS
13 5 (5.56%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.56%) JIRA
4 4 (4.44%) Spinnaker
General
1 34 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.22%) Law
3 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.78%) Finance
5 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Banking
6 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Local Government
7 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Automotive
8 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Police
9 1 (1.11%) Legal
9 1 (1.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (15.56%) Network Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Analyst
3 11 (12.22%) Security Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
4 10 (11.11%) Service Desk Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Support Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Manager
7 7 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Technical Support
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Support Analyst
9 5 (5.56%) Architect
9 5 (5.56%) IT Support
9 5 (5.56%) Lead
9 5 (5.56%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) HTML
1 4 (4.44%) Middleware
1 4 (4.44%) SOAP
1 4 (4.44%) XML
1 4 (4.44%) XSLT
2 2 (2.22%) LDAP
3 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Security Posture
2 9 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 8 (8.89%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.33%) CCTV
7 3 (3.33%) Clustering
7 3 (3.33%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.22%) HP Storage
8 2 (2.22%) PKI
8 2 (2.22%) Replication
9 1 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 40 (44.44%) Windows
2 24 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 18 (20.00%) Linux
4 6 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.44%) Unix
7 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.22%) Solaris
8 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 14 (15.56%) Roadmaps
2 14 (15.56%) Service Delivery
2 14 (15.56%) Technology Roadmap
3 13 (14.44%) DevOps
4 12 (13.33%) Cloud Security
4 12 (13.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (12.22%) Security Monitoring
5 11 (12.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 10 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 10 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 10 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (11.11%) ITIL
6 10 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 10 (11.11%) Migration
6 10 (11.11%) Security Operations
7 9 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 9 (10.00%) Network Architecture
8 8 (8.89%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.78%) SQL
2 11 (12.22%) Python
3 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.67%) Bash
5 4 (4.44%) C
5 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.44%) Jython
5 4 (4.44%) Perl
6 2 (2.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (13.33%) CCNA
2 12 (13.33%) CCNP
2 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 9 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.67%) JNCIA
5 6 (6.67%) JNCIS
6 4 (4.44%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CCSA
8 1 (1.11%) CCSE
8 1 (1.11%) CEH
8 1 (1.11%) CISSP
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.11%) SANS
8 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.33%) ISO 14001
4 3 (3.33%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
6 1 (1.11%) NIST
6 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.22%) Hyper-V
3 18 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.22%) Firmware
6 2 (2.22%) KVM
6 2 (2.22%) NFS
6 2 (2.22%) pfSense
6 2 (2.22%) SRDF
6 2 (2.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.22%) vSphere
6 2 (2.22%) Xen
7 1 (1.11%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.11%) XenApp
7 1 (1.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) FortiGate
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (10.00%) Ansible
3 9 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.89%) Terraform
5 6 (6.67%) WSUS
6 2 (2.22%) Puppet
7 1 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.11%) Nessus
7 1 (1.11%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.11%) SCCM
7 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (36.67%) VMware
3 28 (31.11%) Cisco
4 7 (7.78%) Citrix
5 6 (6.67%) Arista
5 6 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 6 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 6 (6.67%) Meraki
6 5 (5.56%) Draytek
6 5 (5.56%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (4.44%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.44%) Oracle
7 4 (4.44%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.44%) Veeam
8 3 (3.33%) SonicWALL
8 3 (3.33%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.22%) Dell
9 2 (2.22%) F5
9 2 (2.22%) HP
9 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow